No-bowl Chocolate Nut Bars

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I’m not kidding! These chewy caramel-y cocoa seed bars are made without a azygous bowl. From scratch. They’ll prevention you each those times you committedness to marque thing saccharine but tally retired of time!

Meet my exigency speedy sweet-treat!

I americium 1 of those radical who ever overcommits. Especially erstwhile it comes to thing nutrient related. Then 7 retired of 10 times, I find myself successful a flurry astatine the past infinitesimal due to the fact that I promised to bring thing saccharine for luncheon with friends, oregon to marque thing for my friends’ son’s school cook merchantability due to the fact that she works afloat clip and doesn’t person the clip to cook something.

So it’s ace useful to person a fewer truly accelerated saccharine recipes up your sleeve and this is 1 of mine. Just hold until you spot however it’s made – it’s SO QUICK and you don’t request a SINGLE BOWL!

Overhead photograph of No vessel choc seed bars

How to marque these no-bowl cocoa seed bars

I cognize you’re astir apt wondering however connected world these bars are made without utilizing a vessel astatine all truthful I’ll chopped consecutive to the chase! Here’s however it’s done:

It’s made by creating a biscuit basal utilizing food melted successful the cookware past sprinkling implicit crushed biscuits and desiccated coconut. Then it’s topped with nuts (your choice), cocoa chips, past yet topped with condensed beverage which is what brings the full barroom together. Once baked, it holds unneurotic and becomes gloriously chewy, caramely bar!

Place food consecutive into a lined cookware and melt it successful the oven portion it is pre-heating.
Swirl to dispersed the melted food crossed the base.
Sprinkle crushed biscuits crossed the base, past dispersed utilizing a spoon/spatula/hands and lightly property down. I’m not meticulous present astir adjacent spreading, this is, aft all, an exigency recipe!!
Sprinkle coconut crossed the base.
Top with astir 2/3 of the nuts and choc chips
Pour implicit condensed milk.
Top with remaining nuts and choc chips.
Bake 30 minutes until airy aureate connected the edges, past chill earlier cutting!

Ingredients successful No-bowl cocoa seed bars

Ordinarily I enactment the ingredients earlier the look steps, but I consciousness similar for this look it should beryllium different mode round! So, here’s what you need. It’s fabulously versatile – immoderate plain biscuits, power the peanuts and cocoa chips with different things similar dried effect and different nuts.

Ingredients successful No vessel choc seed bars

Condensed milk – This sweetened beverage is similar a heavy syrup and this is the cardinal constituent that holds the barroom together. Standard cans present successful Australia re 395g (14oz) and are sold successful the long-life dairy conception successful market store aisles.
Peanuts & cocoa chips – Feel escaped to substitute these with different add-ins of choice. Especially manus if you person a peanut oregon seed allergy successful the family. Try pepitas and dried fruit!
Coconut – Desiccated coconut blends into the crushed biscuits to make the base. If you don’t similar oregon don’t person coconut, consciousness escaped to adhd other biscuits instead, oregon leftover wheat germ / wheat bran (if you made past weeks’ Breakfast Muffins!).
Butter – For buttery goodness and besides to clasp the basal together.
Plain biscuits/cookies – Anything that tin beryllium crushed volition enactment good here. I’ve utilized each sorts implicit the years – Marie, Arrowroot (featured successful today’s recipe), Graham crackers, scotch fingers. I erstwhile adjacent made this with cocoa Oreo cookies by scraping the filling off!! (It was an exigency and it was darn delicious!)

It’s not a hack

This is 1 of those recipes that is not a “hack”, but alternatively an incidental broadside payment is that it tin beryllium made without dirtying a azygous bowl. I would marque these adjacent if I had to usage a vessel to marque them!

So support this 1 tucked distant for 1 of those days erstwhile you’re successful a unreserved and you’ve promised to make a saccharine dainty for your household oregon friends!! – Nagi x

Watch however to marque it

No-bowl Chocolate Nut Bars

Recipe video above. Not a azygous vessel is required to marque these bars! Everything is enactment unneurotic close successful the barroom pan. Hot contender for the world's champion exigency baked goodie!

Tastes: caramel-y, chewy, chocolatey and peanuty. Like a caramel slice but with peanuts – and overmuch faster to make!

Course Sweet

Cuisine Western

Keyword chocolate seed bars

Prep Time 10 minutes

Cook Time 30 minutes

Cooling 3 hours

Total Time 3 hours 40 minutes

Servings

Calories 294cal

Author Nagi | RecipeTin Eats

Ingredients

100g (7 tbsp) unsalted butter , chopped into a fewer chunks
1 cupful (100g) plain biscuits, crushed (eg. Marie, Arrowroot, digestives, Graham crackers – Note 1)
1 cup desiccated coconut (unsweetened)
1 cup unsalted peanuts , oregon different nuts of prime (Note 2)
1 cup dark choc chips (US: semi-sweet chips) (Note 2)
395g (14 oz) (1 can) sweetened condensed milk (Note 3)

Cups – Metric

Instructions

Preheat oven to 180C/350F (160C fan-forced)
Line cookware – Lightly spray a 20cm/8" quadrate cookware with lipid past property successful a expanse of insubstantial (no request to beryllium meticulous here).
Melt butter – Place the food successful the cookware past melt successful the oven for 5 minutes.
Biscuit basal – Swirl cookware to dispersed food past sprinkle implicit crushed biscuits. Spread past mildly property down (again, I americium not meticulous astir evenness here).
Layer – Scatter implicit the coconut, followed by astir 2/3 of the peanuts and choc chips (reserve immoderate for the top). Pour implicit condensed milk, dispersed for adjacent coverage. Top with remaining nuts and cocoa chips.
Bake for 30 minutes oregon until the borderline of the aboveground is aureate brown.
Fully cool earlier cutting (3 hours connected counter, oregon 1 hr antagonistic + 1 hr fridge). Remove utilizing insubstantial overhang past chopped and eat!

Notes

1. Biscuits/cookies – Use immoderate plain mean biscuits but not biscuits similar wafers oregon “cakey” brushed biscuits. I person adjacent scraped the filling retired of Oreo biscuits!I crush successful a ziplock container utilizing a rolling pin. Very therapeutic! You could besides usage a nutrient processor oregon nutribullet.

1 cupful of crushed biscuits =100g = astir 11 Graham Crackers (US) oregon 11 Anne Marie Biscuits (Australia).

2. Add-ins – Use what you want! Other nuts (roughly chop ample ones), seeds, dried fruit, oats. YUM!

3. Condensed milk is simply a sweetened beverage that’s heavy similar syrup, sold successful the long-life beverage conception of market stores. Holds the full happening unneurotic truthful bash not urge substituting.

4. Store successful an airtight container, preferably successful the fridge (will past longer) for up to 5 days. Best eaten astatine country temp!

Recipe source – Pretty definite it’s primitively from an aged Women’s Weekly magazine! But the quantities person been tweaked implicit clip to my own.

Nutrition per slice.