This guilt-free Take 5 Coconut Oil Chocolate Bark is a delicious vegan and gluten-free take on the popular candy bar. It’s loaded with peanuts, chocolate, caramel, pretzels and peanut butter and you would never guess that it’s healthy!
It’s almost our birthday, and you know what that means? It means an extra special treat for you today in the form of CHOCOLATE!!! Do you all remember the Take 5 candy bars? You know, the ones with pretzels, caramel, peanut butter, peanuts and chocolate?
It’s funny because I’ve never really liked candy bars, but I was all about Take 5 bars when I first tried them. I vividly remember the first time I sunk my teeth into the sweet and salty goodness. I was ice skating, well, more like trying not to stay on my feet because I fell at least 50 times.
I was super hungry after, and of course I begged my mom for a dollar to get a snack at the vending machine. Lo and behold, there it was, in the mix with the potato chips and cheese curls. Needless to say, one bite and I was hooked.
I haven’t had a take 5 bar in FOREVER, so it was about time to recreate the incredible flavors ( in a healthier way of course)!
You’re probably wondering, “how do you make that healthy?” It’s actually pretty simple. You create coconut oil chocolate, mixing coconut oil , high quality cocoa powder, and unrefined sweetener.
Then you add in the heavenly mix-ins and save some for the topping and freeze that ‘ish until its frozen.
Now, about that coconut oil. As you guys probably have seen, we use coconut oil in many of our recipes. From sweet to savory dishes, it’s of our go-to ingredients. My favorite brand is definitely Golden Barrel coconut oil because of it’s high quality, pure ingredients and tradition.
At Golden Barrel, it’s all about putting tons of effort into creating the best quality ingredients, which we are all about. Golden Barrel also uses no preservatives added, which is an added bonus, just pure coconut oil. Use it in any recipe that calls for oil, and you’ll LOVE the pure flavor that Golden Barrel Coconut Oil lends, I promise!
You will love all of the sweet, salty, crunchy, smooth, peanut buttery and chocolatley guilt-free goodness that this Take 5 coconut oil bark has to offer! It’s too delicious, easy and simple not too make!
We know your drooling over that goodness right there 😉
Take 5 Chocolate Coconut Oil Bark
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup Golden Barrel Coconut Oil melted
- 1/2 cup cocoa powder
- 1/4 cup pure maple syrup
- 2 Tbsp. peanut butter melted
- 2 Tbsp. date caramel
- 1/2 cup crushed peanuts
- 1/2 cup crushed gluten-free pretzels
- Toppings:
- 2 Tbsp. melted peanut butter mixed with 1 Tbsp. coconut oil
- 2 Tbsp. caramel sauce (I made date caramel- recipe link in instructions)
- 1/2 cuo crushed peanuts
- 1/2 cup crushed gluten-free pretzels
Instructions
- Line a cooking sheet with parchment paper.
- Combine coconut oil, cocoa powder and maple syrup in a bowl. Mix well. Add in peanut butter and caramel and mix until smooth.
- Add in peanuts and pretzels and spoon onto cooking sheet. Spread out until mixture is about 1/2 inch thick.
- Add on remaining peanuts and pretzels. Drizzle on peanut butter and caramel (recipe link to date caramel) and place in freezer. Freeze for about 30 minutes, or until bark is solid.
- Break into smaller pieces and enjoy!
- Store in freezer.
- * To make paleo friendly, sub in almond butter for peanut butter, and crushed almonds for crushed peanuts
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Anything sweet and salty is good!
Mmmm I think my favorite candy bars would have been mounds or almond joys or three musketeers! (But always something with chocolate!!!)
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Can you believe I never had a Take 5 bar 😮 I know, it’s crazy! But chocolate + date caramel + pretzels all in one bite?! Um YEAH!!!!
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OMG you need to try one, actually just try this bark 🙂
yes sweet and salty is the best! almond joys are pretty dang good too!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I hope now that you’ve both gone up a year, you can finally stick a dismount 🙂
Arman @ thebigmansworld recently posted…Healthy Flourless Lemon Blueberry Breakfast Cake
This looks delicious! I love melting chocolate and topping it with granola for the sweet + salty combo so I think I’d Love this!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!! 🙂 Enjoy the legal life, it’s sooo weird being 21 now too. Live it up ladies! <3
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Looks delish! I love the sweet and salty combination!! Yum!
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Happy early birthday!! 🙂 I also haven’t had take 5 bars in YEARS but love the sweet and salty combo!! 🙂
Tara | Treble in the Kitchen recently posted…Sweet Potato Fried Rice {Grain-Free!}
GENIUS!! Take 5 is one of my favorite candy bars, but as they aren’t gluten-free I can’t eat them anymore. Definitely going to have to make this for sure!
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This looks so good! I have never tried a Take 5 Bar before (don’t think they sell them in Canada), but I would love to try making this!!
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Anything with pretzels and peanut butter has my heart!! This bark sounds fantastic!!
thank you! It’s such a great combo!
you would love this! The combo is perf!
aren’t they so good!? This recipe is the next best thing 🙂
Oh my gosh I immediately had to click over to see these healthy Take 5 bars bark!! I remember when they first came out and also obsessed. What is it about the crunch of that salty pretzel mixed with chocolate?! So freaking good.
woah! I love the sweet and salty combo these look great! I loved the take 5 bars too–before i had to eat gluten free haha
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Take 5’s used to be one of my favorite candy bars, but they were so hard to find back in the day! Probably made them more special when I did lol.
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I love sweet and salty goodness! My favorite candy bar was always payday because I love the combo of salty peanuts with the (very) sweet filling. Thanks for sharing at the Blogger’s Pit Stop.
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Sounds delicious! Anything with chocolate is a win. 🙂
yes so true!