Hi everyone,
If you get a chance, be sure to take a look at the NEW healthy recipe page.
By popular demand, there are now options for you to search by ingredient, search by date, or you can also search by category.
More changes are coming, and while I’m working on the changes, I have a lovely guest blogger for you today:
Hello to all the wonderful readers of Katie’s delicious Chocolate-Covered blog!
I’m Christal, from Nutritionist in the Kitch. I was absolutely thrilled when Katie asked if I would feature my Healthy ‘Eatmore’ Fudge Squares on her blog because:
a) I am a HUGE fan of Chocolate Covered Katie and have always been incredibly inspired by her ability to take the often-unhealthy foods we crave and turn them into something healthy and still just as delicious!
b) It means I get to share these amazing Healthy ‘Eatmore’ Fudge Squares with even more wonderful people!!
As a Nutritionist I am always looking for ways to “healthify” those not-so-healthy recipes.
I am a true advocate of ‘clean eating’ and believe the body can thrive best off of whole, natural, unprocessed, and unrefined foods… but that sure doesn’t mean those foods have to be bland or boring!
Enter the Healthy ‘Eatmore’ Fudge Squares.
As a kid, I devoured Eatmore Bars when I got the chance (this wasn’t often because chocolate bars always led to me having temper tantrums… I’m guessing it had to do with the enormous amounts of ‘bounce-off-the-walls’ refined sugar…), and I have to admit, to this day, I still get a craving for a sweet, chewy, Eatmore bar… but nowadays I couldn’t bring myself to eat one.
So instead, this recipe does the trick! Not only does this healthy version still taste like an Eatmore bar, it tastes like an Eatmore bar topped with FUDGE!
Yes, fudge. Healthy fudge!
No refined sugars, flours, or chemicals found here in these super delicious and incredibly easy homemade fudge squares!
Eatmore Chocolate Fudge Bars
Healthy Eatmore Fudge Chocolate Bars
Ingredients
- 1 cup pitted dates
- 1/2 cup raw almonds
- 1/4 cup raw walnuts
- 1/4 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
- 2 ripe bananas
- 4 tbsp natural almond butter
- 1/4 cup more unsweetened cocoa powder
- 4 tbsp honey, agave or pure maple syrup
Instructions
Put dates in a bowl with warm water, allow dates to soak for 30 minutes, then drain. Mix together dates, almonds, walnuts, and 1/4 cup cocoa powder in a food processor until well blended. Spread mixture in a 9×5 baking pan (or an 8×8 is okay) until evenly distributed, and press down gently with a spoon. Mix together bananas, almond butter, honey, and other 1/4 cup cocoa powder in the food processor until well blended. Spread mixture over bottom layer until evenly distributed. Place in freezer for 30 minutes. Cut into 16 squares. Re-freeze whatever you don’t eat, and enjoy at another time! For troubleshooting or substitution advice, please ask Chrystal, as this is her recipe.
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These are quite easy to make (if you have a good food processor). They are not as rich as the pictures look but they are delicious and my kids went crazy over them.
Thanks again CCK!
I can’t thank you enough for this awesome recipe. I’ve made it twice now and I have to confess, I think my favourite part of it is licking spatula after each step … soooo good! It takes a lot of strength to get it into the pan without just eating it straight out of the food processor bowl. It’s hard to believe this is actually healthy because it tastes so decadent. The first time I made this I followed it exactly, and the second time I added in some unsweetened coconut in both layers and that was really great too. I love how simple it is, I know I will make this again and again!
mine were kinda thin… how did you get them so thick as in the picture. declicious but just not substantial enough to be considered “brownie-like”
Hi Jaime,
I’d recommend contacting Crystal for all recipe questions, as this is her recipe :).
That’s A LOT of sugar!…yes natural sugars but the body knows sugar as sugar. I’ll keep searching for a good stevia recipe. Thanks though.
If you actually cut them into 16 squares they are pretty good. About 2068 calories in the whole thing, so each square is ~130 calories.
I made these last night. They are to die for
Made these this morning… Soooo good but very rich. My mom and sister said it was too much of a dark chocolate flavor for them, BUT I totally loved them and surprisingly so did my 2yr old and 4 yr old boys! We’re already downtown half a pan. And I plan on sharing with my inlaws tomorrow. Thanks so much for the delicious healthy recipe!
I don’t have any almond butter so can I use peanut butter instead? Would it make a huge difference?
I don’t see why that wouldn’t work.
I used peanut butter it turned out perfect.
This is very yummy. I love the topping portion. Thank you.
Just made these, and they are delicious! I used frozen bananas, but defrosted them first. The texture was perfect, and it came out tasting very banana-y. Maybe because I used frozen bananas? Next time I will use fresh bananas to see if they taste any different. I also added more honey to try to calm down the banana flavor, and it worked out well. Then again, I really don’t mind the taste of bananas.
Thank you for the recipe!
Oh, and I should add that I used peanut butter instead, and I barely tasted the peanut butter. Still tasted great!