Candy Bars

Recently, while looking for ideas to make my own candy bars, I ran across Steve’s Serious Keto recipe. His recipe, while great for many, includes some not-friendly ingredients for the people I cook for–so, here is Steve’s version (video) and my version (recipe below).

• 3 TBSP Butter
• 3 TBSP Olive Oil (or Coconut Oil)
• 1/8 tsp flavoring (rum, peppermint oil, tangerine oil, or cream de coco, are ideas)
• 2 TBSP Sweetener (Steve used confectioners Swerve, I’m using 2 packs of Sweet Leaf Stevia or 8 scoops of Kals)
• 3 TBSP Nut or Seed butter of choice (Steve used Almond Butter, I’m using Pistachio butter, walnut butter, or sunflower seed butter and it might be nice on occasion to switch it up with hazel nut butter)
• 2 TBSP coco powder

My suggestion is to store these individually wrapped, in the freezer until you are wanting to enjoy one but they work okay, too, in the fridge.

Mine turned out a bit thicker than Steve’s in his video–no doubt because I used different ingredients.

Trial 1: I made two trials using the same batch of chocolate, just slitting 1/2 of it for one type, and using the other 1/2 for the other kind. For one, I coarsely chopped pistachios, in place of the cereal Steve used; 

Trial 2: I mixed together approximately 1/2 cup of hemp hearts with about 3 TBSP butter, and several drops of YL-Vitality Peppermint Essential Oil as the flavoring. I used the butter and hemp hearts to be the base or carrier f or the essential oil flavoring.

Result: This worked beautifully. It was just right distributed out into the 3 bars of chocolate (I trialed 3 peppermint, 3 pistachio with the same portions and idea Steve outlined in his video)