DATE BARK
Date Bark is one of the easiest and quickest dessert recipe I have tried. Basically you need 4 basic ingredients to make this delicious and healthy sweet treat. It does taste a bit like Snickers without all that refined sugar.
Ingredients
- 12-16 dates soft and pitted
- 2 tbsp peanut butter drippy
- 2-3 tbsp almonds or any nuts chopped
- ½ cup dark chocolate approx 85g
- ⅛ tsp sea salt/rock salt optional
Instructions
- Line a 8X8 inch tray with some parchment paper.
- Cut a slit on one side of the date. Remove the seed.
- Place the date on the tray with the cut side down. Flatten it a bit by pressing it down with a spoon.
- Repeat, the above steps with the remaining dates. I prefer to arrange them close together, almost overlapping each other.
- Heat the peanut butter slightly so it becomes a bit runny or drippy. Best to place it in the microwave oven in a heatproof bowl.
- Drizzle or spread the peanut butter over the date layer.
- Sprinkle the chopped nuts over it.
- Melt the chocolate in the microwave oven for 1 minute. Make sure you use a heatproof bowl.
- Pour the chocolate over the nuts. Using a spatula, you may need to spread it out gently. Make sure the nuts do not go over to one side.
- Sprinkle the salt.
- Put the tray in the freezer for 15 minutes.
- Remove the date bark from the freezer. Peel off the parchment paper.
- Cut the date bark into pieces using a sharp knife. The size of the pieces depends on your preference.
- Store the date bark pieces in an airtight container in the fridge.
Notes
- Use any chocolate of your choice, milk, dark, sugarfree, etc.
- If the dates are a little dryish you may need to soak them for 15 minutes in warm water. Make sure you pat them dry before layering them on the tray.
- Use any nuts of your choice.
- Can use crunchy or smooth peanut butter.