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.
Emily @ Tips on Healthy Living says
Looks so great! These used to be my favorites. I appreciate the new recipe…thank you!
Michelle @ Vitamin Sunshine says
Those look wonderful! I’ve been using dates to sweeten things lately, too. I am severely intolerant to Stevia though- it’s much worse than my lactose intolerance. I’ve never heard of anyone else who is! I will try these with just a date or two more added- I find coconut milk tends to sweeten things on it’s own. Really excited to see your lower sugar recipes– I like to use as little as possible in my recipes too.
Karen says
Michele…I react to Stevia also. Tried the liquid stevia and felt as if my throat was swelling! Then I read that stevia is a relative of ragweed…and I am very allergic to ragweed. I use erythritol as a sweetener now.
Libby says
I am also highly sensitive to Stevia also. I thought it was how it was processed, but then I tried eating a leaf of stevia right out of the garden and got the runs within an hour…
Yolie says
I’m allergic to coconut. What other substitute do you suggest? Thank you.
Emily says
I bet any homemade non-dairy milk, such as cashew or almond milk would work!
William says
Awesome, I have got to try this! Thanks a lot, Elana!
Elisabeth Silva says
I just made these with a Zoku qick pop maker. They are wonderful – even my anti-health food teenager loved them! I used semi-sweet baking chocolate because it was all I had on hand. So I omitted the stevia. I used Watson`s vanilla extract instead of vanilla powder. I know that is a lot of substitutions, but they are great! Thank you, Elana. You are a such a blessing as well as an inspiration!
Deb says
I only use cacao powder.mmhow would you substitute for bakers chocolate?
Holly says
Deb, my can of cocoa powder says to use 3 level TBSP cocoa powder plus 1 TBSP fat (oil butter or palm shortening should all work) –for each 1oz of baking chocolate. This is what I plan on using:)
Holly says
If you make these with this substitution, will you please come back and let us all know how it turns out? Thanks!
Karen Taylor says
Elana, could you post on how to make this WITHOUT a vitamix? Lots of us don’t have one…greatly appreciated, Thank you!
Elana says
Karen, I haven’t tried that so not sure :-)
Judith says
I’m going to try grinding up some vanilla seeds and making this with coconut cream, too (probably too rich, but I’m going to try it.)
Thanks for posting again, Elana! I’m sorry it’s been so tough lately but I’m delighted you’re posting again and I love these very low sweetener recipes – they work well for me.
Chris Smith says
So you have a link for where to order the molds for the fudgesicles?
Bonnie Woods says
I would love to find fudgesicle molds as well.
Elana says
If you click on the green words “popsicle mold” in the instruction portion of the recipe you will be provided with info on the exact item I use :-)
Mr Bear says
I found my mold at whole food’s. bpa free plastic and you dont have to use the throw away wooden sticks. there are 4 molds with 8 sticks so I can eat one or split in half and share. this recipe is so rich and satisfying that I rarely will eat a whole one because 1/2 of one is so satisfying.
Michele says
At the end of the prep I would add fresh raspberries or strawberries for a little fruit. Or, I would add some cocoa nibs for a little crunch…serious yum. Might add unsweetened coconut for fun one time as well.