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Good-for-You No Bake Salted Caramel Bars Recipe

While eating healthy and enjoying sweets seldom go hand-in-hand, choosing the right combination of nutritious ingredients can allow for guilt-free indulgences. This No Bake Salted Caramel Bars recipe can satisfy that sweet tooth.

No Bake Salted Caramel Bars recipe courtesy of Always Eat After 7 PM.

Good-for-You No Bake Salted Caramel Bars Recipe

    Prep Time: 30 minutes

    Cook time: 40 minutes

    Yield: Servings: 30

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Good-for-You No Bake Salted Caramel Bars Ingredients

    Cookie Layer:

      2 1/2 cups raw pecans

      8 pitted dates, soaked in hot water 10 minutes then drained

      2 tablespoons blanched almond flour

      1 teaspoon coconut flour

      1/4 teaspoon sea salt

      1/4 cup granular zero-calorie, natural sweetener

      3 tablespoons coconut oil, melted

    Caramel Layer:

      1/2 cup coconut palm sugar

      1/2 cup granular zero-calorie, natural sweetener

      2 tablespoons full-fat coconut milk

      2 tablespoons coconut oil

      1 pinch sea salt

      1 tablespoon vanilla extract

      1/2 teaspoon baking soda

    Chocolate Layer:

      2 cups stevia-sweetened chocolate chips

      2 tablespoons coconut oil

      coconut oil

      1/3 cup dry roasted macadamia nuts, chopped

      coarse sea salt

Good-for-You No Bake Salted Caramel Bars Recipe Instructions

    To make cookie layer:

    Place large skillet over medium heat. Spread pecans over skillet and toast, stirring often, 8-10 minutes until golden. Remove from heat.

    Transfer toasted pecans to food processor and pulse until fine. Add dates, almond flour, coconut flour, sea salt, sweetener and coconut oil; pulse until dough forms.

    To make caramel layer:

    In skillet over medium heat, combine coconut palm sugar, sweetener, coconut milk, coconut oil, sea salt and vanilla extract; bring to boil. Once boiling, decrease heat to low and cook 5 minutes, stirring often.

    Remove skillet from heat; whisk in baking soda. Return pan to low heat and cook 2 minutes, stirring often.

    Remove caramel from heat and let cool and thicken 5 minutes.

    To make chocolate layer:

    In double boiler, melt chocolate chips and coconut oil. Stir until mixture is smooth then remove from heat.

    To assemble salted caramel bars:

    Line bottom and sides of 9-by-9-inch baking pan with parchment paper, leaving some hanging over sides. Lightly rub parchment paper with coconut oil.

    Press cookie dough into bottom of pan to create even layer. Place in freezer 5 minutes to harden.

    Pour caramel over cookie layer and spread to coat evenly. Place in freezer 5 minutes. Pour chocolate over caramel and spread to cover evenly. Sprinkle with macadamia nuts and coarse salt. Place in freezer 10 minutes until chocolate sets.

    Use overhanging parchment paper to ease set mixture out of pan. Transfer to cutting board and slice into bite-size bars.

No Bake Salted Caramel Bars Nutritional information per serving:

180 calories; 15 g fat; 15 g carbohydrates; 56 mg sodium; 4 g fiber; 2 g protein; 4 g sugar.

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While eating healthy and enjoying sweets seldom go hand-in-hand, choosing the right combination of nutritious ingredients can allow for guilt-free indulgences that shirks conventional dieting wisdom. In fact, some eating plans take it a step further by actually encouraging eating big in the evening when you’re naturally hungriest to help achieve your weight loss goals.

For example, “Always Eat After 7 PM,” written by Joel Marion, CISSN, NSCA-CPT, five-time best-selling e-book author and co-founder of the e-commerce supplement company BioTrust Nutrition, debunks popular diet myths and offers an easy-to-follow diet that accelerates fat-burning and allows you to indulge in your most intense cravings by eating the majority of your calories at night. The outlined plan features a 14-day “acceleration phase” designed for rapid results, a “main phase” when you’ll learn which fat-burning foods to eat to achieve your weight loss goals and a “lifestyle phase” to keep the weight off for good.

Conventional wisdom dictates that it’s best to avoid carbs, eat an early dinner and never eat immediately before bed. However, Marion debunks the myths underlying traditional dieting with a simple, highly effective weight loss program allowing readers to enjoy social dinners without restriction, satisfy nighttime hunger with fat-burning sweet and salty pre-bedtime snacks and indulge cravings with strategically timed cheat meals.

With straightforward food lists, easy-to-follow meal plans and recipes for each phase, this can be a simpler, more enjoyable way to lose weight without feeling restricted. Taken directly from the book, this recipe can satisfy that sweet tooth before heading to bed.

Learn more about the diet and book at Always Eat After 7 PM.

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