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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Yes I love this! I haven’t had fudge in ages because the ingredients make me feel so icky. I love how I could eat this at any time of day and feel energized rather than weighed down. Never in my life did I think I could eat fudge as a preworkout snack, but you arenproving me wrong!!
Yuuum!! chocolate and pb is one of my all time favorite combos! 😀
KATIE, thank you for this… I’ve been needing a recipe for my coconut butter!
Wow – this looks amazing. I love that you use bananas for sweeteners! I’m definitely going to try to make this!
I LOVE Chocolate and Peanut butter – especially in blondies!
Oh wow you are making my mouth water! I HAVE to try this 🙂
I wonder what it would be like with almond butter instead of peanut? I love chocolate covered almonds so I’m thinking it would be a great variation.
Ooh I bet it’d be delicious!
Did you try it with almond butter? I don’t eat peanuts but think it would be amazing with almond butter too.
It IS delicious with almond butter! I make it regularly that way, sometimes with vanilla and sometimes almond extract. Great both ways! I’ve even made it using almond flour when out of the almond butter. Also, when using the almond butter or flour, I don’t use coconut butter, I just use half as much coconut oil (sometimes with added protein powder).And some great news for those like me who can’t make their own coconut butter or buy it where they live: I’ve found that 25% (or 50%) coconut oil plus 75% (or 50%) coconut flour (finely ground) works very well as a substitute!
I don’t like chocolate or peanut butter AT ALL. it’s not like I’ve been dreaming of this recipe since you first mentioned it, or that my blog acts as a shrine to those two heavenly foods 😉 Chocolate peanut butter is AMAZING, so maybe when I make this fudge I’ll use that for EXTRA chocolatey goodness! 😀
Ohhh, delicious!
AHHHH I LOVE YOU!!!! I AM MAKING THIS TONIGHT
I love chocolate and peanut butter, but I also love chocolate with hazelnut butter or almond butter. I go through phases of having to eat chocolate every day and not being too bothered about it, but most of the time I do eat quite a lot.
Also, I forgot to say how gorgeous the photos are, especially the top one. And the fudge just looks really fudgey.
Aww thank you, Hannah! 🙂
Oh my gosh, chocolate and pb were MADE For each other! I’ve been eating a liiiittle too much dark chocolate dreams peanut butter but it’s heavenly! I can’t help it!