Looking for a fun and easy recipe for something sweet? Make 3-Ingredient Mounds Bar Recipe! A sweet coconut filling dipped in dark chocolate and ready for snacking in just about 30 minutes–you’ll love this make-at-home version of Mounds Bars.
3-Ingredient Mounds Bar Recipe
When we want a sweet snack, Mounds Bars are always a favorite! Making them at home was really a fun little project and could be an enjoyable rainy day activity, a homemade gift, or for any reason at all!
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The Ingredients
Here’s what you’ll need to make the 3 Ingredient Coconut Mounds Bars (the exact measurements and full recipe instructions are below in the printable recipe card):
- Unsweetened flaked coconut
- Sweetened condensed milk
- Chocolate – we used Ghirardelli dark chocolate melting wafers. They melt very nicely and have great flavor. The bags are 10 ounces, so we needed one and a half bags for this recipe. But you can use any dark or semi-sweet chocolate that you like.
How to Make 3 Ingredient Coconut Mounds Bars
In a medium mixing bowl, combine the coconut with the sweetened condensed milk.
Form the coconut mixture into 12 logs. This will be a sticky job, so it works best if you wet your hands with water. You’ll probably need to rinse your hands a couple of times during the process of making all 12 logs.
Place the coconut logs on a parchment paper lined cookie sheet and freeze for at least 20 minutes.
Melt about 10 ounces of the chocolate in the microwave for 30 seconds. Stir well, then continue to microwave in 15 second increments until completely melted, stirring well between each cooking interval.
Add the remaining 5 ounces of chocolate and stir until melted and the chocolate is smooth. The reason for this way of melting the chocolate is that adding the solid chocolate to the melted and then letting them melt together helps temper the chocolate.
Use forks to dip each coconut bar into the chocolate until completely covered. Allow some of the excess chocolate to drip off the chocolate bars.
Place the chocolate bars back on the parchment paper and allow them to rest until the chocolate is set.
How to Store the Mounds Bars
Keep the homemade Mounds Bars in an airtight container. They will stay fresh at room temperature for up to five days.
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3 Ingredient Mounds Bar Recipe
Ingredients
- 3 cups unsweetened shredded coconut
- 14 ounce can sweetened condensed milk
- 15 ounces dark chocolate (or semi sweet chocolate)
Instructions
- In a medium mixing bowl, combine the coconut and sweetened condensed milk.
- With clean and wet hands, shape the coconut mixture into 12 logs, placing each on a parchment paper lined cookie sheet. Freeze for about 20 minutes.
- In a microwave-safe bowl, melt about 10 ounces of the chocolate by microwaving on high for 30 seconds then in 15 second intervals until completely melted. Stir well between each interval.
- Add the remaining 5 ounces of chocolate to the melted chocolate and stir until it is melted.
- Use forks to dip each of the coconut bars into the chocolate, then transfer back to the parchment paper lined cookie sheet. Allow the chocolate on the bars to set. Because the bars were chilled in the freezer, the chocolate should set quickly.
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42 comments on “3-Ingredient Mounds Bar Recipe”
These taste so good and were easy to make
Thanks Diane!
Can they be froze
Hi Cindy. Yes, you can freeze these with good results.
For the person wanting a vegan version use milk free chocolate (most dark chocolate is) and condensed oat milk (or other condensed plant based milk). The mixture shapes well but I found if I really squeezed the mixture the bars hold together better. Only found out halfway through and am too lazy to go back and squeeze the first half (I’m making dozens of tiny bite sized ones). Thanks for the recipe.
I made this and added it atop a chocolate cake, then topped the coconut layer with ganache
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heavenly!
If I wanted to make these into almond joy at what step would I add the almonds?
Hi Zaheen. You would put the almonds in the coconut logs or press them in on top of the log before dipping in chocolate. Let us know how they turn out!
i made this with sweetened coconut is that the reason it didnt freeze well they didnt stick together to be able to dip in the chocolate
I used sweetened coconut and did not have a problem. Maybe try adding a little extra coconut next time?
Can they be frozen?
I freeze mine
Just put a double batch of the base in my ‘fridge’ – no room in freezer. I need several dozen, so made the balls. I found the mix too wet so I added another cup of coconut to dry it a bit. I found that just wetting my hands worked better than oiling them. I will dip some in dark chocolate and some in milk, may top some with an almond or pecan half.
Love this recipe – it’s a “must try”! A question, though. All I have is sweetened coconut and unsweetened condensed milk. Do you think swapping the two from sweetened condensed milk & unsweetened coconut would work? Or, just go ahead and use sweetened condensed milk and sweetened coconut? Too sweet?
Mound bars they turned out great. I made them in bite size balls. Every one seem to like. The size better!
Looks so good but is that Calories: Calories: 472kcal for one or all?
It should be 240 cal per serving.
Mounds bars are my favorite and thank you for the recipe! Now I can give these as “gifts” for V-tines for 2022!  One suggestion to your readers: If worried about saturated fats, use Ghirardelli’s choc. chips in lieu of their WAFERS as they contain hydrogenated oils, the chips do not and both are made from 60% cacao. I use the chips, better flavor and half saturated fat than the wafers.
GREAT ADVICE!
Whole package of chips then?
My grandaughter is vegan does anyone know how to make these vegan style thanks for any help
To to avoid the sticky part and add flavor add the same amount of powdered sugar as con. milk and make it more like the real thing.
How do you keep from sticking to your hands.???????
You can spray your hands with non stick cookie spray or a little bit of coconut oil.
I found that just wetting my hands worked better than oil or spray.
So yummy! These are so easy to make, that I did 5 batches at Christmas time! Time to do again!!
Loved theses so much! I made them over Christmas for family and they were a huge hit! Especially if they were served frozen! I made them into smaller little bite size pieces and used sweetened coconut and dark chocolate! So so so yummy!
Any tricks to thin out the chocolate?
plan on making these tomorrow. My fans. Thanks for your creative recipes.
Going to try this as bon bons. With dark chocolate & milk chocolate ( add fine chopped almonds to these for Almond Joy) ….yummy!
This looks so good. I am going to make it. Thank you.