Healthy Chocolate

Chocolate is a staple at my house. Just a bite every so often and I'm good to go. And while chocolate itself is healthy and an antioxidant, the sugars and other added ingredients of grocery store chocolate are not. 

And fancy chocolates can get expensive. I bought a "specialty" chocolate bar at Sprouts for my husband as part of his Valentine's Day gift and it was over $3! Not my idea of a budget friendly treat. 

My solution: make my own at home using 4 simple, healthy ingredients: 

Coconut Oil

Cocoa Powder

Raw Honey

Celtic Sea Salt

optional add-ins include:

Shredded Coconut

Chopped raw nuts

Almond Butter

Peanut Butter

Dried cranberries

In terms of health, coconut oil outshines all other oils and has too many health benefits to list here. 

Raw honey is superior to processed and retains its many trace beneficial properties. 

Cocoa powder is loaded with health benefits and is a known antioxidant. 

And a pinch of celtic sea salt adds flavor balance and does not cause a mineral unbalance in the body as table salt does. 

An added bonus is that you can whip up a batch any time in the comfort of your own home. I love that phrase, don't you? "In the comfort of your own home." It's such a blessing to have a place to call home. :)

So these are the ingredients I used to make my healthy chocolate:

Then it gets really complicted. 
You dump them in a bowl and stir. :)

Sprinkle in any optional add-in ingredients you wish. I used shredded coconut. Unsweetened gets preferential treatment, but this is all I had so I used sweetened. 

Didn't bother my conscience a bit. :)

 

I then pressed the mixture into a silicone mold and chilled in the refrigerator. 

To the left over chocolate in my bowl I added about 1/3 cup almond butter and pressed into another silicone mold I had. 

Into the fridge it went to chill. 

In half hour or so they are ready to pop out and enjoy.