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.
I’ve never, ever tried coconut butter before–chocolate or regular!
Guess I have to get on that asap! 🙂
I’ve tried to re-create some yummy dips in my food processor – some more succesful than others.
I make homemade larabars with your fudge baby recipes!
I am always trying to re-create Starbucks mochas and iced mochas, healthier of course. I have several versions, but none I’m happy with. I did used to make a suzy q cake, which was very delish and..tasted like a suzy q!! I also tried pretty successfully to make Whole Foods Sonoma Mock Chicken Salad.
I’ve tried to recreate many things, such as pasta sauce, cookies, ice cream, breads, noodles, and of course my favourite: chocolate ganache. Some of my creations don’t turn out too well, but I’m always trying new things. 🙂
I love Thai food, but I the first time I made it at home I somewhat misjudged how much curry paste should go in so it turned out inedibley spicy. It wasn’t all bad, as it must have been hilarious to see my family and my reactions to the extreme spiciness of the noodles (there may or may not have been some screaming.)
best thing I’ve tried to recreate was chocolate peanut butter- yum! I have been giving it away as housewarming/birthday/Ilikeyouhaveapresent gifts ever since. I’ve also tried making graham crackers a few times. They taste okay, but not much like the real thing, and definitely not good enough to be worthy of chocolate pb.
I’ve tried to recreate Starbucks’ Chocolate Banana Vivanno. I kind of like my version better, though, because I make it really thick and creamy! 😉 Mmm…
Thank you for the giveaway!
I have made homemade oreos! It was an attempt to prevent my brothers and dad from chowing on the transfat laden variety… I used non-hydrogenated palm fruit oil to make the filling. The cookies were quite fantastic (recipe on smittenkitchen.com)!
I have tried to figure out this fabulous Hazelnut Mocha cake that my favorite bakery makes…it is impossible to duplicate and very annoying!
do this with restaurant dishes all the time, especially things like sandwiches and salads.
Katie, I love your website- so many simple recipes that I can’t wait to try out!
Okay, for me it was recreating Dark Chocolate Dreams PB…I’m not sure if I am there yet but I grind a bunch of peanuts (as many as I can fit in my food processor) and with the peanuts melt about 30 Ghirradelli chips in a saucepan and add those to the mix as well. It is SO delicious- not a perfect replica but a lot cheaper and very enjoyable!
I always try to recreate tzatziki (the white cucumber sauce on gyro but Greeks use it on a ton of other stuff too) into a vegan friendly dip..have yet to succeed!
I’ve made homemade granola, peanut butter, maple cinnamon pecan butter, and raw almond butter! saves lots of money 😀 but I really want to try making my own yogurt.
ive tried coconut creme larabars–yum!
I’m always trying to recreate restaurant recipes!! The BBQ chicken salad from CPK is one we make a lot, minus the cheese/ranch/chicken of course. Fingers crossed!!