These Best Ever Bars are an amazing paleo dessert. With just 6 healthy ingredients you can throw them together in a few minutes. To make them you’ll need almonds, coconut oil, raspberry jam, dark chocolate, coconut flakes, and salt.
The sweetener in Best Ever Bars is raspberry jam. It lends a subtle, yet deliciously fruity sweetness to this healthy dessert. It makes these no-bake bars taste like Raspberry Magic Bars, though with a lot less sugar, and far fewer ingredients!
Lately, I’ve been getting loads of comment here on the blog, as well as on Instagram, telling me how much you all appreciate the simplicity of my recipes. I’m so glad to hear that! As I outlined in my post, “A Piece of Me,” life can be complex, which is one more reason to make my recipes easy!
Best Ever Bars
Ingredients
Crust
- 1½ cups almonds
- ¼ teaspoon celtic sea salt
- ¼ cup raspberry jam
- ¼ cup coconut oil, melted
Topping
- 1 cup chocolate chips
- ½ cup unsweetened coconut flakes
Instructions
- In a food processor, pulse almonds until the texture of gravel
- Pulse in salt, jam, and coconut oil until dough forms
- Press dough into an 8 x 8 inch baking dish
- Melt chocolate over very low heat in a saucepan
- Pour chocolate over crust
- Sprinkle coconut flakes over chocolate
- Refrigerate for 30 minutes, then cut into 16 squares
- Refrigerate for an additional 1½ hours
- Serve
This is another healthy no-bake summer dessert recipe that doesn’t require an oven. These Best Ever Bars set up in the refrigerator, so your house won’t be sweltering when you make them.
I know that some of you suffer from nut allergies, and won’t be able to eat this healthy paleo dessert. So, here are some of my nut-free paleo dessert recipes for you!
Susan Tucker says
What could be substituted for the jam? Doesn’t it have sugar? I would prefer something without sugar.
Elana says
Hi Susan, I haven’t tried making this without the (fruit juice sweetened) jam so am not sure how that would work. Here’s a link to my sugar-free recipes for you:
https://elanaspantry.com/diets/keto/
Enjoy!
Elana
Barb says
Hi……could almond meal be used? Thanks!
Elana says
Barb, I haven’t tried that so not sure. If you do experiment please let us know how it goes!
Angela M says
I have nut allergies, but do well with gluten free oats. I think I will try to make this with home made granola in place of the almonds. ?
Elana says
Angela, I hope you love ’em! Here’s a link to my Nut-Free Recipes page for you:
https://elanaspantry.com/diets/nut-free/
Enjoy!
Elana
Liesje says
Just tried these today….super easy and delicious!!! It was tough to wait while they chilled in the fridge. I definitely am adding this recipe (using my chia seed blackberry jam) to my favourites binder!!!
Elana says
Liesje, so glad to hear these were super easy and delicious!
Dee Coulter says
Hi Elana,
Your Raspberry bars sound wonderful. Would almond meal work instead of the ‘gravel’ coarse grind of the almonds? It’s coarser than almond flour but not coarse enough to be crunchy.
Elana says
Hi Dee, I haven’t tried that so not sure. If you do experiment please let us know how it goes!
Amber says
Hello love,
I have Edens Concord grape jam or dates on hand. Would one of those flavors work well or should I wait a few days until I can get raspberry jam?
Thanks so much.
Amber
Elana says
Hi Amber, I haven’t tried that so not sure. If you do experiment please let us know how it goes :-)
Annemarie Ferrero says
What can I use as a fat substitute. .I don’t want to use any oil etc. Thank you.
Elana says
Hi Annemarie, I haven’t tried making these bars without fat so not sure. I’m actually on a high-fat diet right now. For more information on that go here:
https://elanaspantry.com/diets/keto/
Have a great day!
Elana
Julie says
This looks wonderful. Reminds me of the chocolate raspberry bars we used to buy at Wild Oats back in the day.
Elana says
Thanks Julie!
Louise says
Oh my, do l miss Wild Oats!!!
Annamaria says
Elana, I am so happy that you’re feeling so well. You are an inspiration to me on many levels!
A quick batch of these will go away with us this weekend — with carob instead of chocolate (less inflammatory for me).
Thank you for your perseverance through adversity as well as the joy and skill that you share. I wish the best to you and your family.
Elana says
Thanks Annamaria :-)
Judy says
Yum! I’m going to use my homemade seedless raspberry jam. I have a recipe that uses stevia as the sweetener. I run my raspberries through my tomato gizmo that separates the seeds and skin from the pulp. The gizmo works great for raspberries and blackberries as well as raw tomatoes. Then I water bath can in half-pints for 10 minutes up to 1000 feet add 1 minute for every 1000 feet over 1000.
Elana says
Judy, that sounds great!
Louise says
Could you share your recipe for stevia sweetened raspberry jam, please? Thank you!
Linda says
If love the raspberry jam recipe as well, if you can share.
Leta says
Would you please share your “gizmo”? Would love to know what it is!
Karen says
https://www.amazon.com/VICTORIO-VKP250-Strainer-Sauce-Maker/dp/B001I7FP54/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1469876544&sr=8-1&keywords=tomato+food+mill.
Make sure it has a berry strainer with it.