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I don’t mean to brag…
BUT how amazing do these chocolate dunked salted honey nut bars look (and sound)?!? Like salted honey and nuts?!?! Dunked in chocolate?!?!?
The struggle to contain my excitement about these bars is REAL .
I feel like I should mention that in the time frame of TWO days I made these bars FIVE times. Yes, five times. Over the past week, two batches were consumed solely by me, two batches traveled all the way to South Korea with my parents, little brother and little sister, and there is one batch left in my freezer. Each batch was made slightly different until I felt I had the recipe PERFECT.
Control freak???
FOR SURE, but the good news is that I can promise you, these bars are going to be delicious… like addicting. Worse than crack ADDICTING. OK, totally not worse than crack, because well, you know, but the point to my rambling is that putting these down after one bite, let alone one bar…. is pretty much impossible. No amount of willpower with keep you from these.
Second round of good news is that as far as sweet things go, these bars are heathy enough for breakfast…maybe minus some of the chocolate, but you know I love chocolate and there can never be too much…even for breakfast. Don’t judge, you know you love it too.
SIDE NOTE: I literally just got a text from my dad saying that he is standing in the airport customs line (because my mom, dad, Red and Asher just flew from Frankfurt, Germany to somewhere in South Korea…I have no idea where they really are) eating my nut bars and that he just wanted to tell me they are excellent!! Hehe, this makes me so happy. I love that they have home-baked and healthy snacks thousands of miles around the world. 🙂
Ok, let me just get right down to it today. These bars are epic… and so easy, but they require a few specific notes on their cooking time. To make these bars you simply gather up a whole bunch of nuts and seeds and bake them in honey. Easy as that. Here’s the thing though, the longer the honey bakes, the harder the honey will become as it cools. In my five batches I had bars that were too soft, and then others that were just slightly too hard for my liking. Finally I got to the results you see in these photos.
These bars are crazy sticky, especially when warm, but once they cool they are the perfect consistency. Chewy with soft, caramel like honey and crunchy nuts.
SOOOO GOOD.
If you want your honey to be a littler firmer (harder), just bake the bars five minutes longer than directed. Another important note is that you must, must, must wait until the bars are completely cool to cut them.
Trust me, cutting them while still warm does not work…but eating them warm is kind of awesome…so maybe grab a small taste before they cool completely. 🙂
It’s also really helpful to freeze the cut bars BEFORE you dunk them in chocolate. The warm, melted chocolate can start to warm the honey, which can then leave you with harder to dip bars. I didn’t have a problem, but in general, cold bars dip REALLY well into warm chocolate because then the chocolate immediately begins to harden.
The final touch is a sprinkle of flaky sea salt…aka something all foods NEED.
Yes, I may be a bit head over heals for my flaky sea salt. What?? It’s good stuff.
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For real though?? These bars are everything. You need them… today. 🙂
Could you not just mix the nuts/seeds in with the honey once honey combination is finished cooking, and then place in pan?
HI! Yes, that will work great as well. Hope you love these!
These look so gorgeously sticky and nutty!
Kari
http://www.sweetteasweetie.com
These bars are beyond gorgeous and I”m obsessed with that chocolate dunk!
CANNOT wait to make these. Except I can’t be as good as you — I definitely won’t be sharing my batch. 😉
These look amazing they are definitely on my to make list. Pinning them. Thanks
You should brag about these, Tieghan … because they are amazing! I love how much you packed into one delicious bar. Pinned!
Oh my! This looks soo soo good! xx
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These look just like Kind Bars, which are my FAVORITE!! (the sea salt dark chocolate ones, obviously 🙂 Great recipe!
These look great. How much honey do you use. The recipe said 3/4 so I am assuming that is a cup.
Sorry about that, it is 3/4 cup. Hope you love these!!
I’ve had bars that are pretty much like crack too! Holy moly do these look awesome!!
Holy damn, girl! You should be bragging … these bars look crazy delicious. 🙂
I bet these taste fantastic. You really can’t go wrong with honey!!!
These look awesome! Love the texture!
Thank you so much, Laura!!
Tieghan….I just can’t even. These look SPECTACULAR!!!
These look so good I might have to make them first thing tomorrow morning! Yum! 🙂