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.
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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.
Hélène says
Just wanted to share that I made these about a year ago and had some left over that didn’t fit into my popsicle molds so I put the extra in the refrigerator. The next day, I took a spoonful and it was the most divine chocolate mousse I ever had!!! Btw, I don’t care for Stevia so substituted by adding two extra dates. I now also throw in a dash of scotch or rum instead of vanilla and all I can say is WoW! Best most decadent yet healthy dessert EVER! So easy. Thank you for your great recipes, I enjoy all of them and have bought most of your cookbooks. You rock. :)
Elana says
Thanks so much Helene!
Dawna Barber says
So what can I substitute for the Stevia? We are allergic to it, but I love the rest!
Elana says
Hi Dawna, I haven’t tried making this recipe without stevia so not sure. If you do experiment, please let us know how it goes.
Beverly says
Willbe making these they look delicious. I saw your home and gardens it is beautiful. May you enjoy always be healthy.
Elana says
Thanks Beverly!
KarlaW says
Has anyone tried making these with carob powder or carob chips? I sadly cannot have chocolate but I so miss fudgsicles! I will let you know if I try the subsitution.
barbara says
where do you purchase the bakers chocolate? what brand ?
Elana Amsterdam says
Barbara,
If you click on the green text in the ingredients portion of the recipe you will be taken to specific info on each item I use :-)
Cee says
What purpose does the date serve? Is there a substitution for it?
Elana says
Cee, it sweetens the recipe. I haven’t tried any substitutions for it so not sure.
Nicky says
Your recipe was great, Elana. I followed it to a T and then added 2 very ripe bananas to my Blendtec. They were creamy and DELISH!! I also followed the recipe and then added 1 TBSP of peanut butter for added creaminess. It’s a bit more fattening, but boy, were they a hit with my 3 year old niece.
Elana says
Nicky, thanks for letting us know this was great!
Paige says
Hi Elana, thank you for the recipe! Any reason why you suggest to wait 30 minutes before inserting the popsicle sticks? Thanks!
Elana says
Paige, so they don’t slip to the bottom of the popsicles.
Nina says
Amazing recipe — one to try this summer! :) I’d probably omit the vanilla powder and stevia and add vanilla-flavoured whey instead, simply because I have it at hand at all times.
Angela says
I used the soup setting on my Blendtec, so that it would warm up a bit, and melt the chocolate.