Homemade coconut and chocolate bars

Homemade coconut and chocolate bars, here is the recipe to self-produce delicious snacks to eat even cold

Coconut and chocolate bars, prescription to reproduce one of the tastiest and most popular industrial snacks at home. The dark chocolate coating contains a soft coconut filling to create a tasty dessert that is also perfect to be served cold, during the summer.

The preparation of these bars is very simple: as soon as ready, the coconut mixture is divided into equal parts forming piles which, once cooled, will shape very easily with the palms of the hands.

THEself of these coconut and chocolate bars (similar to Bounty) will avoid the intake of preservatives and hydrogenated fats usually present in industrial products, as well as an economic saving and the gratification of having done it with your own hands

Index

Ingredients

200 gr of rapé coconut
50 g butter
60 gr of brown sugar
200 grams of dark chocolate
100 ml of unsweetened fresh cream

Preparation Time:
90 minutes
Cooking time:
-
Rest time:
consolidation time
Dose:
for 18 bars
difficulty:
low

How to prepare coconut and chocolate bars: procedure

To put in a thick-bottomed pan the cream, butter and sugar,
to melt everything over medium heat then turn off the stove,
add the coconut and mix everything so that the liquid ingredients are absorbed into the coconut flakes.

Transfer then the mixture on a sheet of parchment paper, level it with a spatula forming a rectangle about two centimeters thick and with a smooth blade knife divide it into equal parts,

prendere each part and squeeze it in your hands in order to compact it and lay it on a plate, place everything in the refrigerator for at least forty minutes, then take each portion and shape it with your hands exerting a little pressure, thus giving it the shape of a rectangle, then put it back in the refrigerator for at least an hour.

finished the last hour of rest melt the chocolate in a bain-marie and let it cool for a few minutes,
roll around gently inside one block of coconut at a time and with the help of a fork drain the excess chocolate,
put the bars just covered on a sheet of aluminum foil or on a wire rack and wait for the chocolate to solidify again, to speed up this operation it will be useful to place them in the refrigerator.