Gluten Free Magic Bars Recipe (2024)

It is a blustery, rainy day here in Southwest Florida. The skies are dark, the vista dreary and the frigid, pelting rain is relentlessly beating against the window panes.

Okay, so 55 degrees doesn’t necessarily foreshadow the next ice-age and while the temps in some parts of the country and the world are sub zero, I guess I really shouldn’t complain. But just because I shouldn’t doesn’t mean that I won’t.

Seriously! Doesn’t the fact that we here in Florida suffer through summers with heat so mind-numbing it would make Lucifer homesick and air so thick with humidity that a salamander would be at home mean that we get cut a little slack in the winter? And what’s up with this rain? It rains EVERY DAY in the summer here and extra during hurricane season. Do we really need to suffer through drizzly days in the winter when any self respecting Floridian should be at the beach?

Well it is enough to drive me in doors, under a duvet, watching a DVD of a burning Yule Log. And while I am at it, I better be smelling chocolate baking in the oven.

All the shivering has burned up so many calories that I hardly have the energy to make even the simplest of gluten-free cookies. I have no strength for rolling and slicing or even dropping cookie dough onto a sheet. The only solution for this severe choleric depletion is something sweet and very, very easy. This got me thinking about those Magic Bars from my gluten-eating days. Throw some ingredients in a pan, bake for 30 minutes and viola! Pure chocolaty nirvana.

This is my own gluten-free version of those Magic Bars with a more grown up flavor mix. I used dark organic chocolate chips, dried cherries and almond slivers. For the graham cracker crust, I substituted a delicious, toasty almond base. Not only gluten-free but grain-free as well.

Ahhh, now I am all set for a blustery afternoon under a thick throw in front of my fake fire.

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