After last night, who’s candy-d out?
While out this a.m. I must’ve seen a million candy wrappers.
One of the many benefits of my Vegan Peanut Butter Cups: No wrappers!
Even if you are sick of candy, you might want to find room in your tummy to make the following coconut melties. I’m obsessed with these little gems. Obsessed, people. Obsessed! They’re like shortbread bites: so melty.
Yes, I’m aware that they look like soap. But they taste like little clouds of heaven. And they’re the simplest things ever, taking only about a minute to make!
Coconut Butter Melties
- Coconut butter or Hot Chocolate Butter
- A refrigerator or (preferably) freezer
- If you prefer sweeter melties, feel free to add agave or stevia drops
- ice cube trays, candy molds, or soap molds (or spread onto wax paper)
Directions: Press the coconut butter or hot chocolate butter into the molds and fridge for at least twenty minutes OR freeze 10 minutes if you’re super-impatient like I am. Then savor these melt-in-your-mouth treats and marvel at how something so simple can taste so good!
Above is the unused mold. I found it at Hobby Lobby in the cake-decorating section. Look in Michaels, Jo-Ann, Wal-Mart, or another craft store. Or just use an ice-cube tray. (Sometimes you can find cute-shaped ice cube molds too.) Another alternative: just spread out onto wax paper and freeze like that.
Side note: You can also use Homemade Coconut Butter.
I’m giving credit to my wonderful mom for the idea. Y’see, she bought chocolate molds to make homemade chocolates for Halloween. When I saw the molds on the counter, my little fingers gravitated right towards them! And when I looked for something to “shape,” guess what was conveniently sitting out on the counter… The good old Artisana coconut butter!
You can use Christmas molds, too!
Lately, I’ve been sprinkling cinnamon into my coconut butter, for Cinnabon Melties.
Above, melties from coconut and Hot Chocolate Butter.
Those molds are too adorable! You’re very creative…. I usually just press my truffles into small balls or flatten them like cookies. Great idea…
SUCH a cute idea!! This would make an adorable gift idea, no? Well, at least it would make a good gift for you and me:)
I don’t swear either, and I don’t really like it when others do–I have established a swear jar for Seth…
YUM! Those look really tasty!
What a fabulous idea! I love the cute heart shape (:
My older brother actually got his mouth washed out with soap when he was younger! He swore in front of my mom and she squirted some liquid soap in there. He nearly cried haha! I’m just glad I got to witness it.
I actually have a really bad mouth but I’m able to clean it up when I need to. It’s mainly when I’m alone and talking to myself or with my friends and goofing around…or in traffic!
I decided to make your coconut butter melties today. I had a carton of strawberries in my fridge which I thought might be interesting combined with the coconut. I had a heart shaped ice cube tray which I put a thin layer of coconut butter into (which I had softened in the microwave for 25 seconds). I thin added a layer of really thin and small strawberries chunks and then added another layer of coconut butter and refridgerated. It was so good! The flavors of strawberries and coconut were great together and the textures were really good too. Just something I thought you might want to try. ~Ann Claire
Oh wow, Claire, those sound sooooo delicious! I’ve made chocolate truffles with cacao bliss and raspberry jam, but I never thought of berries and coconut butter. Thank you so much for sharing the yummy idea! 🙂
Right…so…confession…
I hate coconut. But I’m super jealous of all the coconut butter recipes you have (especially these melties!) and I was wondering if you’ve ever made coconut butter with coconut oil (like how you made chocolate butter, which I really really like). I’ll use refined coconut oil in recipes calling for any kind of coconut oil because it doesn’t have a coconutty taste. Even if I could find Artisana I wouldn’t want to spend $11 on a jar of something I’m pretty sure I’ll never use past a taste, ’cause from what people say it tastes coconutty…blech.
So I guess I’m interested in what the texture and flavor are like (other than “coconutty”…like, is it sweet? creamy? spreadable, etc?) and if there’s a way to replicate something *like* it with refined coconut oil. I’m just sad I’m missing out on all your great coconut butter recipes because I don’t like the taste of coconut 🙁
Hmmm… I don’t know. LOL I am so opposite from you: I accidentally bought refined coconut oil this summer, and I was so disappointed that it didn’t taste like coconut!
For what it’s worth, I don’t think my pms chocolate tastes like coconut, and you CAN make that with refined oil (’cause I did, this summer. Couldn’t let that oil go to waste!) I’ve never made coconut butter with the oil, though, so I can’t answer that one.
I love this idea!!! Do they have to remain frozen to keep their shape?! They would adorable gifts! But I wouldn’t want to give a cute bag of melted melties!!! What do you think?!
Hmmm… I think it depends on where you live. I probably wouldn’t try giving them as gifts, sadly. Coconut butter melts at about 80 degrees.
I have heart-shaped ice trays so this would work out perfectly…my only issue is that where I live, these babies of coconut butter are ten whole dollars for a little half pint jar :-/ I’d rather go to the organic restaurant and get two desserts than have to make my own one for that price! Hopefully one day they’ll cheapen it here!
Did you see my post (or Heather’s) on making your own coconut butter? It’s way cheaper and tastes just like Artisana’s! 🙂
Just made these–so delicious and so simple! I also made some with added Ginger People ginger syrup, and they’re amazing as well. Thanks so much for the idea!
Ooh I used to love the ginger people peanut sauce. Never knew they made ginger syrup!
Hey, Katie… try this! It’s a recipe that I adapted from one I found on Tropical Traditions’ website:
Fill each section of an ice cube tray with a dark chocolate covered almond (I’m sure you know where to find the vegan kind! 🙂 you could probably use chocolate covered raisins too.) Then put in a pinch or two of dessicated coconut (sweetened or unsweetened, your choice), then add a tablespoon or two of coconut oil (just enoug h to cover everything) and refigerate or freeze, and Viola! chocolate. coconut. heaven! 🙂
Um yum! You had me at dark chocolate ;).