Gluten-Free Candy Bars

Baseball is what it’s all about in our house these days. We lost in the main bracket of the post-season tournament and are now playing in the consolation round and doing well. We were winning our game yesterday against the Red Socks and had the game postponed due to rain in the bottom of the 3rd inning when we were ahead 3-0. The boys were playing well and devouring the snacks that I brought to keep them full of energy!

On another note, just a while back, I added a cool little survey feature to this site. You may have noticed it on the lower right portion of the homepage, in the “navigation” section. This poll was to determine which of three potential recipes people most wanted to see –Mango Chicken, Chocolate Cupcakes or Candy Bars.

Well, I was not all that surprised to find that the candy won out! Were you? All the guys I know that go to the site voted candy bars –well, all two of the guys that I know who frequent the site. So take that statement with a grain of salt. And speaking of salt, that is what is sprinkled on top of the candy bars in the photo above! It’s different and tasty. Try it out for yourself.

Gluten-Free Candy Bars

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Servings 18 candy bars

Ingredients

• 2 tablespoons grapeseed oil or palm shortening
• 2 teaspoons celtic sea salt
• 2 cups pecans
• 1 cup creamy roasted almond butter
• ½ cup agave nectar or honey
• 1 tablespoon vanilla extract
• 2 cups chocolate chips

Instructions

• Preheat oven to 500°F
• Warm grapeseed oil and 1 teaspoon salt in a large saute pan over high heat
• Add pecans to pan and cook for 3 minutes
• Remove pecans from pan and immediately transfer to a baking sheet
• Place pecans in 500°F oven for 3 minutes, remove and cool
• Warm almond butter, agave, vanilla and ½ teaspoon salt in a saucepan over medium heat
• Remove from heat and stir pecans into almond butter mixture
• Spread batter into an 8 x 8 inch baking dish and freeze for at least 1 hour
• Remove from freezer, cut into 1 x 3 inch bars; place on small parchment paper lined baking sheet
• Melt chocolate in saucepan over lowest heat possible
• Drizzle chocolate over each bar
• Sprinkle bars with remaining ½ teaspoon salt
• Freeze and serve

Prep Time 10 mins

Freeze Time 1 hour

Cook Time 16 mins

Total Time 1 hr 26 mins

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