Clean Eating Peanut Butter Tagalong Bars Recipe

Ingredients

2 cups almond meal
just over 1/4 tsp salt
1/4 tsp baking soda
2 tsp pure vanilla extract
5 1/2 tbsp pure maple syrup or honey
1/2 cup peanut butter thinned out with milk of choice until spreadable
1/2 cup chocolate chips (80g) melted with 1 tsp oil,

Preparation

Step 1

Preheat the oven to 350 F. Line an 8-inch square pan with parchment, and set aside.

In a measuring bowl, stir together the almond meal, salt, baking soda, vanilla, and sweetener (and water, if using) to form a dough. Transfer the dough to the prepared pan, and use a second sheet of parchment to smush the dough out evenly, pressing down again and again until it covers the bottom of the pan. Bake 12 minutes on the center rack, then let cool at least 20 minutes before either frosting right in the pan or removing from the pan and then frosting with the peanut butter. Spread the chocolate on top, then chill to set the chocolate layer.