Homemade Bounty Bars

Homemade Bounty Bar Recipe! Delicious chocolate bars filled with a fluffy coconut filling and coated in melted dark chocolate. Easy coconut filling created in one pot with added coconut milk, coconut oil, maple syrup and vanilla. Pressed into a pan and then frozen solid. Slice into bars and dunk into your melted chocolate to coat. Sprinkle each with a little extra desiccated coconut. Then your homemade bounty bars are ready to devour once the chocolate has set!

Bounty Bars are similar to Mounds Bars. In Australia I’ve only seen bounty bars available so I haven’t tried a mounds bar. However, I think they’re quite the same in many aspects. A sweet coconut filling, shaped into bars, refrigerated, then coated in chocolate. You’ll see them made with either milk chocolate or dark chocolate. I opted for the dark chocolate as I always have it on hand, plus it a little bit healthier than milk chocolate right? I’ll go with a yes! Not that it matters, we are here to enjoy a balanced life with delicious sweet treats!

Key Ingredients

Created with 6-ingredients:

Desiccated coconut as the main component of the filling. 

Canned coconut milk is used to help stick the desiccated coconut together.

Coconut oil also assists the coconut milk to combine the filling. 

Maple syrup to add sweetness. 

Vanilla extract to add even more flavour. 

Dark chocolate to melt down and coat the bars. 

How to Make Homemade Bounty bars

Place your desiccated coconut, coconut milk and oil then maple syrup and vanilla into a medium sized pot. Place over a medium heat and mix to combine. 

Once the liquids have soaked through the coconut and it’s heated through, reduce heat to a medium-low and cook mixture for 1 minute and 30 seconds whilst stirring. Ensure it doesn’t stick to the base or burn, so keep on stirring it. The coconut mixture will begin to stick together. At this point, it will smell like delicious toasted coconut!

Press your mixture firmly into the lined pan, evening out the top. You want to make sure it’s pressed tightly into the pan as this will form the solid coconut bars. Then transfer it to your freezer for 1 hour or until completely solid and firm. 

Whilst that is chilling, melt the dark chocolate over a double boiler on the stove in a medium size heat-proof mixing bowl. Mix until completely melted and smooth. 

Remove from the freezer and slice into thirds. Then cut into long bars, you’ll get 6-7 bars from each third you have cut. If the bars have softened too much after cutting and they begin to crumble slightly, place them back into the freezer for 15 minutes until solid/firm again. 

Dip each bar into the melted chocolate and coat. Remove with a fork and allow the excess chocolate to drip back into the bowl. Place on a wire rack or lined tray. Sprinkle half of each bar with some extra desiccated coconut if desired. Transfer bars to refrigerator until chocolate is completely set. That’s it! 

Recipe Tips & Substitutions

• If you have shredded coconut on hand and not desiccated coconut, give that a try. Your aim is to get that coconut mixture to stick together and press firmly into the pan. 
• Canned coconut milk is used in this recipe as it has those thick solids of coconut milk you can scoop out. This is better to use than the thin coconut milk in the long life bottles. I understand buying a can of coconut milk and not needing the entire thing can be wasteful but it doesn’t have to be. Scoop out the quantity you need and use the remaining in a smoothie or another recipe you might be making that also uses coconut milk. 
• Try honey in place of maple syrup if you don’t have maple on hand. 
• For the chocolate I used a baking/cooking plain dark chocolate block. Nestle, Cadbury or Lindt work well. 
• Store in an airtight container, refrigerated, for up to 2 weeks. 

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If you make this recipe please be sure to let me know how you go in the comments below and tag me on Instagram with your delicious photos & video! 

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