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.
Oh, yes! I’ve attempted to make home-made, all-natural Twinkies before–a complete disaster! I’m convinced that whatever toxic elements they are made with is the spongy-cake’s binding agent!
Today I made my own whole wheat graham crackers. They were delicious, healthy, and way better in taste and nutrition then store bought! I want to try making smores with them… yum!
I’ve tried to re-create my favorite baked potato soup… but it never quite tastes right.
and, you’ve been tweeted about! http://twitter.com/ChelseaRAR/status/14947392713
I’d have to say that the one thing I’ve tried and successfully made on my own are Lara Bars. And really I owe it all to you and your chocolate fudge babies. Seriously it’s so easy and so much cheaper to make them on your own and you get to choose the flavor! I love using restaurant food and packaged food I’ve tried as inspiration in the kitchen, even if I’m not necessarily trying to replicate those things.
I try to make flavored nut butters myself because it is a lot cheaper, and I think they taste better too!
I’ve tried to make my own hummus! Getting close to restaurant quality… 🙂
Def! I ‘ve tried to recreate Whole Foods tofu egg salad a million times…it never ends well sadly. d
SUCH AN EXCITING GIVEAWAY! God, I love chocolate!
I’m part Indian/part Middle Eastern, so I’m always trying to recreate dishes from my childhood at particular restaurants from places I’ve lived in–shawarmas, an Arabic everyday venture, sold at little shops where they roll them fresh off the rotisserie, are something I’ve finally been able to come close to, and am glad for! Oh, the garlic sauce. IT. IS. AMAZING.
It’s fun to browse through all the comments and see what people are making at home! My plan for our supper tonight is re-creating Cracker Barrel’s hash brown casserole….so good. Nice to have a breakfast night once in a while because heaven knows we’re hardly ever together in the mornings!
I love trying to recreate restaurant recipes! Last night I made my husband a sweet potato, black bean, and mushroom quesdailla based on what I had at a yummy vegan place.
This is such a great giveaway! I just got my hands on coconut oil, but I am dying to try coconut butter and cacao bliss!
I’d love to enter to win! I’ve recreated several dishes. I think my favorite though is my roasted potato recipe that is almost identical from my fav greek restaurant!
Lets see…I have recreated Larabars, Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups, hummus, veggie sandwiches, and cupcakes! I love recreating foods, it lets me be so creative 🙂
I used to LOVE the frisco melt at Steak ‘n Shake but it’s SOOO terrible for you so I decided to make my healthified version. I ended up using two veggie burgers, a blend of fat free thousand island and fat free ranch dressings for the sauce, and cheese made with 2% milk. I put it on sourdough bread, sprayed it with a little olive oil, and grilled it on my panini maker instead of slathering it with butter and frying it. It tasted the exact same and left my feeling satisfied without the guilt!
I so want to make this, and very soon. I’ve only recently learned the wonders of coconut oil and hope to reap its delicious rewards!
ALL the time! i love doing a healthier version of my restaurant /packaged food favorites. one of my best attempts has been the peanut kale salad at M Cafe de Chaya. They’ve posted the recipe on their website, but I tried to further healthify it by using almond butter instead of peanut butter and stevia instead of rice syrup. YUM is all i can say! not so much for many of my other “creations.”
One thing I love to recreate are Recess’s PB cups!! YUMMM! Especially with extra dark chocolate!