Homemade bounty/mounds bar

65 kcal for the entire recipe

 

Recipe:

1/4 cup shredded coconut (make sure it's shredded into SMALL pieces, because I used some slightly larger pieces and it turned out a bit weird)

1/4 cup unsweetened almond milk

2 tbsp sweetener of your choice.

2 tsp coconut flour (optional)

 

1/4 cup unsweetened almond milk

2 tbsp 0 kcal cocoa powder (regular cocoa makes it slightly more kcal)

1 tbsp sweetener

 

Stir together the shredded coconut, 1/4 cup almond milk, 2 tbsp sweetener and the coconut flour.

Make sure it's mixed well, so you don't end up with a half-watery, half-solid mess.

Put the coconut spread on a plate in two logs.

Put the coconut logs/bars in the freezer to harden.

 

After +/- 30 minutes, start mixing the other 1/4 cup almond milk,

1 tbsp sweetener and 2 tbsp cocoa powder.

Eventually the cocoa will dissolve and the mixture will thicken.

Do NOT cook it or mix it over the fire, just keep mixing it cold.

If you cook it, the bars WILL fall apart, as the only thing keeping them

solid is the fact that they're FROZEN solid.

Put something frozen into something hot and what do you think will happen, huh?

 

Now here you have two options.

You can do what I did, try to dip the bars into the mixture and hope they don't fall apart.

(and then if they DO fall apart, say 'screw it all' and just pour the mixture onto the plate as if you're trying to drown the bars in chocolate)

OR you can just take a spoon and gently pour the chocolate over the bars,

turn them, pour another spoonful over them, turn them,...

Until they're completely covered.

And then take the chocolate that's left and drink it as if it were pudding.

(yes, I know that doesn't make sense)
 

Either way the bars will end up covered in liquid chocolate.

Put the plate back into the freezer and wait a minimum of two hours before eating the bars.

 

This is what it looked like coming out of the freezer:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Like I said, eventually I got agitated and just drowned the damn things in chocolate.

It looks fun, though, doesn't it?

So I just cut the bars free from the rest of the chocolate and ended up with this:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Because I used those big shreds of coconut instead of smaller ones,

it was very chewwy instead of grainy like the real thing.

It tasted more like natural coconut too (it tasted almost...healthy! *shiver*)

But the funny thing is, after I'd eaten one of them, if you asked me right the very

SECOND I took the last bite what it tasted like,

I would've said 'just like a real bounty'.

Even though it didn't taste like that. At all.

But my brain thought/thinks it did.

Weird, huh?

I know logically that it didn't taste like a bounty bar, but if you would hand me the second one, even now,

I'd kinda expect it to taste like a normal bounty bar.

Maybe it's the 'chocolate-coconut' aftertaste that's still on my tongue, I don't know.

For that many less kcal, though, it's definitely worth it

(preferable over eating a REAL bounty, at least).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

It was a bit messier than eating a real bounty though, because that chocolate melts FAST.

 

 

So, my opinion on this:

 

Difficulty:

★ ★ ★

It's very frustrating and if you make ONE mistake, the entire thing falls apart, so the difficulty is high.

But, technically, it wasn't DIFFICULT, just annoying, to make.

 

Taste:

★ ★ ★ ★

It was good. It didn't really taste like a regular bounty/mounds bar, but that might be because

1. it's frozen and regular bounties are rarely frozen. (unless you have some really weird habits)

2. I used rather large shreds of coconut and regular bounty bars

use 'smaller than rice grains'-sized shreds.

3. It doesn't have sugar, fat, oil, butter, chemicals or any of the other fatty and unhealthy (but tasty) stuff a regular bounty has.

Still, it tasted pretty good and I'm sure that next time I make these, when I use smaller shreds of coconut, it'll be almost like the real thing.

 

Portion size:

★ ★ ★

It's almost as big as the real thing, with the only difference being the kcal.

A real bounty (mini) bar of almost the same size: 135 kcal

One of these: 30 kcal (or maybe 32 kcal if you use regulat cocoa)

That's less than one fourth of the kcal for maybe 0,5 cm less food.

I'd say that's good enough for me.