Keto Tagalong Cookie Bars

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Keto Tagalong Cookie Bars taste like Girl Scout cookies; you won’t crave them again. These are delicious, free of sugar, and also low in carbs with just 4.1g of net carbs. Keto Tagalong Cookie Bars are made with almond flour shortbread and have peanut butter and an extract of caramel in them. They are so easy to make and it just requires a total of 35 minutes to make and bake them. Original tagalong cookies are popularly sold by Girls Scouts (American), it is a shortbread made with flour, covered in chocolate, and filled with sweet peanut butter filling, also known as Peanut butter patties. But these cookie bars have the shortcut with all those ingredients but are ready in half time.

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STATS:

  • Course: Dessert
  • Cuisine: American
  • Prep time: (15) mins
  • Cook time: (20) minutes
  • Total time: (35) mins
  • Servings: 16
  • Calories: 218

EQUIPMENT:

  • Whisk
  • Bowl
  • 8×8 inch baking pan
  • Rubber spatula
  • Bowl (microwave safe)

INGREDIENT:

Crust:

  • 1 ¼ cup almond flour (125g)
  • ¼ cup swerve sweetener
  • ¼ teaspoon salt
  • ¼ cup butter (chilled and cut into small pieces)

Peanut butter caramel filling:

  • 2/3 cup peanut butter (creamy and natural)
  • ¼ cup butter
  • ½ cup swerve brown
  • ¼ cup heavy whipping cream
  • ½ teaspoon extract of caramel (or extract of vanilla)

Chocolate Topping:

  • 3 1/2 ounces (sugar-free) dark chocolate chip
  • 2 tablespoons butter

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INSTRUCTION:

Crust:

  1. Put your oven to heat at three fifty.
  2. Put the paper (baking) in the 8×8 inch pan and brush it with the oil.
  3. Add the 1 ¼ cup almond flour, ¼ cup swerve sweetener, ¼ teaspoon salt in the food processor, and grind it a few times add the butter from the top, and continue until they crumble up.
  4. Add the flour of almond and butter mix to the pan (baking) and press it with a rubber spatula.
  5. Bake it for several minutes (12-15).
  6. Take the cookie bar from the oven and allow it to cool down.

Peanut butter filling:

  1. Take a saucepan (large) and add the 2/3 cup of peanut butter and ¼ cup of butter.
  2. Cook until peanut butter melts and stir it side by side.
  3. It can be done in the microwave as well by adding the peanut butter and butter in a bowl and put in the microwave.
  4. Add the ½ cup of powdered sweetener, ¼ cup heavy whipping cream, and ½ teaspoon of extract of caramel or vanilla.
  5. Properly incorporate all the ingredients and add it over the crust.
  6. Spread the peanut butter filling evenly on the crust.
  7. Put it on the refrigerator to chill for about 30 minutes.

Chocolate filling/ drizzle:

  1. Take a bowl (small and microwave-safe)
  2. Add the 3 ½ ounces of chocolate and 2 tablespoons butter to the bowl and place it in the microwave.
  3. Melt in intervals of 30 sec and stir the chocolate in between.
  4. Another way to liquefy the chocolate is by placing of heat-safe bowl in simmering water (double-boil method).
  5. You can place heat heat-safe bowl over simmering water add chocolate and coconut oil in the bowl and mix it to melt the chocolate.
  6. Pour the chocolate filling over the chilled filling and set in the fridge for 30 mints.

TIPS:

  • Melt the caramel on low flame.
  • Please do not get your eyes off the caramel on the stove, and be prepared.
  • Remove the pan from the stove when it is turning to a nice brown color otherwise, it gets burned easily.
  • You can use flour (sunflower seed) instead of flour of almond to get nut-free cookies.
  • To make a thinner and smoother drizzle of chocolate use a small amount of coconut oil (½ to 1 tsp.) for ½ cup of chocolate chips.

STORAGE INFORMATION:

Room temperature:

  • You can put these cookies in a sealed jar and put them on the counter for a few days (4).

Fridge:

  • Put these keto tagalong cookies in a sealed jar and store them for several days (8).
    The caramel sauce in these cookie bars gets hard when put in the refrigerator; heat the cookies to melt the caramel.
    Keto Tagalong Cookie Bars tastes good at room temperature.

Freeze:

  • You can also store these cookies for several months.

FAQs:

Is there any free-of-nuts alternative for these cookies?

  • Yes, you can use flour from sunflower seeds instead of almonds to make these cookies free of nuts.

Is there any alternative for melting chocolate as a replacement for the (double boiler) method?

  • You can melt the chocolate in microwave at the intervals of 30 seconds mix it in between and allow it to melt 75% then take out the bowl of chocolate and stir it continuously to melt the whole chocolate.

Will I store these tagalong cookie bars?

  • Put these cookie bars in the sealed jar on the counter for several days (4) and for a few days (8) put the jar in the refrigerator.

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NUTRITIONAL FACTS:

Amount per serving: 1 bar
Calories: 218
Fat: 19.9g
Carbohydrates: 6.8g
Fiber: 2.7g
Proteins 4.9g