I enjoy finding healthier ingredients to cook with and sharing those products with you. Anytime we can reduce sugar, the happier our bodies are. Wax Orchards is a company out of the beautiful state of Washington and they have found a way to cook down three fruits (pears, pineapple and peaches) to a honey consistency. Their products are rock stars.
They use the Fruit Sweet product to make other products like these amazing fudge products.
Now back to the recipe – Hmm? What to do?…What to do? My soon-to-be daughter-in-law passed on a gluten free recipe; and I modified it to utilize the products. It took me a couple of tries to get it where I wanted but it has been triple family-approved by my husband, daughter and 2-1/2 year-old grandson and that’s enough for me.
- 2 (15 oz) can garbanzo beans, rinsed and drained
- 1 cup peanut, almond, or your favorite nut butter (no sugar added)
- 1/2 cup Wax Orchards Fruit Sweet
- 1/2 cup Wax Orchards Classic Fudge or Peppermint Fudge
- 3 cage-free eggs
- 4 tsp of pure vanilla extract or 1 vanilla bean
- 1 tsp salt
- 1/2 tsp baking powder
- 1/2 tsp baking soda
- 3/4 cup semi-sweet or dark chocolate chips
- Sea salt for sprinkling
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees
- Coat a 9 x 12 pan with nonstick cooking spray.
- Rinse and drain garbanzo beans.
- If using a vanilla bean, slice down the center and remove the paste by scraping a spoon down the length of the bean. Set aside.
- Place garbanzo beans into a food processor and pulse 7-10 times, scraping occasionally until they start to break down.
- Add all other ingredients except the chocolate chips and blend until smooth.
- Add in half of the chocolate chips and pulse until chocolate is your desired consistency.
- Pour and smooth batter into prepared pan.
- Sprinkle the remaining chocolate chips on top of batter.
- Place in oven for approximately 35-40 minutes, depending on how your oven cooks. A toothpick should come out clean.
- Take out of oven. At this point you can leave the chocolate chips as is or using a small flat spatial or butter knife spread the hot chocolate on top (acts almost like a frosting).
- Now is the hard part - you have to let this cool completely. It's going to be hard because the smell says Eat me Now.
- Cut into squares - these freeze well.
Gather the ingredients
This is the hard part – letting it cool completely before cutting into bars
These are delicious as is but here are a few more ideas on how to plate them:
Fresh Strawberries and an Ice Cream made entirely with frozen bananas in a food processor
Banana Ice Cream and Coconut Cream
These look so rich and yummy and I love the idea of the peppermint flavor.
Who would ever think that these yummies would include garbanzo beans? Amazing! The product sounds relish too!
Hi Liz,
Thanks for stopping by – I feel the same way – What? beans? Then you taste it and I was “Okay, I can wrap my head around that.” The good thing that happens with this dessert is the sweetness is in the recipe absorbs much slower than a processed sugar and our bodies like that.
Oops! Mean to say “delish” too! Sorry :o(
You are so funny – I do this all the time.
Oh my those look so delicious! I love the idea of having fresh strawberries with it! I am learning to use other things as well besides regular sugar when baking. I used bananas a few weeks ago in a blueberry muffin recipe and it was very yummy!
Hi Lisa – I have to say that this recipe’s goodness really surprised me – who knew garbanzo beans would work up like that. What I really like is that is so easy to have a few cans of these in the cupboard. Good job on utilizing bananas. The more I learn about what sugar does to the body, the more I want to find alternatives.
yummo!
Hi Caroline – Thanks for dropping in and leaving a comment. Have a blessed day.
Hi Debbie! I am coming over from Kim’s blog.
Well, I saw ‘chocolate giveaway’ and it was all I needed to hear! Your recipe sounds yummy too. It would be interesting to taste these three fruits cooked together. I bet it’s sweet and delish 🙂
Nice to meet you and thanks for the opportunity to win!
Ceil
Hi Ceil – Thanks for dropping by. I hope your day is filled with good things.
The brownies look delicious. I know more and more people who have to have gluten free so it is so nice to see a tried recipe that people really like.
Great giveaway, friend, and yummy looking chocolate bars. Thank you for the recipe.
Thanks Kim. I always love seeing a comment from you.