Vegan Fudge Recipe
This vegan fudge recipe is what happens when five simple ingredients decide to show off a little. One square in and you'll swear you've uncovered a secret magic spell.
🔍 Recipe At-A-Glance: Vegan Fudge Recipe
- 🕰️ Prep Time: 3 minutes, plus an hour in the fridge.
- ⏰ Cook Time: Zip, zilch, zero.
- 🍫 Flavor Profile: Rich, velvety chocolate with a hint of coconut.
- 🍽️ Good For: Easy weeknight desserts and satisfying a sweet tooth.
- 🧡 Difficulty: If you can stir, you can make this coconut oil fudge!
"I thought you were hyping this recipe up. Oh. My. Dog. This is amazing. Its rich, smooth and decadent. I can't believe how easy and simple this is to make. Thank you for sharing, and so glad I stumbled upon it."
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🧡 Why You'll Love This Recipe
Hi friend: I'd like to introduce you to a little recipe that we make at our house all the time: coconut oil vegan fudge. It's our absolute favorite healthier dessert, and we almost always have all the ingredients we need to make it stocked in our pantry.
Here's why you'll love this recipe:
- Fits any dietary need: This fudge is different from regular fudge in that it is naturally sweetened, totally dairy-free, vegan, and gluten-free. It is packed with nutrients and good-for-you stuff (more desserts like this: these no-bake macaroons and these almond butter cookies).
- No fuss: No boiling hot sugar on the stove and fussing with a candy thermometer. No sticking something in the microwave for 10 minutes. Just five minute, deeply chocolatey fudge, with a gloriously awesome hint of coconut flavor.
🍫 The Ingredients You Need
- Coconut oil: The idea behind this fudge is that property that all coconut oil users know well: coconut oil is solid at room temperature, but anything above that, and it's a velvety smooth liquid oil.
- Maple syrup. If you want to make this fudge vegan, make sure you stick with maple syrup.
- Unsweetened cocoa powder. Not only does it give the recipe tons of rich, chocolatey-flavor, but cocoa powder is also easy to keep on hand in the pantry! I recommend using Dutch-process cocoa powder (the same stuff I use in my hot chocolate mix) for the best, rich dark chocolate flavor, but standard cocoa powder also does the trick!
Make sure to check the recipe card below for the full ingredients list, along with quantities and my expert tips and tricks.
🔁 Variations & Substitutions
- Honey fudge: If you just need this fudge to be dairy-free and aren't concerned about animal products, you can use honey in place of the maple syrup. Sometimes crystallized honey can cause issues with separation and make the fudge crumbly. If you are struggling with crumbling, bring the fudge back up to room temperature, and see if that helps soften the fudge.
- Peanut butter fudge: You can't go wrong with a peanut butter and chocolate combo (ahem, chocolate peanut butter overnight oats or chocolate peanut butter smoothie)! Just be aware that adding peanut butter will make coconut oil fudge a little less solid (but not less delicious).
- Chocolate orange: Replicate those chocolate oranges you can crack open at the holiday by stirring in some orange zest!
🥣 Vegan Fudge Recipe How-To
Step 1: Whisk the coconut oil with maple syrup, cocoa powder, vanilla, and salt until it is smooth as can be. No lumps allowed!
Step 2: Chill that sucker in the fridge. An hour later, out pops the most velvety, dense, and smooth fudge you've ever had...without a single second of cooking time.
Step 3: Pop the big brick of fudge out of the pan and cut into 9 pieces. Sprinkle with coconut and enjoy!
🙋🏻♀️ Vegan Fudge Recipe FAQs
Most fudge isn't vegan because it contains dairy. But in this recipe, the coconut oil does the heavy lifting, making for a velvety-smooth fudge...without the dairy.
Regular fudge recipes can be super fussy, ending up gritty if you aren't careful. But because this vegan fudge recipe relies on coconut oil for its texture and consistency, you don't have to worry about that!
👩🏻🍳 My Expert Tips & Tricks
- Keep it smooth: If the fudge isn't quite coming together, the coconut oil may need to be a little warmer (and therefore more liquid). Heat the whole thing over very low heat and whisk again.
- Be speedy: Short on time (or just feeling impatient)? Pop the pan into the freezer instead of the fridge and it will be ready to cut in closer to 30 minutes!
- Small pan: A small pan will make the best thick pieces of fudge. I usually use a 6"x6" glass food storage container, but a mini muffin tin works too!
- Keep it chill: Store this coconut oil fudge in the fridge or it will get melty and messy!
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If you tried this vegan fudge recipe or any other recipe on my blog, please leave a 🌟 star rating and let me know how it went in the comments!
📖 Recipe
Vegan Fudge
Ingredients
- ½ cup melted coconut oil
- ¼ cup honey or maple syrup
- ½ cup unsweetened cocoa powder
- ¼ teaspoon vanilla extract
- Pinch salt
- Unsweetened shredded coconut for garnish
Instructions
- Line a small square dish (I use this small square food storage container-it's perfect for this batch size) with parchment paper. Set aside.
- In a small bowl, whisk together ½ cup melted coconut oil, ¼ cup honey or maple syrup, ½ cup unsweetened cocoa powder, ¼ teaspoon vanilla extract, and Pinch salt until very smooth. If the mixture doesn't come together, heat over very low heat in a small saucepan until very smooth.
- Pour mixture into the prepared dish. Refrigerate until solid, about an hour, then sprinkle Unsweetened shredded coconut on top, and cut into 9 small pieces. If you're in a hurry, pop it in the freezer and you'll be ready to go in about half the time-although you might need to use a knife run under hot water to cut through it.
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Did you measure the coconut oil before or after melted?
Do you measure the coconut oil before or after melted?
I was wondering if corn syrup could be used in the place of the honey. My sister cant eat honey and I'm not to crazy about maple syrup.
I've never tried it, but I don't see why it wouldn't work. Let me know if you do try it!
I just made these as a Christmas gift for my brother who is a diabetic. The mixture tasted so delish, i wanted to keep them for myself haha jk. .. Thank you so very much for this recipe! Next time I'm going to try the pb version as well:)
Do you have carb counts for these little gems, please and thank you!
This stuff is unbelievably yummy!!!
Thanks for the post!
Best vegan fudge recipe, ever!!! Unfortunately, my husband and two daughter's all loved it and I HAD TO SHARE 🙁
Thanks for the great recipe for a newly lactose intolerant family!
Just made these because they looked tasty and were crazy quick to make. I never expected them to taste so good! They're incredible and will definitely be on my make again list. For the top I used the coconut on half and sea salt on the other half. Thanks for sharing. PS: my husband keeps sneaking in the fridge like a little kid to sample them over and over again. :). A big hit!!!
So, what is the measurement of the container that was used, please? The amazon link had over 10 containers in the set, without measurement. Thanks.
I love fudge! This looks delicious...I never would have thought to use coconut oil as an ingredient, but it's a natural ??
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Sub'd agave, Himalayan pink salt and Ghirardelli double chocolate powder. In the freezer at the moment. As a batter it tastes awesome so far. Will try various versions and report back. Thanks so much for the quick, healthy and decadent idea!
I'm so happy I came across this recipe! I can't eat dairy, gluten (anything processed) right now and when I saw this I made it right away. I love how I always have these ingredients on hand.. so will probably be making this recipe a lot haha. Thank you 🙂
UNBELIEVABLE!!!!! I'm a so excited to find this recipe. Since they are dark chocolate, my family won't eat it. It's all mine *evil laugh* Thank goodness it's a small batch too! Oh So Good!!!!!!!
I made this tonight with cacoa powder instead of the cocoa. So it'll be even healthier...lol. I love healthy desserts!
Just got diagnosed with diabetes last week and made this last night. SO good and SO easy!
Thanks!
This was seriously good! I saw square dish and used an 8x8" pan and my fudge is far too thin (just like you said)! I cut the fudge into 16 pieces and they're about 2" each. I don't have the container you use, but next time I might try a loaf pan. And there will be a next time! I added 2 drops of Peppermint Vitality Essential Oil by Young Living for a refreshing after dinner treat. I'm thinking you could also try Orange, Cinnamon or any other oil of your choice.
Is it possible to sub the honey or syrup with Swerve or another keto-friendly sweetener?
Wow really enjoyed this fudge
Made this today absolutely beautiful we all enjoyed it thanks
This looks so good! If making in a mini muffin tin would would you spray the pan or cut out mini parchment paper circles?!
Love making fudge like this! And I second the added P2b or chocolate P2B! So good. Too good...like I shouldn't make it very often lol. Thanks!