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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More Chocolate Recipes
Dried pineapple and cayenne would be yummy!!!
Mexican, with cinnamon and cayenne added, yum! Or chocolate-mint with a couple drops of mint extract. Maybe chocolate orange? (with drops of orange extract) On the same lines you could add hazelnut essence/extract, or roasted chopped hazelnuts. chocolate + hazelnuts are so good!
So many ideas 🙂
Ana
Where can I buy unrefined coconut oil and setvia drops?
amazon sells both, or your local health food store
More suggestions: bee pollen, goji berries, crushed up nuts, hemp seeds…
So sorry for the blog troubles! Chocolate and orange is amazing, like another commenter said.
Glad your blog is restored and that things are back to normal. That had to be super stressful for you as blog stuff is when things go wrong.
The bars look great. You could use lots of chocolate after all that!
Oh Katie- you are just fabulous. I can’t wait to try these. Can’t WAIT!!!!!!! I’m sure mine won’t look anything like yours, but I know they’ll taste good because you’re, well, just amazing. If I didn’t just polish off a mocha I would be making these right now. Dangerous. 🙂
What about gingerbread chocolate? 🙂 Or a combination of white and dark chocolate in swirlies, like marble. Or coffee. Or cranberry. Or caramel.
Or all of the above XD
I found my heart candy mold. I am going to make this into chocolate candy hearts. Little early before Valentines Day, but gives me time to experiment with different flavors and options with the chocolate hearts!
Hi Katie,
What a wonderful site!!!! I just made these bars.. and there was a lot of oil still left over in my pot, even as the chocolate got thicker. I put it in the freezer and fingers crossed they will come out.. Is there suppose to be left over oil?
Thanks a bunch..
Hmmm… no, definitely not. Did you accidentally add the water AND use agave? Or can you tell me more about the specific ingredients you used? 🙁
I melted the coconut oil and added the agave and water..:( I see that’s where I messed up.. I think I was just so excited to make them..
I just looked at them they kind of still taste good but there is a white film around them from the oil.. do u think I can still eat them? Not the prettiest but..
It won’t hurt to try :).
Thanks.. 🙂
Good for you for being so receptive to your readers’ needs. As for the chocolate, you can never go wrong with nuts and raisins, or brown rice crispies. PS, if you add almond or soy milk, will this make it a milk chocolate or a shameful mess?
I tried it with almond milk (in place of the water) once. It was just as delicious… but honestly it didn’t taste much different either way!
Hey Katie, have you heard of Recipage? As an avid blog reader, I can attest that it’s definitely the easiest way to find my way around a blog’s recipes. I’m not a blogger and therefore can’t vouch for its ease of use on your end, but I’d imagine it can’t be too difficult!
I checked it out… but it seems you have to enter in every recipe individually. Yikes, I must have over 1000 on my site! 🙁
I do agree with you that I love how it looks on other blogs!
I love orange flavors in dark chocolate…maybe some orange juice? And chile and cinnamon are excellent to add into chocolate for a spicy kick; try some cayenne and cinnamon! Sounds awesome. Oh, and P.S. I’m visiting Costa Rica all this month, and I got to tour an organic cacao farm. We got to make chocolate by hand from the roasted beans to the final product, which we scooped up with chopped-up bananas (also from the farm). DELICIOUS.
Oh, goodness, this has made my day! I’ve been looking for an easy homemade chocolate recipe for ages, and voila! Thank you so much, Katie! <33
I totally saw this post! I was wondering where it went…regardless, it looks delicious!
It was playing hide-and-seek ;).
Hi,Katie! I just discovered your blog recently, and am already a HUGE FAN! these chocolate bars look really tasty! so glad to find a HEALTHY CHOCOLATE BAR! As for flavor ideas, I have got a ton:
mexican (chile)
chocolate-vanilla
chocolate-covered strawberry
chocolate-peanut butter
cookies ‘n’ cream
cinnamon-maple
toffee
caramel-pretzel
trail mix
berry
hazelnut
chai