What color do you see in this photo?
If you said that you think these bars are pink, you would be wrong.
The actual color of these bars is…
Well… no, never mind.
They actually are pink. It’s not a trick.
Then again, you might not want to take my word for it. I saw the dress (or The dress) as gold and white, which apparently is wrong. This worries me, considering I work with color for a living. All of these recipe pictures I’ve been spending hours and hours editing in Photoshop to achieve the perfect white balance, brightness, contrast, hue, saturation… what color is everyone else seeing when I post them?!?
It makes one question everything.
Except, thankfully, taste. Everyone who tried these homemade coconut candy bars agreed they are fantastic: a simple 6-ingredient recipe inspired by the popular No-Bake Coconut Crack Bars.
Pink Coconut Kiss Bars
- 1 cup full-fat shredded unsweetened coconut (80g)
- 1 loosely packed cup sliced strawberries (120g)
- 1 1/2 tbsp virgin coconut oil (16g)
- 1/2 tsp pure vanilla extract
- pinch uncut stevia OR 1 tbsp sugar
- 1/8 tsp salt
Combine all ingredients in a food processor or a Vitamix. (If using a Vitamix, be sure to use the tamper. I’m not sure if a blender will work.) Process very well, until completely smooth. Line an 8×5 loaf pan or small container with parchment or wax, spread the mixture in evenly, press in chips if desired, and freeze 1 hour or until firm. Store leftovers in the refrigerator for a few days, or freeze for up to a month, thawing before eating.
View Coconut Kiss Bars Nutrition Facts
READER SHOUT OUT:
This beautiful photo from Lauren @fromtreetosea on ig is of one of the reader favorites from the cookbook, the Chocolate Pixie Cookies (page 25).
If you’ve made a recipe from the book or the blog and want to share a photo, please feel free to send one on facebook or instagram (@chocolatecoveredkatie), and I’ll feature some of your pictures on the blog in the next few weeks. ♥
P.S. Team white & gold.
Don’t worry these are definitely pink! And pink happens to be one of my favorite colors, so that is a good thing! I also love strawberries and chocolate chips and sometimes I like coconut, so it might be fun to make these.
Your post completely cracked me up! I too saw gold and white. In fact, I think I know more people who saw gold than black, so at least that is some comfort.
I love LOVE the original coconut crack bars, so I will have to try these! And I can attest for the pixie cookies being delicious. They were one of the first recipes I made from the book!
Hah, I preferred the photo Ian MacKellan posted of himself in a dress asking people what colour they saw 😛
But yes! These bars are pink and they look and sound fantastic! Coconut and Strawberry? Si por favor 😀 x
I was team gold before, but now I am team pink. And team pixie cookie! I’ve been eyeing that recipe in your book since I bought it 🙂
These definitely look pink! And they definitely look delicious! 🙂
I see it as gold and white too, it confused me so much when everyone was discussing it, it’s so weird. Anyway, these look so good, a lovely little treat and your photos always look great – but as you said it’s whether the food tastes good (which is does) : )
Kathryn
nimblenote.blogspot.com
These look so easy!!! I bet my daughter will love them too – can’t wait to try them out this week. Thanks for another lovely recipe!
Also, I’m afraid you ARE wrong. Blue and black. It’s divided my household.
Jo x
http://www.helloseedling.blogspot.co.uk
I definitely saw gold and white. Don’t worry, I see pink here. These look amazing!!
Sounds like the dress controversy! LOL, they’re pink 😉
Darn…I don’t have coconut and I already went to the grocery store. Must try these sometime soon.
Hi Katie! Thanks so much for posting this. I am now restricted to a no carb no sugar diet due to a systemic candida infection and so I knew the first place to come for things I could eat would be here. One thing I am supposed to eat a lot of is coconut because it is antifungal. So the first thing I did was buy a 54oz tub of coconut oil, 1lb of coconut flour and 24oz of coconut flakes plus (because I can’t live without it) some 85% dark chocolate bars which have almost no sugar. Then I checked your website and book for recipes featuring these ingredients. Your coconut flour brownies from your book have allowed me to eat dessert where it previously seemed impossible (i used all stevia to make them sugar free and they came out great), and I add coconut butter or Almond butter as a frosting. Now this recipe gives me another choice and when other people are eating junk around me, I don’t feel like I’m missing a thing! Thank you.
Also, I wanted to mention I did make these in a very good food processor, but adding some liquid may have helped it achieve a smoother texture. It’s hard to tell the texture that yours were, but mine were grainy as one would expect shredded coconut to be. Yours look more smooth and whipped. No matter, still awesome.
Just try processing longer. Basically if you process shredded coconut long enough it becomes coconut butter, which is essentially I think what’s happening here. I processed mine awhile, and they were very smooth.
Mine are in the freezer, but I already sampled one and all I can say is YUM! 🙂
These are so cute <3 I'm also team white and gold hahah
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YUM! What a wonderful idea! I love the pink hue, too!
Yum!
I saw the dress as white and gold too, and my two roommates– my boyfriend and my sister– both saw the dress as blue and black. It’s seriously made me question what colors I see too!
I’m out of coconut, but will go and get some just for this recipe!
For all the team white and gold-ers, I was with you until I saw the photo in about the tenth comment down on this website: http://gawker.com/what-color-is-this-goddamn-dress-1688330170
When I scrolled back up, I could suddenly see it in blue and black!
I see the blue in the comment photo. But I still see white and gold in the first!