Homemade fudge cups energize, curb your appetite, boost your brain, and protein intake and they are only three ingredients and gluten free, vegan, and refined sugar free.
Healthy Homemade Fudge Cups
Homemade fudge is super easy to make. These cups are filled with a fudge filling that is merely three ingredients.
What Does This Homemade Fudge Taste Like?
This creamy fun fudge center tastes smooth and nutty like the inside of a Reese's cup.
How to Make Fudge High in Protein
Homemade fudge in general is made with heavy dairy cream. But I want my fudge filling to be vegan and dairy-free so I chose to use sunflower seed butter. And I chose Sunbutter brand, and their new flavor, chocolate! Oh my.
Why Use Sunflower Seed Butter in Fudge
I want my fudge to make people feel great after eating it, not have a sugar crash. So I use sunflower seed butter, packed with protein, fiber, zinc, folate and vitamin B6, and vitamin E. Sunflower seeds are also loaded with B complex vitamins, essential for the healthy nervous system, and also supply iron, phosphorus, and zinc.
The USA brand SunButter is my favorite sunflower seed brand. Their version is free of the top 8 allergens, namely peanuts, tree nuts, milk, eggs, fish, shellfish, wheat, and soybeans.
And this year, as I mentioned, they came out with a chocolate flavor. This chocolate flavor has 6gms of protein per 2 tbsp, and 3gms of fiber. Plus it tastes awesome - kind of like peanut butter meets Nutella, only healthy!
What Are The Ingredients for Homemade Fudge Cups?
The homemade fudge filling contains:
- Medjool date syrup or dates
- Chocolate sunbutter
- Almond flour (or oat flour)
The chocolate shell contains:
- Chocolate chips
- Chocolate sunbutter
- Coconut oil
- Flaky sea salt
How To Make Homemade Fudge Cups
Step 1: Add three ingredients to a bowl and mix it up using a spoon or hand-mixer. You are trying to achieve a wet batter.
Step 2: Press this batter flat and cut out 2-inch circles or just form 2-inch circles with your hands.
Step 3: Freeze circles and melt chocolate shell ingredients in a microwave for 1 minute.
Step 4: Spoon the shell into the cups and press in a disc. Cover the top with chocolate and freeze 10 minutes.
How Do Fudge Cups Taste?
- like a reese's cup only healthy
- super easy to make
- 3 ingredients
- high in protein and fiber
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Healthy Homemade Fudge Cups
Ingredients
Homemade fudge filling
- 3 tbsp medjool date syrup or 4 dates
- ½ cup chocolate sunbutter
- ½ cup almond flour (Or use oat flour to keep the treat nut-free)
Chocolate shell
- 2 cups chocolate chips
- 3 tbsp chocolate sunbutter
- 3 tsp coconut oil
- Flaky sea salt
Instructions
Homemade fudge filling
- Line a cupcake pan with paper liners.
- Add the three ingredients to a bowl, and use a hand-mixer to mix up dough. If you use dates instead of date syrup, use a food processor or high speed blender. Also be sure to soak the dates for a few minutes in boiling water, and remove the pit.If the dough is too sticky to roll out or form, add ¼ cup more almond flour and stir and knead again.
- Roll out the dough and cut 12 2-inch discs, or finger-form the discs. Set them in the freezer while you make the chocolate shell.
Chocolate shell
- Melt the ingredients in a pyrex-measuring cup in the microwave at 1 minute, and then 15 seconds more if need be.
- Dollop 1 tbsp of melted chocolate into each cupcake liner.
- Press a disc into the melted chocolate until a rim of chocolate spills over the edges of the disc.
- Spoon ½ tbsp of chocolate on the top of each disc and spread it with the back of a spoon to be sure each disc is fulling covered.
- Refrigerate for one hour or freeze for 10 minutes.
- Sprinkle with salt and enjoy.
Storage
- The cups last two weeks refrigerated in a sealed container and up to three months frozen.
Nutrition
This post is sponsored by Sunbutter. My opinions are my own.
Dee Dine is founder of Green Smoothie Gourmet, a plant based recipe blog, and author of the recent cookbook, Crazy Healthy with 4 Ingredients and another immunity-boosting smoothie shot book, 4-Ingredient Smoothies + Juices , due out in January 2021. On this blog you'll find incredibly easy recipes with hidden veggies for anyone wanting to eat healthier, regardless of diet. Dee has graduate degrees in sciences and journalism, editor at The Feedfeed and a nutritional expert at WikiHow. More about Dee Dine here.
Frank
OMG !! I made the filling and ate it with a spoon. Can I use any chocolate for the coating?