These Homemade KIND Bars are a healthier copycat KIND bar recipe! With fewer than 175 calories per bar, they are the perfect salty, sweet snack! They are crunchy, salty-sweet and drizzled with chocolate.
2tablespoonsdark chocolate chipsor chopped chocolate bar
Instructions
Line an 8x8 inch or 9x9 inch pan with criss-crossed parchment. Cut two strips the width of the sides but long enough so there is a little overhang. These will be your handles to pull out the bars with ease. Put a little nonstick cooking spray in the bottom, placing one piece of parchment across. Repeat going to opposite direction. You can always watch my video here to clarify.
Spray a large mixing bowl with nonstick spray. This is to keep the cooling bar mixture from sticking to the bowl. In the bowl combine almonds, peanuts, walnuts, puffed rice cereal and flaxseed meal. Set aside.
In a small pot combine molasses, honey, vanilla, and kosher salt. Stir to combine. Over medium low heat, cook this mixture until it thickens and smells a little caramelized. You are really trying to smell when the honey has begun to caramelize. This can be tricky through the strong molasses smell, but you can do it!
Once the wet mixture has thickened and doesn’t immediately run back together on the bottom of the pot when stirred, pour over nut mixture. Working quickly, stir the nuts and wet ingredient together until all the nuts are coated. Scrap into prepared pan. Press the mixture down to flatten and fill the pan.
Allow to cool completely.
Remove the bars from the pan and place on a cutting board. Cut 10 bars.
Melt chocolate partially in the microwave or in a bowl over simmering water. Stir until the rest is melted. Transfer to piping bag or cornet and pipe over bars. Alternatively, you could just drizzle from a spoon! Allow to set. You might need to use the refrigerator to get them to set if the chocolate was no longer in temper. This generally happens if it is heated too hot.
Enjoy! I really loved them cold, straight from the fridge.