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’ve re-created MANY a dish but the most popular one are my Thai Spring Rolls! Braised cabbage, carrots, ginger, garlic, jalepeno for heat and Srichacha (sp?) sauce.. Always a hit!
I have tried to recreate a product! I LOVE the Amy’s black bean burritos, and love TJ’s version of them even more. But TJ’s version is about $2.25 per package. My recipe took a lot of tweaking, but got close enough I would call it a knock-off, and it’s only $1.25 per serving! Sweet!
I’m not sure if this competition is open to aus residents, but who cares … I like this question.
Well, because I’m not blessed enough 😉 to have access to all the wonderful products that you guys are enjoying, I tried to recreate …
Maple Pb
White Choc Wonderful Pb
Dark Choc Dreams Pb
Cashew Cookie Larabar
Artisana Cacao Bliss
Artisana Coconut Butter
Nutella (making it vegan, mega fail…)
Almond, Cashew, Sunflower Seed, and Pumpkin Seed Butter
the dish that i tried to recreate was the general tso’s sauce as i love it and could eat it with a spoon all day 🙂
Amazing! This is a great idea, esp. since Artisana is pricey. But such a necessary treat. 🙂
I have definitely tried recreating restaurant meals. I recently posted a recipe for a fried rice that was actually based on a pasta dish I loved, so it was different but the flavors were there.
It has been too long since I said hi over here – I’m so sorry. 🙁 Still love you!
I tried to recreate the Mayan Harvest meal from Kashi but it did not come out right. It tasted ok but was no where near what it was supposed to be. You win some and you lose some.
I have tried recreate many many restaurant meals and I thing I have been pretty near to some of them.. I have tried Mcdonalds salads and mcmuffins 😀
I have been trying to re-create a white asparagus salad that we had at the Four Seasons Aviara. Not quite there yet but getting closer…
Katie, I feel terrible for sometimes entering your giveaways when I don’t comment regularly, but I read EVERY day. I am trying to recover from an eating disorder, and you inspire me to push myself towards a healthier life, because I used to get the same kind of joy that you do from my healthy vegan diet years ago.
I just got to try Artisana coconut butter last week, and cacao butter yesterday! OH MY, addictive! Darn the price tag!
Anyway, to answer the question:
My boyfriend at the time and I went to Gobo in NYC for Christmas dinner last year, and I had their fabulous Malaysian Curry Stew with a perfect glass of Cabernet. I was determined to re-create that dinner! So the next day I went out and bought everything I knew was in it, and messed around in the kitchen for hours until I came up with something comparable. My version is amazing, but a bit too expensive and laborious to make all the time. So it’s just relegated to a delicious memory for awhile, but some day I WILL have it again 😀
And obviously, I would like to be entered in your Artisana giveaway.
Thanks!
I always try to recreate Indian dishes. Some experiments are more successful than others but it never quite tastes the same as our favorite Indian restaurant!
The only recipe I’ve ever tried to recreate is this wonderful Alpha Omega Salad that my local Co-op sells for a rediculous amount of money. It’s a list of about 20 ingredients with kamut berries, sunflower seeds, peas, etc. After buying all of the ingredients and messing with the oil/vinegar/juice combo for the sauce, I realized I would have saved money buying the salad from their deli…doh! But mine was good and I had a lot left over to eat on all week. 🙂
As far as Artisana goes, I’ve been contemplating for WEEKS about whether or not to buy these products online. I can’t find them anywhere in stores around here….and they all sound amazing!
I’m a new reader of your blog, just found it a week ago and I love this place! 🙂
Amy, Aww thanks!! 🙂
i tried to recreate this wonderful seaweed salad that I tried at japanese restaurant. it didn’t taste exactly the same, but i liked my version better! so up until today, i make it for parties!
I have tried recreate Lara bars and lots of thai food 🙂
I can’t remember any packaged products per se but i always like to take my fav desserts and make them healthier (and better!) at home. I’m all about the guilt-less sweets 🙂
I try to recreate just about everything I love, from nut butters to larabars and salads and veggie burgers.
I’ve always been really adventurous in the kitchen though. I’m definitely not afraid of throwing random ingredients together in order to possibly make something yummy!
I tried to recreate the peanut satay sauce at Thai restaurants. Love that stuff!