Hi,
My daughter is sensitive to sugar so I can almost never find a packaged or processed chocolate bar that works for her. In other recipes on this site, I have used real cocoa with stevia, but I don't think that will work for the chocolate bon bons recipe which I just HAVE to make! I was thinking of melting down bakers chocolate with some of her almond milk and stevia? Does anyone have any other suggestions or has anyone does this before?
Thanks!!!
Great question!! I'm hoping someone has some suggestions for you. My husband must limit the sugar intake as well so I have been trying to find a substitute for the 73% dark chocolate too. I've experimented with unsweetened chocolate, coconut milk, stevia and agave in many different combinations but have yet to make a chocolate suitable for "chips" for cookies or any of Elana's other great recipes. I would love to try the bonbons as well but the first step is to find a way to make tasty "sugar free" chocolate :/
Someone else melted cacao bakers chocolate with agave/sugar another sugar substitute when making the brownies. Then they put that in the frig and took it out and broke it up into pieces and threw it in the brownies. So it can be done.
Hi, I came across a wonderful tip for making sugar-free chocolate "chips" in a cookbook by Kelly E. Keough called "Sugar-Free Gluten-Free Baking and Desserts": In a double boiler, melt 3 ounces of unsweetened baking chocolate with 1 tbsp light agave and 1 dropper liquid stevia; whisk in 1 tbsp unsweetened almond milk; spread chocolate on baking sheet covered with wax paper; chill for 30 minutes. Break into pieces and use as chips. Hope this helps!
Sunspire carries a line of chocolate chips that are sweetened with barley malt. We used these for a long time before getting off barley. They taste good in baked goods. My kids said they were better than nestles!!
Thanks to all for your suggestions! I'm going to try the suggestions above. I can't wait - my daughter hasn't had "candy" pretty much ever and I'm so excited to make her some chocolate covered cherries and my version of reese's peanut butter cups!
Since you mentioned the chips, I have bought raw cocoa nibs before and used those as chocolate chips if you're looking for something quick. They get expensive but Whole Foods has the best price - around the Chicagoland area anyway. I've used these in Elana's chocolate chip cookies recipe and they're ok. Totally unsweetened and a little hard but they work in a chocolate chip cookie recipe - not so good just for snacking on though.
Thanks!!
Kim
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