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 recreated Panera Bread’s whole grain baggette at home! Now I need to perfect my black bean soup, and I will save a LOT of mula!! 🙂 HOPE TO WIN!
This may seem silly… I used to haunt a coffeeshop (before moving to another city) and soon got to know the owner. He always used to carry around a big bottle of what he called “fairy water.” Intrigued, I tried it and was instantly hooked. At home I tried to figure out the right combination of water, cucumber, mint, agave, lemon and rosemary to recreate this elixir, but nothing ever tasted as good as his creation. Maybe I was missing an herb or using too much lemon? I may never know — it’s a top secret recipe.
Although I haven’t tried to recreate anything packaged at the store YET, my mom ALWAYS used to recreate meals we had in restaurants when I was growing up. For some reason it drove me crazy (I am thinking it was because it took the “fun” out of eating out?), but now I love it!
all the time! Mostly with salads at restaurants. I do want to recreate the tropical lara bar… so complex though! Very delicious!
i tried to recreate channa masala, an indian dish with chickpeas. it was edible, but not the same
😉
We keep trying to get our tofu like the tofu in P.F. Chang’s General Tso’s. HOW do they DO it? *sob*
We’ve also tried a few times to do our favorite Ethopian kik alicha wot – yellow split pea stew. It’s never quite the same but it’s good! I’ve had good success with making homemade mochis and other desserts, though!
I’ve recreated jalapeno ranch dressing from a restaurant. And peanut butter cookie larabars.
i tried to recreate lara bars- so yummy!
I used the fudge baby recipe to recreate my favorite homemade larabars in cashew larabar flavor 🙂
Unless you count making my own seitan sausages, I’ve never tried to recreate any dish or packaged product before (at least, I can’t remember trying to at this momemt anyway). Lame, I know.
well – you know all about my “recreation” of Dark Chocolate Dreams!! (without knowing what the real thing tastes like!)
But I am always trying to recreate meals I eat in restaurants at home – one of my favourite vegetarian dinner party dishes to make is spinach and ricotta cannaloni after having it in a restaurant and recreating it at home. Basically if you are veggie and coming to my house for supper – there is 99% chance that’s what you’ll be having! I’m sure I could do a vegan version if you’re ever in the UK!!!
I love coming back from holiday and trying to recreate the local food (never quite tastes the same though!!) I have just come back from Poland on holiday and have been trying to recreate all the nice polish food I had!
Awesome recreation!! I have created a hummus recipe that is absolutely fabulous!!
I have tried to recreate these awesome bacon wrapped shrimp appetizers from Salt Grass…but they never taste quit the same.
I always try to recreate foods I enjoyed from a restaurant. A few weeks ago, I ordered baba ghannouj and enjoyed it so much that I bought an eggplant and made my own. I actually thought my version (made from a Vegetarian Times cookbook recipe) was tastier!
I love the challenge of trying to recreate foods from restaurants, cafes and bakeries. The one creation that still alludes me is the “Savannah Bar” from my local Great Harvest. I will avail!