The image above goes to a recipe by Chocolate Covered Katie (via Pinterest.)
Here is my simple recipe for no-cook chocolate candy using coconut oil, cocoa powder, a pinch of salt, and a single serving amount of stevia. (I use powdered Stevia by Kal.) The original recipe I saw had waaaaaaay to much stevia which gives things that unique stevia overly sweet-ness that's somehow bitter at the same time.
I don't really measure the coconut oil and cocoa powder for this; I put maybe 4 tablespoons coconut oil in a small container, add cocoa powder in perhaps an equal amount. The mixture should still be quite liquid. Add the salt and stevia, stir well. Taste to see if it's to your liking. If not, add more of whatever you think it needs, then cover and place in the freezer for about 15 minutes. When hardened, take it out and break it into bite-size pieces. Eat immediately or put into fridge for later. (I use small leftover dishes for making/storing.)
Option: add a handful of raw chopped walnuts, or whatever is your favorite.
These chocolate bites will melt in your mouth
and in your hands - but that's fine with me since it's "finger-lickin' good"!
How many it serves depends
entirely on your appetite for chocolate! For me, I usually eat a quarter or half, and save the rest for another day. Usually the next day. :-)
Personally, I don't heat coconut oil to melt it. I live in Florida, and most of the year it is liquid already. In colder weather I just put it in the mixing dish, and it's soft enough to mix in the cocoa powder. If yours is really solid, heat it very gently! You can just place the amount you will use in the mixing container and place it in a shallow container of hot water. It liquifies at "room temperature" so it doesn't take much heat or time.
Final note: if at all possible, use
fair trade chocolate! After all, we are wanting goodness for ourselves, and enjoying our treats, however we do not want them at the expense of child slavery in the cocoa-producing regions, do we? Thanks!
(Hershey's cocoa, seen in the photo at the top of this post, is NOT fair trade.) Yes, fair-trade cocoa and chocolate cost more, but in this case there's a good reason for that. A
very good reason.
