Almond Maple Crunch Date Bark

I’ve been seeing everybody make every kind of date bark on my social media so I lastly determined to present it a attempt myself!  The final concept is to put out dates, layer issues on high of them and high it off with melted chocolate.  Sounded fairly darkish scrumptious to me!  Lots of people are making it with peanuts however I made a decision to go along with almonds for mine and made Almond Maple Date Crunch Bark!  I all the time have almonds in my pantry and make my very own almond butter so it was good!

First, I lined a 9×9 inch pan with parchment and crammed it up with dates.  I favor to purchase dates with pits as a result of I discover that they keep brisker and softer longer, however you must take away the pits first which takes a couple of minutes however is completely price it!  You simply minimize a slit into them on the aspect and take away the pits.  I used 28 dates for this, you want them to cowl the underside of your pan minimize aspect of the dates up and opened up when pressed down.  However you could use roughly relying on the dimensions of the dates since I discover that they range.

I topped the dates within the pan off with just a little darkish chocolate to attach them collectively then chilled them earlier than including the almond butter layer.  I then combined my hand-crafted almond butter with a contact of vanilla extract maple extract and sea salt and unfold that over the dates within the pan.  Subsequent I added chopped toasted almonds, then the remainder of the darkish chocolate smoothed out.  This is likely to be just a little totally different and extra fussy than the best way most individuals are making the date bark however I discovered that it labored out effectively for me.

This date bark turned out so heavenly!  This is sort of a higher for you sweet bar!  The dates are like caramel and the toasty almond butter with the trace of sea salt and scent of vanilla and maple is the right match for them together with the darkish chocolate!  You may completely make this Almond Maple Crunch Date Bark as a more healthy hand-crafted Halloween sweet since Halloween is simply across the nook!  I do hope you give it a attempt!

Almond Maple Crunch Date Bark

Makes 16 items

Components:

• 1 cup easy almond butter
• 1 tsp pure vanilla extract
• 1 tsp maple extract
• 1/4 tsp sea salt
• about 26-28 medjool dates with pits (sufficient to fill the underside of a 9×9 inch sq. pan when halved and pressed down)
• 2 cups melted darkish chocolate
• 3/4 cup chopped toasted almonds

Directions:

1. In a small bowl, combine collectively the almond butter, vanilla, maple and sea salt and put aside.
2. Line a 9×9 inch sq. baking pan with parchment.
3. Minimize the pits out of the dates, and place them minimize aspect up, on high of the parchment on the backside of the pan, press them down, there needs to be sufficient to fill the pan.
4. Drizzle just a little of the chocolate over the dates to fill within the gaps and easy it out.
5. Place within the freezer to set the chocolate, about 5 minutes.
6. Unfold the almond butter combination evenly over the dates.
7. Sprinkle the chopped almonds over the almond butter.
8. Pour the remainder of the chocolate over the almonds and easy out evenly with an offset spatula or knife.
9. Place within the freezer to set, about 20 minutes till the chocolate has hardened.
10. Minimize into items and revel in!

Retains for two weeks within the fridge in an hermetic container.