Healthy Chocolate Sauce!
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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.
This looks amazing! Like some sort of brownie batter frosting consistency! I’ll be trying this ASAP!
Oh, this looks so good! I have been dying to trying the coconut butter – every time i see that little dallop that usually accompanies your meals my mouth starts watering!! Yum!
This looks delicious. I love chocolate and coconut!!! I hope I win!!
Sue
Definitely going to have to try this one. Have never had any Artisana products before…hope I can win a sample or two! 😀 I love your posts and recipes Katie!!
This sounds like the best recipe with the artisana coconut butter> simply because I love cacao. Hope I win.XD I know I won’t. lol
This looks incredible! Given my adoration (make that obsession!) for all things chocolate, surprisingly I have yet to sample any sort of coconut/ chocolate combination – but of course I would love to try. So far I have only tried, and fallen in love with, PB & Co. Dark Chocolate Dreams when it comes to nut butters, but I’m planning on adding many more jars of the stuff to my ever-growing collection.
I LOVE Artisana and would feel SO lucky if I could win — here’s to luck be a lady
Great recipe. Thank you for sharing!!!
Made this last night using Agave and added a bit of vanilla extract. Too delicious! Thanks for the terrific recipe!
I’m so excited you made it! Yay for chocolate-eating!! 😉
Katie,
Thanks for posting. Looks YUM. How long do you think this will last in the fridge?
Hmmm… I don’t think it even needs to stay in the fridge, since none of the ingredients (coconut oil, cocoa, etc) are perishable. So I’m thinking it’d last a good few months because Cacao Bliss lasts a while, even after being opened. But I always store my leftovers in the freezer, in the form of bars. (And then you could always melt a bar if you want it in liquid form.) So, I guess my answer is… indefinitely? 🙂