Homemade Chocolate Bars – made in under 5 minutes from start to finish, with just 3 ingredients!
These homemade chocolate bars pretty much make themselves.
It’s especially fun to customize the flavor – Chocolate Mint? Chocolate Coconut? Chocolate Chai?
The sky is not the limit with these addictively delicious chocolate bars.
They taste like eating the coating right off of a chocolate Dove bar.
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Seriously, I think I am obsessed.
I know… I say that about a lot of the recipes on here.
I am a sucker for chocolate recipes that are easy and quick to make.
Then you can spend less time on preparing them and more time on the fun part…
EATING them!
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Homemade Chocolate Bar Flavors
Crunchy Mint Chocolate: Add a few drops pure peppermint extract to the melted chocolate. For a fun texture, feel free to also add cacao nibs or rice crispy cereal.
Dark Chocolate Almond: Stir a handful of chopped almonds in with the other ingredients. This can also be done with diced walnuts, peanuts, or cashews.
Chocolate Coconut: Stir in a handful of shredded coconut, or sprinkle it over top before chilling the chocolate bars.
Chocolate Sea Salt: After pouring the melted chocolate into a container, sprinkle a small amount of sea salt on top.
Rocky Road: Add mini vegan marshmallows and chopped nuts of choice to the mixture before refrigerating or freezing.
Peanut Butter Swirl: After pouring the chocolate into a container, use a spoon to swirl in melted peanut butter or almond butter. Chill until firm.
Espresso Chocolate Bars: Stir 1/8 tsp instant coffee granules in with the cocoa. For a stronger coffee flavor, you can increase this amount as desired.
Other flavor ideas and add-ins include chia seeds, hemp seeds, freeze-dried strawberries or banana, dried blueberries, crushed pecans or pistachios, a pinch of cayenne, rainbow sprinkles… the possibilities abound!
Sugar Free Chocolate Bars
For low carb, sugar free, and keto chocolate bars, combine the following in a bowl until smooth: 1/2 cup cacao or cocoa powder, 1/4 cup melted coconut oil, and vanilla stevia drops to taste.
Pour into a small shallow container or candy molds (If it’s too thick, add 1 additional tbsp oil), and chill until hard. Store leftovers in the refrigerator or freezer.
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Above, watch the video of how to make chocolate bars
Homemade Chocolate Bars
Ingredients
- 1/4 cup cacao or cocoa powder
- 3 tbsp coconut oil (For coconut-free, try these Easy Chocolate Fudge Bars)
- 3 tbsp pure maple syrup, honey, or agave (A sugar-free option is written out above)
- optional extracts, cocoa nibs, chia seeds, or other add-ins
Instructions
- *The recipe can be poured into any flat container. For the chocolate bar shape, I used this chocolate candy mold. Homemade Chocolate Bars: Gently warm oil if not already melted. Combine all ingredients in a bowl. Stir until it gets thick. Pour into any flat container or candy molds, or smush between layers of wax paper or in ziploc bags. Chill until solid, and store in the fridge or freezer. Once hardened, you can also opt to melt the bars again for chocolate sauce. View Nutrition Facts
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What mold did you use?
A chocolate bar mold. There is an AMAZING cake-decorating store in Richardson, Texas. They have all sorts of chocolate molds… they have an entire room! 🙂
Hmmm… I’m right up 75 from Richardson. What is the name of this place? I think today will be field trip day!
What is the brand name of that specific mold, please? The bars look very professional. The only ones I can find are kinda goofy.
Is it the cake carousel by some chance? Thanks.
Yes!
Clearly these call for some crystallized ginger, dried cranberries, and pistachios!
What a great idea even for a small little gift for people. Where do you find unrefined coconut oil and the agave or unnatural vanilla stevia. How much of the optional add ins would you put in like nuts or brown rice cereal?
Hmmm, I guess I’d just sprinkle it in til it looked good. I don’t know about specific measurements.
Valerie: I’m probably 30 miles from a big health food store, where you can definitely find it, but I found agave at a local grocery store (Publix). I get the coconut oil from tropical traditions at their online store – they have sales with free shipping sometimes (once a quarter?) and free coconut oil sometimes- right now! (and usually every couple of months). You could look there for the vanilla stevia too 🙂 You get some free stuff if you use my code as a friend who referred you: it’s seven seven nine six three one five, in letters just in case autobots are trolling for numbers LOL 🙂
Oh Katie! I think you’ve come up with a gold mine here! How exciting!!! Do you have a peanut butter version? That would be fun with peanut butter swirls amidst! Almonds are always good with chocolate bars too. Or toffee. Is there a possibility for healthy toffee? That would be great too!
I second the vote for healthy toffee!
Yum, oh yes, I think we need a toffee version. I wonder how that could be done… I’ll have to look at toffee ingredients and play around with it!
You can buy stevia that is toffee flavored:)
Whoops-didn’t mean to leave an anonymous comment:) The toffee stevia I get is the “Stevita” brand, you can buy their stuff in stores, plus I think they have a website if you don’t have a store nearby that carries it. They have other cool flavors too, like strawberry, and I think rootbeer? Among others:)
You could easily make your own flavored Stevia. Just buy regular Stevia and add drops of Candy flavoring until its the flavor you want.
Curry powder would go great with the coconut theme – I’ve had a curry-flavored bar by Vosges before and it was fantastic. Also, rosemary or sage. I love rosemary and I know sage sounds weird but I’ve had one before and it was delicious! Also, dried lavender and some Earl Grey ground up tea leaves. I love creatively-flavored chocolates, if you can’t tell =D
How delicious! I need to get my paws on some of those drops! I don’t have any but have heard such great things! Mmmmmm!
chocolate raspberry sounds delicious! maybe chocolate layer -> freeze -> raspberry jam layer -> freeze -> chocolate layer. Or do the same with coconut butter. Or any other fruit jam. Endless possibilities…
That looks delicious. I like orange and chocolate, but mint and chocolate is awesome too.
Omigosh, I never thought about making my own chocolate but I love how you can make it healthy and sugar free! Must try this asap! Recipe wise, sea salt or nuts or heath bar would all be amazing!!
I’ve not been on here for a long while, and these look ab fab. totally yummy. might give them a go tonight even, with raw cacao and raw honey to make a raw food treat. yumkins.
oh, i vote for something crazy like lavendar, rose petals, or ginger!
I second that!! If any of mine were in bloom I’d be doing the flowers for SURE!
i saw it!! but not the pictures.. was kinda wondering what was going on. looks GREAT
As far as recipe organization, I keep hearing great things about bloggers using RECIpage, although I have no experience with it.
I got bored once so I decided to check out Recipage. It’s nice and all but you have to type out every. single. recipe.
It’s time consuming if you have a lot of recipes; less if your new to blogging.
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I don’t see why you need to type out every recipe when you can just copy, cut, and paste into a Word document. I just tried it and it works fine
These sound so yummy!
I love making my own chocolate! What about something with caramel? or almonds? I agree with other readers, you have so many delicious recipes, but sometimes it’s hard to navigate. Thanks for keeping your site so user friendly and awesome!
I use a mold and add natural peanut butter between layers! I also like to ad macadamia nuts