These healthy Chocolate Cherry Fat Bombs are sweet and rich. Perfect for a keto diet or anyone wanting to consume more coconut oil.
These vegan Chocolate Cherry Fat Bombs are sweet, rich, and creamy. Sweet juicy cherries inside of dark rich chocolate, oh yeah!
Since I mashed the cherries, the juice is mixed into the chocolate, making it even sweeter.
These Chocolate Cherry Fat Bombs are sweetened with stevia, so they are sugar-free. Although you would never know they were sugar-free from tasting them.
Not only does the juice from the mashed cherries add sweetness, but adding almond extract adds sweetness as well. These are low in carbs and high in fat - perfect for a keto diet.
Fat bombs are an easy, palatable way to get more coconut oil into your diet. I add coconut oil to my morning smoothie and Vegan Bulletproof Coffee as well.
Ever since I started eating a vegan keto diet in September, I have fallen in love with fat bombs. They're easy to make and even more fun to eat. Plus, they come in such a cute little package.
These keto fat bombs are sure to satisfy your sweet tooth. Chocolate fat bombs with sweet cherries, what's not to love?
You can see a bunch of my Keto Vegan Recipes in a round-up, or see all of them on my Vegan Keto category page.
Another recipe to try is my Keto Coconut Fat Bombs recipe.
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❤️ Why You'll Love Them
- They are sweet and rich.
- They are sugar-free, but you'd never know it.
- They're perfect for a vegan keto diet.
🧾 Ingredients
- Coconut oil: Adds fat and a creamy coconut flavor.
- Coconut butter: Adds fat. It's one of the fat sources in a vegan keto diet.
- Cacao powder (or cocoa powder): Adds chocolate flavor.
- Stevia: Adds sweetness. You could use your favorite sugar-free sweetener.
- Almond extract: Adds a fruity flavor. You can leave it out.
- Vanilla extract: Enhances flavors. You can leave it out.
- Dark sweet cherries: I used frozen cherries. You could also use fresh.
To see the full list of ingredients with measurements and instructions, see the recipe card at the bottom of this post.
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🔪 Instructions
Step 1: Mix all the ingredients except the cherries.
Step 2: Once the cherries have thawed, mash them with a fork and combine them with the chocolate mixture.
Step 3: Fill mini cupcake liners, an ice cube tray, or silicone molds with 2 tablespoonfuls each of mixture.
Freeze and store in the fridge.
How to Melt Coconut Butter
- Melt coconut butter by placing the jar in a saucepan filled with water over medium heat. Occasionally pull the jar out with oven mitts and stir it. If it's hard to stir, stick it back in the simmering water until it's ready.
- Do NOT put the coconut butter in the microwave. It will cook unevenly and burn.
- When it's easy to stir, spoon it into a measuring cup to measure out the amount you need.
💭 Tips
- The coconut oil CAN be heated in the microwave if it's solid, but the coconut butter will cook unevenly and burn.
- Freeze the fat bombs and store them in the fridge or freezer.
👩🏻🍳 Recipe FAQs
These vegan fat bombs will last about 1 week in the fridge, and several months in the freezer.
Fat bombs are for when you want a snack or a sweet treat in between meals. They are high in fat and low in carbs, so they help you stay in ketosis.
A fat bomb is high in fat and low carb. It contains ingredients you can eat on a keto diet.
Other Vegan Fat Bomb Recipes
If you tried this Chocolate Cherry Fat Bombs Recipe or any other recipe on my website, please leave a ⭐️ star rating and let me know how you like it in the 💬 comments below. I love hearing from you!
📋 Recipe
Chocolate Cherry Fat Bombs
Ingredients
- ¼ cup coconut oil melted
- ¼ cup coconut butter melted*
- 3 tablespoons cacao powder
- 5 drops stevia
- ½ teaspoon almond extract
- ½ teaspoon vanilla extract
- ¾ cup frozen dark sweet cherries thawed
Instructions
- Mix all ingredients except dark cherries.
- After the dark cherries have thawed, mash them with a fork. Mix cherries and their juices in chocolate mixture.
- With a tablespoon, spoon 2 tablespoonfuls each into mini cupcake liners or an ice cube tray. Freeze.
- Store in the fridge.
Notes
Nutrition
*Note: Nutrition information should be considered an estimate only. Different nutrition calculators give you different results.
sass says
is that 3/4 cups of cherries mashed up or before being mashed up?
Willow Moon says
That's 3/4 cup before being mashed.
Natalie says
My whole family loves these! They are hard to keep around because they get eaten up so quickly!
Willow Moon says
Thanks Natalie! That's great to hear!
Cindy says
I LOVE these! I am glad that they are sugar free because I am addicted!
Willow Moon says
Thanks Cindy!
Melissa says
Is there any way to get the nutrition information on these so I can properly count my calories and net carbs?
Willow Moon says
I've included it in the comments above.
Debra says
I just wanted to tell you that these are my favorite Fat Bombs of all that I have made. When I started my journey with Keto I was a chocolate/peanut butter junkies and then I decovered these chocolate cherry beauties. The dark chocolate and the refreshing cherry is a pure treat each and every time I enjoy one. Thank you so much for sharing your recipe with us. Bless you.
Willow Moon says
Thank you Debra! I am so glad to hear it!
Kelly says
These look incredibly good, and cherries are my favourite fruit (berry?) by far. Cherry is my preferred flavour of many drinks and sugar free candies. And that almond extract will just bring out that cherry flavour even more... like marzipan. YUM. I can't wait to try this! (And I use stevia regularly and always have solid coconut oil around at all times, so this is right up my alley.)
I definitely have to try this.
However, my question is: could you use fresh cherries?
I have yet to actually see frozen cherries in our stores up in Ontario, Canada (otherwise, they'd be in my freezer already).
Willow Moon says
I don't see why not, since frozen cherries are frozen fresh. Just make sure they are sweet because the sweet ones add a lot of flavor to the recipe.
Kelly says
Thanks! I'll have to give this a try! 🙂
Sonya says
Walmart and Costco sell dark frozen berries in Ontario (I have some in my freezer now)
Dana says
These sound delicious and plan to make them today! However, I'm not a fan of Stevia so I've started using Swerve. Any guess the equivalent of Swerve to Stevia? Thanks!
Willow Moon says
I still have yet to try Swerve, so I am of no help. Sorry! Maybe someone reading the comments could help.
Kelly says
I was just reading on a few sites that the Swerve to sugar measurement ratio is 1:1, but Stevia to sugar is 1:2.
Maybe start with 2-3 drops of Swerve, then taste-test to see if it needs any more? Just a thought.
Carol says
I use a tablespoon of swerve in these and find the sweetness just right! Love these fat bombs!
Megan says
Is there a way to make these without the coconut butter?
Willow Moon says
You could add more coconut oil, but it will change the consistency. I have never done it, so I'm not sure of the results.
Sharon says
I was wondering the same thing, did you make them Megan, withouth the coconut butter??
Brenda says
Because I have just started the Keto diet, I wonder if there is a breakdown of fat/carbs for this recipe. It really looks delicious.
Willow Moon says
Yes, I wrote it in the comments above.
Janel says
I am glad to hear you not recommending maraschino cherries in this recipe. I would like to speak about the maraschino cherry processing plants that I know of. The cherries are brought in from the orchards and the ones that aren’t sold as fresh fruit are put into large vats for a long time in a bribe solution of sulfur dioxide and calcium chloride. Sometimes stinks so bad that just walking past the plant causes one to hold their breath . So a fresh cherry is bleached and then flavoring, sweetener and color are added back into the fruit. After discovering this I will not eat Maraschino Cherries. If one know of a different way they are processed please share.