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Recipe: How to make raw chocolate bounty bars

Mixing in the chipotle hot sauce and honey with the melted coconut oil and cacao butter is the secret.
Mixing in the chipotle hot sauce and honey with the melted coconut oil and cacao butter is the secret.Supplied

Coconut filling

2 cups unsweetened desiccated coconut

¼ cup coconut oil, melted

2 tbsp coconut nectar

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1-2 tbsp raw honey or maple syrup

¼ tsp fine sea salt

1 vanilla bean, seeds scraped

1 tbsp water

Raw chocolate

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¼ cup melted coconut oil

2 tbsp melted cacao butter

1 tbsp Handsome Devils Co chipotle hot sauce

⅓ cup raw cacao powder

¼ cup raw honey

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a couple pinches of salt, to taste

Melt the coconut oil in a double boiler, or a glass bowl over pot of simmering water.

Remove from heat and add coconut nectar, honey, sea salt and vanilla seeds. Whisk to combine. Set aside.

Place the desiccated coconut in a large bowl and sprinkle the tablespoon of water over top. Stir well.

Pour the coconut oil mixture over and fold to combine, using your hands if necessary. Taste for sweetness and adjust if necessary.

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Line a baking pan with plastic wrap, leaving plenty of extra to hang over the sides. Press the coconut mixture firmly into the pan, leaving it about 1cm thick. Wrap edges of plastic wrap around the coconut and place in the freezer to firm for at least 30 minutes, while you make the chocolate.

In a double boiler, melt the second lot of coconut oil and cacao butter. Add honey and chipotle hot sauce and whisk to combine.

When the mixture is completely uniform, remove from heat and sift in the cacao. Add sea salt. Taste for sweetness and saltiness, and adjust accordingly.

Place a piece of parchment paper underneath a cooling rack. Make sure you have space in your freezer for the rack to fit.

Remove the coconut mixture from the freezer and into equal sized bars.

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One by one, place a coconut bar into the liquid chocolate mix and turn over a couple times to coat. Remove with a fork, allowing any excess chocolate to drip back into the bowl, then place on the cooling rack. Repeat with remaining bars.

Once all the bars have been done and they are no longer dripping, place rack in the freezer for the chocolate to harden, about 15 minutes.

Remove from freezer and repeat the process, giving each bar with one more coat of chocolate. Return bars to the freezer.

Serve.

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