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I have a sweet tooth, and keeping these Homemade Vegan Chocolates in my freezer help satisfy all of my chocolate cravings.
I crave chocolate and sweets often, and strive to find a healthy balance of allowing myself the sweet flavors of chocolate while maintaining my healthy eating plan goals.
I love finding simple ways to satisfy sweet cravings in the healthiest way possible. I find that when I allow ourselves to savor the sweet flavors, I am more likely to stay aligned with my overall healthy eating goals.
Our homemade chocolate is an easy recipe that is incredibly delicious. It’s vegan, it’s chocolatey, and SO easy to make and have on hand for when the sweet cravings hit. With only four simple ingredients, and limited clean up this is a treat you’ll be adding to your recipe box of delicious vegan chocolate recipes.
Did we mention it’s an all vegan recipe? Our homemade chocolate recipe will be your new favorite go to when making your own chocolate at home. Even if you don’t follow a vegan diet, this will be one of your new favorite things.
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Ingredients in Homemade Vegan Chocolate Recipe
- Coconut Oil: Unrefined and cold pressed oils are the best choices for the oils we use in cooking and baking. Coconut Oil tends to be minimally processed and holds a lot of nutritional value. Coconut Oil can be found at many grocery stores, but I love to buy in bulk at Costco. We love the slight coconut flavor in our chocolate recipe.
- Maple Syrup: Maple Syrup is a natural sweetener. It’s our favorite liquid sweetener when needing to add a hint of sweet to our recipes because it contains a small amount of minerals, such as manganese and zinc. Bonus: It’s also vegan!
- Cocoa Powder: We prefer using Cocoa Powder instead of Cacao Powder. Both come from the cacao bean so cocoa and cacao powder are fairly similar to one another. Cacoa Powder is the raw, unprocessed version of cocoa powder. Cacao powder taste more bitter and takes some getting used to.
- Vanilla Extract: We love getting vanilla extract our local grocery store. It’s fun to notice the slight differences in vanilla flavors between the different types of vanilla extracts. A subtle vanilla flavor combined with the hint of coconut from the coconut oil is the BEST.
How to Make Homemade Vegan Chocolate Recipe
- Melt the coconut oil and maple syrup in the microwave just until it melts. In my microwave this takes about 30 seconds.
- Add cocoa powder to the melted mixture and stir well so the cocoa powder dissolves.
- Remove from heat and add the vanilla.
- Pour the mixture into a small baking pan lined with parchment paper to cool. If preferred, you could pour the melted chocolate mixture into silicone molds or chocolate molds.
- Allow to cool to room temperature, and then store in freezer to set. Keep chocolate in freezer until you are ready to eat.
Recipe Tips
- You can also melt coconut oil and maple syrup using a double boiler. The double boiler heats the top bowl because of the couple of inches of water boiling in the pot beneath. We prefer the microwave method because it requires less clean up.
- When your homemade chocolate bars are complete, feel free to add toppings to the top. We like crushed peanuts, unsweetened coconut, or crispy quinoa. You could also sprinkle a little coconut sugar or sea salt on top.
- The best thing about this recipe is it includes several base ingredients we always have on hand.
- After you pour chocolate mixture onto the parchment paper, let it set and then cut into bite-sized chunks.
- Our recipe is vegan because it doesn’t include any dairy products. We love the ease of not having to have these on hand when the craving strikes.
- This recipe is versatile. The first time we make a new recipe we suggest sticking to the original recipe. However, next time you could add peanut butter to the coconut oil and maple syrup and give it a delicious chocolatey peanut butter flavor. You could even add a secret ingredient and see if your guests can pick up on the new flavor addition. Just be sure to recalculate any healthy eating plan points if you do modify the original recipe.
- Store the chocolate in an airtight container in the freezer. It’s the perfect sweet treat to pull out when the chocolate craving hits.
Healthy Eating Plans
Weight Watchers
7 2023 Plan Points per serving
Portion Fix
This 21 Day Fix Homemade Vegan Chocolate Recipe contains both oil teaspoons that each plan gets as well as sweetener teaspoons mentioned in the Coffee bar section – everyone gets 4 per day. The sweetener teaspoons are a small “loophole” in the Fix. If you’re not using the sweeteners in your coffee, you can use them for other things like these pantry chocolates!
These chocolates have just over 1 oil teaspoon and just over 2 sweetener teaspoons per serving.
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Homemade Vegan Chocolate Recipe
Equipment
- Measuring Cups
- Silicone Heart Mold
- Pyrex Bowl
Ingredients
- ¼ cup cocoa powder
- 2 tbsp coconut oil
- 4 tbsp maple syrup
- ¼ tsp vanilla
Instructions
- Melt coconut oil and maple syrup in the microwave just until it melts. In my microwave this takes about 30 seconds. 2 tbsp coconut oil, 4 tbsp maple syrup
- Add cocoa powder to the melted mixture and stir well so the cocoa powder dissolves. 1/4 cup cocoa powder
- Remove from heat and add vanilla. 1/4 tsp vanilla
- Pour into a small baking pan lined with parchment paper to cool. If preferred, pour melted chocolate mixture into silicone molds or chocolate molds.
- Allow to cool to room temperature, and then store in freezer to set. Keep chocolate in freezer until you are ready to eat.
Notes
- You can also melt coconut oil and maple syrup using a double boiler. We prefer the microwave method because it requires less clean up.
- When your homemade chocolate bars are complete, feel free to add toppings to the top. We like crushed peanuts, unsweetened coconut, or crispy quinoa. You could also sprinkle a little coconut sugar or sea salt on top.
- Store the chocolate in an airtight container in the freezer. It’s the perfect sweet treat to pull out when the chocolate craving hits.
Nutrition
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I made these and they are amazing!!