This dairy-free Chocolate Pots de Creme recipe is easy to make with only 5 ingredients –dark chocolate, coconut milk, egg yolk, stevia, and salt, and is so creamy it melts in your mouth. So even though the name “pot de creme” is quite fancy, don’t be intimidated by this recipe!
My husband inhaled these and the boys enjoyed them too, in spite of their aversion to dark chocolate. I like this Paleo dessert because it relies on stevia as its primary sweetener and does not have any added honey. It can also work well for those on a keto diet if made with dark chocolate that is 80% cacao or more. Serve this dairy-free dessert after dinner or at the end of a family brunch.
Chocolate Pots de Creme
Ingredients
- 1 (13.5 ounce) can full fat coconut milk
- 2 egg yolks
- ¼ teaspoon vanilla stevia
- pinch celtic sea salt
- 4 ounces chocolate chips
Instructions
- Place coconut milk in a medium saucepan
- Stir in egg yolks, stevia, and salt
- Heat over medium-heat 5-10 minutes, stirring constantly
- Remove saucepan from heat
- Transfer mixture to vitamix, and add chocolate
- Blend on high for 30 seconds
- Transfer scant ½ cup of mixture into 6 half-cup ramekins
- Refrigerate overnight or for 8 hours
- Serve
This recipe for dairy-free Chocolate Pots de Creme is based on an award winning recipe by one of my favorite bloggers, Michelle of Nom Nom Paleo. Michelle is an amazing person and chef, and both she and her recipes are beloved and admired in the Paleo community.
Here are some of my other favorite healthy chocolate dessert recipes:
Like this Chocolate Pots de Creme recipe, they’re all super easy to make and incredibly delicious!
Sarah says
This recipe was posted just days before my husband was musing that he would really like a chocolate cream pie for his birthday – perfect timing. Even though I did realize that Elana’s GF Almond Flour cookbook has a chocolate cream pie recipe, I decided to use this instead – and we were able to make an entirely paleo pie! The pot de creme recipe worked great as filling. (We topped it with coconut “whipped cream” and for the crust used a slightly modified version of the almond flour crust from Elana’s cookbook.)
Even my husband said he never would have guessed it wasn’t the “real thing”!
Michelle says
Sarah, I would love to do this as a pie as well, did you use the same amount of ingredients or did you double for the pie. Thanks,
Also, wondering if I only have plain stevia on hand could I add vanilla extract to it to make up for not having the vanilla stevia
Brenda D. Gaines says
I bought a waffle iron and I was wondering if I could use your pancake recipe in it,
or do I have to add something??
kickasanatakenames says
Usually more liquid, so milk or whatever your milk substitute is.
Brenda D. Gaines says
I got your new book, I use your Almond Flour Cookbook all the time. I will check out the Benefit Life store, thanks for all you do.
Jacqui says
This recipe looks delicious and easy! I initially thought it was a baked custard and was happy to see it’s almost more like an upscale cooked pudding. I’ll try this out for dessert this week!
Ester Perez says
I love this recipe! Sugar free, dairy free and simple! Very nice! I will try making this. I really like the vanilla stevia by sweet leaf too. I use it in a lot of my desserts at home. Thanks!
Ester
Nancy Bennett says
Sounds and looks delicious. By the way great picture of you
Kristen@ changeofpaceforme.com says
Elana I love how simple your recipes are! :)
AnneKD says
Well, I guess this is as good a time as any to go looking for soy-free chocolate. I just found out I have soy intolerance.
Sarah says
Anne,
If you haven’t already found it, the Enjoy Life brand makes allergy-friendly chocolate – in chip form, and also a bar with rice crisps (and probably plain chocolate as well) – I believe they use sunflower lecithin instead of soy. The best part is that they’re pretty widely available in health food stores, or even in the natural foods sections of a lot of box grocery stores. Good luck!
Danette Halloran says
Enjoy Life products are the best. We have a Casein food allergy in our family. Enjoy Life chocolate has worked in every recipe I have ever tried. Can’t wait to try it with this one!
Molly says
You should try Middlebury Chocolates. They are soy, dairy, and gluten free and absolutely delicious. Their website is middleburychocolates.com. I order from them all the time! Their bars are literally cocoa beans, cocoa butter, and sugar.
kickasanatakenames says
Literally? What? That makes no sense.
The Enjoy Life ones are good and you can find them almost anywhere. Heck, I found them in a Hannaford’s. They are also reasonably priced.
Hannah says
This sounds heavenly! I’ll serve it with fresh locally picked strawberries. Thanks for another stevia dessert recipe.
Meagan says
Breakfast is served! HAHA.