Vegan Bounty Bars...Better Than The Original

Hi guys!

I hope you are all enjoying Easter. I've recently been having these cravings for decent chocolate bars like Bounties which are my favourites but as you might now, they aren't vegan. I kind of got bored of eating dark chocolate all the time. Not that it's not tasty, but you know how it goes, if you eat too much of the same thing for a period of time, you get sick of it, yes....even chocolate... It might have something to do with it being Easter and the abundance of chocolate everywhere.

Anyway, I had some experience in melting and properly tempering chocolate so it doesn't spoil so I was pretty confident that I could pull off making Bounty bars, and I did. They are so.. freaking... delicious... I can't even stay away from them.

Let me show you a glimpse:

They don't look as neat as the original but I promise they taste so much better without all the preservatives and crap in it.

You can adjust the recipe to what you have at home. I will also tell you exactly what I used just as a reference. Here is what you need:

coconut filling:
1 can of full fat coconut milk. I used Pride coconut milk which I also use to make whipped cream.
2-3 tablespoons rapeseed oil but you can use any kind you want as long as it hasn't got a strong flavour. I used rapeseed oil.
4-5 tablespoons agave nectar/maple syrup, basically the liquid sugar of your choice. I used Clarks maple syrup blended with carob fruit syrup.
2 cups desiccated coconut. I used the Sainsburys organic one.
Just a pinch of salt. I used Himalayan pink salt.

For the chocolate, use at least 300 grams of any kind of vegan dark chocolate you want. I have used the Sainsburys Taste The Difference Cook's Belgian Dark Chocolate Chips.

What you want to do first, is to pop all the ingredients for the coconut filling apart from the desiccated coconut together and mix it over a low heat until everything is blended well. After that's done, stir in the desiccated coconut and leave it for a minute or two.

At this point, you can line a container with baking parchment and put your filling in the container and leave it for an hour. After one hour, come back to it, cut it into rough chunks with enough space between them and pop them in the freezer for several hours so they get very hard.

This is how they look when they get out:

Now you are ready to prepare the chocolate.

Boil some water in a pot and place a sieve in it with a bowl in the sieve, kind of like Russian dolls, but the water will make sure the heat isn't too harsh to burn the chocolate. Believe me, you don't want to burn the chocolate. Put the pot of water on medium heat and chuck a handful of chocolate chips or chunks into the bowl like this:

It will start melting gradually, don't rush this process and keep stirring. Once your handful of chocolate is completely melted, chuck in the rest of the chocolate and again, keep stirring until it is all melted.

Okay so now you can quickly dunk each piece of coconut filling into the chocolate, make sure it's coated and you can use a fork and a little spoon when doing this and once ready, place it aside on baking parchment to set. Now repeat until all your coconut filling is covered. If you need more chocolate, just melt some more.

How pretty they look is up to you and your skills but I don't mind them not looking too perfect, it's the taste that matter most plus they look a bit more rustic like this :D

And once they set, store them in an airtight container lined with baking parchment and also use some baking parchment between two layers if you decide to stack them on top of each other like I did.

And now just grab one of them if you haven't already and bite off a piece and listen to the chocolate snap..

Yep, it's gooooooooood :D

It really is a piss easy recipe and the product you get in the end is WELL worth it. I've been munching on these and they satisfy my chocolate bar cravings. The only thing is that you obviously make a batch each time, so make them last or share! :D

I hope you enjoyed this. Let me know if you try it yourself and tell me how they came out, I would love to hear.

Take care!!

Tuba

 

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