Sweet Success by Sara

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Dark Chocolate Pomegranate Cups {just 3 ingredients}

I’m getting so excited for Christmas baking. I love spending a day in the kitchen with my KitchenAid mixer making delicious sweet treats.

Baking during the holidays always brings back great memories of baking Christmas cookies with my mom and dad, brother, aunt and cousins. Some of my favorite holiday cookies from my childhood include peanut butter blossoms, peanut butter balls (for some reason my family calls them zit crunchies), cherry mash and homemade Mounds. When my grandfather was alive, he would make homemade fudge and chess pies. So delicious!

Although I have lots of great memories from the baking process and from enjoying my family’s treats, I also remember overindulging in sweets and feeling sick, lethargic, bloated and gross. So a few years ago, I started making some of my own healthier sweet treats using less sugar or natural sweeteners. I found that I didn’t indulge in as many cookies, but I still felt like I was getting a special holiday treat.

I recently made these dark chocolate cups, and they are so delicious. They only have three simple ingredients – dark chocolate chips, coconut oil and pomegranate seeds.

When you bite into the chocolate you get the burst of pomegranate seeds, which adds some tartness to the treats.

I love these because I you get the antioxidants from the dark chocolate, some healthy fat from coconut oil and tons of nutrients from the pomegranate seeds. So you can truly eat these without guilt!

Side note: Make sure you use sweetened dark chocolate chips and not baking chocolate!

Dark Chocolate Pomegranate Cups

Created by on October 27, 2017

Ingredients

  • 2 cups dark chocolate chips
  • 1 1/2 tablespoons coconut oil
  • pomegranate arils

Instructions

  1. Place chocolate chips and coconut oil in a double boiler. Stir frequently until chocolate is completely melted and coconut oil is combined.
  2. Spray a mini muffin tin with coconut oil spray. Pour a spoonful of melted chocolate in the bottom of each muffin well. Place a few pomegranate seeds on top of the chocolate. Pour more chocolate on top of the pomegranate seeds. Garnish with a few pomegranate seeds on top.
  3. Place in the refrigerator until the chocolate hardens.
  4. To easily remove the chocolates from the muffin tin, place the bottom of the tin in warm water for a few seconds. Then use a knife to pop out the chocolates.
  5. Let the chocolates sit on the counter for a few minutes to soften before eating them.
  6. Enjoy!

What was your favorite Christmas cookie when you were a child?

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