08 Nov Cocoa Rice Puffs

Fast, easy, and not too sweet.

If you love chocolate puffed wheat squares, you will love these. The puffed rice makes them a great treat for anyone with food sensitivities, and you can adjust the sweetness to suit. The antioxidant-rich chocolate and the coconut oil – instead of the usual butter or margarine, corn syrup, white sugar, or brown sugar – also make these healthier than your average sweet snack. And only 4 ingredients!

Ingredients

4 cups puffed rice (if using honey-sweetened puffed rice, omit the sweetener)
1 cup coconut
1/2 cup very good quality hot chocolate mix + dash of high-quality sweetener if desired – but go easy!
1 cup coconut oil

Directions

Melt the coconut oil, and mix the other ingredients together in a bowl.

Let the oil cool to the point where it will coat your other ingredients — not too hot, not too cold.

Pour the oil over the other ingredients. Mix well with a spoon. Continue mixing while the oil cools enough to coat the other ingredients. If it hasn’t cooled enough, the chocolate will pool at the bottom of your muffin cups (though this is not necessarily a bad thing!)

Spoon into lined muffin cups. Enjoy!

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