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Dark Chocolate Coconut Bars

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Dark Chocolate Coconut Bars.  Or, technically, Dark Chocolate Mounds Bar Bars. But that seemed a bit redundant. I was inspired to make these while eating a Grilled Salmon over Mixed Greens salad, simultaneously staring into the pastry case at our local favorite bakery, A Taste of Scandinavia .  Sometimes I try to be good, but I just can't. Inside the pastry case were hand-sized "Candy Bar" cookies with dark chocolate and coconut. I decided I could make these at home. I started with one entire bag of Miniature Mounds bars….. I chopped them into eighths, still leaving them chunky. Into my favorite cookie dough batter,  I mixed one bag of chocolate chunks and one cup of shredded coconut. I carefully folded in the Mounds Bars pieces, so as not to smush* them.  *(Hmm…. according to autocorrect, smush is not a word!) I baked the bars in a 1/2 sheet pan, which is the equivalent of two 9" x 13" cake pans which worked out perfectl