Healthy Chocolate Chip Cookie Bars
These Healthy Chocolate Chip Coconut Cookie Bars are gluten-free, refined sugar-free and DELICIOUS. You'll love this simple, one bowl recipe made with just 4 ingredients.
- Prep Time: 5
- Cook Time: 15
- Total Time: 20 minutes
- Yield: 8 1x
Ingredients
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- 1 cup nut butter (I used 1/2 cup cashew and 1/2 cup peanut)
- 1 cup unsweetened coconut flakes
- 1 large egg
- 1/3 cup pure maple syrup
- 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1/3 cup dark chocolate chips
- sea salt, for sprinkling
Instructions
- To a bowl, add nut butter, coconut flakes, egg, pure maple syrup, vanilla extract and salt. Stir to combine.
- Next, stir in chocolate chips or another mix in of choice like chopped nuts or dried fruit.
- Grease an 8x8" baking pan or line with parchment paper. Spread your healthy cookie dough mixture evenly into the prepared pan.
- Once your cookie dough is spread out to all four corners, top with a few more chocolate chips and a pinch of flaky sea salt.
- Lastly, bake these healthy chocolate chip cookie bars at 375F for about 15 minutes or until the edges are lightly golden brown. A toothpick inserted in the center of the bars should come out clean or with little crumbs.
- Finally, cool for 10 minutes before slicing into bars. Serve warm for extra gooey cookie centers.
Notes
I used a 50/50 mixture of cashew butter and peanut butter in these bars. However, almond butter or another nut or seed butter would taste delicious!
For sweeter bars, add a 2-3 tablespoons of coconut sugar or increase the pure maple syrup to 1/2 cup or add more chocolate chips.
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 8
- Calories: 387.44kcal
- Sugar: 12.8g
- Sodium: 174.43mg
- Fat: 30.84g
- Saturated Fat: 11.94g
- Carbohydrates: 22.32g
- Fiber: 5.82g
- Protein: 8.82g
- Cholesterol: 20.85mg
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