The most amazing easy Vegan Fudge recipe with only 3 ingredients and does not use oil or butter! It is made with dairy-free chocolate chips, coconut butter and vanilla! So easy and so incredibly delicious.
*This post was originally published on 8-5-2013 and has been updated with better instructions and new photos.
EASY VEGAN FUDGE RECIPE
Calling all chocolate fans! If you love decadent vegan chocolate desserts like Vegan Chocolate Cream Pie or Amazing Vegan Chocolate Truffles, then you will love this easy vegan fudge recipe!
Would you believe that vegan fudge can be insanely delicious without adding butter or oil as an ingredient, like traditional fudge? Not even coconut oil. Well, it can be and it only requires 3 ingredients! Basically, the easiest recipe ever for vegan fudge and only takes about 10 minutes total.
My recipe uses coconut butter, which is very different from probably most vegan fudge recipes you will see. It gives the most delicious, almost Bounty candy bar type of flavor, just much smoother. It is to die for and so creamy, rich and smooth.
This recipe doesn’t use any weird ingredients trying to make it healthy, like bananas, dates or avocado. Nope, it’s straight up decadence in every bite.
INGREDIENTS NEEDED
(Only 3 main ingredients needed. Full details and measurements on the recipe card below.)
- Semi-sweet dairy-free chocolate chips: I used the mini Enjoy Life brand. This gives the vegan fudge a traditional sweet fudge taste. If you do not like your fudge sweet, then I would suggest doing half semi-sweet and half bitter-sweet and see how you like that.
- Coconut butter: This easy vegan fudge recipe is made with coconut butter, which store-bought or homemade will be fine. The coconut butter gives a rich, creamy texture and has a natural sweetness to it that works awesome. It is also a whole food, as opposed to coconut oil, which is just the fat extracted, none of the coconut meat is included. By using coconut butter instead of coconut oil, it will firm up much more.
- Vanilla extract
- Optional: Nuts or seeds of choice. Flaked sea salt.
HOW TO MAKE VEGAN FUDGE
Step 1: Line a 9×5 loaf pan with clear plastic wrap. Just lightly spray the pan before placing the plastic wrap in the pan, so it sticks to the sides. Set aside.
Step 2: Have the coconut butter ready and premeasured before beginning to melt the chocolate, so it’s ready to go. See “Recipe Notes” on how to do this properly on the recipe card below.
Step 3: Melt the chocolate over a double boiler. To do this, heat up a small pot with a couple of inches of water over low heat. Place a heat-safe glass bowl (larger than the pot) over the pot and add the chocolate chips. The bowl should be big enough to sit on the pot, but not be sitting in the water. You do not want to use a microwave for this. Since you are just melting the chocolate chips by themselves, without any milk, it doesn’t melt well in a microwave and would cause the chocolate to burn, so the stove method is best to preserve the chocolate.
Once the water comes to a gentle simmer, the chocolate will slowly start to melt. Use a rubber spatula or wooden spoon to stir the chocolate until it’s almost full melted. Once it’s almost fully melted remove the bowl from the heat and stir until fully melted and smooth. Overheating chocolate can burn it.
Step 4: If your coconut butter is already mixed thoroughly from previous use, then no need to premelt it from a new jar, just scoop it out and weigh the 120 grams. Just place the bowl of melted chocolate onto your scale and scoop it directly in the bowl. This is what I did since I keep a container of stored coconut butter in my pantry.Add the coconut butter and vanilla to the melted chocolate. Stir until smooth. The heat from the chocolate will melt the coconut butter quickly and perfectly.
Step 5: Pour into the lined pan. Top with nuts or salt, if desired.
Step 6: Place the vegan fudge mixture in the freezer 1-2 hours until completely solid and slice into bars and then bite size fudge pieces.
MORE NO BAKE VEGAN CHOCOLATE RECIPES
- Vegan Sweet Potato Dark Chocolate Fudge
- Toffee Sweet Potato Fudge
- Vegan Thin Mint Freezer Fudge
- Best Vegan Chocolate Ice Cream EVER
- Vegan Chocolate Sweet Potato Tart
- Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Fudge Cake
Easy Vegan Fudge (ONLY 3 Ingredients!)
Ingredients
- 1 heaping cup (195g) Enjoy Life semi-sweet mini chocolate chips
- 1/2 cup (120g) softened coconut butter
- 1 teaspoon (5g) vanilla extract
- flaked sea salt or nuts to sprinkle on top (optional)
- I use this scale.
NOTE
- This DOES have a mild coconut flavor because of the coconut butter. So, if you despise coconut, you will likely not like this fudge. I used the mini Enjoy Life brand chocolate chips. This gives the fudge a traditional sweet fudge taste. If you do not like your fudge sweet, then I would suggest doing half semi-sweet and half bitter-sweet and see how you like that.
Instructions
- Line a 9×5 loaf pan with clear plastic wrap. Just lightly spray the pan before placing the plastic wrap in the pan, so it sticks to the sides. Set aside.
- Refer to the notes below for coconut butter tips. Have the coconut butter ready and premeasured before beginning to melt the chocolate, so it's ready to go.
- Add the chocolate chips to a double boiler over the stove. To do this, heat up a small pot with a couple of inches of water over low heat. Place a heat-safe glass bowl (larger than the pot) over the pot and add the chocolate chips. The bowl should be big enough to sit on the pot, but not be sitting in the water. You do not want to use a microwave for this, as noted in the post!
- Once the water comes to a gentle simmer, the chocolate will slowly start to melt. Use a rubber spatula or wooden spoon to stir the chocolate until it's almost full melted. Refer to photos in the post. Once it's almost fully melted remove the bowl from the heat and stir until fully melted and smooth. Overheating chocolate can burn it.
- Add the coconut butter and vanilla to the melted chocolate. Stir until smooth.
- Pour into the lined pan. Top with nuts or salt, if desired. The salt tasted SO good.
- Place in the freezer for 1 or 2 hours until completely hardened. Remove and slice into 14 squares. If it's too hard to slice easily right away, wait 15 minutes or so. The fudge will be hard at first straight from the freezer, like a chocolate candy bar, but will soften to a fudge texture within 30 minutes. It will keep it's shape for a couple of hours and start to get soft after that, so return to the fridge.
- Depending on your climate (hot or cold), the fudge may get too soft if left out too long at room temperature or will hold it's shape for several hours.
Notes
- Coconut Butter: It is imperative that your coconut butter is properly mixed before measuring. If you are using a brand new jar, you will notice that the oil and coconut meat separate in the jars, so you will need to mix it back together. If your coconut butter is already mixed thoroughly from previous use, then no need to premelt it from a new jar, just scoop it out and weigh the 120 grams. Just place the bowl of melted chocolate onto your scale and scoop it directly in the bowl. This is what I did since I keep a container of stored coconut butter in my pantry.
- If using a new jar, you will see the coconut butter is super hard, I like to slightly warm the jar for a few seconds in the microwave, empty all of it into a separate glass container and stir until fully mixed back up. You will want to briefly heat this container, 15 seconds or so, just until soft chunks are able to be mixed thoroughly. Overheating will burn and ruin the coconut butter. Stir the chunks several times until it's evenly mixed. Heat another 5 seconds or so, if needed. Once it's smooth, then measure the 120 grams. If using a 1/2 cup measure instead of weight, make sure the coconut butter is melted into the liquid form before measuring, as pictured in the post.
Nutrition
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Made this fudge last night. It was super easy and quick with just 3 ingredients and tastes incredible. I used leftover coconut butter i made for another recipe. Im surprised i havent made this recipe before. Thanks for sharing recipe on IG or i wouldn’t have found this.
I am brand new to your site. It looks amazing! Thank you so much.. Curious, what food processor do you recommend, please? I need to find one. Thank you!
Thank you so much Betty! You can see the one I use and love here in my SHOP page!
Wow!!!! Brandi you have done it again!! Best fudge EVER!!! I thought I was doomed never to find a vegan fudge recipe I loved as much as the dairy version I no longer eat, but this has surpassed my wildest expectations!! I MIGHT save a little to share with friends, but then again I might not… We’ll see! Thank you so much 🙂
Yippee! Oh Heather, your review made my day!! So thrilled you loved this fudge so much!!
I made this fudge for a potluck with friends who love to cook very healthy vegetarian meals, and many of whom are vegan, and they said it was the best dessert they’ve ever had! I made my own coconut butter by processing coconut flakes in the food processor to a creamy consistency and followed your advice to get the best vanilla. Thank you so much! I can’t wait for your cookbook to be released so I can try more of your amazing recipes!
Yay! Wow, that is a wonderful compliment Terri! So glad they all loved this fudge so much. Thank you so much for your kind words!
Brandy this was great!!! I was in a pinch today, looking for a quick dessert I could make my son (who has several food allergies) before an event where he would have had no dessert while others did. I just saw another one of your recipes that used Coconut Butter (which I happened to have on hand) and saw that it linked to other recipes containing Coconut Butter and found this one. It was delicious and super super easy!!! Thanks so much!! My son loved it because it reminded him of the coconut ice cream he likes.
That is so wonderful to hear Stephanie, thank you so much for the lovely review! So glad you and your son loved them, yay!
Hi Abbie, I do have some no-bake brownies on the blog. Just be sure to always check my Recipe Index or the search box for recipes. I literally have hundreds of recipes on this blog. Not sure why you gave a 4 star rating here though when you didn’t make the recipe?? It is helpful to have the ratings from when a recipe is made please. Thank you!
Here are the no-bake brownies: https://thevegan8.com/2014/10/25/raw-brownies-with-raspberry-coulis/
So good. So easy. Thank you for posting this. It is exactly the recipe I was looking for. I layered mine and poured in half the fudge to set, then added ground toasted coconut and cashews to the other half. So decadent. I think I will like to try to make these over some kind of a nut crust in the future.
That is so wonderful to hear Jody, thank you for the amazing review! Your nuts and coconut addition sound amazing!
I made this for a party yesterday and it turned out awesome! People loved and some couldn’t stop eating it! 😀 Thank you so much for this delicious and simple recipe!
Thank you so much Hannah for the lovely review, so sorry I missed this before!
Could you add peanut or almond butter to the melted chocolate?
Hi Lucy! If you do, it will not firm up properly because adding a smooth nut butter will soften the texture. It would be more like a thick frosting texture.
Hi! Do you think I could use cocoa butter instead? Is cocoa butter less healthy than coconut? Thanks for sharing the recipe 🙂 /Ida
Hi Ida! Sure, I think so….I just don’t know if it will overpower the flavor or not. Cocoa butter gets harder than coconut butter as well, so you could maybe add a couple of tablespoons of plant milk to counteract it. These are just guesses off the top of my head without testing it. Please let me know how it turns out and what you try!
This was wonderful! I finally found the coconut butter last week and made this. Awesome recipe!
Awesome Valerie! Thank you so much for letting me know, I love hearing the feedback! Thank you for making it and I’m so glad you enjoyed it!
This was really delicious! I loved taking it to work to share and amazing people by telling them that there were only 3 ingredients. I had never heard of coconut butter before but now that I know how easy it is, will be using it more often.
AMAZING! Got any suggestions for a non-chocolate version though? Even dark is too much ~dairy esque~ for me :[ Any parameters on equivalency? X cups of thick liquid (fruit compote perhaps?) versus thin liquid (room temp expresso?)? X cups of powder (could I protein powder it or should that liquified?) Should I avoid anything with water as a main ingredient since that’ll turn to ice? X number of mashed bananas or nut butters (thicker than liquid but not quite a solid?)?
Hi Lillie! So sorry for the delay…I somehow missed this comment! Um, actually if you leave out the chocolate, it wouldn’t e much of a recipe left, haha! I actually am not a fan of fruity types of fudge because they end up tasting like fruit and not fudge. I don’t like bananas and don’t use them. If you are looking for a non-chocolate type of fudge, then you are in luck, because I have one coming in a few days that is not chocolate at all and is to die for and it’s not based on fruit either!
To answer your question, water definitely shouldn’t be an ingredient in fudge….it can cause the cocoa butter in chocolate to separate. Stick to whole food ingredients. Truly, each recipe takes testing to it’s hard for me to tell you exact measurements of anything specific that I haven’t tried myself.
Stay tuned for the new recipe coming! 🙂
As a serious chocolate lover this fudge recipe is definitely one that I must recreate. It looks delicious & the best part about it is the 3 ingredients!
Thanks Thalia!! It’s so easy, I hope you enjoy it, let me know if you make it!
I am seriously obsessed with your recipes!! They are just pure genius! I made the fudge…and it tasted like what a chocolate fudge should taste like!! No fruity base..nothing..just good old chocolate. Awesome job Brandi! I will be trying A LOT of you recipes!!
Shamira, you are the sweetest!! I appreciate your kind words and for making so many of my recipes, as well as sharing them on Instagram! Thank you!
Oh, and I agree….I want fudge to taste LIKE FUDGE, not fruit, haha!
i just had to check out this recipe. it looks so decadent!!
Wow, this looks amazing!!! Adding it to m Pin board for sure!
Look great. Can’t wait to try it!