Peanut Butter? Good. Chocolate? Good. Fudge? Good. As Joey would say on Friends, “What’s not to like?”
The best of both worlds.
Do you remember my No-Bake Chocolate Peanut Butter Pie?
It’s one of the most-popular recipes on my blog, and for good reason: chocolate and peanut butter are meant for each other. Not that it’s a monogamous relationship… peanut butter also goes out with the likes of jelly and banana, which leaves chocolate open to explore his options with mint, coconut, and strawberries. But there’ll never be a marriage quite like chocolate peanut butter.
The following recipe is sugar-free and healthy, but I promise this healthy chocolate peanut butter fudge tastes just as rich and decadent as traditional fudge. In fact, it might taste even better. Without ingredients like sugar and heavy cream to weigh it down, the true goodness of the chocolate and peanut butter really shine.
Healthy Chocolate Peanut Butter Fudge
(Or chocolate peanut butter frosting!)
- 2 tbsp peanut butter
- 2 tbsp coconut butter or homemade coconut butter
- 2 tbsp cocoa powder (10g)
- 80g very-ripe banana (1/2 a medium banana)
- 1/16 tsp salt (more if using unsalted pb)
- optional: feel free to add a little sweetener if your bananas aren’t ripe enough
Combine all ingredients in a food processor or blender (I use the Magic Bullet). Scoop into a container or even a little pie pan, and put in the fridge or freezer so it will firm up. (Alternatively, you can eat it soft, like frosting!)
See banana fudge post for Chocolate Fudge Nutrition Facts.
The calories and sugar for this recipe will be the same as the one linked above. However, this recipe will have a bit more protein (around 4g per serving). (You could also try using chocolate protein powder in place of the cocoa, if you want higher-protein fudge, but I haven’t done this.)
How much do you love chocolate and peanut butter?!
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Hello, fudgy goodness! And yes, peanut butter & chocolate are made to be together.
Miss you, Katie!!
Love you, Liz! And I saw you were in NYC… too early for me! I’m going next month. Someday we NEED to meet!!
NYC? You mean Florida? I was in Florida for 7 days for a dance competition 🙂 And yes, we DO need to meet!
Oh hmmm… lol why did I think NYC? Weird! I remember hearing about your awful plane goings-on, though… wait, maybe I am thinking of someone else entirely. I need more sleep! 😕
You read correctly about the flights 😀
I love chocolate and peanut butter. They are the best things in the world. I love this recipe. Will coconut oil work instead of coconut butter? I am not really what the difference is between the two
I know that a few readers have said they’ve subbed coconut oil for the butter in my raw fudge cake recipe… so I *think* it will work. But I can’t say from personal experience.
Ohhh I love chocolate and peanut butter!! In fact- I just did a post about chocolate peanut butter bars- but they weren’t the healthy kind like yours. This fudge looks so delicious though! And I love the idea of eating it out of a mason jar- I need to make it asap!
I always have Reese’s in my fridge just in case that craving strikes. Possibly every night 😉 Peanut butter and chocolate just go together! I’m eating Dark Chocolate Dreams from Peanut Butter & Co. with my breakfast 🙂
My goodness, that looks so yummy! Chocolate and peanut butter go great together. Banana, peanut butter, and chocolate together is just amazing.
KT YESSSS bite sized versions of anything chocolate and pb and I am SO down. Do you think you could make a lower calorie one in the future that doesn’t use as much Coconut Butter or Oil? I mean this is pretty low but I am always into eating mass quantities of well … anything I like. Chocolate and PB could be my all time favorite food combination. You’v’e done it again 🙂
I *guess* you could up the ratio of banana… but you’d lose a LOT of fudgey-ness. This is definitely calorie-dense, but it’s rich, so it takes longer to eat than, say, a rice cake lol :).
Ah, these pictures are to die for- and so is the recipe! Love that the only sweetner is banana!
I LOVE chocolate! PB is good from time to time, but I usually dont crave it! Other nutbutter however- those I need 🙂
chocolate, coconut, peanut butter, banana? throw some Gingie in there and it’s all my favorite things in life 😉 love this!
Throw some JENNY in there and then it’s MY favorite things :). But wait, I don’t wanna eat Jenny… then who would be there to make me smile on her blog and on twitter every day?!
I love chocolate and peanut butter, but I prefer not to mix them… Reese’s is one of my facvorite candies, but I eat the chocolate coating off the outside before eating the peanut butter :). It is HEAVEN!
This looks AH-MAZING.
and I LOVE that you quoted Friends 🙂
I miss Friends! 🙁