Homemade Keto Chocolate Bars
By Carine Claudepierre
Published on 06/11/2020 - Last updated on 11/06/2022
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Learn how to make your own keto chocolate bars at home.
It’s cheaper than store-bought sugar-free chocolate, with no additives, and perfect for a snack with only 0.8 grams of net carbs per 4 squares!
Plus, this diabetic-friendly chocolate recipe is dairy-free, vegan, and gluten-free!
Are Chocolate Bars Keto?
Very few of the chocolate bars you can find in stores are keto-friendly.
Most commercial chocolate bars are sweetened with sugar unless they are very high in cocoa which also makes them bitter.
Why You’ll Love This Recipe
This recipe is a must-have because it’s both simple to make and can be used for everything.
You can also enjoy the sugar-free chocolate bars as-is. But this staple recipe is also:
- Gluten-Free
- Dairy-Free
- Nut-Free
- Vegetarian
- Vegan
- Low-Carb
- Keto-Friendly
- 5 Ingredients
- Ready In 20 Minutes
How To Make This Homemade Keto Chocolate Bar Recipe
It’s probably the easiest mind-blowing keto snack recipe ever!
Honestly, you won’t believe how simple it is to make your own sugar-free dark chocolate at home.
Ingredients
All you need are 5 ingredients:
- Cocoa Butter – this is not a chocolate recipe that uses coconut oil. Here I am sharing a true keto chocolate recipe that tastes like the real thing. The key to achieving the smooth chocolate texture of store-bought chocolate bars is to use pure cocoa fat: cocoa butter.
- Cocoa Powder – it’s essential to use unsweetened cocoa powder because some manufacturers add sugar.
- Stevia Drops – chocolate-flavored stevia drops are the best to enhance the chocolate flavor of your bars. Otherwise, regular stevia drops or vanilla stevia drops are just fine.
- Powdered Erythritol – the combo of sweeteners makes all the difference. Don’t be tempted to skip this and use only stevia drops. The result will be very bitter. The combo of these two sugar-free sweeteners is what creates the best sweetness in your sugar-free chocolate bars.
Stevia vs. erythritol
To make smooth keto chocolate, you must combine sugar-free sweeteners. In fact, if you are using only powdered erythritol, you will need a lot, about 6 tablespoons, to achieve the sweetness of an 80% dark chocolate bar.
The thing is, powdered erythritol itself can add a gritty texture to the chocolate. That’s why a combination of stevia drops and powdered erythritol is the best to reach the balance of sweetness in your chocolate bars.
Making Homemade Chocolate
Add the sweetener first
I recommend you always add the sweetener into the melted cocoa butter before adding unsweetened cocoa butter.
In fact, the melting point of erythritol is 121C, and you need to reach this temperature to dissolve it into the cocoa butter and avoid the gritty texture.
However, if you add cocoa powder before and bring the mixture so high in temperature, the mixture thickens and becomes like a paste that won’t create smooth chocolate.
Silicone Mold
Using a silicone chocolate mold (affiliate link) is the easiest way to unmold homemade chocolate bars without breaking them.
You can use any shape, even silicone muffin molds on which you cover the bottom half centimeter.
Storage Instructions
As mentioned above, this recipe uses cocoa butter as fat which means it doesn’t melt under 93°F (34°C).
Therefore, you can wrap your chocolate tab in foil and store it in the pantry as store-bought chocolate.
You don’t have to refrigerate your chocolate bars, but you can if you want to increase the crunch of your chocolate.
Chocolate purists think that chocolate flavor is enhanced at room temperature, then it’s up to you to choose the option you prefer.
Frequently Asked Questions
Can I use coconut oil to make this keto chocolate bar?
There are two ways to make homemade chocolate bars. Some recipes call for coconut oil, and some for cocoa butter.
So let me explain why I believe you should always make homemade chocolate with cocoa butter and not coconut oil. Cocoa butter is a type of fat that comes from cocoa beans, like coconut oil.
Cocoa butter is solid at room temperature but melts at 93°F (34°C), close to your body temperature.
It means that chocolate made with cocoa butter will store well in the pantry, stay hard in your hand and crunch but melt immediately when in contact with your tongue!
It results in the most delicious smooth texture. On the opposite, coconut oil melts at 78°F (23°C), which is close to room temperature in spring/summer.
Therefore, coconut oil chocolate bars melt easily in the pantry and in your hands, losing all their crunch when you bite a square. Plus, coconut oil adds a coconut flavor to chocolate that not everyone loves.
More Keto Chocolate Snacks
If you love snacking on easy keto chocolate snacks, I recommend you also try these recipes.
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Keto Chocolate Bar
Ingredients
- 4.5 oz Cocoa Butter
- 1 tablespoon Powdered Erythritol powdered erythritol or allulose
- ½ teaspoon Chocolate-flavored Stevia Drops or vanilla stevia drops
- ¼ teaspoon Salt
- 1.4 oz Unsweetened Cocoa Powder (1/3 cup)
Instructions
- Place 2 chocolate bar silicone molds on a flat board or plate. I recommend placing a piece of parchment paper between the mold and the plate. This prevents the silicone mold from sticking to the plate when you freeze the bar later in the recipe. Set aside.
- In a small saucepan, under medium heat, melt the cocoa butter.
- When fully melted, remove the saucepan from the heat and stir in stevia drops, powdered sweetener (not crystal! you don't want bits in your chocolate), and salt.
- Return to medium heat until cocoa butter slightly boils and reaches 250°F (121°C). It's the temperature at which the erythritol will dissolve and prevents a gritty texture in your chocolate.
- Remove from heat and stir in unsweetened cocoa powder.
- Stir quickly and immediately transfer the liquid into the 2 silicone molds to fill them up to the top. Working quickly prevents the cocoa powder and cocoa butter from separating and creates the most consistent bars.
- Freeze 10 minutes or until the chocolate bars are hard and fully set
- Remove from the freezer, flip over the chocolate mold onto a flat surface and peel off the mold from the bar to release.
- Store the chocolate bars in the fridge in an airtight box or at room temperature. The melting point of cocoa butter is 93°F (34°C), so if your house is not that warm, the chocolate bars won't melt in the pantry.
No silicone mold?
- You can pour the chocolate mixture into a 9-inch x 5-inch loaf pan (halve the recipe first, freeze, release, then repeat as the recipe makes 2 chocolate bars). Make sure you cover the pan with parchment paper, grease the paper with oil spray.
Keto chocolate toppings
- Before freezing the bars, you can add crunchy keto toppings like sliced/chopped almonds, toasted coconut flakes, chopped brazil nuts, pecan, and freeze-dried raspberries.
Notes
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About The Author
Hi, I'm Carine, the food blogger, author, recipe developer, published author of a cookbook, and founder of Sweet As Honey.
I have an Accredited Certificate in Nutrition and Wellness obtained in 2014 from Well College Global (formerly Cadence Health). I'm passionate about sharing all my easy and tasty recipes that are both delicious and healthy. My expertise in the field comes from my background in chemistry and years of following a keto low-carb diet. But I'm also well versed in vegetarian and vegan cooking since my husband is vegan.
I now eat a more balanced diet where I alternate between keto and a Mediterranean Diet
Cooking and Baking is my true passion. In fact, I only share a small portion of my recipes on Sweet As Honey. Most of them are eaten by my husband and my two kids before I have time to take any pictures!
All my recipes are at least triple tested to make sure they work and I take pride in keeping them as accurate as possible.
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Disclaimer
The recipes, instructions, and articles on this website should not be taken or used as medical advice. You must consult with your doctor before starting on a keto or low-carb diet. The nutritional data provided on Sweetashoney is to be used as indicative only.
The nutrition data is calculated using WP Recipe Maker. Net Carbs is calculated by removing the fiber and some sweeteners from the total Carbohydrates. As an example, a recipe with 10 grams of Carbs per 100 grams that contains 3 grams of erythritol and 5 grams of fiber will have a net carbs content of 2 grams. Some sweeteners are excluded because they are not metabolized.
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Can I use this chocolate for baking? Does it melt well, or better than chocolate chips, in something like a chocolate chip cookie?
Not really, this is a chocolate recipe to eat not to bake with.
Can I use allulose as sweetener?
As soon as it’s a powder, not crystal then yes
Can you use liquid allulosefor these chocolate bars???
I don’t recommend a liquid sweetener in this recipe, it won’t set the same
How thick is this once it is ready to set? Is it thick enough to hold up when trying to coat peanuts or blueberries?
No, it’s pretty runny and work better to fill a silicon mold
I tried this and I think it would have turned out better if all the sweetener wouldnt have collected in the bottom of the pan. The first ones I poured did not have any sweetness the dilled row was somewhat sweet and the last row was too sweet. The texture and snap was spot on.
Maybe try a different brand of sweetener, I never experience this issue or use only stevia drops
Instead of using cocoa powder can solid unsweetened chocolate be used?
No sorry it won’t work
Best keto chocolate bar I have tried!! I refrigerated it as I live in a country with warm weather, it’s smooth and crunchy at the same time.
Can’t wait to try this, always a sucker for chocolate! How about trying white chocolate next?! Heard it’s a tough one.
Sure, I will, Enjoy the recipe, XOXO Carine
Yes!
I can eat the whole bar!
I love chocolate!