Healthy Chocolate Sauce!
About a year ago, I fell in love with Artisana Cacao Bliss. However, my wallet was not so smitten: $11 for an 8-oz jar? In the interest of saving money, I vowed to attempt making my own Cacao Bliss… it turned out even better than I’d hoped!
Healthy Chocolate Sauce or Hot Chocolate Butter
- 4 tablespoons (60g) virgin coconut oil
- 1/2 cup plus 1 tablespoon (52g) cocoa powder. (For a sauce, decrease to 1/4 cup)
- 1/4 cup agave OR you can use nunaturals vanilla stevia drops (I use 10 vanilla drops, but if you don’t like super-bitter chocolate, triple that amount)
Melt the coconut oil, either in the microwave or on a candle warmer or in a warm oven. Add the vanilla drops (or agave) and stir. Add the cocoa, then add 3 tablespoons water only if you used vanilla drops. Stir stir stir! Stir until it gets thick like Artisana Cacao Bliss.
For Magic Shell or Healthy Chocolate Sauce:
Decrease cocoa powder to 1/4 cup and keep all other measurements the same. Also, if you re-heat it for a few seconds, it’ll get thinner. And if you freeze it, you can make incredible chocolate bars… or even chocolate chips! Just break up the chocolate bars into little pieces.
I used this spread to frost my Cream Filled Chocolate Cupcakes.
Nutrition Information (for 2 tbsp)
- 100 calories
- 10 grams fat
- 0 grams added sugars
- 0 grams cholesterol
- 2 grams protein
- 3.6g dietary fiber
Or, if you make the recipe into bars, each 30g bar will have 100 calories (stevia version) or 140 calories (agave version). They also have 11% of the RDA for iron and are very high in manganese as well.
Side Note: This is also good on Homemade Luna Bars.
I always get good ideas for salad toppings at restaurants and recreate it at home!
I try to re-create restaurant dishes all the time. Memorable attempts have been the “Rustler” pizza at Pizza Luce (a local minneapolis chain) and this freakin’ delicious tempeh, sweet potato, greens sandwich which was a seasonal special at Candle Cafe in NYC.
I have never tried to recreate Nutella, but I have always wanted to.
ahhh boniato tacos! soooo good. no the attempt wasn’t the same but yam tacos are just yummy anyway and substituting some fun salsas for the creamy dressings has been a good compromise
Hi 🙂 I enjoy checking out your blog for creative ways to fix veggies and other things. I’ve seen you mention coconut butter several times and would love to try some, so I thought I’d bite:
One thing I tried recreating at home is this special Indonesian soup. I actually like it best the way my in-laws’ house helper makes it, but I have also had it in a restaurant. Anyway, it’s a bit harder to recreate (even though I obviously could get the recipe) since his in-laws (and their house helper) live in Indonesia, so I can’t get all the ingredients here. It’s like chicken soup but with lots of awesome add-ins – rice noodles, hard boiled eggs, tofu chunks, tempeh chunks, green onions…
I have spent an embarrassing amount of time re-creating Nutella. With great success, actually, because who needs strange powdered milk and vegetable oil anyway?
I’ve tried to recreate so many things, but they rarely ever turn out the same. But! Sometimes they’re better, so I’m not complaining. 🙂
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Okay, I know that you have your own version but looong ago when I worked as a hostess, the restaurant I worked at had a “new” cauli mashed dish. Of course it was delicious, and of course it was laden with butter and cream. So, I decided then and there that I would make my own. Simply stem fresh cauli, then throw into the food processor. I like my a little chunky 🙂 Add Penzey’s spices and it’s soooooo divine. My hubs even likes it which is saying a lot. Trust me. He doesn’t like 90% of “my” food.
I recreated purely decadent coconut ice cream in the form of popsicles made with light coconut milk and maple syrup. They were delish. Just have to figure out a way to get some chocolate in there!