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 have tried unsuccessfully to recreate a tofu dish from my local Chinese restaurant. FAIL!
While I generally don’t try to recreate others’ dishes or products exactly, I have certainly been inspired by all the flavors and textures I have experienced in my life!
Lately, I’ve been making an awesome raw hummus using sprouted sunflower seeds instead of garbanzos (to which I am sadly allergic.) It is somewhat inspired by a hummus my sweetie used to buy at a restaurant. The tricky thing about that is I’ve never tasted that hummus, so I’m working blind! I think I’ve got a great formula now. Hooray!
I’ve also been making date-nut truffles that resemble Larabar flavors lately, so I am SO EXCITED to have found your blog, where I see your recipes for similarly inspired tasty treats!
I am also so excited about the possibility of maybe winning some Cacao Bliss! I haven’t tried it yet but it looks and sounds like HEAVEN! Coconut + Cacao = The Best!
I love recreating pizzas from restaurants like BJ’s, but of course healthier versions! 🙂 pizzas are yummers.
i love recreating all sorts of sweets. various baked goods from restaurants/bakeries. anything from cookies to cakes
I remake things ALL the time! The homemade versions are usually so much better and healthier.
With the exception of nut butters, which for some reason never turn out as smooth or creamy or tasty :\
But I’ve made homemade poptarts, donuts, bread, thin mints, a kibbeh dish I ate at a restaurant once that was really good, and so many more restaurant dishes. I’m always picking up ideas. I also love getting cake decorating ideas!
I like creating simple dishes, such as salads and sometimes pizza. I’m still iffy about trying out any baked goods. I think I’d ruin it. 😛
I’ve tried to recreate Pb&Co. Dark Chocolate dreams! but mine came out like milk chocolate peanutbutter 😛
Hey Katie, I’m a frequent visitor who wishes she had patience for her own blog and makes up for it in looking at everyone elses! 😀 Theres a few blogs that I actually really like, and yours is up in the list (it was your oatmeal list that sold me).. and no I’m not kissing your ass because I want that coconut cacao, even though I do, haha. WELL, I always recreate everything I like at restaurants which has resulted in me never wanting to eat out.. ever…..literally. It saves a TON of money, and tastes a lot better, it also branches into other ideas. I’m a huge falafel girl, and my homemade one is sah-lammin, which made me make raw falaf, which is even better. But i guess the most interesting and best thing I make at home is my own feta cheese and greek yogurt. Loveeeee it.
I’ve tried to recreate the minestrone soup from Olive Garden.
I recreated a butternut squash risotto from Brio. It took a few tries. 🙂
I’ve tried to recreate nutella- total success… tried to do some granola bars- a crumbly mess 🙁
I’ve tried to recreate snack bars with various degrees of success.
I do make a mean veggie version of a Big Mac!
Nut butters! But I think I enjoy the store bought ones better.
Of course! I love fake chicken but can”t but any without egg whites around here. Therefore I have perfected a setian recipe that satifisys the craving!
My first experiment with recreating something packaged was making homemade almond butter, and I haven’t turned back! I still buy my peanut butter though, as the 365 lightly salted just can’t be recreated at home for some reason! And now, I must try to make this!