Healthy Nut Bark mixes your favorite nuts and seeds with a salted honey coating. Bake, cool, and drizzle with melted chocolate. Let it harden, break into pieces, and enjoy your new favorite snack!
This Nut Bark Is My Latest Snack Obsession!
I’m a huge fan of granola bars, especially Nature Valley’s sweet & salty nut bars. It is satisfying to the nut mix, chewy texture, and chocolate coating.
Usually, I make my own granola bars, but feeling a bit lazy, I decided to make a nut bark instead.
This bark is a simpler version of granola bars, capturing all the flavors and textures of the Nature Valley bars. To say I’m obsessed is an understatement! I can’t get enough of this recipe!
Ingredients
- Nuts: Use a mix of your favorite whole (not chopped) nuts. It is satisfying to cashews, almonds, and pistachios best!
- Pumpkin seeds: Adds crunch and nutrients. Make sure they’re fresh for the best flavor.
- Honey: This is the sweetener makes the nuts stick together.
- Sea salt: Makes the flavors pop. Add more if not using extra salt on top.
- Chocolate chips: Choose dark for those good-for-you fats otherwise semi-sweet or milk is great. Use good-quality chocolate chips for smooth melting.
- Coconut oil: Helps the chocolate melt and harden.
- Sea salt flakes (skippable): Adds extra flavor and a fancy finishing!
Choose unsalted and raw nuts for this Nut Bark recipe. Roasted or dry-roasted nuts can burn in the oven before the honey sets, and salted nuts might make the bark too salty.
How To Make Healthy Nut Bark:
- Prep: Heat oven to 300°F and line a baking sheet.
- Mix: Combine nuts, pumpkin seeds, honey, and salt. Spread on the sheet.
- Roast: Bake for 20-30 minutes, stirring every 10 minutes. Cool for 1 hour.
- Drizzle: Melt chocolate with coconut oil. Drizzle over nuts and optionally add sea salt.
- Set: Refrigerate until chocolate hardens. Break into pieces and store.
Recipe Tips
- Keep Nuts Close: Place nuts close together on the baking sheet so they stick and form a bark.
- Watch the Oven: Check the nuts every 10 minutes to prevent burning. Toss them and then spread them back into an even, close-together layer for consistent baking.
- Use Parchment Paper: Line the baking sheet with parchment paper to keep the bark from sticking and make cleanup straightforward.
- Cool Completely: Allow the nut bark to cool completely before adding the chocolate.
- Refrigerate to Set: Put the bark in the fridge after adding chocolate. This helps it harden nicely and makes it straightforward to break into pieces.
Storing Healthy Nut Bark
- Store Properly: Keep leftover bark pieces in an airtight bag and place them in the fridge. This keeps them fresh and crunchy.
- Enjoy Anytime: You can eat the bark straight from the fridge. It tastes great cold and is a reliable quick snack!
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- from-scratch Protein Bars with vanilla protein powder
- Frozen Yogurt in under 10 minutes!
- Peanut Butter Protein Shake with chocolate protein powder
- 5-Minute Cottage Cheese Toast with balsamic drizzle
- Monster Energy Balls with mini M&Ms
