You don’t need to bake anything, you can just melt all the ingredients together, chill briefly, and you’re done.
If you haven’t played around with cacao butter before, this is a delicious, natural room-temperature solid oil that’s extracted from the cacao bean. In my recent post, Healthy Fat 101, I was talking about some quality fat sources – and cacao butter is definitely one I recommend.
I used a small silicone mold tray for mine, but you could literally use anything – a mini muffin tin, ice cube trays, anything that gives your chocolate a shape that you like.
Healthy Dark Chocolate Fudge
You will need: a small pot, spoon, measuring cups, measuring spoons, mold for chocolate
Yield: depends on your mold. Mine made about 9 small chocolate squares.
KEY: T= Tablespoon, tsp= teaspoon
- 1/2 cup cocoa butter
- 3 T cacao powder
- 1 T vanilla bean paste (or vanilla extract)
- 2 tsp maple syrup or 3-5 drops stevia to taste (I like my dark chocolate on the less-sweet end, so this is a great place to start– you can add increments until you hit *your* perfect sweet spot)
- 1 serving (13 grams) Full Body Collagen
Directions:
- Add cacao butter and cacao powder to small pot and melt over low heat, stirring constantly.
- Mix in vanilla and collagen protein.
- Add sweetener and stir in. Remove from heat.
- Pour into your mold of choice and cover and chill until set (about 30 min). The chocolates will stay solid at room temperature once they harden, but I like to keep them in the fridge for freshness. Just keep them in a small air-tight container.
Nutrition Facts
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