How to Make Chocolate with Cocoa Powder (3 ingredients)
How to make chocolate with cocoa powder in ten minutes with 3 ingredients. Customize this inexpensive homemade chocolate recipe with toppings. Make your own vegan milk chocolate or healthy dark chocolate bars for snacks or gift-giving.
Gather ingredients. Be sure everything is room temperature.
¼ cup cacao butter (40g), ¼ cup cocoa powder (25g), 1 ½ tablespoon pure maple syrup (30g)
Put the cacao butter in a heat-safe pyrex measuring cup and put that in a pot of simmering water (this is a double boiler). Chop the cacao butter if it is in large chunks.
¼ cup cacao butter (40g)
Stir the cacao butter until melted, about 2 minutes.
Add in cocoa powder, maple syrup, vanilla and salt, and stir until you achieve a smooth texture.
¼ cup cocoa powder (25g), 1 ½ tablespoon pure maple syrup (30g)
Taste-test and add more maple syrup if you need it sweeter.
½ teaspoon vanilla extract, 1 pinch salt
Pour the liquid chocolate mixture into dry chocolate bar molds.
Add toppings if using to the mold before pouring or on the top of the freshly poured chocolate in the mold.
Allow the poured chocolate to reach room temperature before chilling, about 15 minutes.
Then set the mold uncovered in the refrigerator for 1 hour or in the freezer for 30 minutes.
Remove your homemade chocolate bar (s) from the mold, cover in gold foil or candy foil papers.
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Notes
Cacao butter gives chocolate the flavor of chocolate, but you can also use the same amount of coconut oil.Make sure all equipment is dry so chocolate doesn't seize or crumble. If this happens, add 1 teaspoon of coconut oil and keep stirring it in a pyrex cup in boiling water until all melts again.To make milk chocolate, add 2 tablespoons of milk powder to the mixture while it is heating. You can use any milk powder for the recipe to work, but to keep it dairy free or vegan you'll need a plant-based milk powder such as this oat milk powder, or coconut or rice.