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
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katie,
i LOVE this idea. Sugar doesn’t sit well on my stomach and i try not to use too many chemicals. I can’t wait to try this out!!!
Bookmarking this and getting my hands on some coconut butter ASAP!
Kattiee!! Open up a sugar-free raw bakery 😀 You could totally do it. I’d eat there every meal. Snacks, too. Fudge makes a good breakfast, right?
Problem is, if I open a bakery, I’d eat all the chocolate merchandise and therefore go out of business ;).
I have some Artisana coconut butter on the way to me. I am literally SO excited I don’t think I’ll be able to sleep. I will ATTACK your yummy coconut butter recipes like there is no tomorrow, starting with this! 😀
Ohmigosh yay! I’m so excited to see how you like it!
Looking yummy like always!
Just say NO to artificial sweetners! These look amazing!!
I try to avoid all artificial sweeteners, except today in the cold medicine aisle I was so overwhelmed by all the choices I ended up getting cough syrup with it– blech. I’ve started buying organic white sugar for baking because since it is more expensive I am more conscious about how much I use!
YUMMY!!!! Love this recipe 🙂
Thanks for bringing up artificial sweeteners. I don’t eat them because they make me sick. I used to eat Sorbital all the time and every night my stomach would be so bloated that I looked 6 months pregnant, so I quit cold turkey and my stomach aches stopped almost immediately!
Same with me! 🙂 That stuff is bad news to tummies!
scrum-diddly-um! xoxo
I’ve tried Splenda a few times mostly out of curiosity (and unfortunately I can’t stomach sugar very well), and every single time I got an awful headache. If I want sugar, I want a little bit of the real thing, not a fake wannabe version of it that’s gonna mess up my insides. 😛
& that fudge looks amazing! More reason for me to go bug my mom about getting some coconut butter! 😀
This looks yum-licious!!! 🙂 I can’t wait to try it! I too am skeptical about the words “sugar free,” because that always means fake sweetener. And ick… But, at least I know how to sweeten the natural way (although I am not one for super sweet things).
Yummmmyyyy!
Lotsa love chica!
Aly
😀
I bet that fudge is plenty sweet–coconut butter tastes so enticingly sugary to me:)
Other than maple syrup and agave, stevia is the only sweetener I use.
Yeeeck to artificial sweeteners! Not that i have a big sweet tooth to begin with, but if I want some sweetness I’ll just use stevia, maple syrup, or (gasp) sugar. I don’t know, I’m not a calorie counter, but is it really the negligible extra calories in real sugar or syrup that cause weight gain, or is it just too many processed foods?
By the way – I made a variation of your healthy fudge the other night (and gobbled it up before I thought to take a pic). I used the PB variation and added in chopped up super dark chocolate and it was a party in my mouth! And surprisingly a really great pre-run food for me. The banana, coconut, PB and (duh) chocolate are part of a balanced bfast! …and waay better than that Gu gel stuff for in the middle of long marathon training runs. 🙂 Thanks!
Aw I’m so excited you tried it!! And lol I tried that Gu stuff once… I think. It was a Clif version. Blech!
I don’t know how in the world I missed this post, but I am SO making that fudge! Oh my goodness!
I hate artificial sweeteners! I can always taste the “fakeness” in them and most of them give me terrible headaches and make me feel like poo! I try to stay on the more natural end of sweeteners…as unrefined and processed as possible, well, except for this week as I have decided to go Sugar Free for 7 days! I always liked a good self challenge!
Ooh let me know what you think if you do make it! 🙂
Just made some fudge and licked the spoon- WOW! It tasted like some kind of chocolate cake batter, thick and moist and oh so good.. 😀 You truly are the Queen of Healthy Chocolate-Covered Stuff! Going to give a piece of fudge to bf when it’s done in the fridge, without mentioning that it’s a healthy recipe (which always makes him suspicious).
PS. Agree with you on artificial sweeteners– it’s fake fake fake! :/
Hahaha good luck! That’s what I always do to my friends, too. Only AFTER they say they like something do I admit to them that it’s healthy. Of course, by now, they’ve come to be suspicious of me ;). But they’ve also learned that healthy can taste good!
Yeah, he’s starting to get suspicious to everything that’s home-made and seemingly unhealthy (“where’s the catch?”), but in most cases he’ll eat it and in some cases he’ll love it! As with the fudge 😉 (Only 1/4 of yesterday’s portion left today). One trick is to serve it before any regular chocolate etc., because it can be supersweet and overshadow the good healthy stuff.