Rich, chocolatey, homemade sugar free chocolate fudge.
Hearing the words “sugar free” normally makes me think of cloyingly sweet, sucralose-laden desserts or beverages.
Chemical sugars and I do not get along. As a little kid, I put Sweet-n-Low in my iced tea because my mom said it dissolved better than sugar.
However, after a few months of awful stomachaches, we determined Sweet-n-Low didn’t like me very much.
The feeling is mutual. To me, foods with fake sugars tend to taste… well, fake.
But this sugar free chocolate fudge has no fake sugar.
It only has natural ingredients, which is perhaps why it tastes so completely delicious!
You’ll find no Darth Vaders lurking here in this rich, decadent, melt-in-your-mouth sugar free chocolate fudge.
The recipe has two options – both options are free of refined sugar, and use the stevia option if you want it to be 100% free of added sugar as well.
If you’re used to healthy desserts, some readers even say that the banana is sweetener enough – so it’s up to you!
*If you’d prefer a recipe for healthy fudge without banana, be sure to check out either my Almond Butter Fudge or my Coconut Oil Fudge Recipes.
Don’t forget the variations:
Sugar Free Chocolate Fudge
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup coconut butter (120g)
- 1 overripe banana, or 2/3 cup additional coconut butter (160g)
- scant 1/8 tsp salt
- pinch uncut stevia OR 2 tbsp pure maple syrup or honey
- 1/4 cup cacao or cocoa powder (40g)
- optional 1/2 tsp cinnamon
- optional 1/2 tsp pure vanilla extract
Instructions
- Make sure your coconut butter is melted before starting. Combine all ingredients in a food processor. Then smooth the fudge into a container or candy molds. Plastic containers work well, because you can pop the fudge right out. Place in the fridge for a few hours, or freeze for a few minutes. You can freeze it for longer periods of time; just be sure to thaw at least 15-20 minutes prior to eating.View Nutrition Facts
Notes
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Katie! I love you, my sugar-free friend!!!! We need more sugar-free recipes in the world 😉
And, of course, you know my thoughts on sweeteners-blech! and dido for the artificial ones….just stick to REAL food 🙂
How about pistachio fudge? If you’re a fan….
wahhhhhh this sounds AMAZEBALLS!!!! And yet of course, here I am, with three hours left at work.. all I want to do is try this recipe!!!! I need to start only reading your blogs when I am at home and have access to my kitchen, LOL!
YUM! Making this soon.
Interesting question, I’ll be keen to see what others post! When I was restricting my calorie intake a few years back, anything labelled ‘low fat’ or ‘sugar free’ found its way into my diet even if it was made of refined and processed EVERYTHING! I drank so much diet coke and similar stuff that I started getting shaky, headaches, etc. It’s really, really, really, bad in my opinion! Having said that, I am certifiably addicted to Pepsi Max (which has aspartame in it). I only drink it maybe 2 x week but am trying to cut it out altogether. I think some sweeteners are better than others but for me, aspartame is the one that scares me the most. Can you believe I used to put nearly a whole tbsp of splenda/similar on my oatmeal? GROSS!
Interesting about the headaches. I never got headaches from too many artificial sweeteners, but I DID experience an increase in appetite for sweetener. So just like you, I was not able to taste sweetness like a normal person would. I’d need many, many packs of splenda in my foods, an embarrassing amount, before it tasted sweet to me. And then I’d STILL have a craving for sugary foods like baked goods, so in the end I’d ended up eating MORE sugar/calories than I would’ve without using the artificial sweeteners! In other words, I am very wary of the stuff now.
I’m a stevia gal. Once I found the NuNaturals brand (that doesn’t taste like aspartame to me like all the other stevia does!) I was set. I bake with it, etc.
If I had to only pick between sugar/agave/brown rice syrup or artificial stuff, I do the real deal every time. I’d rather have a few more calories than a carcinogenic, animal tested unfood. Blech.
During my eating disorder I avoided sugar like the plague and loaded up on artificial chemical laden substitutes (seriously, 12 packs went into ONE cup of tea). It took me ages to wean off of that crap, especially since I bought only Light versions of anything too. Going vegan actually helped tremendously with this, nit much vegan light stuff over here 😀
I am so thankful to know I’m not the only one! Seriously, that’s about the amount I would use in tea, too! Ten for one cup, sometimes more :-?.
Oh my, this looks amazing!
I’m looking for sugar-free treats – this is awesome!
bah!! i was on a serious chocolate kick last night and really should have just made your vegan fudge, i totally forgot! oh well theres always tonight 🙂 i do NOT use splenda, stevia and raw honey are my sweeteners of choice, and organic sugar in baking!
Hehe I’m always on a chocolate kick :).
Stevia is pretty much the only non-traditional sweetener I will use, but if I have nothing but Splenda or regular sugar there I will usually just grab Splenda, but that is for un-related reasons.
Word! This looks SO good! Making this today!