Description
These chocolate covered blueberries are marvelous, a wonderful dessert that you can feel good about enjoying.
Ingredients
Scale
- 1 cup fresh blueberries – big and firm (5 ounces)
- ½ cup dark chocolate chips – 85% cacao (3 ounces)
- ½ tablespoon avocado oil
- ½ teaspoon stevia glycerite – optional (equals about 2 tablespoons of sugar)
Instructions
- Wash the blueberries in a colander, then spread them on paper towels to dry. Allow them to dry completely for about 1 hour.
- Melt the chocolate chips in a microwave-safe bowl in 30-second sessions, stirring after each session. You’ll likely need 3 sessions to melt it completely. Stir the avocado oil and the sweetener (if using) into the melted chocolate
- Add the dry blueberries to the melted chocolate. Stir gently with a spoon to ensure they are well coated.
- Using the same spoon, transfer clusters of the mixture onto a large, wax-paper-lined plate. In total, when using large blueberries and measuring out 6-7 of them per cluster, you should get 8 clusters.
- Refrigerate the clusters until the chocolate is set for 20-30 minutes, then enjoy!
Notes
- I don’t recommend using frozen blueberries in this recipe. They are too mushy.
- You can use either chocolate chips or a chopped chocolate bar. Chop it on a cutting board using a sharp chef’s knife.
- To melt the chocolate on the stovetop, add the chocolate and oil to a small saucepan and heat them over very low heat, stirring often, until melted.
- You can keep the leftovers in the fridge, in an airtight container, for up to two days. Once you refrigerate them, it’s important to take them out of the fridge about 30 minutes before eating them. Chocolate is always better at room temperature. I don’t recommend freezing the leftovers.
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1 cluster
- Calories: 80 kcal
- Sugar: 4 g
- Sodium: 1 mg
- Fat: 4 g
- Saturated Fat: 3 g
- Carbohydrates: 7 g
- Fiber: 1 g
- Protein: 1 g