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 made this magic shell recipe tonight and it is AMAZING! I put it on the homemade ice cream recipe and what a scrumptious dessert sans the morning-after guilt 🙂
Won’t the few drops of water not combine with the oil or am I missing something here? I’d like to go that route and of course also get it right on the first try 🙂
Darn you, you made me admit to liking something with coconut in it 😉 I saw your Banana Split sandwich post and used the chocolate butter to make one 🙂 but mine wasn’t nearly as pretty as yours even though it tasted amazing…
Ahhh! What a treat! Katie you amazing woman! My nieces first birthday is at the end of the month and she is everything free! Lol, dairy free, egg free, nut free, meat free.. etc. So I want her candy buffet to be guilt and allergy free! can’t wait to try these and have you or do you know of any other substitute than Coconut oil? I’ve been thinking Canola oil, anywho will give a try and let you know! THanks heaps darl! X
Canola is nasty. http://www.naturalnews.com/034733_canola_oil_rapeseed_food_labels.html
Grapeseed oil might be a good substitute if you want a flavorless oil.
I got really impatient while I was waiting for my cake batter donuts to cook in the oven, so I decided to whip some of this up. I didn’t have agave on hand so I used HyVee Sugar Free pancake syrup instead, and it actually worked fine. Both tasted sooooo delicious! Thanks for being there whenever my sweet tooth starts growlin’!!
Can’t wait to make this! Especially since my coconut oil is already melted, due to extreme heat 🙂
Hey Katie,
I love your site and recipes because I have a ton of allergies and the one that I have made have been very tasty. However, I have a question for you. I am extremely allergic to coconut (coconut, coconut oil, coconut butter, etc), so what can I use instead of the coconut products you recommend especially in this recipe? Thank you!
Sorry, I really don’t know of a substitution in this recipe. 🙁
Vegan Margarine, maybe, and store in the freezer? It would melt at room temperature though, I guess 🙁
Maybe you could substitute cocoa butter for the coconut oil? It gets harder, so you may have to mix it with another type of oil that you’re not allergic to for the correct consistency.
I finally broke down and ordered some stevia drops!! I’m so excited!! I bought them on vitacost.com, $9.12 for 2oz. Do you know of a better deal??
Hello Katie!
I have to admit, it DOES look delicious, but only 100 Calories for a 30g Bar?
That can’t be right, coconut oil has 900 kcal per 100g and cocoa powder about 390, given that the whole recipe is 150g (Stevia Version) and has 740 calories every 30g bar would contain at least 150 calories. Or did I get something wrong? :/
This stuff is like crack. (not that I would know what real crack is like, lol.) Made mine with a few TB of maple syrup and nunaturals vanilla stevia drops, as well as Hershey’s Special Dark cocoa. It didn’t turn out as smooth looking in the picture and was a bit lumpy, but with stuff tasting this good, who cares? My husband took a bite, his eyes bulged, and he snatched the bowl from me and ate most of it in a matter of minutes. And he scoffs at “healthy” sweets and doesn’t like coconut!! (this does have a hint of coconut flavor, for those wondering, and I’m not real big on coconut myself, but this is just awesome.)