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Dark Chocolate Coconut Cream Cups

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These creamy, rich, and chocolatey Coconut Cream Cups are the ultimate decandent (and secretly healthy!!) treat. Pop one of these into your mouth and the rich chocolate melts away to reveal silky, smooth, snowy, and sweet coconut cream. They are easy-peasy to make, and be sure to make extra, for they won't last long!

These creamy, rich, and chocolatey Coconut Cream Cups are the ultimate decandent (and secretly healthy!!) treat. Pop one of these into your mouth and the rich chocolate melts away to reveal silky, smooth, snowy, and sweet coconut cream. They are easy-peasy to make, and be sure to make extra, for they won’t last long!

These creamy, rich, and chocolatey Coconut Cream Cups are the ultimate decandent (and secretly healthy!!) treat. Pop one of these into your mouth and the rich chocolate melts away to reveal silky, smooth, snowy, and sweet coconut cream. They are easy-peasy to make, and be sure to make extra, for they won't last long!

Oh, chocolate. My true love.

Ode to chocolate:

Creamy, smooth and sweet.

Your rich flavor makes my heart skip a beat.

Sends tingles down from my head to my feet.

You make it so hard not to eat!

These creamy, rich, and chocolatey Coconut Cream Cups are the ultimate decandent (and secretly healthy!!) treat. Pop one of these into your mouth and the rich chocolate melts away to reveal silky, smooth, snowy, and sweet coconut cream. They are easy-peasy to make, and be sure to make extra, for they won't last long!

I mean, what is it about chocolate that makes it SO GOOD, and SO ADDICTIVE!? Really!? It really should come with a warning label that reads something like this: “If you are eating this for the first time, be warned, that you may never be the same again and find yourself craving chocolate for the rest of your life.” lol.

Cricket and I love to make healthy treats, so we can indulge in the good stuff, without all the guilt. Although Cricket can’t eat chocolate, because she is a dog, I always make her some thing special when I’m making a treat for myself. So today I made her some bacon jerky while I made these easy chocolate coconut cups all for myself! Oooh- maybe I should have made chocolate covered bacon cups?? Maybe next time….

So many flavors go great with chocolate. The best ones I can think of are peanut butter, almond butter (see my Chocolate Almond Butter Cups), and coconut! I always loved Mounds candy bars when I was a little girl, and now I can recreate that amazing flavor combination without having to leave my kitchen. Even better, the ingredients used to make THESE Coconut Cream Cups are healthy, all-natural, and good for you! Hip-hip Hoorah!

Chocolate Coconut Cream Cups

These creamy, rich, and chocolatey Coconut Cream Cups are the ultimate decandent (and secretly healthy!!) treat. Pop one of these into your mouth and the rich chocolate melts away to reveal silky, smooth, snowy, and sweet coconut cream. They are easy-peasy to make, and be sure to make extra, for they won’t last long!

  • 1 1/4 cups dark chocolate chips (I used Enjoy Life brand
  • 2 tablespoons coconut oil
  • 1/2 cup shredded coconut
  • 1 tablespoon maple syrup
  • 1/4 cup coconut butter
  1. Melt the chocolate chips plus 1 tablespoon of coconut oil in a saucepan over low heat.
  2. Grease the mini muffin tin with a little bit of coconut oil.
  3. Pour a teaspoon of melted chocolate into each compartment. Chill in the fridge or freezer for 10 minutes.
  4. Melt the coconut butter, maple syrup, and 1 tablespoon coconut oil in a saucepan over low heat.
  5. Once melted mix in the shredded coconut, and remove from heat.
  6. Spoon a heaping teaspoon of coconut cream mixture into each compartment (on top of the chilled chocolate layer).
  7. Spoon the remaining chocolate on top of the coconut cream layer and chill in the fridge until set, about 1/2 hour in the fridge or 10-15 minutes in the freezer.
  8. Carefully pop the cups out of the tray using a fork or butter knife.

These creamy, rich, and chocolatey Coconut Cream Cups are the ultimate decandent (and secretly healthy!!) treat. Pop one of these into your mouth and the rich chocolate melts away to reveal silky, smooth, snowy, and sweet coconut cream. They are easy-peasy to make, and be sure to make extra, for they won't last long!

Cookies n’ Cream Stuffed Brookie {Gluten-Free,Vegan, Grain-Free/Paleo Option}

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GOOEY, CHOCOLATEY, RICH, DECADENT- These Cookies n’ Cream Stuffed Brookies are a combination of fudgey brownie, chocolate chip cookie, and have a cookies n’ cream center. They are heavenly! And secretly HEALTHY! They are GLUTEN FREE, and VEGAN! You will drop to the floor when you try these 🙂

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Good luck stopping at just one…..

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I love to use my cupcake/muffin tin for many recipes. I adore having things come in personally-sized packages 🙂 You can use liners if you wish or just oil the cupcake pan and once (COMPLETELY) cooled these babies come right out and you can see the contrasting layers.

Who LOVES CHOCOLATE??? I do! I am a choc-o-holic for sure! I eat Nutella out of the jar, melt chocolate chips in the microwave (sometimes with a few marshmallows), and pour chocolate sauce all over anything that resembles dessert! When I’m feeling like I need my chocolate fix- a dense fudgey kind of chocolate fix, I turn to these, and now you can TOO! 🙂

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Cookies n’ Cream Stuffed Brookie {Gluten-Free, Vegan, Grain-Free/Paleo Option}

A healthy and flourless Bookie- brownie-chocolate chip cookie with a cookies n’ cream center, gluten free and vegan! Sinfully decadent, fudgey, gooey and chocolatey!

  • Brownie Layer Ingredients:
  • 1/2 cup coconut sugar
  • 1/2 cup applesauce
  • ⅔ 1/2 cup all-natural almond butter or peanut butter
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • 1.5 tablespoons of flax meal plus 2 tablespoons of water (combined)
  • 1 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
  • 1/4 teaspoon salt
  • 1/4 cup oat flour (grind old fashioned oats in blender until powdered, sub almond flour for paleo/grain-free)
  • 1/4 cup cocoa powder
  • 1/3 cup chocolate chips (optional)
  • Cookie Layer Ingredients:
  • 3/4 cup oat flour
  • 1/4 teaspoon salt
  • 1/4 teaspoon baking powder
  • 1/4 teaspoon baking soda
  • 3/4 teaspoon of ground flax plus 1 tablespoon of water (combine)
  • 2 tablespoons of almond butter (or peanut butter)
  • 3 tablespoon of softened coconut oil
  • 3 tablespoons coconut sugar
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • 2 tablespoon of applesauce
  • 1/3 cup chocolate chips
  • 10-12 gluten free chocolate sandwich cookies (such as Trader Joes' GF Joe Joe's, OMIT FOR PALEO)
  • Optional Topping: 1 cup TruWhip whipped with 2 tablespoons Nutella or other chocolate spread or sub coconut whip cream for paleo (like CoolWhip, or use whipped coconut creme in place of TruWhip)
  1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F
  2. In a medium bowl combine all brownie ingredients and mix thoroughly.
  3. In another medium bowl combine all cookie ingredients and mix thoroughly.
  4. Grease of cupcake tin with coconut oil (or line with liners)
  5. Scoop 1 heaping tablespoon of brownie batter each cupcake compartment.
  6. Add gluten free chocolate sandwich cookie on top of brownie layer.
  7. Add a 1 tablespoon of cookie dough on top of the oreo.
  8. Bake at 350 degrees F for 15-20 minutes or until slightly golden on top. (You may have to adjust the time based on your size of muffin tin compartments.) I did 8 min on bottom rack, 8 min on middle rack.
  9. Note: The brownie layer is fudgey and dense, if you would like it more “done” cook on a lower rack for a longer amount of time.