We are on the fourth week of Bake-a-thon and today I have a delicious chocolate chunks bar made with coconut flour. There are some recipes that won’t turn out right in your first attempt. Have you faced that. I have seen so many readers who didn’t get it the first time accusing the recipe writer. Even some go directly to social media saying that the recipe doesn’t work. What they really don’t want to consider is that there may be something they did wrong. So why am I ranting now? I followed a recipe for today’s dish and didn’t get it right. So I tried it again and again and only on the third attempt did I get it right. As I have told you earlier, coconut flour is so tough to work with. You can’t just blindly follow a recipe and get good results. So a recipe which works for one may not work for another. May be the eggs we used is too small or the cup measure is different. I took three tries to find out the mistakes I mad and rectify them. But the effort was totally worth it. And I could enjoy these bars three times.
My first attempt was in a loaf tin. They were too cakey and even though I lined the tin, the squares got stuck in there and I had to scrape the pieces. But still they tasted so yum. The next time I made them in small silicon square moulds and they were good but not perfect. The third time, I used the square tin I use for mousse cakes placing it on a lined baking tray. The batter is quite thick so won’t leak by the sides. This time they were just perfect with gooey chocolate all through the bars and I could slice them perfectly. The most important thing you need to remember is – don’t over bake. Coconut flour tends to dry out if over baked and you will get a crumbly bar. Mine didn’t brown but still I removed them by 20 minutes. Though there is no colour on them, they are so yum. Try this and you can thank me later. If making this for kids, substitute the sugar substitutes with 3 tbs of brown sugar. I am sure they would love it.
Recipe Source: Ambitious Kitchen
Ingredients:
Coconut Flour – 1/2 cup
Baking Powder – 1/2 tsp
Egg – 3
Milk – 1/4 cup
Ghee – 3 tbs
Stevia – 1/2 tsp
Erythritol – 2 tsp
Dark Chocolate – a few chunks
Procedure:
Preheat oven to 175°C.
In a bowl mix together eggs, milk, ghee and sugar substitutes.
Whisk everything to combine.
Line an 8″ square tin and grease it well.
Add the coconut flour and baking powder to the liquid ingredients and mix well to form smooth batter.
Let the batter rest for 5 minutes. Add half the chocolate chunks in the batter and mix.
Pour the batter into the prepared tin and top it with the remaining chocolate chunks.
Bake in the preheated oven for 15 – 20 minutes.
Cool and remove the cake from the tin.
Cut it into squares.
Enjoy!
Low Carb Coconut Flour Chocolate Chunk Bars Recipe
Ingredients
- Coconut Flour - 1/2 cup
- Baking Powder - 1/2 tsp
- Egg - 3
- Milk - 1/4 cup
- Ghee - 3 tbs
- Stevia - 1/2 tsp
- Erythritol - 2 tsp
- Dark Chocolate - a few chunks
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 175°C.
- In a bowl mix together eggs, milk, ghee and sugar substitutes.
- Whisk everything to combine.
- Line an 8" square tin and grease it well.
- Add the coconut flour and baking powder to the liquid ingredients and mix well to form smooth batter.
- Let the batter rest for 5 minutes. Add half the chocolate chunks in the batter and mix.
- Pour the batter into the prepared tin and top it with the remaining chocolate chunks.
- Bake in the preheated oven for 15 - 20 minutes.
- Cool and remove the cake from the tin.
- Cut it into squares.
- Enjoy!
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I agree to what you say! There are times when recipes I post goes well several times with me but fails with others… It feels bad but maybe because there are errors from their side, or maybe even our side… I love how these chunky bars look like… I wish I stayed close by to you so that I could just eat them without having to make them… hehe…
You have some amount of patience , trying a recipe twice is ok with me , but I would definitely loose my patience after that .
The chunky bars have come out very well , patience , trial and error show great results .
Thats wonderful to see even with so many fails you didnt left trying baking this tremendous chocolate chunk bars. How delightful and beautiful those bars looks. Kudos to you Gayathri.
They look wonderful, Gayathri though I don’t get to bake them at home because of the eggs. 🙂 At first, i thought they were berry based.
Wow!! They look so yum low carb snack or even as a meal. I am gonna try this as soon as all my baked goodies get over.
Those are some sinful looking bars Gayathri. Trying this so many times to get those perfect shape and texture takes patience. I guess it’s worth all the efforts right.
Kudos to your persistence, those chocolate chunk bars look amazing. I want to try these for my kids soon – you have made me a coconut flour convert 🙂 🙂
Those bars are sinful and texture has come out so good.Kudos for your patience.
Glad you third attempt was successful. The bars looks delicious with the chocolate melted through them.
This chocolate chunk bars looks deliciously moist and yum. Just perfect with my cup of coffee.
These coconut flour chocolate chunk bars look so delicious , loved these low carb nutrious bites so apt for guilt-free snacking.
Gayathri I’m loving all your coconut flour bakes but there is one problem that all have egg in them . It’s not that I don’t eat eggs but somehow don’t like the taste of eggs in bakes. It sounds strange, Isn’t it ? Anyway, Is there any way I can use coconut flour but not the eggs?
Thank you Ritu. I can understand. But unfortunately eggs are the best binders for coconut flour. As it is gluten free, it is really hard to make it egg free.
Delicious looking bars gayathri, i agree on getting the recipe perfect, kudos to your patience and passion dear!!!
You are an epitome of patience. These bars looks amazing. Perfectly baked
Hello, checking out your coconut flour recipes, looks great. Can you let me know how much raw/coconut sugar to add in this recipe instead of stevie?
There is no correct substitution. Use the quantity according to the sweetness you prefer. Thank you so much.