Sugar-free chocolate candy bars!

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Remember the old Chunky candy bars?

You will need to figure out your own proportions that suit your taste. This is so easy it can't be legal!

You will need at least three ingredients: Coconut oil, unsweetened baking chocolate or cocoa powder, and stevia powder.

You can also use things to add interest, such as peanuts, nuts, raisins, dried fruit, etc.

Carefully melt about an ounce of baking chocolate in a mug or glass measuring cup in the microwave, or in a double boiler on the stove. Add about 4 ounces of coconut oil and melt that, stirring. (If using cocoa powder, melt the coconut oil, then stir in the powder with the stevia.)

Add packets of stevia powder to taste. I added 8 packets. Stir, stir, stir, then taste a little and adjust to your taste. If the stevia looks grainy in the mix, it will taste sweeter as the stevia dissolves, give it a bit more time and stirring.

Fill the compartments of an ice cube tray with your additives. I like peanuts, and I fill those trays! The above amount of chocolate mixture will fill one ice cube tray that makes the smaller cubes, one ounce each, or half a standard ice cube tray.

Put it in the fridge for an hour or two, then pop them out and store in a container or bag in the fridge. It WILL melt in your hand, so eat it right from the fridge and enjoy!

You can slightly speed up the cooling time in the freezer if you are desperate (you know what I am talking about!) but watch it closely. If you let it actually freeze, it will break up.

I love to use the Tupperware ice cube tray with the lid for this.

 

[keljonma]

Thanks! That sounds pretty neat!

 

[Wifezilla]

Coconut bark is tasty and can be made in to many forms. I make this..
http://www.examiner.com/examiner/x-...008m11d19-Recipe-Low-Carb-Peanut-Butter-Fudge
Of course you can sub stevia for the splenda

 

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Oh, now I have to go make another batch! I can't tolerate coconut milk, but the oil is ok for me. I will make my recipe with a half-cup of pb added. Mmmmm...

Coconut oil does help certain people with weight loss, too, btw. It is a healthy fat.

 

[Wifezilla]

It hasn't helped me lose, but it didn't make me gain. I use it medicinally.

I used coconut cream in my coffee and it makes a great chowder base.

 

[hennypenny9]

Interesting recipe... Can anyone comment on the taste of Stevia? I haven't tried it before, but it seems like a more natural alternative to Splenda. I get nauseous if I accidentally eat Splenda or Aspertain, and I just think they can't be too good for you. (I know, "research" does not back me up here)

But I think Stevia comes from a plant that I've seen for sale at my local nursery, so if I could make it, it couldn't be too bad, right?

 

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You can use the plant, but it will have an herbal taste that might not go so well with a lot of things. The extracts you can buy have a cleaner taste. Of course, that takes more refining.....but still WAY better than the chemical sweeteners.

I find Sweetleaf and 365 brands of liquid stevia extract to be the best, watch out for the glycerite. I also use the packets of powder of those two brands. They are the ones readily available to me.

If and when my darn body tolerates sugar again (oh, hope!) I will use honey and maple syrup.....my own, again hopefully.....pretty exclusively. I am getting more and more disgusted with the food industry and the junk they sneak into everything. Even that labelled organic.

 

[hoosier]

Thank-you, thank-you, thank-you!

Thanks to you too, Wifezilla!

 

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Yep, this recipe has saved my sanity!