Rich, chocolatey, homemade and healthy York peppermint patties.
Ooh, look!
Flying chocolate saucers!
Flying into my wide-open mouth. It’s funny how they don’t need to ask for directions…
Thick chocolate coating, filled with a rush of sweet peppermint.
These intense chocolate peppermint patties are out-of-this-world good.
*Cue creepy sci-fi music.*
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Healthy York Peppermint Patties
These homemade and healthy York peppermint patties are rich, chocolatey, and surprisingly vegan.
Ingredients
- 2 tsp water
- 2 tbsp coconut butter
- 1/8 tsp pure peppermint extract, or as desired
- 1 1/2 tsp agave or pure maple syrup, or stevia drops to taste
- 2 tbsp coconut oil
- 1/4 cup cocoa powder
- 2 tsp water
- 2 tbsp agave or pure maple syrup (see link below for a sugar-free sub)
Instructions
- Combine first 4 ingredients in a little bowl. (Best if the coconut butter is not melted.) In a separate bowl, combine last 4 ingredients. In candy molds or cupcake liners, spread out 1/2 of the chocolate, then portion the mint filling on top. Finally, cover with the rest of the chocolate and freeze until chilled. If you'd prefer sugar-free peppermint patties, omit last 4 ingredients and use my Sugar Free Chocolate Sauce.Substitution notes: If you don’t have coconut butter, perhaps you can sub more coconut oil, although I haven’t tried this and can’t vouch for the results. I haven’t tried any coconut-free variations of this particular recipe, but maybe try raw cashew butter or pureed cashews in the filling? If you don’t like mint, of course you are free to omit the extract. And you can sub melted chocolate chips for the last four ingredients if you don't have coconut oil.View Nutrition Facts
Notes
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Katie this blog is fabulous! I am so excited to have stumbled upon your site through pinterest! I am a baker and I am always looking for some healthier options for myself and family as well. These sound so good! I cannot wait to try them when I am finished with a strict eating regime and start introducing more foods back into my daily diet. Definitely a new fan here!
Aw thanks, Crystal. That really means a lot to me!
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2010/03/30/beware-of-the-agave-nectar-health-food.aspx
Just thought I’d share this website about agave…….
These didn’t work for me, but I had to sub the coconut butter, because I hate coconut lol. They still tasted good I’m a choco peppermint fiend lol.
Unfortunately, I can only vouch for the results of the recipe if you follow it as written :(.
Are coconut oil and coconut butter the same thing? My coconut oil is solid in the jar. I also have coconut cream.
Nope. Look up premierorganics.com to see coconut butter.
Thank you, picked some up because I definitely want to make this.
Oh Hellooooo Chocolate BFF!!!!!
Wow. these things are in the freezer – right now….
=)
thanks!
I haven’t commented on your site before, but I love it and use your recipes all the time! I am a vegan and also don’t like to make huge amounts of sweets because I eat them all:) So thank you for being so wonderful and doing all the hard work for me! I am commenting because I didn’t have coconut butter so I subbed raw cashew butter, and it worked beautifully, I thought others might like to know. I also only got 5 1/2 muffin cups filled, I think I started too big, but I might double the chocolate part next time. The filling amount was perfect. Thanks again Katie!
Aw thank you, Jessie! And thanks for letting me know about the cashew better as well. People always ask for substitutes in recipes for coconut butter. Next time I will definitely suggest trying raw cashew butter (not just in this recipe, but in others as well) :).
I used cashew butter as well and it was awesome. I also added a bit of peppermint oil into the chocolate coating–it was amazing. I love all your recipes!
My goodness lady, I spend half my life trying to re do recipes without white sugar and white flour and here it is, like all my dreams come true….an answer to everything I’ve ever missed or craved! Well done! I am gonna try many of these and experiment on my own as well! I am impressed and so excited to pass your blog along. Great job, and thank you!!!
another “filler” you might try is mashed potatoes…my mom made mashed potato candy, kind of like mounds balls, but you could sub out all kinds of bonbon flavors for the coconut…here’s a similar recipe to get you started 🙂 http://allrecipes.com/recipe/pioneer-potato-candy/ (not mine but vaguely similar to my mom’s…)
So I was trying to figure out how many these made and am still not seeing it… even after looking a the nutritional information….
It’s there! 🙂
I used candy molds for my patties, and this info is based on 8 patties. Numbers will vary depending on whether you use cupcake liners or candy molds, and the sizes.
Mint extract, right? I remember trying to bake with peppermint and it tasted like toothpaste.
Nope, pure peppermint extract. Thta’s why it’s a peppermint patty ;)… although maybe mint patties would be good too. Who knows!