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.
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!
I have a nut allergy and only found out I was allowed to eat coconut very recently …I’ve been going coconut crazay! And these look PERFECT for my coconut craziness! 🙂
Betty x
The Betty Stamp
I saw the dress as gold & white too =D. And these bars are pink for me! They sounds so incredibly healthy and good! Can’t wait to try them sometime! Pinned!
Pink all the way, Katie! (Though I did see that dress… unfortunately. How are people so hung up on it?! We should be focusing on Pink Coconut Kiss Candy Bars instead!).
Sounds fantastic- may try to swap out the strawberries for blueberries, as I got some weird allergen testing done and apparently strawberries are a no go. The news gets worse- bananas are out, too!
Hope you are having an awesome Sunday =) xo thank you for the recipe
You might be a homeschooler if you saw this & weren’t one bit interested in the color but, instead thought, ‘Yay…fun, yummy, AND healthy math manipulatives!’. 😉