Smart Sweet: Cacao Chocolate Sauce
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Prep Time: 5 minutes
Total Time: 10 minutes
Yield: 1 1/3 cups
In the Valentine’s Day episode of The Joe Show (you can watch it live tomorrow so be on the look out for our newsletter), juiceologist Brandi Kowalski shows us how to make our very own vegan chocolate sauce. It’s simple, so tasty, and can be added to homemade almond milk, banana ice cream, or anything else that just tastes delicious with chocolate (that’s everything in my eyes).
Ingredients:
1/2 cup cacao powder
1 cup maple syrup (or agave)
1 Tbsp. coconut butter
Pinch of sea salt
Step 1: Add all ingredients to blender.
Step 2: Blend until completely smooth, about 45 – 60 seconds.
Step 3: Pour into dish.
Step 4: Store in the fridge and add to your favorite sweet recipes!
Can you use coconut oil? Instead of coconut butter?
Pretty much the same question can you use coconut oil or even almond butter?
I’ve never seen coconut butter – is it the same as cocoa butter, the stuff used in cosmetics? Where do you find this stuff?
I found a recipe for coconut butter!
http://www.crunchybetty.com/coconut-butter-recipe-3-steps-to-bliss
forget that coconut butter recipie……I tried it and it didn’t work.
Off to buy some coconut oil (butter)
How long does it keep in the fridge?
A delicious healthy chocolate sauce
Is Cacao Powder different than Cocoa baking powder?
yes
Coconut butter is the same as coconut oil.
Just seems like a bit too much sugar in this for it to be considered truly healthy. I guess it’s good for a “treat” but careful with this one.
Hello I can’t wait to try this. I just bought coconut butter at Whole Foods. I never knew they had it. It was $3.99 for 10 oz made by Earth Balance.
remember, Agave is low glycemic, and coconut butter has 0 sugar.
Coconut butter on Amazon http://www.amazon.com/Artisana-100-Organic-Coconut-Butter/dp/B000WV153I
This Artisana coconut butter from Amazon is made from only coconut, the Earth balance is a spread with other ingredients so it may not behave the same.
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wow, delicous but sweet!! this actually tastes alot like Hershey’s Syrup.