welcome back to my channel today we're making some delicious healthy chocolate
bars we're making Mars we're making some caramel squares and we're making cookies
and cream if you guys haven't seen the video where I make Snickers and
starburst and Twix and all that I'm gonna leave all those recipes down below
because you don't want to miss those and let's go ahead and make some delicious
candy bars guys they're so delicious gooey oh you're gonna love them let's
get into so first off we are making Mars bars I'm starting off with date which
have a really nice natural caramel flavor to them and adding that into my
food processor I'm adding in some vanilla as well as some almond butter
and you can do any kind of nut or seed butter though I would suggest either an
almond butter or a cashew butter for more of a neutral flavor if you do use
it peanut butter it won't be paleo but be it'll have more of a peanut flavor
which will be closer to a Snickers next I'm adding in a pinch of Himalayan salt
and then I just blend that up until smooth
and this blender is a kind of like a food processor and blender in one it's
from Ninja I love it it's fairly inexpensive as well to make the nougat
base I'm adding in about a quarter cup of the caramel that we made and I'm
going to add that to some almond flour this is a great way to just make the
base using something we already made or just a little bit of the caramel and
then some almond flour so I'm just gonna combine that until it is nice and chunky
and it kind of gets more sticky because we're gonna be making the base so then I
just took a loaf pan and I lined that with parchment paper just to make it a
lot easier to remove the bars after cuz then you just have to lift up the
parchment paper so go ahead and either using your hand or using a spatula go
ahead and press down our mixture onto the base and make sure you get like a
nice even layer and the great thing about the loaf pan is you can cut this
either into bars or to mini bars after to and you can easily double or triple
this recipe if you need to so then I'm taking the caramel that we made and I'm
putting that over the top of our base and then you just need to smooth out the
caramel layer on top of the nougat base with your spatula until it
nice and even and then we are going to be chilling this in the freezer I would
suggest for about four or five hours or even overnight just so that everything
really solidifies and you're not gonna lose anything in the chocolate so once
it's nice and hardened I'm just slicing this up and I'm gonna make mini bars but
you can definitely make full bars the great thing about this though is that
you don't need like a huge full bar they're quite sweet they're quite
delicious and satisfying so I'm basically making but the twin size or
let the helloween sized ones so I slice that up and then I made some of my
homemade paleo chocolate which I will leave the recipe down below
it's simply cacao coconut oil and a touch of maple syrup you can also just
melt down some paleo chocolate chips I like the Lily's brand or the Pacha
brand but if you can't get those it's really easy to make your own chocolate
at home I've been making this for years and years and years and it's really easy
and also the great thing is that when your bars are chilled the chocolate is
going to harden a lot quicker it's set in the fridge for me in about 20 minutes
and these are your wonderfully delicious Mars bars full of a nougat and a nice
caramel next up we're making cookies and cream and I'm so happy with how this
turned out so I'm using some cacao butter which is actually normally what
white chocolate is without the sugar to that I'm adding in some coconut butter
and then melt that down and add some vanilla and maple syrup you can also do
this before it's fully melted I just waited a bit once everything is nice and
melted just stir that together so that everything turns out nice and smooth
then I'm taking some paleo Oreos from my Oreo video which I will link down below
in case you haven't seen it you can also buy them I have seen them or I've seen
gluten-free ones as well but the recipe I do make at home is super simple so I'm
going to leave that down below I add in the melted mixture I'm putting a few
cacao nibs on the top just for a little bit of crunch and extra chocolate flavor
I let that set in the freezer for about 20 minutes and then you have it all
ready to go and you can definitely make this into a bark too you don't have to
make it into bars if you want to pour it out make a thinner layer or you can cut
it in two chunks but honestly this tastes so similar to cookies and cream
it's so delicious I'm really really happy with how this turned out
I know you're gonna love it and then we are making some caramel squares so if of
course we have to make the caramel which is really simple to make it's just
coconut sugar coconut oil and a little bit of vanilla stir that together a bit
and then I'm adding in a couple tablespoons of cashew butter again you
can use almond butter here I would suggest either almond or cashew they are
a more neutral tasting nut then as opposed to a peanut or you could also
use a seed butter here I would use sunflower seed over pumpkin seed it's a
little bit more neutral flavor so if you need a nut free version you can
definitely use a seed butter here or if you don't like either those coconut
butter it works as well so just go ahead and stir that now once it starts
bubbling set a timer for about three minutes and you're gonna leave it about
three minutes while it's bubbling and then take it off and it's going to
thicken where I'm putting that onto some parchment paper because we are going to
harden this before we dip this in our chocolate but honestly this is such an
easy caramel that you can use in many different recipes so definitely save
that you can drizzle this on ice cream you can use this on pretty much anything
that's a very standard caramel sauce and then you're just gonna spread it out so
that it's about a quarter inch thick and then for rapid I just put it in the
freezer but you can also chill it in the fridge until it gets nice and hard like
this and then I'm just using a knife to cut it into squares and as you can see
it's got that really like almost taffy thick caramel like chewy caramel texture
to it I'm cutting mine into little squares that we're going to be dipping
into more of our paleo chocolate so for each of them I'm just dipping them
inside and then we're going to be laying that onto either a silicone mat or you
can just use more parchment paper you will see the chocolate run a bit
especially with the paleo chocolate so you can even do a double layer if you
want which means to put it down let it harden and then come back and do another
layer I find one layer it's okay and as long as you don't mind that it slightly
slides off the caramels and they're not perfect you could definitely trim off
the chocolate on the sides if you want them to be perfectly square and then
just save the extra chocolate you chopped off before or something else and
once you've covered them all you just go ahead and let them sit for about 20
minutes in the fridge you have these wonderfully
chocolate-covered caramels I mean guys look at how the caramel pulls and it's
no refined sugar it's vegan and it's so delicious all right guys I hope you
enjoyed this video if you make them don't forget to share them on Instagram
and show me because I love seeing all of your remakes
I hope you're all having a great day and I will see you in my next video bye guys