Homemade Chocolate Bars – made in under 5 minutes from start to finish, with just 3 ingredients!
These homemade chocolate bars pretty much make themselves.
It’s especially fun to customize the flavor – Chocolate Mint? Chocolate Coconut? Chocolate Chai?
The sky is not the limit with these addictively delicious chocolate bars.
They taste like eating the coating right off of a chocolate Dove bar.
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Seriously, I think I am obsessed.
I know… I say that about a lot of the recipes on here.
I am a sucker for chocolate recipes that are easy and quick to make.
Then you can spend less time on preparing them and more time on the fun part…
EATING them!
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Homemade Chocolate Bar Flavors
Crunchy Mint Chocolate: Add a few drops pure peppermint extract to the melted chocolate. For a fun texture, feel free to also add cacao nibs or rice crispy cereal.
Dark Chocolate Almond: Stir a handful of chopped almonds in with the other ingredients. This can also be done with diced walnuts, peanuts, or cashews.
Chocolate Coconut: Stir in a handful of shredded coconut, or sprinkle it over top before chilling the chocolate bars.
Chocolate Sea Salt: After pouring the melted chocolate into a container, sprinkle a small amount of sea salt on top.
Rocky Road: Add mini vegan marshmallows and chopped nuts of choice to the mixture before refrigerating or freezing.
Peanut Butter Swirl: After pouring the chocolate into a container, use a spoon to swirl in melted peanut butter or almond butter. Chill until firm.
Espresso Chocolate Bars: Stir 1/8 tsp instant coffee granules in with the cocoa. For a stronger coffee flavor, you can increase this amount as desired.
Other flavor ideas and add-ins include chia seeds, hemp seeds, freeze-dried strawberries or banana, dried blueberries, crushed pecans or pistachios, a pinch of cayenne, rainbow sprinkles… the possibilities abound!
Sugar Free Chocolate Bars
For low carb, sugar free, and keto chocolate bars, combine the following in a bowl until smooth: 1/2 cup cacao or cocoa powder, 1/4 cup melted coconut oil, and vanilla stevia drops to taste.
Pour into a small shallow container or candy molds (If it’s too thick, add 1 additional tbsp oil), and chill until hard. Store leftovers in the refrigerator or freezer.
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Above, watch the video of how to make chocolate bars
Homemade Chocolate Bars
Ingredients
- 1/4 cup cacao or cocoa powder
- 3 tbsp coconut oil (For coconut-free, try these Easy Chocolate Fudge Bars)
- 3 tbsp pure maple syrup, honey, or agave (A sugar-free option is written out above)
- optional extracts, cocoa nibs, chia seeds, or other add-ins
Instructions
- *The recipe can be poured into any flat container. For the chocolate bar shape, I used this chocolate candy mold. Homemade Chocolate Bars: Gently warm oil if not already melted. Combine all ingredients in a bowl. Stir until it gets thick. Pour into any flat container or candy molds, or smush between layers of wax paper or in ziploc bags. Chill until solid, and store in the fridge or freezer. Once hardened, you can also opt to melt the bars again for chocolate sauce. View Nutrition Facts
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I am thinking about trying this recipe with some puffed rice cereal. My daughter’s favorite candy bar used to be Nestle Crunch!
I made some with pepitas; they have the nice crispy quality of cereal, but they’re whole foods. The saltiness is a nice contrast, too.
I also made some topped with chopped almonds and unsweetened coconut — that was our fave!
I just make them as bark, though. Spread out on parchment. (pics on my blog)
I loved your idea Jana but took some raw pepitas “popped” them in a dry skillet and seasoned them with a little cayenne and sea salt before mixing with the chocolate. Heaven! Did some just with the pepitas plain and it was fantastic too. Just be careful because they really do pop and they will pop right out of the pan and you can get a nasty burn.
Do yours melt easily I’m traveling soon and I’d like to make these as a travel snack…it’s gonna be a pretty long flight you think they’ll lay 26 hours of travel time in my backpack?
Maybe if you use a cooler with an ice pack. I’ve made this recipe several times and I make sure to eat it straight out the freezer, otherwise it will melt very quickly at room temp. Just touching it for a couple seconds straight out the freezer will leave melted chocolate on your finger tips.
If you use cocoa butter in place of the oil, it will remain solid at room temp and will have a most smooth and creamy feel to it
Can you substitute oil for regular butter?
try making it with coco butter instead of coconut oil
They melt in 5 hours.
Yum! I made the with hazelnut extract once, it was pretty good. How about a cherry extract?
Or tiny pieces of diced fruit like cherry or blueberry.
Coffee beans? Rice puffs?
Hey emma where do you buy cherry extract??
You should do a Turtle bar! With Nuts and Caramel Yummy Or a S’more one… with Marshmallow Cream swirled in!
dried mango with spice…wow~!
We just made this with half Stevie half maple syrup and raw cacao powder….tastes like the most delicious deep dark chocolate bar. Fantastic and healthy indulgence.
How much Stevia did you use and was it powder or liquid? Thank you.
Woah, how simple! You should totally use these to make some kind of s’mores dessert!
How cool – make your own chocolate bars! You could do something with blood orange, maybe maple syrup, salted caramel?
The maple syrup works really well!
I find they start melting as soon as taken out of fridge or freezer
Wow! Everyone has such great ideas! If I am using the stevia in a jar (that looks like granulated sugar) how much would I use? Thank you for all these yummy recipes!!!!
No idea if that would work, but please report back if you experiment!
Run the sugar through you blender and make it like a powder sugar. Than the sugar will melt in the chocolate.
How much granular stevia?
I love the simplicity of your recipes! These look like really expensive, fancy chocolate bars!
Oh my YUM! And the photos are just stellar, as always :).
Gal you on fleek please send me a video of you making chocolate it is just so eccllexciting please show me but with simple ingredient like fruit nutella biscuits hope you understand me I would love to try it out
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I’ve never thought of making my own chocolate bar, what a great idea.
How about cayanne or a similar spice for chocolate with a kick?! Or someone make a vegan bacon version – that seems to be all the rage and I haven’t gotten to try it? Or a salty chocolate version?
I like the thought of adding In different spices like chai, pumpkin pie spice/apple pie sice (you could mix in dried apple slices) and I’m always intrigued with rosemary!
I discovered using rosemary in desserts in culinary school and love to use it, people do not expect to see it. Great idea it would be awesome.
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I like them opening in a new window so I can keep them aside and don’t have to ‘back button’ to look at another one. But, alas, we can’t all like the same things. Good thing your fans do agree on the deliciousness of the recipes!
I think I’ll be making these chocolate bars today. I’m going to make chili-chocolate bars. I tried one recently — homemade will be better, I’m sure! It had a slight chili bite that made my mouth go, mmmmmmm.
I personally like the new tabs as well! That’s why I started doing it that way. Glad to know I’m not the only one, even if we’re in the minority ;).
I like the tabs, too!! 😉
Since I’m commenting, I’ll add that I feel I must make these today. 🙂 I think I’ll grind up some espresso beans extra fine and sprinkle in. Yum.
I prefer tabs, too! I was actually able to see this post on Friday and tried it right away. I used 40 stevia drops and my daughter and I loved it. My husband was not a fan-I think because he likes his chocolate super sweet and he thought this was bitter. I’m just grateful to have a sugar fee chocolate recipe for my little one!
I like the new tabs too 🙁 to see them gone…..Will still love the site though!!
Hmmm… ok lol maybe I’ll do a mix. Keep the old ones as new tabs, but change some of the future links. 🙂
People who want to open links in new tabs can just right click and select open in new tab. 😉
Or holding the Ctrl key when you click the link will also open in a new tab. I’d prefer it to default to not opening in a new tab because I end up with about 6 different tabs all from the same website! Love the blog, I can’t wait to try these chocolate bars!
I enjoy the fact that it opens in new tabs as well…. I will be sad to see that go 🙁
I Like the tabs too:)
I like the new window when it goes to the right place… But I can’t find the nutrition info for the chocolate bars.
Nutrition facts are linked right there in the post under the recipe.
And when I click the link it takes me to a different recipe.
Tabs?
You can usually right click on any link and click “open in new window”… Or maybe that is just certain browsers, I don’t know.
(or “open in new tab,” whichever you prefer)
I like tabs as well! But then I would have about 50 open at once 🙂 I love this I’m going to use it to make her brownies with! I can’t do sugar so its hard to find the chocolate chips without them, there was one brand out, but when I went to buy it they said I couldn’t have it, it was recalled or something! SO this will work perfect in its place plus so much more!!!
This looks delicious! Making these today!
for some healthy additions, you can add hemp seeds. In high portions, they actually make it kind of crunchy and add great nutritional value!
Love this idea! 3 ingredients and you’ve made your own! Such a cute gift idea too, thanks Katie!
I use Recipage for my blog and LOVE it! They keep making Recipage easier to use too, and there is a free version if you don’t want to pay for the elite service. They added a few new tools at the beginning of the year making it even cooler You should definitely check it out! It might be a lot of work on the front in (importing everything), but I think it would be worth it in the long run!
I agree. I do need to look into it! I stayed away initially because I’m cheap… but now that it’s free, I really should check it out!
Not cheap…..frugal! 😉
This is awesome and potentially a huge money saver! b/c I spend way too much of it on chocolate! haha
Wish.com has some great chocolate/candy molds too!