Paleo Double Chocolate Turtle Bars

Gooey double chocolate turtle bars with a chewy chocolate cookie crust, a dreamy salted caramel pecan layer and plenty of chocolate drizzled on top.

They’re grain free, dairy unfastened and Paleo made with actual meals meals yet style totally decadent.Turtle Bars with a chewy chocolate cookie layer, gooey caramel pecan layer and creamy chocolate shell! Gluten free, grain free, dairy unfastened and makes a huge vacation dessert!

Ingredients for the chocolate cookie layer: 1/2 cup creamy cashew butter 1/2 cup coconut sugar 2 eggs 1 tsp natural vanilla extract 1/3 cup coconut flour 1/3 cup cocoa powder or uncooked cacao pinch salt for the caramel pecan layer: 1 and 1/3 cups complete fats coconut milk* 5 Tbsp natural coconut sugar 1 tsp natural vanilla extract 1/2 tsp fantastic grain sea salt 3/4 cup chopped pecans 1/3 cup darkish chocolate morsels I used Enjoy Life Brand or your favourite darkish chocolate chips/chopped chocolate Instructions Make the cookie layer first. Preheat your oven to 350 levels and line an 8 x 8" baking dish with parchment paper alongside the backside and up the sides. Mix collectively the cashew butter, coconut sugar, and eggs till creamy. I used a hand mixer for this part. In a separate bowl, combine the coconut flour, cocoa powder and salt, then stir this combination into the rainy meals till absolutely combined. The dough will probably be sticky - sit back it within the fridge for about 5 minutes - this may agency it up a little as nicely as supply the coconut flour time to settle and take up moisture. Now it is time to press the chocolate cookie dough into the parchment lined baking dish. The dough will nonetheless be sticky to work with even after chilled - I suggest wetting your palms simply quite to press/spread the dough frivolously into the backside of the dish. After urgent within the cookie dough, bake it within the preheated oven for 10 minutes** To make the caramel, warmth the coconut milk* and coconut sugar over medium warmth in a small saucepan, stirring to blend. Bring the combination to a boil (I normally elevate the warmth to medium/hi for this, you will have the option to boom the warmth depending in your stovetop) whereas stirring. Once boiling, cut back the warmth to a simmer (this would possibly be med/low or med depending in your stove, it must be effervescent but no longer boiling over) and maintain to cook, stirring to keep away from the sugar burning, till the combination is thickened and deep caramel in color*** Remove from warmth and stir within the vanilla, salt and chopped pecans, then unfold the caramel pecan combination over the chocolate cookie layer (after baking 10 minutes) and return to the oven to bake for one other 12 minutes or till the center starts to bubble. Remove from oven and within the present day sprinkle with the chocolate chips. Once they melt, use a toothpick to softly swirl the melted chocolate throughout the ideal of the bars. Cover with plastic wrap and sit back within the refrigerator till totally cooled, then cut into squares and serve. Store leftovers blanketed within the refrigerator. Enjoy! Recipe Notes I sit back the can previous to opening, discard half the "water" and mix up the relaxation earlier than using be cautious to no longer overtake since you may be baking it back with the caramel layer This can take wherever from 15-30 minutes depending in your stove, mine appears to take much less time than others!

My impulsivity isn't at all times a nice thing.  This time, I got fortunate and it was – a random Friday evening time test that I dove into with out plan whatever – simply visions of creamy chocolate and caramel floating round within the “dessert” part of my brain, but really, that’s nothing strange for me.

Fast ahead to the subsequent morning (I caught the bars within the fridge after baking and went to bed) and with the primary cut I knew proper away that anything nice had pop out of the experiment.  Texture may be everything, right?  That first cut was all I had to realize – I had already given a thumbs as much as the unbaked dough/caramel layer the evening time before, and needless to say the chocolate on ideal was nice to go.

Turtle Bars with a chewy chocolate cookie layer, gooey caramel pecan layer and creamy chocolate shell! Gluten free, grain free, dairy unfastened and makes a huge vacation dessert!

But, the feel of bars/brownies/other baked items (especially Paleo) is normally a thriller when you’re making an attempt anything new.  You would possibly no longer realize precisely what you’re chopping into till your recipe is baked and absolutely cooled.

I would take Forest Gump’s “life is nearly a box of chocolates..” and one-up it with “life is nearly a pan of Paleo cakes – you won’t realize what you’re going via till they’ve cooled for three hours and you will have the option to cut via the center” um, or something.  If that makes any experience to you, please fill me in.

Turtle Bars with a chewy chocolate cookie layer, gooey caramel pecan layer and creamy chocolate shell! Gluten free, grain free, dairy unfastened and makes a huge vacation dessert!But anyway, I’m impulsive (ah, as you would possibly be capable to gage from my writing.)  When it involves recipes for the blog, I would say I do 90% of my cooking/baking within the morning/early afternoon.  I’m at my sharpest earlier than lunch, it’s pale sufficient for photos, plus the times have a tendency to get crazier as they go on.  Between the hours of 3pm and seven my life turns into a drop off/pick up/make dinner and say boring mother issues like “did you do your homework?” and “clean up the dwelling room” and “stop hurting every other!”

It works nicely this way, simply due to the fact mostly my impulsive nighttime recipe testing effects in mess ups like including twice the quantity of coconut oil to anything simply due to the fact I temporarily forgot that four TBSPs isn't 1/2 cup.  That isn't any flipping joke – I literally made that mistake NULL nights ago.  Ugh.  I’m nonetheless mourning that loaf of bread.

But sometimes, like with those double chocolate turtle bars, issues magically work out.  The backside layer is kind of a move among a chocolate cookie crust and a brownie, baked about midway earlier than pouring at the moment layer.

The caramel layer is perfectly salted with simply the proper quantity of chopped pecans, and is baked to gooey perfection proper earlier than sprinkling with plenty of chocolate chips that melt and swirl – after which cool – to kind a chocolate shell on top.  Double chocolate turtle bars!  Perfect dessert for the vacation season or actually whenever you’re yearning caramel and chocolate, AKA ALWAYS!  Let’s get started!

Paleo Double Chocolate Turtle Bars
Turtle Bars with a chewy chocolate cookie layer, gooey caramel pecan layer and creamy chocolate shell! Gluten free, grain free, dairy unfastened and makes a huge vacation dessert!

Paleo Double Chocolate Turtle Bars
Gooey double chocolate turtle bars with a chewy chocolate cookie crust, a dreamy salted caramel pecan layer and plenty of chocolate drizzled on top. They're grain free, dairy unfastened and Paleo made with actual meals meals yet style totally decadent.

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