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.
Also Try This Brownie In A Mug
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!
Trending Right Now: Chia Pudding Recipes – 5 Delicious Flavors
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.
You May Also Like: Keto Protein Bars – 4 Ingredients
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
InstructionsÂ
- *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
Video
Notes
More Chocolate Recipes
Great recipe, I am about to grind up the bars and use them in a brownie recipe. I’ll let you know how it comes out as a chocolate chip replacement.
I like this recipe as it is sugar and butter free. But can someone tell how to make chocolate bars that will be solid on a room temperature, just like real chocolate from the store?
Regarding the ideas, you may try to enrich the chocolate with rum and ginger. Think that will perfectly fit the coconut oil.
no mention of what size pan/candy mold you used?? yield for your recipe pls would appreciate!!! ball park estimate of cost of your recipe…retail for most of us i guess??!!
thank you kathy, am anxious to try
Double the recipe, pour half into a flat container and let it freeze, then take it out, spread a layer of peanut butter on the top and pour on the rest of the chocolate. Then freeze and you have delicious chocolate peanut butter bites!
omg!!! this is perfect and actually looks like firm chocolate bars, and not the crumbly ones made with shortening! I’ll add skimmed milk powder for a ‘milk’ chocolate, then make dark chocolate chips, and make some sugar free bars for my mom……we just found out she has type 2 Diabetes, so this will be a very nice way to help her adjust to her new diet plan. You made my day!!!!!
Thanks for this recipe! I made it last night with xylitol, and just like another commenter mentioned, the xylitol doesn’t melt down much. I’ve had other baking success with xylitol getting powdered up in a blender, so I’m going to try that next.
The end product was still deeeeelicious, and I dont mind the grainy crystals too much for now (it’s still chocolate, after all!). I used organic cocoa powder and chopped up some goji berries…antioxidant super power!
Shout-out to you on my blog:
http://pollenandwax.wordpress.com/2013/01/06/to-eat-list/
Aw thanks, Bee!
Help!! My chocolate won’t harden! I kept it in the fridge for 9 hours, but it never even got to fudge consistency. So I moved it to the deep freezer and its been in there for three hours and only now has made it to fudge consistency. I used pure coconut oil, light agave nectar, and cocoa, but because I don’t like bitter chocolate I took your advice and tripled the agave. Is that the problem?
Hmmm… maybe the updated version I just posted will work better for you. Try this:
1/4 cup cocoa powder, 1/4 cup coconut oil, 1 tbsp agave. If you try it, let me know if that one works better! It’s a little sweeter than the original recipe, so hopefully it will work for you!
Hi, in the recipe you said that some commentators used honey instead of agave/stevia… do you know what measurements were used in that? I’m not a huge fan of the stevia aftertaste but I would LOVE to try these! Thanks!
Try this: 1/4 cup cocoa powder, 1/4 cup coconut oil, 1 tbsp honey. I haven’t ever tried it with honey, though.
I’m so excited to try this –but I have to ask a similar question to above. We have a coconut/sunflower/tree nut allergy in the house–is there an alternative to coconut that would work?
Sorry, I’ve never tried. Maybe cacao butter?
I made these, and when they hardened, they look like cocoa powder mixed with chocolate. Did I not stir stir stir enough? I stirred for about 5 minutes.
Was your coconut oil in liquid form when you used it? It should definitely not be powdery after mixing.
Was about to hit the kitchen and make is… Then I remembered I don’t have coconut oil (well I’m totally not using the jar my sister dunks her hands into the jar to use as a hair mask) so do you think anything else wood work, butter maybe? (I know not good for you but if it works, I don’t care!)
Maybe cacao butter, but I haven’t ever tried.
T Help! I’ve tried to make this twice now using agave. It sticks in the plastic candy molds I used, once I pry it out, it is either really soft and/or gritty/crumbly. What am I doing wrong? I used 2 TB water (recipe says 2-4) I stirred it a good long time. REALLY want to be successful making this! Perhaps next I will try with stevia, but I find stevia has an odd aftertaste. Anyone tried a combination like 1/2 & 1/2? Or maybe maple syrup?
Recipe says to only use water if you use the stevia version. That’s probably what went wrong for yours.
I wonder if I can make it with regular extra virgin olive oil?
Hi, I just tried to make this recipe .. only I used 2 tbsp coconut oil + 1 huge tbsp honey + 4 tbsp cocoa .. it was reaaly thick, so I had to kinda pat it in the container, but it worked… and I topped it with crushed oreos 🙂 I like my chocolate very bitter, so thats why i didn´ t add as much sweetener.. maybe I´ll try to add some liquer or milk next time, so it won´t get as thick …
Thank you so much for this recipe! I’ve made it a bunch of different ways now and it’s always sooooo delicious. I’ve tried crushed up peppermints, peanuts and sea salt, and most recently I’ve made peanut butter cups. I put a little bit of chocolate in a mini cupcake liner, put in a small disc of peanut butter, and pour more chocolate on top. Best ever!
This is amazing! I can hardly wait to give them a try, but want to read through the comments first for additional ideas, and that is going to take some time!! Thanks so much for providing a treat I can actually TRULY feel good about!