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.
Katie, I saw that you can use this recipe as chocolate chips is you use the sauce option. Would that work if you used them for baking required chocolate chips as well? Or would it Melt? Thanks for your help and all of your amazing recipes!
Tracy
Hi Katie, Just wondering how you store the hot chocolate butter and for how long; I just made it for Valentine’s Day and loved it, but had a lot left…thank you.
Store in the fridge, then melt as needed.
thank you so much..
So glad I found your web site, it was by accident , but a good one , was looking for receipes low or with no sugar or flour and your receipes fit the bill. They are all great tasting and easy to make my husband even likes them and he doesn’t like healthy. My favorites are your frostings and cakes as I have a real sweet tooth. Thanks , keep up the great job
Is there a good substitute for coconut items? Honestly I find anything coconut disgusting. Even the stuff people say you won’t taste it or smell it in but I’m finding it in alot of your recipes that I want to try.
Katie, I always wanted to make this recipe, but coconut oil here in Brazil is really, REALLY expensive! Also, I’m not a completely vegan, so do you think butter would work? Please, answer, I’m dying to make it! Thank you <3
Do you ever use the natural sugar Xylitol in your recipes?
Looks delicious! Wondering though, could i use honey or maple syrup instead of the agave or would that not work?
It would work!
Curious to see the nutritional content of the Three Ingredient Chocolate bars???
Katie this looks amazing! I wanted to make chocolate sauce to top my banana boatmeal but only had cocoa powder at hand….. so I came up with another recipe! It’s super simple (read: lazy-people-friendly) and doesn’t involve heating at all 🙂
1 tbsp nut butter, 1 tbsp cocoa powder, 2 tbsp honey, 2-3 tbsp milk. Stir everything together and ta-daaah!
I’m going to try this, but with coconut milk. Thanks.
This stuff is amazing! I know the recipe is pretty old, but I wanted to leave a comment anyway. I could definitely just sit and eat it with a spoon. I added a sprinkling of coconut sugar to some of it (probably less than a half a teaspoon), and my son thought it made a good chocolate spread with that addition.