This vegan white chocolate melts in the mouth with a creamy white chocolate flavor, yet it is made with only three ingredients, and can be colored easily. I made mine a beautiful pink, perfect for gifts.

Vegan white chocolate made with three ingredients. White chocolate doesn't get the attention dark chocolate does, right? One reason, the traditional version is not healthy like dark chocolate. This recipe is and it's just such an easy recipe to customize. I added beets to mine but think any color. For traditional chocolate fudge, try my 2-ingredient recipes here and my butternut squash fudge here.

Table of Contents

Why You'll Love This
Ingredients You'll Need
Steps to Make
Recipe Tips
Troubleshooting
How to Color White Chocolate Pink
Other Valentine Desserts
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Why You'll Love This

The difference between vegan white chocolate and commercial white chocolate, like Hershey's, is in the processing and ingredients. My recipe has only three ingredients, and nothing processed. It's also vegan and dairy-free and gluten-free.

Generally commercial white chocolate is full of milk fat and solids. That's because USA laws require anything named white chocolate to contain 3.5 % milk fat and 14% milk solids. I assume those laws were established to prevent artificial ingredients from taking up the entire product. However, it leaves out those who want to ditch dairy, doesn't it?

Ingredients You'll Need

There are only 3 ingredients needed to make white vegan white chocolate, and 4 ingredients to make it pink.

1. Cacao butter: This is the first and most important ingredient, the one that makes this a white chocolate recipe. Cacao butter is yellow and sold in chunks or chips. It smells like chocolate.

2. Coconut butter: Just blend a bag of shredded coconut to make it. See more below or here is my how to make coconut butter recipe.

3. Powdered sugar or maple syrup: You won't need much because coconut butter is naturally sweet.

4. Beets: Pre-cooked or steamed beets are a wonderful way to color vegan white chocolate pink.

Steps to Make

Step 1: Make coconut butter. See this post or follow the steps in the recipe card below.

Step 2. Melt your coconut butter and cacao butter together in a glass pyrex measuring cup sitting in boiling water. This is my version of a double-boiler. Of course, if you own a true double boiler, use that! You don't want to go microwaving coconut butter or cacao butter, both will burn.

Step 3: Taste test for sweetness. Use sugar or maple syrup. The syrup will darken the color. Since coconut butter is naturally sweet, you won't need much.

Step 4: Fill molds or a parchment-lined 8x4-inch loaf pan and break up chunks. That's how I made my first version (see picture below). But silicon molds are more fun because this mixture holds shape beautifully.

Recipe Tips

Making coconut butter. The structure of this recipe is coconut butter. You can buy coconut butter, but it's best to make it fresh. I have a detailed blog post here on How to Make Coconut Butter that you can check out. I even explain how to make chocolate coconut butter in that post.

About cacao butter. Another important element of this recipe is cacao butter. Cacao butter is also called cocoa butter, and you may be familiar with it as an ingredient in bath products. But it's actually an edible fat extracted from the cocoa bean. It's naturally dairy-free and gluten-free.

Cacao butter is found in the superfood area of a market or online, and typically comes in packages, and appears as crushed, yellow solid chips. It smells wonderful, like chocolate! I may or may not occasionally step into my pantry to smell inside my cacao butter package lol.

Cacao butter is not cocoa, and it's not cacao powder, and it's not brown. Yet cacao butter not only adds a rich chocolate flavor (I know, it's weird that it's yellow), but also adds a strong healthy element to your white chocolate.

That's because cacao butter retains its antioxidants, and essential fatty acids, which boost immunity and have anti-inflammatory effects, and nutrients that boost brain power and your heart.

Troubleshooting

With all the liquids or frozen veggies, you might see that the mixture grains up a bit once you add it. That's because those options have a bit of water and water causes cacao butter and chocolate to seize. But you don't have to worry. Either warm it up again in a double boiler, or just press it into the mold. Once hardened, the grain softens and looks quite smooth.

How to Color White Chocolate Pink

Uncolored vegan white chocolate is still pretty, but if you want to color it, I have your back! In fact, I have three possible awesome options to turn this treat pink naturally.

1. Goji berries - Use dried berries found where dried fruits are sold, or use goji berry powder.

2. Beets - Use steamed or pre-cooked beets, or beet powder. For the pink hearts here I used precooked beets found in the produce section of my grocery store.

3. Pitayas (dragon fruit) - Frozen pink pitaya meat is in the frozen section of some grocery stores. Or use a dragon fruit powder found where supplements are sold.

Other Valentine Desserts

Marzipan Hearts
Homemade Chocolates in a Box
Lemon Cupcakes
Hazelnut Truffles

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