If you have chocolate lovers around your house, they’ll go crazy over this chocolate fondue recipe with dipper ideas too…
This chocolate fondue doesn’t have to make you feel quite as guilty about eating a sweet treat because it has a few more nutritious ingredients than your average dessert, like butter, coconut oil, and more natural sugars. (Yes, natural sugars are still sugar, though, so we don’t make this a lot. I say that all the time and keep posting dessert recipes, don’t I? I told you I have a sweet tooth.) I played around with the recipe and came up with this one by making a sort of cross between my homemade hot fudge recipe and the homemade coconut candy recipe.
Chocolate Fondue Recipe with Dipper Ideas
This dessert doesn’t have to make you feel quite as guilty about eating a sweet treat because, you guessed it, it calls for better-for-you ingredients!
Servings: 6 servings, but depends on your dippers
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup organic coconut oil <-- get 10% off with the code KOP at that link. It's always good to get more of this into your diet. We also love using it for homemade popcorn.
- 3/4 cup butter -- You could omit this and use all coconut oil if you’d rather or if you need a dairy-free recipe, but I like using a little of both so the coconut taste isn’t quite as strong. My kids don't like the coconut oil taste at all, so they asked me to use only butter.
- 3/4 cup organic cocoa powder
- 1 teaspoon sea salt
- 1 teaspoon organic vanilla
- 3/4 cup real maple syrup
- 3/4 cup palm or coconut sugar
- Optional: add some real cream to make a larger amount and a more creamy dreamy sauce
Instructions
- Stir over low-medium heat until the sugar dissolves and it begins to thicken a little. You can transfer to a fondue pot (like this one) if you like it warm, or just serve in a dipping bowl and it maintains a nice dipping consistency even as it cools.
Be creative with your dippers! Here are some of our favorites:
- Organic oranges are good, or even better, get some organic mandarin oranges in season if you can find them, they are SO good as dippers.
- Pineapple chunks
- Strawberries or raspberries
- Banana slices
- Apple wedges
- Pieces of cookies or brownies, or cookie dough
- Peanut butter balls (made ahead and very cold so they don't fall apart in the chocolate)
- Pieces of cheesecake or pound cake
- Marshmallows (like these from the store that have not too bad ingredients or try homemade marshmallows if you're feeling adventurous.)
- Try kettle corn dipped into the yummy chocolate. Regular popcorn is good, too!
- Do you have more good ideas for good fondue dippers?
More you might like:
- Find more dessert recipe ideas made with real food ingredients here.
- Or maybe you need some appetizer ideas for your next get-together?
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Commenter via Facebook says
Wonderful. It was our second time making it…when we visited family for my son’s 3rd birthday we forgot to bring the cake with us. Armed with your recipe which I just happened to have saved on my iPod, we had an impromptu fondue party! Put a few sprinkles on top and my son loved it 🙂
Commenter via Facebook says
How was it?
Millie@Real Food for Less Money says
Fondue!! Yum.
That sounds like a perfect Family night treat.
Wardeh @ GNOWFGLINS says
Okay, I have got to try this! If it is chocolate, I’m in! Actually, I do this similarly but use coconut butter instead of oil – it is Heavenly. Thanks for sharing this in the Twister this week, Kelly!
Elizabeth from The Nourished Life says
Yep, you are officially my new best friend. 🙂 The recipe is just… well, “delish” is the word that comes to mind. I used mostly coconut oil and a little cream, and it turned out so well. I used apples for dipping since that’s what I have on hand (and it was surprisingly good, too), but I can’t wait to try it with some of your other suggestions – especially the popcorn! I can see this becoming a mainstay for when my sweet tooth strikes.
KitchenKop says
You’ll be loving me in a few minutes…………oh wait, that was this afternoon when you wrote that. So you’re loving me now, then! 🙂
Elizabeth from The Nourished Life says
Kelly, you are so unfair for making me crave chocolate right now. 😉 That sauce looks wonderful – and so easy to make! I have most of the ingredients on hand right now… I’m going to sneak off to the kitchen to make some. *grin*