Mom's Guilt Free Chocolate Bar

Last weekend, my mom called me out on being a complete slacker in the blog world.  She is not wrong.  I have slacked off.  To be fair, I just started a new job and things have been incredibly hectic.  My mom, being the awesome lady she is, knows this and stepped up to the plate.  She emailed me this recipe last weekend, requested that I make it, and if I liked it I would publish it for her.  I made it today.  Holy Moly it is good!  I will be snacking on this all week long! 

Generally, the problem I have with snack bars heavy on a variety of nuts is I find it to be too dry.  This particular treat is not dry at all.  In fact, it is kind of chewy.  The flavors all come together perfectly, making this already guilt-free snack even more enjoyable.  So, without further delay:

Ingredients

¼ to ½ cup Almonds, roughly chopped

¼ to ¼ cup Walnuts, roughly chopped

¼ cup Sunflower seeds or pine nuts (I used sunflower seeds)

Flax seed

½ cup ghee or high quality butter

½ cup coconut crystals

2 tablespoons almond milk

Bag of Chocolate chips 

       (Note: Mom used a bag of Ghiradelle dark chocolate.  I used a combo of high quality milk chocolate and white chocolate because I forgot to pick up dark chocolate at the store and that is what I had on hand.)

Line a pan with parchment paper. Add the rough chopped almonds and walnuts. Then add the sunflower seeds or pine nuts.  Really any variety of nuts you want.  Also, dried fruit would be good too.

It is much darker than normal
caramel, but the flavor is amazing!  

Sprinkle flax seed on top of the nuts.

In a pan, melt the ghee with the coconut crystals and almond milk.  This will cook down to a very dark caramel.  For me, I cooked it for about 10 minutes. 

Pour the caramel on top of the nuts

Bake at 350 for 5 minutes.

Remove from the oven and add the chocolate.  Put back in the oven for about 2 minutes.  Remove from oven.  

Spread chocolate around and place in freezer for 2 hours.  Once it has set in the freezer, it is easier to break into pieces.

This was right after I took the pan out of the oven,
before I spread the chocolate all over. 

Enjoy!  And let me know what you think!