I’ve been seeing everybody make all types of date bark on my social media so I lastly determined to offer it a attempt myself! The final concept is to put out dates, layer issues on prime of them and prime it off with melted chocolate. Sounded fairly darkish scrumptious to me! Lots of people are making it with peanuts however I made a decision to go together with almonds for mine and made Almond Maple Date Crunch Bark! I all the time have almonds in my pantry and make my very own almond butter so it was excellent!
First, I lined a 9×9 inch pan with parchment and crammed it up with dates. I want to purchase dates with pits as a result of I discover that they keep more energizing and softer longer, however you must take away the pits first which takes a couple of minutes however is completely price it! You simply minimize a slit into them on the aspect and take away the pits. I used 28 dates for this, you want them to cowl the underside of your pan minimize aspect of the dates up and opened up when pressed down. However you could use roughly relying on the dimensions of the dates since I discover that they range.
I topped the dates within the pan off with slightly darkish chocolate to connect them collectively then chilled them earlier than including the almond butter layer. I then blended my handmade almond butter with a contact of vanilla extract maple extract and sea salt and unfold that over the dates within the pan. Subsequent I added chopped toasted almonds, then the remainder of the darkish chocolate smoothed out. This may be slightly totally different and extra fussy than the way in which most individuals are making the date bark however I discovered that it labored out nicely for me.
This date bark turned out so heavenly! This is sort of a higher for you sweet bar! The dates are like caramel and the toasty almond butter with the trace of sea salt and scent of vanilla and maple is the right match for them together with the darkish chocolate! You would completely make this Almond Maple Crunch Date Bark as a more healthy handmade Halloween sweet since Halloween is simply across the nook! I do hope you give it a attempt!
Almond Maple Crunch Date Bark
Makes 16 items
Elements:
- 1 cup clean almond butter
- 1 tsp pure vanilla extract
- 1 tsp maple extract
- 1/4 tsp sea salt
- about 26-28 medjool dates with pits (sufficient to fill the underside of a 9×9 inch sq. pan when halved and pressed down)
- 2 cups melted darkish chocolate
- 3/4 cup chopped toasted almonds
Directions:
- In a small bowl, combine collectively the almond butter, vanilla, maple and sea salt and put aside.
- Line a 9×9 inch sq. baking pan with parchment.
- Lower the pits out of the dates, and place them minimize aspect up, on prime of the parchment on the backside of the pan, press them down, there ought to be sufficient to fill the pan.
- Drizzle slightly of the chocolate over the dates to fill within the gaps and clean it out.
- Place within the freezer to set the chocolate, about 5 minutes.
- Unfold the almond butter combination evenly over the dates.
- Sprinkle the chopped almonds over the almond butter.
- Pour the remainder of the chocolate over the almonds and clean out evenly with an offset spatula or knife.
- Place within the freezer to set, about 20 minutes till the chocolate has hardened.
- Lower into items and luxuriate in!
Retains for two weeks within the fridge in an hermetic container.
