These lightly sweetened dairy-free Fudgsicles were a major hit with my chocolate loving teenage sons, and I still make them for my husband.
Fudgsicle Recipe
I love homemade Fudgsicles because, with just 5 ingredients, they’re super easy to make and purely sweetened.
This low-carb popsicle recipe is sweetened with only one date for the entire batch. It’s super rich and creamy, and of course, everything tastes better from scratch!
How to Make: Fudge Pops
To make this simple, healthy Fudsicle recipe, all you need to do is blend up the healthy ingredients below, pop ’em into molds, and freeze.
I hope you love this fan favorite recipe as much as we do!
Fudgsicles
Ingredients
- 1 13.5 ounce can full fat coconut milk,
- 2 ounces 100% dark chocolate, baker’s chocolate
- 1 date (remove pit)
- ¼ teaspoon vanilla powder
- ¼ teaspoon vanilla stevia
Instructions
- In a vitamix blend coconut milk and chocolate until smooth
- Blend in date, vanilla powder, and stevia
- Pour into popsicle molds and freeze for 30 minutes, set timer
- Place popsicle sticks into semi-frozen popsicles
- Freeze for 2 hours
- Serve
Equipment
Nutritious Fudgsicles
I have a couple of new and more unusual ingredients in this dairy-free Fudgsicle recipe –vanilla powder and 100% chocolate. Vanilla powder is a fantastic ingredient.
Pure Vanilla
I buy pure vanilla powder and avoid the type that has added sugar or corn starch. Vanilla powder is simply pure vanilla bean that’s excavated from the pod –it’s amazingly fragrant!
Keto Popsicles
The chocolate I use in the recipe above is basically a bar of unsweetened baking chocolate. I use this in order to control the amount of sugar (of any sort, natural or otherwise) that I’m consuming.
Candida Diet
Before there was keto there was the candida diet.
The boys and I followed the candida diet when they were little. We really needed to be on it as one of the boys, and I had pretty bad candida overgrowth in our systems.
Family Friendly Candida Diet Recipes
That was almost two decades ago. Now we’re all healthy enough to eat anything we want –well, not gluten or grains. Those are big no no’s for me as I cannot digest them, and so don’t even indulge occasionally.
For those of you who cannot enjoy these Fudgsicles, here are some of my family friendly candida recipes for dessert:
Fudgy
For those with fewer dietary restrictions, my homemade super fudgy Fudgsicles really hit the spot all year long.
Chocolate Popsicle
This rich, fudgy frozen treat also has a bit of stevia in it, which you can likely omit entirely or replace with some other sweetener of your choice.
Dairy-Free Desserts
Here are some of my other dairy free desserts!
Do you prefer a chocolate or fruity creamsicle?
This Fudgsicle recipe is an oldie but goodie from the archives. I first shared it in 2014.
Phyllis says
Also, can a food processor be used in lieu of the vitamix? Also, what substitute can one use in place of the vanilla powder – the bean itself and if so, how many beans?
Cynthia Ward says
I would think if you grated the chocolate, or chopped in a food processor along with the date, then mixed, it would work…. Just a thought. I would add the liquid last, reverse order from the VM.
Susan says
Yum – how about adding a few drops of high quality edible peppermint extract so they would be chocolate mint fudgesicles?
Mr Bear says
yes this will work and would taste very good, I would just caution that if you are using a plastic popsicle mold you will end up dedicating that mold to always making something with a mint flavor because the mint extracts will stain the mold.
Marie says
What brand of baker’s chocolate do you suggest?
Elana says
Marie, if you click on the green text in the ingredients portion of the recipe you will be given exact info on the items I use.
Lana says
oh no..looks a new addiction for me
Debbie says
Do you girls think it would work if I used raw cocoa instead of chocolate as I dont buy processed p.kt food
Kate Eliza says
Yes I’m interested as well as I would like to
use raw cacao powder!!!!
Minnie@thelady8home says
Even I would like to try the same, not sure if it would work.
Noel says
Will be curious to hear if anyone uses vanilla extract rather than powder since I already have that.
Mr Bear says
yes, you can use extract.
Beth T says
Due tou little guy’s food allergies, I’d love to try it with a dairy free chocolate substitue. If I remember right, I think bakers chocolate has milk in it. Any suggestions? Thanks for your site!
Noel says
No milk in baker’s chocolate and no sweetener — just chocolate.
Nancy says
100% Pascha Chocolate Unsweetened is lovely.
Theresa says
So excited to hear about how yummy the vanilla powder is, I’ve always wondered why use a powder instead of extract, but it sounds even better than extract. It is out now at Amazon, but Lucky Vitamin has it http://www.luckyvitamin.com/p-572540-ojio-ground-vanilla-raw-natural-2-oz
sue says
any grocery store, whole foods, fresh market, trader joes all sell the Vanilla powder, it’s not really a new thing. No need to spend money on shipping – even our local grocery stores carry it. It’s really a nice change instead of real vanilla – which I also use alot.
Kerligirl says
Frontier also has it if you can get it wholesale, like through a co op.
beckles23 says
This looks gorgeous!
Anne says
Hi Elana- This recipe looks great! Question, is the chocolate melted before putting it in with the coconut milk? Or simply chopped? I bought vanilla powder a few months ago but I stopped using it within a week of buying it because of the maltodextrin. Thanks for providing the link to the real thing.
MaryBeth says
Hi. My thought is that, because the chocolate is being put into the Vitamix, you would not have to melt it. The Vitamix will pulverize it.
I can’t wait to try this recipe! Thanks, Elana!