Of late, I have been bit by the chocolate bug. I have love hate relationship with chocolate. There are days I crave for a perfectly dark chocolate and for me, chocolate has to be plain. I don't like diluting its flavor with anything else - not even nuts. And then there are days, I cant even think of chocolate. Good for me, the days I love chocolate far exceed the number of days I detest it. As I was saying, I was looking for a perfect chocolate recipe to make at home and the very first recipe called in for this super simple three ingredient homemade chocolate recipe. I was so skeptical about trying it but the internet was flooded with assurances and reassurances of how good this chocolate turns out. I decided to try it for myself and amidst huge protests by the husband, I made this super simple three ingredient homemade chocolate.
You would be surprised to know that there is no cooking involved in making this chocolate recipe. Also, this is a vegan recipe that uses no milk/milk related products. It is super simple to put everything together and in less than 20 mins, you would have super soft, melting in mouth perfect dark chocolate at your disposal 🙂 For the very small batch I tried, I got 11 medium sized chocolates. The only difficulty is staying away from these once you start tasting them. One word of caution though - this recipe calls for coconut oil. As much as it may sound no-so-chocolaty, the slight coconut-y flavour with cocoa tastes wonderful. But if you don't like coconut flavor, its better to give this recipe a skip. Butter or any other fat would not work well.
To make Easy Homemade Chocolate
What I used -
- Cocoa Powder, ¼ cup
- Coconut Oil (Liquid Form), little less than ¼th cup
- Honey, 3 tsp
- Vanilla Extract, ¼th teaspoon (optional)
- Salt, a pinch
How I made -
1. Have all the ingredients lined up. In a bowl, add cocoa powder, a pinch of salt and coconut oil in liquid form.
2. Add honey and vanilla extract to the mix and stir well. The mixture should be runny. Make sure there are no lumps.
3. In a chocolate mould, fill up this mixture and set it in the freezer for atleast 30 mins. Slightly tap the chocolate mould to un-mould the chocolates.
4. Store in an air tight container in the refrigerator and once taken out, consume immediately.
Note -
- It is essential that the coconut oil is in its liquid form. If required, slightly heat it over a bowl of hot water and let the oil come to room temperature before preparing.
- The chocolate mixture has to be very runny and make sure you fill up the moulds while it stays that way.
- Do not replace coconut oil with any other fat or the recipe fails.
- Vanilla extract is optional and is used to mask the coconut flavor.
- I used little lesser than ¼th cup even though the actual recipe called for exact amount of coconut oil and it worked perfectly.
- Adjust sweetness as per liking. I tasted the mixture and as it tasted sweet enough, stopped with 3 teaspoon of honey.
- Replacing honey with sugar will not work for this recipe.
- Freezing the chocolate is required for setting it and once un-moulded, store it in fridge. The chocolate can melt at room temperature, so consume immediately on taking out.
- Roasted nuts can be added if desired.
Parul Singhal
Easy peasy recipe?
CHCooks
Oh yes, super simple! 🙂
Chitra Jagadish
Chocolatey n delicioussss. ....
CHCooks
Thank you Chitra 🙂
gouthamiyuvarajan
looks quite interesting n healthy with the use of honey instead of sugar 🙂
CHCooks
Thanks Gouthami 🙂
The Girl Next Door
Those chocolates look gorgeous!
Like you, I have been wondering a lot about chocolate making, lately. Would love to give these a try some time, but am not too sure about whether we'll like the flavour of the coconut oil.
CHCooks
Thanks TGND 🙂 Actually you will not feel taste the coconut oil but a mild flavour/smell of coconut. If you are interested, you can try out a small batch!
Cooking For The Time Challenged
This looks great!
CHCooks
Thank you so much 🙂
Lynz Real Cooking
I love your love hate relationship with chocolate! This looks and sounds amazing!
CHCooks
Hahah thanks a lot Lynn 🙂
Lynz Real Cooking
🙂
CHCooks
🙂
MyCulinarySaga
NIce 🙂
CHCooks
Thanks Trupti 🙂
srividhya
This is a great share GB.. yum. Between same pinch. I too have love hate relationship with chocolates.
CHCooks
Thanks a lot Sri 🙂 haha same pinch 🙂
Love Served Daily
Chocolates. Yumm
CHCooks
Thanks Ritu 🙂
Freda @ Aromatic essence
Wow! looks great! This method is new to me, very interesting! What brand of coconut oil did you use? Shall try it out soon 😀
CHCooks
Aww thanks dear! I used edible grade coconut oil - infact Parachute brand is 100% edible grade too 🙂
Freda @ Aromatic essence
Okies:)
CHCooks
🙂
Traditionally Modern Food
Can someone say no for homemade chocolate.. Yum yum
CHCooks
Thanks Vidya 🙂
kushigalu
So cute and YUM! Love the recipe.. Too good!
CHCooks
Thanks a lot dear 🙂
Priya
I will try this for sure.......
CHCooks
Sure! 🙂 Pls do try it out 🙂
mypinchofyum
Looks great 🙂
CHCooks
Thanks a lot! 🙂
anyone4curryandotherthings
Indians LOVE sweet things, the sweeter the better (I am trying to 'educate' my friends here to far less sugar - thinks 'diabetes' and it's working) - and now Christmas just around the corner, another perfect little gift from my kitchen to make quickly to give to friends. Thanks so much. Carina
chcooks
Yes, we Indians do love a lot of sweets 😀 Pls do let me know how this recipe works for you 🙂