Quick, Tasty Homemade “Almond Joy” Candy Bites
Last updated on December 20, 2024 by Jessica Healey
Originally published on March 13, 2013
How does inspiration for a new recipe come to you? Here’s a story of inspiration coming to me.
So, just yesterday I found an UhMaaaZing recipe. This recipe is right up my alley…Chocolate Coconut Butter Bites (recipe HERE), from Meghan at Whole Natural Life. I just had to make them…and you should, too!!! Wow. These are super tasty and very healthy treats, they were really easy, and I like the fact that they are stable (no melting) as an on-the-go treat.
So, I went to bed, my belly happily filled with Meghan’s treats…and started thinking about how easy they were to make, yet so tasty. Then, I started thinking about my Homemade “Chocolate” Chips. Then, I started to wonder if I could sort-of combine the two recipes. (Do you ever do this…talk so much to yourself about food that you can’t go to sleep?) Well, what do you think happened next?
Yup…I was up out of bed and trying a new recipe!
Quick, Tasty "Almond Joy" Bites
Ingredients
- 1 C Coconut Oil
- 1/4 C Cocoa Butter
- 1/2 C Carob Powder
- 1 T Maple Syrup
- 1/4 C Peanut Butter - or sub your favorite 'other butter'
- 1/3 C Shredded Coconut - heaping cup
- 1/2 t Cinnamon
- 1/2 t Sea Salt
Instructions
- Combine everything together in a double-boiler. I don't really have a double-boiler, I just make one with a glass bowl and pot of simmering water (just a couple of inches of water). I just lift up the bowl every so often to make sure that it won't blow up. 😉
- Once everything is melted, pour into ice cube trays (or candy molds, if you have them).
- Pop into the freezer for at least 30 minutes. Eat. Share. Try not to eat them all.
My husband actually named these this morning. I’ve never had an Almond Joy candy bar, but he said they taste similar, with mine being better. Aww, thanks honey! Even though I’ve never had an Almond Joy candy bar, I’m guessing it has some pretty awful ingredients inside. Not these!
And, thanks again to Meghan at Whole Natural Life for giving me inspiration to create these! My Homemade “Chocolate” Chips alone never would have inspired me to create these, but by finding a recipe for a delicious travelling treat and combining it with one of my own recipes, I now have something new. Yay for *real* food foodies sharing and learning together!
Let me know when you give these a try. Do you think that they taste like Almond Joy bars!?? I just think that they taste like delicious chocolate treats, with a bit of organic crunchy coconut inside. …is that an Almond Joy!??
Well, until next time…
xoxo,
Jess, aka Scratch Mommy
Enjoyed your post today thanks for the tasty recipe!
Thanks, Kathy. You are welcome.
I mentioned this on FB, but let me know if you think they taste like an Almond Joy. I’m putting my trust in hubby on this one… 😉
This looks great! I never had an almond joy, because I used to think I didn’t like coconut. Until I realized that real natural coconut tastes nothing like the stuff in the supermarket!
Thanks, Sherri.
So funny…I was the exact same way! I always told people that I didn’t like coconut, but then I had *real* coconut and loved it. Too funny!
Thanks for stopping by, 🙂
Yummy recipe! How did you get them looking so perfect?
Haha! I wish I had a fancy answer for you, but I don’t. I just melted everything down and poured them mix into the ice cube tray. There were a few chunks of coconut toward the end of the pour and I just dispersed them evenly throughout the ice cube molds. Easy peasy!
Thanks for stopping by! 🙂
Quick AND Tasty! You are a lady after my own heart! 🙂 YUM Thanks for linking up at our Gluten Free Fridays party! I have tweeted and pinned your entry to our Gluten Free Fridays board on Pinterest! 🙂
Thanks for linking back to the Gluten Free Fridays post!
Party starts tomorrow at 7:05 pm eastern time! Hope to see you there!
Cindy from vegetarianmamma.com
Mmmmm… these sounds very tasty! I think my boys would love them. Thanks so much for sharing with us on Wellness Wednesday. I love it when people link up healthy tasty recipes for me to try 🙂
Thanks, Trisha! My 18 month old loooooves them, and I like that I can feel good giving them to him. 🙂
Thanks for the comment!
These look marvelous!! I don’t know if I can make them look as nice as yours but I am definitely trying them!
Cathy
APeekIntoMyParadise@blogspot.com
Thanks for sharing my recipe as your inspiration! (I’ve been meaning to say that for weeks now, but unfortunately pregnancy brain seems to have destroyed my follow-through on these types of things.) Your new creation looks really delicious!
I love that these are a sugar free treat! Pinning these!
But maple syrup is sugar. *I* like that there’s not a huge amount of it.
If you use almond butter instead of peanut butter here, it’d actually be Paleo.
Looks amazing! I found you through VGN and shared this to my facebook page. http://www.facebook.com/NaturalRecipesorg
Love your posts!
Hi Tosha,
Thank you! 🙂 I just went over to your site and it appears that we have a lot in common when it comes to skincare and natural healing. Yay! I love meeting kindred souls.
So nice to “virtually” meet you! 🙂