Commercial chocolate sauces and syrups are often packed with sugar, chemicals, preservatives, and other unhealthy ingredients. This healthy chocolate sauce has a lower sugar content than the others and is packed with minerals and other healthy nutrients.

Using just three ingredients, this healthy chocolate sauce comes together in less than five minutes. It is delicious as a drizzle over pancakes, ice cream, brownies, or as a dip for fruit and cookies and contains no processed sugar. If you’re looking for a chocolate sauce that is both healthy and incredibly easy to make, this is the recipe for you.

This thick, delightfully sweetened chocolate sauce is allergy-friendly, vegan, and delicious. There are no nuts, oil, dairy, or refined sugar in this product. It’s ready in minutes using only 3 ingredients, giving a silky smooth sauce with a delicious, fudgy chocolate taste.

Note: I like to create educational posts by including scientific and technical information before the recipes. You will learn how to plan healthier meals by reading them. If you are in a hurry, you may jump to the recipe!

Healthy Chocolate Sauce Ingredients

The ingredients you need to make this recipe are raw cacao or cocoa powder, maple syrup, and oat milk. Oat milk adds a natural, creamy texture to this vegan chocolate sauce with no additional fat.

Cacao or Cocoa Powder

What is the difference between cacao and cocoa?

Cacao refers to the least processed form of the cacao bean, whereas cocoa refers to the most processed form of the bean.

After harvesting cocoa pods, the processing begins. Cocoa powder is roasted to extremely high temperatures, giving it a sweeter, smoother flavor. This is the standard for most chocolate products. Cacao powder is cooked much more slowly and is still termed raw. It has a bitter flavor while also providing additional nutrients and excellent anti-inflammatory phytonutrients.

Processing the cacao bean alters its health benefits. Although there are health benefits to both, it is better to use the raw version.

Nutrition and health benefits of raw cacao and cocoa powder

Cacao powder has more nutrients than cocoa powder and may be used in place of cocoa powder in recipes. It is rich in iron, phosphorus, manganese, magnesium, potassium, and fiber.

Cacao and cocoa powder both contain fat, though in far smaller quantities. That makes it just about OK to consume, but not in excess!

Cacao is higher in flavonoids and antioxidants, which offer multiple health benefits such as decreasing inflammation and increasing blood flow.  

Cacao powder contains caffeine, which is less than coffee but important for caffeine-sensitive people.

According to research, raw cacao can help lower blood pressure, control blood sugar levels, and reduce stress. All of these studies, however, emphasize the importance of a healthy diet!

For this recipe, I used raw cacao powder. Cocoa powder is also acceptable and less costly, but it contains lower levels of nutrients.

Maple syrup

Many antioxidants included in maple syrup limit the harm that molecules known as free radicals may cause. Free radicals may damage cells when they accumulate to dangerous levels. Diabetes, heart disease, and cancer are among the medical conditions that may result from this.

Along with potassium and calcium, maple syrup also has significant concentrations of manganese and zinc. Zinc supports wound healing, strengthens the immune system, and protects against and expedites the healing of respiratory viral infections.

Although you may use any other natural liquid sweetener—artificial sweeteners are not good for you and won’t work in this recipe—maple syrup is my personal preference due to its flavor.

Oat milk

Numerous essential vitamins and minerals, such as folate (vitamin B₉), thiamin (vitamin B₁), folate, magnesium, manganese, phosphorus, zinc, and copper, are naturally present in oats. Oat milk has these nutrients too. Store-bought oat milk is frequently fortified with vitamins A and D, iron, calcium, potassium, fiber, and riboflavin if you’re seeking extra nutrition.

Oat milk lacks saturated fats but has more carbs than other milk substitutes since it is prepared from oats that are high in fiber.

Unlike almond milk and other kinds of nut milk, which deliver energy through lipids (fats), oat milk’s greater quantities of carbs translate into sustained energy throughout the day.

What’s more, oat milk can help maintain healthy cholesterol levels because of the beta-glucans included in oats!

Serving tips

You may serve this sauce over pancakes, waffles, brownies, ice cream, in coffees or lattes, with churros, or as a dipping sauce for fresh fruits.

After chilling in the fridge, this chocolate sauce will turn into a thick spreadable chocolate ganache, which you can use as chocolate frosting.

This healthy sauce pairs well with healthy pancakes.

Check out these healthy breakfast recipes that go well with this healthy delicious chocolate sauce:

• Easiest Healthy Pancake Recipe
• Healthy Vegan Pancakes
• Easiest Healthy Banana Pancakes
• Healthy Vegan Banana Pancakes
• Healthy Gluten-Free Pancakes
• Vegan Gluten-Free Pancakes

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Easiest Healthy Chocolate Sauce Recipe (3 ingredients)

Author: Meriem Taleb, PhD Cooking Method: Simmering Cuisine: Any Courses: Breakfast, Desserts, Sauces Recipe Keys: H healthy Vegan

Difficulty: Beginner Prep Time 2 min Cook Time 3 min Total Time 5 mins

Servings: 1 Calories: 309

Dietary:

V Vegan

Description

 

This super easy and healthy chocolate sauce just requires three ingredients and can be prepared in less than five minutes. It has no manufactured sugar and tastes great drizzled over pancakes, ice cream, or as a dip for fruit and pastries. If you're looking for a chocolate sauce that is both healthy and incredibly easy to make, this is the recipe for you.

Ingredients

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• ¹⁄₂ cup (50 gr) raw cacao powder (Cocoa powder works too)
• ¹⁄₃ cup (80 mL) maple syrup (or more to taste)
• 8 tablespoons oat milk
• 1 tablespoon vanilla extract (optional)

Instructions

1. In a small saucepan, stir together all of the ingredients. The cacao powder may take a few seconds to dissolve.

2. Cook on low-medium heat, stirring constantly. The sauce will gradually become silkier, smoother, and thinner. If needed, add more milk (1 tablespoon at a time) to get the appropriate consistency. If you want a sweeter sauce, taste it and add 1-2 tablespoons more maple syrup.

3. It's important not to boil the sauce since it will thicken and even crumble. So, keep an eye on the saucepan and remove it from the heat when the texture appears good to you.

Nutrition Facts

Serving Size 1 cup

Servings 1

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Amount Per Serving

Calories 309kcal

% Daily Value *

Total Fat 5.6g9%

Saturated Fat 3.2g16%

Sodium 38mg2%

Potassium 1032mg30%

Total Carbohydrate 53g18%

Dietary Fiber 17g68%

Sugars 19g

Protein 14g29%

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Vitamin A 150 IU

Calcium 287 mg

Iron 6.8 mg

Vitamin D 40 IU

Magnesium 14.15 mmol

* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet. Your daily value may be higher or lower depending on your calorie needs.

Note

• You may serve this sauce over pancakes, waffles, brownies, ice cream, in coffees or lattes, with churros, or as a dipping sauce for fresh fruits.
• After chilling in the fridge, this chocolate sauce will turn into a thick spreadable chocolate ganache, which you can use as chocolate frosting.
• This healthy sauce pairs well with healthy vegan or non-vegan banana pancakes.

 

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