Healthy Fudge Recipe – 3 Ingredients! (GAPS, Paleo, Sugar-Free)

Kayla Ruetten

This healthy fudge recipe with only 3 ingredients can be prepared in 5 minutes. It satisfies an intense chocolate craving (which can sometimes be due to magnesium deficiency!). This fudge is a perfect holiday or party treat.

We often bring this healthy chocolate fudge as a dessert to social gatherings and it’s a huge hit! Especially with children. We enjoy it as straight up chocolate chunks and also combined with nuts as a yummy cashew or peanut cluster.

How to Make Delicious Fudge

Our family has spent a good deal of time healing food allergies on the GAPS diet with a lot of success! Our journey has taught us the healing power of good food. We aim for high quality, wholesome ingredients, and we have been able to enjoy many treats. Not surprisingly, the flavors are often superior to similar store bought items, due to creamier, sweeter, and more nutrient dense ingredients. We have transitioned off GAPS to more of a Weston Price type style, but we continue to enjoy many of the same staple foods and treats we learned of.

Why You Will Love This Healthy Fudge Recipe

1. Taste. This chocolate fudge is creamy, sweet, and satisfying.
2. Quick & easy to prepare. You can make this recipe in less than 5 minutes with only 3 ingredients.
3. Healing diet friendly. This recipe is gluten-free, dairy-free (optional), sugar-free, and egg-free. Whether you are eating GAPS, Paleo, whole food, Whole30, or just becoming more ingredient aware, this recipe is compatible with many healing diets.
4. Naturally sweetened. Use honey or maple syrup as the sweetener to eliminate the need for refined and processed sugar.
5. Customizable. You can use different fats, such as butter, coconut oil, ghee, or mild tasting fats like lard. Pour over peanuts or pecans for chocolate covered nut clusters! We pair it with our homemade caramel candies to make layered mounds bars.

Healthy Fudge Ingredients

Likely you already have the 3 ingredients needed to make fudge in your home already! Add a 9×13 pan or fun silicone molds and you are ready to go. The key to delicious fudge is a healthy fat (like grass-fed butter, coconut oil, or raw kefir cream), raw honey, and cacao powder. If you do not have cacao or raw honey, cocoa powder and honey will work as well. But do add cacao and raw honey to your shopping list, as they both contain high levels of antioxidants, nutrients, and minerals. See this post for other high mineral foods to eat everyday.

The Difference Between Cacao and Cocoa

Cacao and cocoa powder both come from the cacao bean. They both look like brown ground powder and even taste somewhat similar. The main difference is the amount of processing. Cacao is very minimally processed, often considered a raw food, while cocoa is roasted at very high temperatures. Cacao has a slightly more bitter flavor than cocoa, and is much richer in nutrients. Often less cacao is needed when making chocolate, as it has a more intense flavor. We opt for cacao when we can, as we prefer less processed. We like the taste of this one.