Walnut Dark Chocolate Bar – No Sugar
This recipe produces one of the healthiest chocolate treats you will find. It also tastes better than the commercial stuff you end up buying! This is one of the few chocolates that I make without any of the other healthy sugars and it is not for everyone. Only those who like very dark chocolate will appreciate the flavour.
I use healthy ingredients for all of my chocolate:
Coconut oil -Coconut oil once thought as a heart disease-causing saturated fat is now been proclaimed ‘the healthiest oil on earth.’ Discover how this transformation came about and the top 12 benefits of this newly declared an Amazing SuperFood.
Stevia – The stevia plant is incredibly sweet and also incredibly good for you. The leaf is 30 times sweeter than sugar while extracts are 300-400 times sweeter.
Walnuts – I love walnuts! My mom loved to cook with them because they add flavour and crunch to any meal. Now I know that walnuts are also highly nutritious, so much so that I consider them a superfood.
Walnut Dark Chocolate Bar
Ingredients
- 4 squares unsweetened baking chocolate (approx. 112gm)
- 1 Tbsp coconut oil
- 1 tsp light liquid stevia*
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 1/2 cup walnuts chopped
- 1/2 cup raisins or sultanas
Instructions
- Combine chocolate and coconut oil in a double boiler or carefully in a saucepan.
- Heat until all the chocolate and coconut oil is melted.
- Add the stevia.
- Mix in the vanilla extract after removing from heat.
- Line an 8-inch square pan or bread tin with parchment paper.
- Evenly sprinkle the walnuts and raisins in the pan.
- Pour the melted chocolate mixture over the raisins and walnuts.
- Let it cool in the refrigerator or freezer.
- Once the chocolate has set, cut it into squares.
- Store the chocolate in a covered container. It can also be stored in a refrigerator or freezer if desired.
Notes
* Sunny Dew is the best stevia to use for these recipes.
Here is another dark chocolate recipe that is a little less intense!
Cherry Pecan Dark Chocolate Bar – This is a totally decadent chocolate that everyone loves that I gave samples to. This is just one of the recipes from the Chocolate Project where I carefully teach you how to make all the healthy chocolate you would ever want.
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Sounds great and thanks for using Stevia! Will give it a try!
What about using pure maple syrup instead of stevia?
Stevia is best as it is so sweet without having all the extreme sugar effects. Sorry Christina maple syrup will not work. 1 tsp of maple syrup is not as sweet as 1 tsp of stevia.
Darn..I’m not very big on stevia. Oh well guess I’ll have to use it anyway.
To have chocolate or to not have chocolate. That is the question.
Sometimes, I almost sympathize with the many who do not want to know.
How do we know that bakers chocolate is non GMO?
Thanks so much for this recipe. I want to try substituting goji berries for the raisins.
Goji berries sounds like a good idea. Let me know how it turns out.
What about using more of coconut sugar? Also for those who don’t like darker than 65 %, what about semi-sweet chocolate?
Doris, in the recipe above that will not work well. I have given a link to another sweeter recipe. See above as it is now there.
For Vegan milk chocolate there are recipes in the Healthy Chocolate Project. I spend literally hours testing and retesting to get the best recipes so you can be assured you will get good recipes there.
Is there another beneficial substitute for coconut oil?