With dark chocolate and chewy coconut in each delicious bite, this is absolutely the best homemade Mounds Bars recipe you’ll find. And they are so easy to make!

Copycat Mounds candy bars

Mounds bars used to be one of my all time favorite candy bars.

Today’s homemade version calls for just four ingredients and can hold its own against the classic, with the same beloved rich chocolate shell and sweet coconut filling.

Whip up a batch of these addictive coconut bars in under five minutes.

You will not regret it!

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Healthy vegan Mounds bar ingredients

Here’s everything you need to make the coconut chocolate bars at home.

Gather together shredded coconut and coconut oil, liquid sweetener, optional pure vanilla extract, and chocolate chips or broken up chocolate bars.
Unlike many other homemade Mounds bars recipes or Bounty bar recipes, this one calls for no corn syrup and no sweetened condensed milk.

Sweetener options that work well include pure maple syrup, honey, or raw agave. Or for sugar free Mounds bars, stevia will also work.

If you experiment with a granulated or powdered sweetener, be sure to report back.

The most important thing with these bars is to buy full fat, unsweetened shredded coconut or desiccated coconut. For best results and a better texture, do not use low fat coconut or sweetened coconut flakes.

Including the vanilla extract compliments the coconut fla...