Mounds

These healthier mounds bars are a quick and easy homemade chocolate and coconut candy.

Mounds Candy Bars

• ¾ cup chocolate chunks
• ½ cup unsweetened shredded coconut
• ¼ cup coconut oil
• 1 tablespoon agave nectar or honey

1. Melt chocolate in a small pan over very low heat; you can use a double boiler if you wish and temper the chocolate
2. Using a small paint brush, coat the bottom and sides of a mounds candy mold
3. Place mold in freezer for 10 minutes to allow chocolate to harden
4. In a small bowl, combine shredded coconut, coconut oil and agave
5. Remove mold from freezer
6. Fill chocolate lined molds with coconut mixture
7. Paint chocolate over coconut mixture to cover bars
8. Place in freezer for 10 minutes to harden
9. Remove from freezer, turn mold upside down and pop mounds out of mold
10. Serve

Makes 9 mounds bars (depending on your candy mold)

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