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?