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 loved the sauce version of this and am loving orange chocolate at the moment so might have to add some orange zest… 🙂
Ok, just tried it and it tastes extra yummy! Thanks for all those brilliant recipes! I added some hemp seeds and cinnamon. Delicious!
This would be good with some almond flavoring!
How about adding some brown rice cereal? Crunchy fun!
Right now I am a big fan of citrusy chocolate. I think using some orange liqueur would be a good touch. Also, maybe stirring in some nuts such as pistachios for an added crunch would be great too. Love that this recipe is so customizable. What a great idea for hostess gifts, or DIY valentine’s candies!
I think cinnamon would be a great addition! I also love the idea other commenters have had of adding rice cereal: I love the krackle and crunch bars. Maybe add some caramel bits too? Mini marshmallows? Graham cracker crumbs? Peanuts? The possibilities are endless!
Could you use something else in place of the coconut oil? or just omit it entirely?
Not that I know of.
I’ve never tried it myself, but I think cocoa butter would work instead of coconut oil. It’s solid but melts very well. I know I’ve heard of people adding it to chocolate to make couvature chocolate. I think you can get food grade cocoa butter on amazon. It’s a brittle oil, so I imagine it would make a nice snappy chocolate bar.
I’m allergic to coconut (and other pure coconut stuff like coconut extracts, oils etc). Does anyone know if the cocoa butter would work and if the recipe conversion would be equal?
Looks like a few people have had success with it:
https://lett-trim.today/2012/01/15/three-ingredient-chocolate-bars-1/comment-page-2/#comment-320513%3C/a%3E%3C/p%3E
https://lett-trim.today/2012/01/15/three-ingredient-chocolate-bars-1/comment-page-2/#comment-353737%3C/a%3E%3C/p%3E
You. Are. A. Genius! I’m out of the country and my daughter really wants to make cookies for her new friends but we don’t have chocolate chips, but we do have these 3 ingredients! Thank you!!! Adding cinnamon would be yummy to make cinnamon flavored chips. Cinnamon chips are awesome in your banana bread recipe!
For those of us that like the hot stuff what about a chilli powder or chili flake version?
ooooo I think I’ll make these before Valentine’s Day to give to my fellow teachers! Maybe with some orange zest
When I saw the words, “bar” I thought it’d be the typical date-and-nuts-with-cocoa-powder bar then when I saw these, I was about ready to jump out of my seat.
Instead of putting them into molds, can you pipe them out so they can freeze as little chips? Oh, and do you think regular olive oil can work, too? I only saw coconut oil in my grocery store once and I’m not even sure if it’s still there!
(PS. some great add-ins can be cookies n cream, coffee, chocolate + pb, different types of berries, adding in white chocolate to the bars)
Yes, you can make chips! Or squirt shapes and freeze… I want to try that :).
Coconut oil is unique in that it’s solid when cold, so I don’t think olive would work.
Love! What a great idea!
Mmm I made my own chocolate a few weeks back for homemade reeses. Love the cunchy factor the coconut oil gives to these, just like a shell you’re right.
I never knew making a chocolate bar could so simple! 😀
Is everything going to be back to normal soon? I am getting a “404 error” on every recipe I try to look up. Deep dish cookie pie, fudge babies, all 404’d 🙁 It did not do this the other day when I made the pb cookie things, sigh!
I’m really (really!!!) sorry. I have no idea why some people are getting 404 messages on posts that DO exist. I’ve asked my host, my wordpress guru friend, and even the wordpress forums… no one knows why this is happening :(.
Add a second layer made up of coconut oil, sweetener of choice, shredded coconut and chopped almonds. Viola! Healthy Mounds Bars.:)
Clever! 🙂 Thanks for posting this!
leah! That’s a fabulous idea!