These Toasted Coconut Bars take some time to make, but are fully worth the effort. If you don't have much experience working with chocolate, you might prefer to set the Toasted Coconut Bar filling into a silicone mould and hand dipping them in chocolate. If you have chocolate work experience, you'll find this relatively straight forward.
Ingredients
Sweet Toasted Coconut Butter
500gdesiccated/shredded coconut
200gcoconut sugar, powdered
1vanilla podscraped
½tspsalt
Sweet Toasted Coconut Praline
50gsweetened toasted coconut butter (stone ground or in the vitamix), melted
50gcashew butter
Pinchsea salt
6-8drops vanilla medicine flower extract or ¼ tsp vanilla powder
Instructions
Sweet Toasted Coconut Butter
Pre-heat your oven to 180c.
Spread the coconut out evenly over a few baking trays and toast in the oven for about 8 minutes.
Stir the coconut and put back in the oven to brown evenly. Keep checking every 3-5 minutes and remove from the oven once it’s all light brown.
Combine toasted coconut and all other ingredients in your vitamix and, using the tamper stick, blend into a butter.
Transfer the butter to your stone grinder to get a super smooth finish, about 2-4 hours.