Chocolate Covered ... Anything

Everything tastes better when covered in chocolate, right? So why not make your own chocolate covered treats.

Get some delicious (organic) dark chocolate... toss it along with some coconut oil into a pyrex measuring cup in a pot of boiling water and stir. The amount of coconut oil you add seems to change with the type of chocolate and how dark the chocolate is... on average try 1.5 Tbsps to one normal sized chocolate bar.

Melt this down, and then either dip strawberries, bananas, etc into the chocolate or drizzle the chocolate over your fruit... with this you can easily make

-chocolate covered strawberries

-chocolate covered bananas

-chocolate covered any dried fruit (raisins, cranberries, blueberries, cherries)

Once you've covered whatever it is you're making in chocolate put it in the fridge for the chocolate to harden and voila!

If you love all things coconut, and I do, then you can also make a healthier, knock off version of a bounty bar...

-make simple syrup (equal parts of raw sugar and water over heat)

-add shredded unsweetened coconut until 95% of the sugar is absorbed

-let cool a bit

(If you have molds to pour into this would help though I managed without)

-scoop out a tablespoon of coconut and place on a plate, drizzle chocolate over

-optionally add an almond on top

-Pop it into the fridge for the chocolate to harden and voila!