Recipe of Any-night-of-the-week Almond Butter Chocolate Bars with Pistachios

Hello everybody, hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, almond butter chocolate bars with pistachios. One of my favorites. This time, I will make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

Almond Butter Chocolate Bars with Pistachios is one of the most favored of current trending meals in the world. It is enjoyed by millions every day. It is easy, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. They’re fine and they look wonderful. Almond Butter Chocolate Bars with Pistachios is something which I’ve loved my whole life.

To get started with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook almond butter chocolate bars with pistachios using 10 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Almond Butter Chocolate Bars with Pistachios:

1. Take 1 cup almond butter (no sugar added)
2. Take 2 Tbsp(+) coconut oil
3. Prepare 1/4 tsp almond extract
4. Prepare 1/4 cup pure maple syrup
5. Make ready 1/2 cup gluten-free chex rice cerial
6. Take 1/2 cup whole pistachios (shells removed)
7. Prepare 1 tsp finely chopped pistachios
8. Prepare 1 pinch sea salt
9. Prepare 1/2 bag Enjoy Life semi-sweet chocolate chips
10. Make ready 1 Tbsp creamy peanut butter (no sugar added)

Instructions to make Almond Butter Chocolate Bars with Pistachios:

1. Line a glass baking dish with 2 sheets of parchment paper for easy removal of candy bars. Leave the paper long for handles, like pictured.
2. Place chex mix & the 1/2 cup of whole pistachios into the bottom of the glass dish in an even layer.
3. Melt almond butter with 2 Tbsp (+) coconut oil. Add almond extract & maple syrup. Your almond butter should be hot & liquefied enough to poor. If it isn't wet enough, add more coconut oil. Poor hot almond butter mixture evenly all over the cerial & nuts. Cool in refrigerator for at least a half hour until set.
4. Melt half of a bag of chocolate chips & add a full tablespoon of creamy peanut butter. I do this to cut the sweetness of the chocolate chips & to soften up the chocolate for easy cutting. Stir in the peanut butter into the melted chocolate until you can't see it anymore. Poor hot mixture evenly all over the top.
5. Sprinkle sea salt & the last teaspoon of finely chopped pistachios on top of the chocolate immediately so it will stick to the melted chocolate. Cover & refrigerate for an hour, if you can wait that long.
6. Slice into preferred candy bar size & enjoy! Store in refrigerator for best keeping. ♡

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