Healthy Chocolate Coconut Slice

This is such a yummy, old-fashioned style Chocolate Slice – it reminds me a lot of the one my nan always made me, only a little healthier. This Healthy Chocolate Coconut Slice is a lovely chocolatey treat to stock your freezer with, so if you have hungry kids at home looking for a snack or need an easy lunchbox filler, you’ll have this on hand ready to go!

Food memories are the best. As a kid I used to bake with my nan every weekend, we even occasionally ‘invented’ recipes. The ones that worked out, she carefully wrote on a note pad and sticky taped it into her recipe notebook. I still have that notebook, though the tape is browned and dried and the binding has seen better days.

Anyway, enough nostalgia…though I do hope that one of my recipes will perhaps form memories and be carried down in your family.

Health benefits

This healthy chocolate coconut slice is made with wholemeal spelt flour, rolled oats, and desiccated coconut, this slice provides fibre and slow-releasing energy. The cacao powder is rich in antioxidants, while the choice of natural sweeteners like honey or rice malt syrup makes it a healthier alternative to refined sugar treats.

Ingredients

This recipe uses spelt flour, oats, cacao powder, and coconut. Butter or coconut oil adds richness, and the bittersweet chocolate icing made with raw cacao powder (or cocoa powder), rice malt syrup or honey, milk and coconut oil brings a decadent touch that can be adjusted to suit your taste.

How to make this healthy chocolate coconut slice 

Melt the butter or coconut oil, stir in the sweetener, and mix with the dry ingredients until combined. Press the mixture into a tin lined with baking paper and bake in a fan-forced oven as instructed below. Chill before adding the rich bittersweet chocolate icing made with cacao powder, rice malt syrup or honey, milk and coconut oil and sprinkle with coconut for a beautiful finish. This can also be made in your food processor and we’ve included the Thermomix method too if you have one.

Serving suggestions and how to store

Enjoy this slice as a mid-morning snack or a healthier dessert option. It’s also perfect for school lunchboxes being nut-free and egg-free. Store in an airtight container in the fridge to keep it fresh for up to a week or freeze it for longer storage. It can be packed or eaten from frozen.  Refrigerating before slicing ensures clean, crumb-free cuts.

Vary this healthy chocolate coconut slice to suit

For a gluten-free option, swap spelt flour for your favourite gluten-free flour and replace oats with quinoa flakes. Make it dairy-free or vegan by using coconut oil instead of butter. Choose brown rice syrup for a low-fructose version.

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Chocolate Coconut Slice

Prep 10 minutes minutes

Cook 10 minutes minutes

Chill 30 minutes minutes

Total 50 minutes minutes

Serves: 12

This Chocolate Coconut Slice is a delicious, very easy to make, low sugar lunchbox treat or snack. Sure to become a favourite with young and old alike!

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Ingredients

• 150 g butter or coconut oil
• 85 g rice malt syrup, honey or maple syrup (¼ cup approx.)
• 30 g cacao powder - unsweetened Dutch process or raw
• 120 g wholemeal spelt flour (1 cup)
• 90 g rolled oats (1 cup)
• 100 g desiccated coconut (1 cup)

Bittersweet Chocolate Icing (see note below)

• 30 g cacao powder - unsweetened Dutch process or raw (¼ cup)
• 2 tbsp coconut oil
• 2 tbsp rice malt syrup or honey
• 1 tbsp milk (of choice)
• 10 g desiccated coconut (2 tbsp)

Method

• Preheat your oven to 180°C/350°F (fan-forced).
• In a large pot over medium heat, melt your butter (or coconut oil). If using a Thermomix 90, 1 minute, speed 3.
• Turn off the heat and add the sweetener, mixing to combine. If using a Thermomix 30 seconds, temp 90, speed 4.
• Add all of the other ingredients and mix well until combined. If using a Thermomix reverse speed, 30 seconds.
• Press firmly into a lined tin (approx. 17 x 27cm) and bake for 10-12 minutes. Take care not to overcook this as it can dry out. If your oven runs hot, reduce the temperature to 160°C.
• Once cooled, pop it into the fridge to chill for 30 minutes or more.

Bittersweet Chocolate Icing

• Make the icing by beating all of the ingredients together in a small bowl until smooth and creamy. If using a Thermomix butterfly, 1 minute, speed 3.
• Spread over the chilled slice and sprinkle over a little extra desiccated (or shredded) coconut.
• Chill for 10 more minutes in the freezer, remove from the tin and carefully slice into squares by pressing straight down with a large sharp knife.

Store

• Store in the fridge or freeze in an airtight container.

Note

• The icing above is very rich (for dark chocolate lovers only). You can leave it off, top it with melted chocolate or a chocolate butter cream. This recipe works really well as a super healthy ganache too.
• Refrigerating before slicing makes it much easier to cut without crumbling.

Variations

Gluten-free

Substitute the spelt with your favourite gluten-free flour and the oats can be replaced by quinoa flakes.

Dairy-free or vegan

Replace the butter with coconut oil (this will produce a tougher/ crisper slice).

Low-fructose

Use brown rice syrup as your sweetener.

 

 

I'd love to hear how you like this slice. Post a comment below or rate this recipe. 

Course: Snack

Author: Georgia Harding

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