Homemade Coconut Oil Chocolate Recipes

 

Coconut oil and chocolate are a match made in heaven. And for health-conscious cooks, or coconut oil connoisseurs, there’s nothing better than homemade coconut oil chocolate recipes. Best of all, they aren’t expensive.

Not only does coconut oil taste delicious paired with chocolate, but coconut oil has a number of potential health benefits, too. It may:

• Encourage fat burning
• Serve as a quick source of energy
• Lessen hunger cues
• Improve oral health
• Provide a boost of antioxidants

Here are a few of our favorite melt-in-your-mouth options.

Paleo Dark Chocolate With Coconut Oil

First, a classic recipe from All Recipes.

Ingredients

• ½ cup coconut oil
• ½ cup cocoa powder
• 3 tablespoons honey or maple syrup
• ½ teaspoon vanilla extract

Directions

1. Over medium-low heat, gently melt the coconut oil in a medium saucepan. 
2. Stir in cocoa powder, honey, and vanilla extract until well-blended.
3. Pour the mixture into a candy mold or flexible tray. 
4. Refrigerate until chilled (about an hour). 
5. Break into pieces and serve!

Homemade Coconut Oil Chocolate With Toppings

If you like to mix things up a bit, this recipe starts with a slightly different chocolate base, and has a lot of different delicious flavor options.

Ingredients

• ½ cup coconut oil
• ¼ cup cocoa or cacao powder
• 3 tablespoons sweetener (honey, maple syrup, rice syrup, or coconut sugar)
• 1 tablespoon almond butter (or your favorite nut butter)
• Pinch of salt
• ½ teaspoon vanilla extract or vanilla paste
• Your choice of toppings: pistachios, coconut flakes, cranberry powder, etc.

Directions

1. Combine all ingredients in a heat-proof bowl. 
2. Place the bowl over a pan of gently simmering water. Mix ingredients in the bowl until everything is combined and looks like smooth chocolate.
3. Place parchment paper in a loaf tin, cake tin, chocolate mold, or plastic container of your choice.
4. Pour the chocolate into your container of choice.
5. Put into the freezer for 2-3 hours, or until hard.
6. Slice chocolate into whatever sizes or shapes you prefer.
7. Serve and enjoy!

Cacao Coconut Blueberry Chocolates

For another fruity twist on coconut oil chocolate recipes, check out the recipe below for cacao coconut blueberry chocolates – a beautiful and delicious layered chocolate treat.

Ingredients

• 1 cup creamed coconut
• 2 tablespoon coconut oil
• 3 tablespoon maple syrup (or honey, or another sweetener of your choice)
• 2 teaspoon cacao or cocoa powder
• 1 teaspoon blueberry powder

Instructions

1. Place creamed coconut in a bowl of warm water to make it easier to get out of its packaging. Once it’s softened, empty the contents of the package into a small saucepan.
2. Heat over low heat.
3. Add coconut oil to the creamed coconut and mix the two continuously
4. Once melted together, add in maple syrup (or your choice of sweetener). Mix until well-combined.
5. Divide the mixture into three small bowls. 
6. Add cacao or cocoa powder to one bowl.
7. Add blueberry power to a different bowl.
8. Leave the third bowl plain.
9. Create your chocolate layers (in whatever order you choose). Fill a mold one-third of the way with your first layer, and then place in the freezer for about 10 minutes to set.
10. After 10 minutes, fill the mold up another third with the next layer. Place in the freezer for 10 minutes to set.
11. After 10 minutes, fill the final third of the mold with the last layer. Place in the freezer for another 10 minutes to set.
12. Store them in the freezer or the fridge.
13. Enjoy!

When you’re shopping for the highest quality coconut oil to use in your recipes, check out what’s available from Nature’s Way, Garden of Life, and NOW Foods.

Nature’s Way

When you’re tinkering around in the kitchen with these recipes, try Pure Extra Virgin Coconut Oil from Nature’s Way. It’s pure, organic, and cold-pressed so that it preserves nutrients and flavor. It’s also never deodorized, processed, or refined.

Garden of Life

For a raw option, try Raw Extra Virgin Coconut Oil from Garden of Life. Cold-pressed, raw, and certified USDA organic, Raw Extra Virgin Coconut Oil is perfect for cooking or baking – try adding it to smoothies, or incorporating it into your beauty routine. Aromatic and tasty, raw coconut oil contains properties like medium-chain triglycerides (MCTs) that may support many different functions in a healthy body.

NOW Foods

For another great tasting, high-quality, organic coconut oil option, try Organic Virgin Coconut Oil from NOW Foods. This unrefined, cold-pressed, virgin, non-GMO coconut oil is perfect for cooking, but it can also be applied to the skin as a moisturizer, or used as a mouthwash.

What are your favorite coconut oil chocolate recipes?