As I mentioned earlier, we’ve been adding a bit of coconut oil to our diet because it’s supposed to have lots of healthy benefits. Searches of different websites have repeated most of the same claims. I’ll take the claims with a grain of salt, but I’m willing to try an oil that has the potential of being healthier than most. So far we’ve noticed that it makes great lip balm for the licky small squeaky kid and it makes you poop like a 2 month old. I suppose both are good things.
I also discovered that you can make hard shell chocolate ice cream sauce with it. We just made ice cream. Match made in heaven.
Hard Shell Chocolate Sauce
- 1 ½ cups semi-sweet chocolate chips or large bar of dark chocolate, chopped
- 2 tablespoons coconut oil
- pinch of salt
Heat the chocolate and coconut oil together in a bowl over some simmering water until smooth and fully melted. Remove from heat and stir in the salt. Let cool slightly and spoon over ice cream. It will harden after a few seconds.
Store any leftovers (ha!) in the fridge. Reheat as needed.
** I would bet that this would be really good with a couple of drops of peppermint extract added to it.
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I’m going to try this as soon as I can get some coconut oil! I love that this is the same thing as the bottle, but has only three ingredients, and can be customized with different flavors!
I’m going to try it with peppermint extract next, myself.
I was going to click the like button because I thought this was so awesome and then I saw this and it got better! My son’s going to love this.
My kids loved it. And it kept them quiet for… several minutes, anyway.
OMG that’s it?! I thought there was some complicated scientifical formula to get that stuff to harden up. My two favorite things are coconut oil and chocolate. I think we’ll be eating this for dinner tonight 🙂
yep, that’s it.
Bet it would also be good with a bit of chilli in it for heat. Love chilli chocolate..
Rob would love a bit of spice! Now we have to eat this for dinner and breakfast…
This seems amazing and oh so simple! Who would have thunk it, lol! I am gonna have to try this out. Hmmm…I wonder what would happen if you added a smidge of natural peanut butter???
You’ll have to try it and let me know. Sounds pretty good.
Love this idea! So easy and perfect!
My husband is going to love you. First, reminding me to use our ice cream maker, and now topping the ice cream with a chocolate shell. Gotta go to the store now for the cream…
Enjoy!
I always assumed the chocolate shell stuff was possible due to nasty chemicals, but this makes total sense! You are brilliant! I like the various flavoring ideas I’m reading in the post and in the comments as well.
I’m getting some good ideas too. Thanks!
Mmmm…sounds delicious. Does the coconut oil actually give it a slightly coco-nutty taste (I LOVE coconut)?
No, you really can’t taste it at all – just the chocolate. I’m going to try it next time using a bar of flavoured Lindt dark chocolate – like chilli or orange. You could probably add coconut extract though.
We made the ice cream and chocolate sauce last night and put them atop brownies. Super delicious. Thanks for showing us how easy this sauce is in particular. Amazing!
You’re welcome. Glad you liked it. And now I need to make brownies..
Love this SO much! I think we’re making it! Just featured it on my Sunday Spotlights! http://www.aturtleslifeforme.com/2012/04/sunday-spotlights-and-winner.html
Thanks for the feature!
Yum! Can’t wait to try this!! I’d like to invite you over to my link party, Sweet & Simple Sunday!
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Hope to see you there!
If you don’t have coconut oil can you use vegetable oil or any other kind?
No, I don’t think so. Coconut oil is solid at room temp, which is why the sauce hardens so nicely.
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This is great! Who knew it was such an easy recipe! Thanks for sharing at Scrumptious Sunday! This week’s party is open, if you haven’t already linked up 🙂
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I am so trying this…YUMMM-O!!!
I just bought some more coconut oil today to make some more. Enjoy.
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I just made some of this yesterday. Great isn’t it? It does actually work with any oil, I used sunflower. Just make sure it’s a light tasting one, olive oil for example might be too heavy. Mine was 1 cup chopped chocolate and 2 tablespoons oil.