Homemade Bounty Bars Recipe - Mounds Bars

Homemade Bounty Bars or Mounds Bars is so easy to make at home, succulent and creamy coconut filling coated with chocolate...if you are a coconut and chocolate lover, then this is for you!!

Before, I go to these wonderful bars...have you noticed the slight makeover of this blog, which I have come to love so much...I badly wanted something like this for a long time and I have asked a few friends to help me out earlier (as before it was so clutter-some and finding a recipe was a task) and a good hearted person, whom I befriend on Facebook (thank you Mark Zuckerberg for creating facebook) designed and did all the work for me, like putting the categories on the side, an awfully cute thumbnails of my favorite cakes on the side bar, links to ice cream treats, kids recipe, and bachelor recipes on the side bar....along with my favorite chocolate recipes on a table next to it...and a popular post slider (I totally love it!!) .I am loving all of it!! I still do have some more work to be done from my side, like labeling correctly etc...have you notice the new menu bar and the header!!....she has also put drop down for Kerala, How to, and Baking!! and the social icons on the top right (I love the colors) okay! dont ask me how I get time to be on all the social medias :)

Back to my friend Renu Srikanth, she is a developer and an expert with blogger, who is currently taking a career break to spent some time with her two lovely boys, she blogs at renushome.com where she is planning to put DIY tutorials for bloggers, plus recipes, and blogger tips (wow!). I am sure this will help all the new bloggers and bloggers like me who want a change.

I have been making these bounty bars for sometime now, as my son just loves it!! the original bars are very costly at this part of the world...so I started making them at home...it might take anywhere between 40 to 50 seconds to mix the coconut filling and a few min to roll them into bars and dip them in melted chocolate...(no cooking required other than melting the chocolate).... just put everything except the chocolate and mix and roll....refrigerate, melt chocolate and dip them in...told you it is easy!! ha!

Summer vacation started for my son, Nami....and I thought I will surprise him and stock these in the refrigerator when he was outside playing with friends...and when he found them there...he was so happy that I got a really big sweaty, muddy bear hug!!

Author: Nisa Homey
Yields: 12 bars.

Ingredients:
Dessicated Coconut: 2 cups.
Sugar: 1 cup.
Cornflour: 1 tsp.
Condensed Milk: 1/3 of the tin.
Bitter Sweet Chocolate: 150-200 gm, grated or chopped (you can also use good quality chocolate chips)
Dalda: 50 gm (I used vegetable shortening by name dalda, its same as Crisco)

Method:
Add the sugar into a blender and top with cornflour and grind it to a fine powdered sugar. Into another bowl add in 2 cups of dessicated coconut.

 Then dunk in the powdered sugar and 1/3 of the condensed milk (I usually pour a little from the can itself)....and mix with hand, so that you get a soft pliable dough.

Spread butter (parchment) paper on a cookie sheet and pinch off the coconut filling roll into logs and place them on the butter paper (you can also make into small balls). Keep it in the fridge for 15 min or until it chills up and harden a bit, meanwhile grate the chocolate bar...I like to use my potato peeler to grate it and it is easy!!

Melt the chocolate by keeping it over a smaller pan of hot water, add in the dalda or crisco or whatever shortening is available in your pantry.

Dip each chilled coconut bar in the chocolate until completely covered.....and place them on another parchment paper to harden.....refrigerate for 15 to 20 min.

Note: I double dipped the bars, that is after the chocolate is hardened...I dipped it again once more...double dip means double chocolate coating...more chocolate yum!!
Enjoy the bars!!