Homemade coconut bounty bars – with a rich dark chocolate shell. 

I am constantly making new recipes, because blogging is my full-time job.
One of the best parts of the job is always having so much delicious food to eat. But even with my love of dessert, there?s just no way to consume it all by myself. So I try to take full advantage if I?m going out by bringing at least one recipe?and usually two or three?to share. On Saturday night, wanting to make something different from the usual party fare of brownies and cookies (and chips and dip ? so much yawn), I brought these homemade coconut bounty bars to a house party.
The bars were ridiculously easy to make and carry with me, and the entire batch was demolished pretty quickly… because who doesn?t love chocolate and coconut"!
 
(View the step-by-step video above.)
So what the heck is a bounty bar" Sold internationally, they are pretty similar to Mounds bars ? sweet coconut patties engulfed in rich dark chocolate. Also, you can discover some fascinating facts on Wikipedia. For example, they sell cherry bounty bars in Australia and mango and pineapple bounty bars in Europe. Cherry chocolate coconut bars sound so amazing. Really not sure about the mango though?

The recipe is based on one for healthy Mounds bars that I posted a few years ago and then completely forgot about until just recently when a display of real Mounds bars caught my eye in the checkout line at the grocery store. I looked up the...