This smooth, sweet, salty, secretly healthy peanut butter fudge melts in your mouth!
Healthy peanut butter fudge recipe
Did you know it’s possible to make the most delicious homemade fudge with no butter, no heavy cream, and no high fructose corn syrup required?
Only five plant based healthy ingredients, and it tastes just like traditional fudge.
It really and truly does!
Each bite of soft peanut butter fudge is rich, velvety, and so creamy.
This is one snack you’ll find yourself making over and over (and over and over) again.
Also try 3 ingredient Peanut Butter Truffles
A few years ago, while on a beach vacation in Delaware, I discovered a little candy shop along the boardwalk.
The store offered an array of enticing flavors like Chocolate Pecan, Sea Salt Caramel, Toasted Coconut, Pumpkin Walnut, and Classic Peanut Butter.
It would’ve been impossible to leave that shop not craving fudge. The second I returned home from the trip, I turned my kitchen into its own confectionary factory, whipping up healthy peanut butter fudge from scratch.
My original plan had been to make many different flavors of fudge… but peanut butter tasted so good that I never got to the others!
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Healthy peanut butter fudge recipe video
Key ingredients
Peanut butter – I love the fun texture of crunchy peanut butter, or you can go with smooth peanut butter for a creamier fudge.
Both natural peanut butter and conventional brands (like Jif or Skippy) work here.
Almond butter is a tasty alternative to peanut butter. Or for those on a nut free diet, try sunflower seed butter or pumpkin seed butter.
Coconut oil – Either refined or unrefined coconut oil should be readily available at regular grocery chains as well as stores like Target, Marshall’s, and Whole Foods.
Do not omit or substitute vegetable oil for the coconut, because it does not harden when cold and therefore your fudge will never solidify.
Sweetener – Liquid sweeteners like honey or pure maple syrup are the best options for the smoothest fudge. You can substitute liquid sweetener for granulated sugar or powdered sugar if you wish.
For keto fudge, use low carb syrup, monk fruit, erythritol, or stevia drops to taste.
Banana (optional) – As a huge peanut butter banana fan, I add one ripe banana to naturally sweeten the fudge. If you prefer your recipe to be banana free, you do not need to add the fruit.
How to make the vegan fudge
- Measure out your peanut butter. If using natural nut butter, gently warm it up on the stove top or in the microwave until soft and easy to stir.
- Mash the banana (if using), then whip all of your ingredients together with a spoon or in a food processor until completely smooth.
- Use a spoon or spatula to spread the mixture into a plastic container, glass container, or small baking pan.
- Sprinkle with mini chocolate chips or chopped walnuts if desired.
- Freeze until firm and easy to slice.
- Due to the melty nature of the coconut oil, this freezer fudge is best kept frozen. Store leftovers in an airtight covered container for up to a month.
Want a fun alternative to traditional fudge squares? Freeze the peanut butter mixture in candy molds or mini cupcake liners!
What makes this healthy peanut butter fudge?
Refined sugar free. If you go with the banana option or any of the sugar free options included in the recipe below, this fudge can be entirely free of refined sugars.
Protein in each bite. Just one piece provides over four times the amount of protein found in traditional peanut butter fudge.
No corn syrup, no shortening. Many peanut butter fudge recipes call for high fructose corn syrup, butter or shortening, sweetened condensed milk, or sometimes even marshmallows. You won’t find any of those ingredients in this healthier version.
Vegan + dairy free. The healthy snack can also be gluten free, egg free, and soy free.
More healthy fudge flavors
What would be your dream fudge flavor? Chocolate Banana Bread? Caramel Popcorn? Sugar Cookie Dough? Chocolate Chip Sea Salt Fudge?
Please feel free to list as many ideas as you wish, and you might just see your dream flavor up here on my blog in the near future.
Healthy Peanut Butter Fudge
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup peanut butter or nut or seed butter of choice (120g)
- 3 tbsp coconut oil (36g)
- 2 tbsp sweetener of choice (30g) or stevia drops to taste
- 1 banana (optional)
- 1 handful mini chocolate chips (optional)
Instructions
- If peanut butter is not already soft, gently heat until easy to stir. Either combine all ingredients in a small blender or stir together by hand until completely smooth. Spread into a small container or mini cupcake liners. Freeze until firm. To keep the peanut butter fudge from melting, store leftovers in the refrigerator or freezer.View Nutrition Facts
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Have to say that I am absolutely loving all of the healthy & YUMMY recipes. My father was diagnosed with cancer a couple years back and has been trying to eat really healthy. It was so hard for him at holidays, so we all said there would simply be no desserts. It was fine, but lets face it, it wasn’t the same! Now I get to surprise everyone with the delicious treats you’ve got on your website! LOVE IT!!! Thank you tons!!
I want to try this ASAP! However, I’m wondering if you can sub coconut cream for the coconut butter. Do you think this would work?
You can always experiment! Be sure to report back if you do!
This was amazing! I added sugar free chocolate chip of course. I could taste the banana though, so I might try this with coconut butter next time. This is definitely a recipe that I will make again. I have never posted to a blog before, but I just love your site. I was just diagnosed with prediabetes so I have been searching for sugar free sweet recipes and your site is wonderful for that. Thanks!
i would love to have you concoct a whoopie pie that had yummy gooey sweet icing in the middle with awesome top and bottoms. trader joes have the carrot ones and the vanilla ones and they have so much junk in them and they really arent that good. i understand a bakery in waynesboro virginia have the best …4 hours away….boo hoo hoo. thank you. youre the best!
I did find these on her site. Perhaps they would work? https://lett-trim.today/2012/02/28/smores-whoopie-pies/%3C/a%3E%3C/p%3E
Ooh that sounds good!!!! You should make a pumkin pie fudge recipe. If you don’t have this, you could try to make a pumpkin pie smoothie.
Hi….we made the peanut butter fudge for a hallowe’en treat, and it turned out great – really delicious! Next time I’m going to leave out the maple syrup entirely. I don’t think we would miss it as the banana is already so sweet.
can I use rice bran oil or ghee or olive oil instead of coconut oil?
So wonderful! I made a chocolate version too and they were amazing. I took some to class and had people coming back for seconds!
Thank you for this recipe! I’ve been having a hard time finding a fudge recipe that is sugar free and the right texture. It’s amazing and fills that need for something sweet while actually being totally within my diet needs. 😀
Am going to have to make this today…have everything here already! Would love chocolate and mint fudge.