If you’ve been following my blog for while, you know that our neighbor gives us bags, and bags of dried fruits. If you’re new here, well…now ya know! So I try to incorporate them into my recipes, or create recipes using them since we get so many sometimes.
As you can see, I use a bag of fruit and nut mix. If you don’t have that, and want to make your own…you totally can! This bag has walnuts, figs, dried apple, and dried plums. You can swap nuts or dried fruits if you have different preferences.
I love craisins!!! They’re good to snack on, put in oatmeal, on smoothies, or even salads. Also, they have a lot of nutrients and vitamins in them. Ya can’t beat that! The same for the cherries too!
For the Chocolate, I used Lily’s Dark Chocolate, Salted Almond Bar. You can obviously use any kind you want, that’s just the kind I had and I wanted to experiment with it.
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Healthy, Chocolate, fruit bars!
Ingredients
- 2 cups Fruit & Nut mix (I used prepackaged) (Can use an assortment you like)
- 1/2 cup Craisins (Dried Cranberries)
- 1/2 cup Dried Tart Cherries
- 2 cups Heavy Whipping Cream
- 1/2-1 Lily's Salted, Dark Chocolate Almond bar (1.5-3 oz. Dark chocolate w/almonds)
Instructions
- In a medium bowl, pour in the fruit & nut mix, cherries, and craisins.
- Melt the chocolate in a medium saucepan on low stirring constantly, so it doesn't burn.
- Add the heavy whipping cream and turn the heat up to medium. Whisk constantly until the chocolate is fully incorporated.
- Remove from the heat and pour into the dry mix. Mix contents until fully combined.
- Dump into a sprayed 8x8, and chill in the freezer until set up like ice cream bars. It will take 3-4 hours depending on how hard you want them. Enjoy!!!