After last night, who’s candy-d out?
While out this a.m. I must’ve seen a million candy wrappers.
One of the many benefits of my Vegan Peanut Butter Cups: No wrappers!
Even if you are sick of candy, you might want to find room in your tummy to make the following coconut melties. I’m obsessed with these little gems. Obsessed, people. Obsessed! They’re like shortbread bites: so melty.
Yes, I’m aware that they look like soap. But they taste like little clouds of heaven. And they’re the simplest things ever, taking only about a minute to make!
Coconut Butter Melties
- Coconut butter or Hot Chocolate Butter
- A refrigerator or (preferably) freezer
- If you prefer sweeter melties, feel free to add agave or stevia drops
- ice cube trays, candy molds, or soap molds (or spread onto wax paper)
Directions: Press the coconut butter or hot chocolate butter into the molds and fridge for at least twenty minutes OR freeze 10 minutes if you’re super-impatient like I am. Then savor these melt-in-your-mouth treats and marvel at how something so simple can taste so good!
Above is the unused mold. I found it at Hobby Lobby in the cake-decorating section. Look in Michaels, Jo-Ann, Wal-Mart, or another craft store. Or just use an ice-cube tray. (Sometimes you can find cute-shaped ice cube molds too.) Another alternative: just spread out onto wax paper and freeze like that.
Side note: You can also use Homemade Coconut Butter.
I’m giving credit to my wonderful mom for the idea. Y’see, she bought chocolate molds to make homemade chocolates for Halloween. When I saw the molds on the counter, my little fingers gravitated right towards them! And when I looked for something to “shape,” guess what was conveniently sitting out on the counter… The good old Artisana coconut butter!
You can use Christmas molds, too!
Lately, I’ve been sprinkling cinnamon into my coconut butter, for Cinnabon Melties.
Above, melties from coconut and Hot Chocolate Butter.
Been looking for a substitute for chocolate or white chocolate easter bunnies for my daughter because of a severe allergy to dairy, but it’s not easy to find on short notice. She loves coconut, definitely have to try these!! 🙂
Theese were delicious with peppermint extract! I love, loved, loved them! My genius mother thought it would be a great idea to put almond extract and dried bing cherries in them, too. Those are seriously little clouds of heaven. The cherries add a bit of sweetness and the almond compliments the coconut wonderfully. You have to try them! 🙂
That sounds so incredibly good! I will for sure have to try your mom’s genius flavor idea!
These look amazing! Do you think I could dip them in dark chocolate? Mini mounds?
I made melties with peanut butter! They were amazing! Thx for this recipe!
I absolutely LOVE these (especially the chocolate ones!!)
do you have any recipes for: milky way, snickers bars ( non – ice cream), lindor truffles, zero bars? if you do, could you put them on your website. I would love to have them.
thanks for creating your blog. I love it.
christine
Hi! If I make these with beet juice, will I get red hearts? 😀
I made something quite similar last night while messing around with my first jar of coconut butter. I mixed coconut butter, light agave syrup, and a dash of vanilla flavoring. Then, I mixed well and used coconut oil to grease plastic wrap and put it in a super small and shallow saucer. I put it into the freezer. It was weird ( I’m not a coconut lover, except in particular dishes) but good, but then I mixed Tofutti “cream cheese”, the light agave, and strawberry gel together and spooned it on top of another batch of the coconut candy ( after the coconut candy had time to set in the freezer) and froze it again so the strawberry cream cheese could harden on top of the coconut candy. SO good, even though I made the strawberry cream cheese mixture a bit too soft, so as it sits out the strawberry part melts. So, I just eat what I want and pop the rest back into the freezer. Thanks for inspiring me to play around in the kitchen again 🙂 I used to be quite the curser, but for the past month or two I’ve been trying hard to speak more indicative of my intelligence level, and have done quite well most days. Just as long as we don’t count today….. 🙂