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This recipe is almost too good to be healthy, and amazingly, it is one of my family’s most delicious and healthy dessert recipes!
Chocolate Coconut Clusters
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.
Nutrient Rich Ingredients
The simple but nutrient dense ingredients are what make these so delicious, filling, and nourishing. They contain:
- Coconut flakes: A great source of protein, fiber, and beneficial fats.
- Coconut Oil: Has hundreds of uses and benefits. A great source of medium chain triglycerides and beneficial lauric acid. It is also filling and anti-fungal, making it effective at fighting overgrowth in the digestive track. I wrote another post about 7 ways to eat more coconut oil if you’re interested in incorporating more coconut oil into your diet.
- Almond Butter: Another source of quality fats and protein and it provides great flavor to this recipe. Sub or leave out if you have an allergy.
- Dark Chocolate: Good source of magnesium and antioxidants. Some studies even suggest it might lower the risk of heart disease.
Chocolate Coconut Clusters Recipe
Ingredients
- 1 5 oz bag flaked or shredded unsweetened coconut
- 1/3 cup + 1 TBSP coconut oil melted
- ½ cup almond butter
- 1 tsp vanilla
- 1 cup dark chocolate or semi-sweet chocolate chips
Instructions
- In medium bowl, mix coconut flakes, the 1/3 cup melted coconut oil, almond butter, and vanilla until well mixed.
- Refrigerate 30 minutes.
- Using hands, form into 1 inch balls and put on a plate lined with parchment paper.
- Put the plate in the freezer until the clusters harden completely.
- Once the clusters have hardened, melt the chocolate in a double boiler with 1 TBSP coconut oil, stirring occasionally until smooth.
- Dip the clusters into the chocolate and put back on a plate or in a small baking dish
- Put them into refrigerator and eat once they get cold.
- Enjoy the awesome mixture of crunchy chocolate shell and chewy coconut center!
Notes
Nutrition
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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 🙂
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!
Glad you are enjoying!
Just discovered you through Marks daily apple. So nice to meet you ;0)
Welcome! Nice to “meet” you too!
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!
I had a question about the Chocolate Coconut Clusters below.Thanks so much!!
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.:)
My kids also dislike stevia. I will often pair it with another sweetener now to amp up the sweet taste. For example, just a teaspoon of honey or agave in tea, plus 4 or 5 drops of stevia. Now they all tolerate it fine.
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.
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.
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.
These are AMAZING! My aunt made them for our Easter dinner and I had to have the recipe.
about how many will this make?
Depends on how big you shape the clusters, but it makes about two
platefuls at my house, which is over 20.