📋 No Bake Healthy Rocky Road Bar Recipe

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5 from 6 votes

📋 No Bake Healthy Rocky Road Bar Recipe

These No Bake Healthy Rocky Road Bars are made with rice cake thins and loaded with delicious mini marshmallows, sunflower seeds, butterscotch chips and cranberries for a healthy and satisfying chocolate treat! They only take 10 minutes to make and are Weight Watchers friendly @ 9 WW points on the blue plan. Perfect for packing along in a lunch bag!

Course Dessert, Snack

Cuisine American

Keyword chocolate, healthy, rocky road

Prep Time 10

Cook Time 5

refrigeration 10

Total Time 25

Servings squares

Calories 202kcal

Author Terri Gilson

Ingredients

12 thin stackers - thin rice cake squares * I use Lundberg organic brown rice, lightly salted
⅓ cup dried cranberries
1.5 tablespoon sunflower seeds raw shelled
10 ounces semi sweet bakers chocolate (bars)
⅓ cup butterscotch chips
⅓ cup mini marshmallows- cut in half

US Customary - Metric

Instructions

Lay 12 rice cake thin squares out on parchment covered cookie sheet, as close together as possible.
Break bakers chocolate bars into 1 ounce chunks and microwave on half power (50%) for 5 minutes, stopping at 3 minutes to stir, then stirring again at then end until chocolate is completely melted.
Pour chocolate over rice cake squares and spread evenly over all 12 rice cake thins.
Sprinkle on mini marshmallow, dried cranberries, butterscotch chips and sunflower seed evenly over chocolate covered rice cakes.
Refrigerate for 10 minutes or until chocolate has set.
Cut into 12 pieces and serve. It's easiest to cut them apart if you flip it over- you can see the squares easily this way.

Notes

Expert Tips

To avoid having your chocolate seize: Use 50% power on your microwave and stir frequently during melting. Avoid getting water into the chocolate or on any of th utensils, as it will make the chocolate seize. If using a double boiler, keep the heat low and stir constantly.

Cut the bars neatly without cracking the chocolate: Flip the bars over so you can see the lines of the rice cakes and use a sharp knife to cut along those lines. Allow the bars to come slightly to room temperature before cutting if they’ve been refrigerated for a long time.

Prevent the chocolate from hardening too quickly when adding the toppings: Work quickly when spreading the melted chocolate and have the topping ready to immediately sprinkle over it. If you’re in a cool environment, consider warming your workspace slightly to keep the chocolate from hardening too soon

Variations & Substitutions

- Mini marshmallows: you could use mini colored marshmallows (affiliate link) to make this bar even more fun! Or cut up larger marshmallows

- Dried cranberries: you could substitute dried cherries or dried apricots (chopped)

- Butterscotch chips: you could use toffee bits or white chocolate chips

- Sunflower seeds: you could substitute nuts such as almonds or pumpkin seeds.

Top tip:

Store your dried cranberries in the refrigerator (sealed) - they will keep longer (up to 12 months)!

Storage:

Store these bars on the counter/pantry. in a sealed container, for up to 4 days.

They freeze well (in a ziplock or sealed container) for up to 3 months.

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