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Chocolate Coconut Clusters

February 1, 2011 By 41 Comments

Healthy Coconut Bites Balls recipe Chocolate Coconut Clusters

This recipe is almost too good to be healthy, and amazingly, it is the one of our healthiest dessert recipes! These chocolate coconut clusters also have only 5 ingredients, are simple to make and kids love them! My kids eat these like candy…. in fact, they prefer these to candy! They taste like a mixture of almond joy bars and raw coconut macaroons, and are a dessert you can feel good about letting your kids have because they are packed with healthy fats!

Chocolate Coconut Clusters Ingredients:

  • 1 (5 oz) bag Flaked or shredded coconut- unsweetened
  • 2/3 cup melted coconut oil + 1 TBSP
  • 1/2 cup almond butter
  • 1 tsp vanilla
  • 1 cup dark chocolate or semi-sweet chocolate chips

How to Make Chocolate Coconut Clusters:

  1. In medium bowl, mix coconut flakes, 2/3 cup melted coconut oil, vanilla, and almond butter until well mixed.
  2. Using hands, form into 1 inch balls and put on a plate.
  3. Put the plate in the freezer until the clusters harden completely.
  4. Once the clusters have hardened, melt the chocolate in a double boiler with 1 TBSP coconut oil until smooth.
  5. Dip the clusters into the chocolate and put back on a plate or in a small baking dish
  6. Put them into refrigerator and eat once they get cold.
  7. Enjoy the awesome mixture of crunchy chocolate shell and chewy coconut center!

Try these… seriously! And then tell me about them below!

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  • Jan_98k

    How much oil in each step? 2/3 in first…1 tbl in second?

  • Abby

    Just made these this afternoon! Sooo good. I love dark chocolate, so these are perfect!

  • http://wellnessmama.com Wellness Mama

    Yep… should have clarified that!

  • http://wellnessmama.com Wellness Mama

    Glad you liked them!

  • Carrieplease

    I’m going to make these tomorrow! I need to have great snacks for my kids so that I can wean them off the snacks they used to eat…crackers, and packaged crap.

  • Dssghutten

    I have a daughter taht cannot have any nuts (in any form) or chocolate… any other ideas for treats or special snacks?

  • http://wellnessmama.com Wellness Mama

    You could get things like beef jerky, cheese cubes, and berries. My kids love those for special snacks. Treats could be a little tougher. I’ve used sweet potatoes as the base for pancakes, cakes and breads before instead of even coconut flour, and this seems to work great (especially with cream cheese icing) I’ll try to get those recipes up soon or email them to you.

  • Karensrandall

    Is there a way to make those chocolate coconut clusters using unsweetened cocoa and sugar substitute? I am all about coconut oil, but please no sugar. Thanks.

  • Arica

    Sooo good! All the ladies at the meeting loved these and couldn’t believe how easy they were. They were relieved and excited about the healthy ingredients!! Thank you so much!

  • Karen

    I made these yesterday for the first time. I accidentally omitted the almond butter (this is what happens when your 2.5 yo son is “helping” in the kitchen). I should have realized since they were hard to “ball up.” They froze well, though, and they were amazing! They are way better than the dark-chocolate-covered Ritz crackers that I send out as Christmas gifts. I think that gift has been supplanted. Thank you so much for this recipe! I will try to include the almond butter when I make them again, but I can’t imagine that they could taste any better!

  • http://wellnessmama.com Wellness Mama

    We usually make them with bittersweet or baking chocolate. You can also roll it in cocoa powder before you freeze it, or melt coconut oil, cocoa powder and stevia in a double boiler and dip in that instead.

  • Veronica

    I made these over the weekend. Awesome!

  • Midwestamy

    Hi Mama,

    Do you use refined or unrefined coconut oil for this recipe?

    Thanks!

  • http://wellnessmama.com Wellness Mama

    I use unrefined extra virgin, though refined might work too. The
    coconut taste from the unrefined is really good in this though. If
    you use refined, just make sure it is solid at room temp or it won’t
    hold together.

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  • Violinstringzz

    about how many will this make?

  • http://wellnessmama.com Wellness Mama

    Depends on how big you shape the clusters, but it makes about two
    platefuls at my house, which is over 20.

  • Amanda

    A-freakin-mazing. I made these as an attempt to quell my son’s cookie addiction…and I created an addiction of my own. These are awesome!

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  • Elizabelle

    These are AMAZING! My aunt made them for our Easter dinner and I had to have the recipe. 

  • Dotty

    I got the baker’s chocolate 8 oz bar and would like to know how many squares I’d use for one recipe.  Also, would you weigh the 5 oz of coconut if you have it in bulk?  If I make my own almond butter, would the Eat Fat, Lose Fat recipe by Sallon Fallon and Mary Enig work?  It already has coconut oil and honey in it.  

  • http://wellnessmama.com Wellness Mama

    Probably about 1 bar, though if you wanted to make it go farther,
    just add more coconut oil when melting it… you’ll still get the
    great chocolate flavor and crunch but with less actual chocolate and
    more coconut oil. The almond butter recipe you have should work. If
    anything, just have a little extra coconut to add if it is to thin,
    but I doubt it would be. I’d probably just weigh out the coconut, but
    if I remember, it works out to about 2 cups last time I made this.

  • Amelia

    These were a big hit with my husband. He’s not into anything that is not the “real” thing and detests subsitutes. The great thing about these is just that: they are the real deal.

  • Sherry England

    I have Rapunzel Organic Cocoa. How much would I need to use? Also, to sweeten the cocoa I have coconut palm sugar, agave and raw honey.(I have stevia but my son doesn’t like it)Which is best and how much? Last, how much coconut oil and do i need to use the double boiler? Thanks so much.It would probably be so much easier to buy the chocolate.:)

  • Sherry England

    I had a question about the Chocolate Coconut Clusters below.Thanks so much!!

  • Angelasites

    Made my second batch of these tonight!  Love them!  I have been passing them out to all my friends and clients.  Every time I eat one I feel like I am getting a great does of coconut oil.  This time I added some almonds :) , can’t wait to try them.  Thanks so much Wellness Mama!

  • KTreetop

    Just discovered you through Marks daily apple. So nice to meet you ;0)

  • http://wellnessmama.com Wellness Mama

    Welcome! Nice to “meet” you too!

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  • Csprister@comcast.net

    These have become our family favorite, but I add lots more coconut otherwise it was too runny and I just put it in a 8×8 pan… Delicious!! Thank you!

  • http://wellnessmama.com Wellness Mama

    Glad you are enjoying!

  • Search4

    Have you tried them with chopped almonds in them? would that even work?

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  • Karrie

    I’m going to make these for a Paleo Happy Hour that I’m attending on Friday. I’ll let you know how it goes! Love your site :)

  • Homeschoolmomee

    could I make these with peanut butter instead of almond butter?

  • http://wellnessmama.com Wellness Mama

    Yep… we just don’t use peanut butter personally (it’s a bean not a nut) but it does work in the same ratios…

  • Louise Baker

    I didn’t like the coconut oil flavour particularly (I’ve bought 4 or 5 different brands but can’t find one that I actually like), so the 2nd time I made this I used almond butter instead, with just a little coconut oil. It was DIVINE!!

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  • Chia M

    any thoughts as to why my mix was SO runny…?.. 5 oz of coconut did nothing to bind it all so I added at least triple that..then chilled it…then made the balls since there would be no way to have made the balls with how runny it was…. maybe i should have let the melted coconut oil melt..?…however, then , it would have hardened…. sigh, they did taste good though…but i am wondering what i did wrong?…. i shouldn’t have had to add soooo much coconut shreds…

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100001855344722 Laura Oliva

    Looking forward to having a healthy chocolate option for when the chocolate demon cometh!

  • Jeniclark

    HOLY SMOKES! This is AMAZING! SO simple, SO delicious! I blogged it ;) THANK YOU WELLNESS MAMA for ALL YOU DO!
    http://realnutritionblog.blogspot.com/2012/05/chocolate-coconut-clusters-from.html

    Have a great day!
    Jeni Clark~