Chocolate Almond Butter Spread: [Gluten & Sugar Free]

 

 

Slightly indulgent recipe for after Christmas, but I couldn’t resist. Plus we still have New Years around the corner and you could make this to dip into healthy strawberries or something.  ;) Just thinking about your hosting friends with this lusciousness should make anyone who loves chocolate……HAPPY.

 

 

 

Smear it on some delicious Udi’s Gluten Free Omega Flax & Fiiber bread toasted and you will be in love! Or get some nice whole grain crackers and serve it like a dip! Everyone will love this and will NOT be able to tell no sugar is in it. :)

 

 

The recipe only makes a small amount and I did that on PURPOSE.

Why? Because having too much of this around is dangerous friends, seriously. Only make enough for a party or you will inevitably be digging a spoonful into the jar every chance you get. Of course if you need more simply double the recipe.

 

 

The first time I made this a few weeks ago it was dry because I tried to reduce the amount of oil used. So if you are going to adapt I wouldn’t change the ratio of nuts to oil unless you like super dry spread. I don’t. I like it spreadable and this is perfect just the way it is. Enjoy!

 

 

 *Adapted from All Day I Dream About Food.

Nutrition Info

Servings: 1 1/2 cups* Serving size: 2 tablespoons* Calories: 121* Fat: 12g* Cholesterol: 0mg* Sodium: 52mg* Carbs: 3g* Fiber: 2g* Sugars: 1g* Protein: 3g* Points+: 4*

 

Chocolate Almond Butter Spread : [Gluten & Sugar Free]

Ingredients

Directions

Heat a small saute pan over medium high heat, add almonds. Toast raw almonds stirring frequently until fragrant, about 3 -5 minutes. Using a food processor or high powered blender, add almonds, salt, vanilla and stevia and blend until chopped well. Mixture will be thick. In a small bowl melt baking chocolate and coconut oil in the microwave for about a minute. Stir well. Add to nut mixture and continue to pulse and blend until smooth. Taste butter and decide if you need more salt or more stevia. If needed, add 1/4 teaspoon stevia at a time, blend again and re-taste. Does not need to be refrigerated. Makes about 1 1/2 cups.

 

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About Brenda

Hi! Welcome! My name is Brenda and I am a mom to 3 beautiful children, a puppy and a picky husband who I absolutely adore after almost 15 years! Over the course of the last 25 years of my life, (Yikes I'm feeling OLD!) and numerous diet failures, yo-yo-ING weight, crying and praying to God for a solution to maintain a healthy weight and stop the cravings, I have come to the decision that I simply cannot have certain sugars in my life! (To read my full story see, MY SUGAR-FREE JOURNEY.) YES, it is true, no white sugar and other products that contain it. BUT that has not stopped me from enjoying this life! My passion is cooking and I love entertaining friends and family, which makes it pretty cool that I can always try out new, healthy (insert sneaky laugh here) recipes on them!! SO finally after quite some years experimenting and creating recipes without white sugar and white flour, and receiving requests for these very recipes, this blog has come to be! If you are a woman who has recently lost weight and desires to maintain it, you will find encouragement and fabulous recipes here! If you a mom who is struggling to take that baby weight off, you will find help here! You may not even need to lose weight but you desire healthier recipes for yourself and family, you are at the right place! If you still desire to get to that goal weight (yep, that's me!) but still love to entertain (me again!) and don't know what to make, seek no further-- Sugar-Free Mom is the site for you my friend! Come on in and enjoy! Blessings, Brenda

8 thoughts on “Chocolate Almond Butter Spread: [Gluten & Sugar Free]

  1. This sounds great. But there is something wrong with the Save Recipe button. When I went to save it to my Ziplist using the button, it saved a recipe for Healthier Whole Wheat Apple Pie and not the Almond Butter. Thought you may want to fix this.

  2. Love this! Love pinning your recipes, but have to do it the long way since I don’t see a pin button. Am I missing something? I use an iPad. Thanks!

    • HI Mary, there is a pin button that pops up over the left top corner of each picture when you hover over, maybe it doesn’t work for ipads though.

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