Tangy sweet raspberries meet creamy coconut bark for a delicious low carb fat bomb recipe. Healthy snacking is at hand!
Like many young children, my kids are big snackers. Their little appetites are no longer so little anymore and I swear they are eating me out of house and home. It’s hard to keep up with the needs of those lightening fast metabolisms. Even as mine is slowing down with age (sad but true!), theirs are ramping up, faster and faster, more and more, and even my youngest can easily out-eat her mother. I often find myself making a double or triple batch of something, thinking it will last us that much longer. But it never actually does and I find myself empty-handed, wondering what to throw to the ravenous lions that are my children.
In an effort to keep up with these monsters, I often purchase the extra large, Costco size containers of healthy snacks. I used to buy the small packages of freeze dried berries at Trader Joe’s, since those are extremely popular in our house. But the amount was too little and the expense was too much, so I started purchasing the really big tins whenever there was a sale at Honeyville. I figured that should last us for a while.
My ravenous little monsters apparently had other plans. Imagine my surprise and dismay at discovering that the brand new, just-opened tin of freeze dried raspberries was almost gone in a few short days. My kids know they are supposed to ask me if they want a snack, but they conveniently managed to forget this edict recently when their father was away over a long weekend. My enterprising and imaginative young son was setting up a little store down in our basement, replete with a bar for serving drinks to his sisters and friends. I let them play with what I thought were a few bowls of nuts and dried raspberries as “bar snacks”. The bowls always looked full whenever I passed by so I figured it was all just pretend.
I am sure you know where I am going with this. Their version of pretend and mine weren’t exactly matching up and in three days, they managed to demolish three fourths of that tin, along with a significant portion of nuts. I had no idea they were refilling their little bowls over and over. I honestly don’t think they meant to be sneaky, they just thought it was okay because I’d approved the idea originally, but we had to have a little chat about snacking and the cost of these things. They were appropriately contrite and I comfort myself knowing that at least the snacking was on the healthy side.
And at least they left me enough freeze dried raspberries to make this recipe a few times. It’s my new favourite low carb fat bomb recipe!
Easy Raspberry Coconut Bark Fat Bombs
Ingredients
- ½ cup freeze dried raspberries
- ½ cup coconut butter
- ½ cup coconut oil
- ½ cup unsweetened shredded coconut
- ¼ cup powdered Swerve Sweetener
Instructions
- Line an 8x8 pan with parchment paper.
- In a coffee grinder or small food processor, process dried berries until they are a fine powder. Set aside.
- In a medium saucepan over medium heat, combine coconut butter, coconut oil, shredded coconut and sweetener. Stir frequently until all ingredients are well combined and melted.
- Pour about half of the mixture into the prepared baking pan. Add the raspberry powder to the remaining mixture in the pan and stir until well combine.
- Dollop the raspberry mixture overtop the coconut mixture in the pan and swirl with a knife. Freeze or refrigerate until set and then break into chunks.
Notes
Total fat: 23.56g
Calories from fat: 212
Cholesterol: --
Carbohydrate: 6.56g
Total dietary fiber: 4.11g
Protein: 1.72g
Linda Kaivanshekouh says
Carolyn I so enjoy your recipes and I thank you for the time and effort that you put forth to develop them. I have recently discovered the Slim Fast ‘Iced Lemon Drop’ Fat Bombs. I can’t get enough of these little treasures, however, they are $10 for a box of 14 at Walmart. Others must feel the same way about these things because lately I’ve had a hard time finding them! OH NO! I’v tried to duplicate them with no success.( can’t get the same firm texture) Just wondering if you would consider trying to come up with a copycat recipe.
Thank you so much,
Linda Kaivanshekouh
Michelle Kane says
I haven’t made this yet but everything I have made from your website is simply the best. You put so much effort in, it’s incredible. You have such a generous heart! I am so excited to have discovered that we can buy your books here in South Africa, what a blessing!
Carolyn says
Thanks, Michelle! Tell me where you can purchase them, in case someone else asks. My publisher has no idea what happens to the books once they go across borders, they can’t track the stores.
Linda says
Can we substitute pork rind for something else as I don’t eat pork. Thanks
Carolyn says
Um… this recipe doesn’t have pork rinds. I am very confused.
Mike says
Can you use stevia rather than Swerve?
Swerve has oligosaccharides in it, as well as non-organic Natural Flavors which tend to be chemical based. And oligosaccharides still spike your blood sugar a fair amount.
Neither of those things really act as any kind of binding agent, right? So it’s fine to substitute them.
Carolyn says
Actually, no. The mixture will be far too thin with stevia. As for oligosaccharides spiking blood sugar, I’ve never heard that and they never spike mine. Not even a little.
brends says
i am looking so forward to trying these out. thanks so much.