20 Healthy Chocolate Recipes

Everyone loves chocolate, but it can sometimes be a bit much when it feels really heavy and a dessert makes you a bit too sleepy. These are my top 20 healthy chocolate recipes, so you can have some lighter desserts, or a little cheeky chocolate for breakfast, with the recipes shared below.

Every recipe featured here is vegan, plant forward, and made with wholesome ingredients – no processed flours, sugars, or dairy needed. Despite that, we’re hitting a solid balance here of obviously healthy on one hand and serve it to your butter-loving coworkers/family/friends without them ever knowing it’s good for them on the other.

Unless gluten-free, all the baking recipes will be made with spelt flour and sweetened with things like dates, maple syrup, or coconut sugar. Some are definitely a bit sweeter than others but there’s something here for everyone!

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Chocolate Snack Cake

This low sugar vegan chocolate snack cake is sweetened partly with banana, and made with whole grain flour for a healthier chocolate cake.

Woman holding a plate with a piece of ganache topped chocolate cake.

Double Chocolate Olive Oil Brownies

Dairy free olive oil brownies made with caramel-scented coconut sugar, dark chocolate, and spelt flour. Fudgy, a bit crackly, and delicious.

Chocolate drizzling onto a stack of three brownies.

Almond Rye Chocolate Chip Cookies

These almond and rye chocolate chip cookies are rich, chewy, and flavourful thanks to a base of rye flour, almond flour, and almond butter.

A stack of five large chocolate chip cookies.

Gluten Free Chocolate Cupcakes

Gluten free chocolate cupcakes, made with coconut flour, are a great wheat-free option. Dairy free with coconut milk, and honey sweetened.

Chocolate Chip Coconut Banana Bread

This healthier vegan coconut banana bread is rounded out with dark chocolate chips and nutty spelt flour. The bread is sugar free, sweetened just with banana and dates, making it totally appropriate for breakfast or as a wholesome snack.

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No-Bake Chocolate Caramel Shortbread Bars

Easy no-bake chocolate bars with a crisp almond flour shortbread base, date caramel filling, and dark chocolate coating. Egg, dairy, and gluten free, and no oven needed.

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Close up showing halved date caramel chocolate bar with lilac flowers.

Chocolate Hemp Energy Bites

Vegan and nut free chocolate hemp energy bites made with orange and raw cacao for a dessert-like snack high in protein and healthy fats.

Hemp bites on a plate with more hemp and tangerine pieces.

Dark Chocolate Coconut Bars

Chocolate coconut bars, made with honey and coconut butter, are a healthy-ish replacement for run of the mill chocolate bars. These are a nice treat and fun to make, with simple, wholesome ingredients.

A halved coconut bar, cut side facing forward, on top of other bars.

Chocolate Beet Muffins

Lightly sweet vegan chocolate beet muffins with plenty of dark chocolate flavour. Even if you’re not a fan of beets, you’ll probably like these dark chocolate muffins, made with whole grain flour.

A chocolate muffin with a bite taken out on the muffin liner.

Double Chocolate Chickpea Flour Cookies

Gluten free chocolate cookies made with chickpea flour for a grain free cookie with an excellent texture and piles of chocolate. High protein chickpea flour and healthy ingredients make these a great snack for anytime of day.

Chocolate cookies piled on a baking sheet.

Chocolate Puffed Quinoa Bars

Sugar free and vegan puffed quinoa bars made with raw cacao, dates, and nut butter. These no bake snacks are a healthier gluten free riff on a prairie classic, puffed wheat squares.

Stack of three puffed quinoa bars with chocolate.

Vegan Chocolate Mousse

This five ingredient, five minute vegan chocolate mousse is made simply with coconut cream, cacao, and a little maple syrup. Top this simple dessert with fruit for a special, but very easy to make, treat.

Three Ingredient Chocolate Coconut Milk Ice Cream

Vegan chocolate ice cream, made with just three ingredients – coconut milk, dark chocolate, and maple syrup. It's a lightly sweet, creamy ice cream, and so simple to make.

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A stack of three oatmeal cookie chocolate ice cream sandwiches, decorated with raspberries and flowers.

Vegan Chocolate Raspberry Cake

This one-bowl vegan chocolate raspberry cake is topped with a creamy coconut milk ganache for a decadent summer dessert made with healthier ingredients.

Chocolate ganache covered cake topped with fresh raspberries on a cake stand.

Deluxe Dairy Free Hot Chocolate

This dairy free hot chocolate is made with oat milk, enriched with cacao butter, and sweetened with maple syrup or honey. Raw cacao adds a deep chocolate flavour, with a touch of vanilla and a tiny pinch of sea salt to round it out.

Hazelnut Pear Crisp with Chocolate

This simple autumn pear crisp features hazelnuts, chocolate, and spices for a cozy and easy dessert. Vegan and gluten-free, it's a great dessert for everyone.

Chocolate pear crisp with three scoops of ice cream.

Raw Chocolate

Homemade raw chocolate is an easy, healthy, and much less expensive alternative to store bought. Make it with honey for a fully raw chocolate, or maple syrup for a vegan bar.

Vegan Chocolate Truffles with Orange and Ginger

Vegan chocolate truffles with bright winter flavours of ginger and orange. These are so easy and you can't beat the taste, even though they're made with coconut cream instead of dairy.

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Bowl of truffles surrounded by oranges and greenery.

Chocolate Orange Tart

Vegan, sugar, and gluten free chocolate orange tart with a silky pour in filling and crisp date & sunflower seed base. Topped with seasonal oranges and coconut whipped cream for a seriously decadent, super healthy dessert.

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