Chocolate Cashew Butter Bars

Dessert is part of the plan. Leaving it out is how people end up eating something they did not choose at nine at night.

Make a pan on Sunday and there is something waiting all week. Fifteen minutes of work, no oven, and the chilling does the rest.

Ingredients

The base

• 1 1/2 cups natural cashew butter
• 1/4 cup pure maple syrup
• 1/4 cup coconut oil, melted
• 1 tsp vanilla extract
• 1/4 tsp unprocessed salt (Himalayan, Celtic or Real Salt)
• 1 cup almond flour
• 1/2 cup oat flour

The top

• 8 oz dairy-free dark chocolate, chopped
• 1 tsp coconut oil
• Flaky sea salt, to finish

Method

1. Line an 8-inch square pan with parchment, leaving an overhang on two sides so you can lift the slab out later.
2. Stir the cashew butter, maple syrup, melted coconut oil, vanilla and salt together until completely smooth.
3. Add the almond flour and oat flour and mix until it comes together as a thick dough.
4. Press it into the pan firmly and level it carefully. Use the bottom of a glass. An uneven base is what makes bars crack when you cut them.
5. Freeze fifteen minutes while you melt the chocolate with the teaspoon of coconut oil, gently, stirring until glossy.
6. Pour the chocolate over the chilled base and tilt the pan to spread it to the corners. Scatter flaky salt over the top.
7. Refrigerate two hours, until firm.
8. Lift the slab out by the parchment and cut into sixteen squares.

Notes

• Cut with a warm knife. Run it under hot water, dry it, cut, and wipe between cuts. Cold chocolate shatters under a cold blade.
• Let the pan sit out five minutes before cutting if it has been in the refrigerator overnight.
• Natural cashew butter separates in the jar. Stir the oil back in before measuring, or the base will be dry.
• Oat flour is rolled oats blitzed in a blender until fine. There is no reason to buy it.
• They keep two weeks in a sealed container in the refrigerator, or three months in the freezer.
• This is a rich food. Cashew butter, maple syrup and chocolate all in one square. Make it for a Saturday evening rather than a Tuesday, and it does the job it is here to do — nobody in the house feels shut out.
• Use unprocessed salt — Himalayan, Celtic sea salt or Real Salt. Standard table salt and most standard sea salt have been refined, and that processing matters more than the trace minerals people usually talk about.

Makes: 16 bars

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