Pamela’s Sugar Free Chocolate Chips

Following a light and natural approach to food, but still want your chocolate chips? This is the perfect recipe for you!

What is a serving of chocolate? Well, let's just say yours may be different than the 72 decently sized chunks chosen for the following nutrition facts. You can create your own nutrition analysis at Calorie Count, it's a snap!

Pamela’s Sugar Free Chocolate Chips

Ingredients:

1 cup virgin coconut oil

1 cup cocoa

1 T pure vanilla extract

1 T cinnamon

1/2 cup stevia

Ingredient Options:

Instead of stevia, use brown coconut palm sugar. 

Make the flavors suit your taste by experimenting with different amounts of the vanilla, cinnamon and stevia.

Directions:

Melt the coconut oil on lowest heat possible. Stir in cocoa, vanilla, cinnamon, and stevia.

Line large baking pans with saran wrap; pour in thin layer of the melted mixture. Freeze.

After the chocolate is solidly frozen, store in the freezer inside zip lock bag.

Chop “chips” as needed.

Poured into a very thin layer and it makes a yummy chocolate bar.

Meganr’s Guinness Cake

It’s fine to enjoy a special high calorie treat every now and then. The great thing is to know the calories and serve a measured amount. Most 8 inch cakes serve 8, so with calorie counters in mind, I've set the nutrition facts for 10 servings. If you make the icing in the photo, you will need to adjust your calories way up! The nutrition facts for this awesome cake were made at Calorie Count!

With icing instead of confectioners sugar

 Meganr’s Guinness Cake

Ingredients:

¾ cup Guinness (or other stout)

10 tablespoons butter (1 stick plus 2 tbsp)

½ cup cocoa powder

1 1/3 cups all purpose flour

1 1/3 cups sugar

1 teaspoon baking soda

½ teaspoon salt

1 large whole egg plus 1 yolk

2/3 cup sour cream

confectioners’ sugar for dusting

Directions:

Preheat oven to 350 F.

Butter 8 inch round cake pan.  Line with parchment or wax paper, then butter paper.

Bring stout and 10 T butter to a simmer in heavy saucepan over medium heat.  Add cocoa; whisk until smooth.  Cool slightly.

Whisk flour, sugar baking soda and salt in large bowl and mix well; set aside.

Beat egg, yolk and sour cream with electric mixer in another large bowl. 

Add stout-chocolate mixture to egg mixture, and beat to combine.

Add flour mixture and beat 30 seconds on slowest speed. 

Fold batter using rubber spatula until completely combined; pour into prepared pan.

Bake about 50 to 55 minutes or until tester inserted into center of cake comes out clean.  Leave the cake in the pan, but place it on a rack to cool 10 minutes.  Run small sharp knife around edge of cake to loosen and turn cake out onto rack; cool completely.

Sift confectioners’ sugar over top, transfer to platter and serve.