Sunday, July 8, 2012

FAT BOMBS!

At the Low Carb Meet & Greet yesterday, we were talking about Fat Bombs - you know, those little treats we make ourselves for when we need a little extra fat.  There are lots of recipes out there, and this one is mine:


These are the five ingredients for my Fat Bombs, which you stir together well:

3/4 cup melted coconut oil
9.5 Tbs. (150g) almond butter
60 drops (about 3/8 tsp.) liquid Stevia
3 Tbs. cocoa
9 Tbs. melted salted butter





Pour a scant 2 Tbs. into each of 24 candy or mini muffin molds.  I use a silicone candy mold that I bought at Michael's Crafts.  If you prefer, you can use those little paper mini muffin cups, lined up on a cookie sheet.

I place my candy mold on a small cookie sheet first, and then fill it, then put it in the freezer.  If you try to put it in the freezer without first putting it on a cookie sheet, you'll be sorry.



Freeze for at least 30 minutes, then pop out the Fat Bombs and store them in a bag or other container in the freezer.  You can keep them in the fridge, but as soon as you hold one with your hot little fingers, it will melt really fast.  Frozen, it melts slower.

Nutritional info for one Fat Bomb:
145 calories
14.7g fat (91.2%)
1.53g protein (4.2%)
1.67g carbs (4.6%)
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35 comments:

  1. Awesome! Thanks for sharing! The recipe I have also calls for coconut butter and I don't have any of that. But I do have coconut oil. I'll be making these tonight. :)

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  2. I haven't had any in about a week, and they were so good, I ate 3 over a few hours. Come to think of it, I think I'll have another before bed. tee hee

    I have heard some people say that coconut oil before bed disrupts their sleep, but I have never experienced that.

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    1. Amy Dungan and Rebecca Latham talking about Fat Bomb recipes...hmmm...gives me an idea...

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    2. Hmmm... Does your idea have anything to do with... Fat Bombs? :0)

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  3. I do them with coconut oil, an 80% dark chocolate bar from Trader Joe's and shredded coconut. Haven't done it in a while, I think I used about 1 cup of coconut oil and 1-1/2 cups shredded coconut.
    Melt the oil and chocolate bar together and mix about half of the liquid with the shredded coconut. Fill the small candy cups with this mixture and spoon the remaining melted coconut oil/chocolate mixture over the tops.

    Looks like you had fun at the get together. I live to far away to make it to that event.

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  4. Those sound really good, too! If I have coconut on hand, I put that in there, too! It's nice to hear from you, Stephanie. Remind me - what part of the world are you from?

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  5. I live in Bothell Washington, a suburb north of Seattle.

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    1. Have you made these using splenda? I would love to try the recipe but I'm allergic to stevia. Any tips on how much splenda to substitute? I may just wing it.

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    2. According to my taste, about 5 drops of Stevia equaled 1 packet of Splenda. I guess you would just need to experiment to see how it tastes. In case you want to just make one at a time to see how it tastes, you can divide the recipe by 24 and just make one.

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  6. I used 12 drops of concentrated liquid splenda (Sweetzfree) and they came out great.

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  7. how much powered Stevia do you think?

    signed Jenna

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    1. I have no idea. You could google a conversion chart for that, or just do it to taste and then adjust the next time.

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    2. I make similar, and I hardly use any extra sweetener at all--maybe 1/2 or 1/4 the amount, sometimes not at all. In any case, I sure dont worry about sweeteners with chocolate around. I feel it is too sweet otherwise and 85% chocolate seems adequate for sweetness for me. Try it without as much--I think you will like it. I guess I don't like stuff as sweet as others.

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    3. I've tried using less sweetener, but I didn't like it. :)

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  8. Has anyone tried fiberfit in this? I have 2 giant bottles...

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    1. I am assuming that is a fiber supplement of some kind. I have not tried it, but then, I am not a believer that we need lots of fiber in our diet.

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    2. Hi Rebecca, I don't know how I came across your site the other day, but wanted to say your fat bombs are great! For 3 days I cannot have caffeine (don't ask me how that is going). So I made some without chocolate & added a T of finely chopped walnut. (I only made 1/3 recipe). Pretty good. What was great was using a small melted piece of "the butterscotch like candy" & added a chunk of melted butter on an 1/8 of low carb waffle for a treat. It made a fantastic sauce syrup! It got me over the caffeine blues. Thank ya very much! :)
      Philis

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    3. Hi, Philis! Glad you stumbled across me and my little blog! Your variation sounds great!

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  9. These sound marvelous, Becca. Wow, you may have just topped my all time high # of sweetener drops in a recipe there. But I know how difficult it is to get chocolate desserts sweet enough. I'm hoping my Whole30 has gotten the sweetener monkey off my back and may play around with the stevia in these.ry. I'm not liking things quite as sweet anymore.

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    1. It may seem like a lot, but it is only 2.5 drops per bomb! LOL! I, too, have gotten so used to things not being sweet. If I taste something that actually is sweet, I don't care for it much!

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  10. Actually Fiberfit is a sucralose sweetener with fiber in it. It will likely take more of that particular sweetener than the stevia. At least it has been my experience with Fiberfit that it invariably take a lot more of it to sweeten anything. Sweetness preference is highly individual, however.

    OMG Becca,, I just made these and they are so easy and FANTASTIC! I added 1/2 tsp. vanilla and 1/3 c. dessicated coconut powder to mine. You know me, can't make a recipe without tweaking a bit. :) I'll be making these often!

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    1. Those sound really good, too, Peggy! I'll have to try that variation next time.

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  11. Someone just directed me to this site/recipe-oh my, these sound amazing! I'm new to lc eating and I thought that meant no treats ever again lol. So excited to try these, especially since they're healthy too!

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    1. Hi, Sara, and thanks for reading! Let me know how you like them, okay?

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    2. I'm going to make them this afternoon :) I wasn't able to find all the ingredients though-my store didn't have co but did have coconut butter so I'm going to use that. Also no almond butter so I'm going to try sunflower butter. And no liquid sweeteners of any kind so I bought splenda pkts. And on a whim I bought walnuts to throw in too :) We'll see how this turns out lol.

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    3. They turned out great! Blogged about them here :)
      http://sarajaynesthin.blogspot.com/2012/10/my-new-best-friend-fat-bombs.html

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  12. Will this recipe work without the butter as I'm allergic to dairy products?

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    1. Hi, Simone! That's a good question. I would say to leave the butter out and just increase the coconut oil to make up for it. Also, if you are allergic to the caseine in butter, you might try using ghee instead. If you are allergic even to ghee, just stick to coconut oil.

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  13. If we are tracking our fat percentage,How would I add this to day a site like Fatsecret?I looked and there is no Fat Bombs in the data base..

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    1. Hi, MaMiaGirl!

      The way to put this into Fatsecret is to just put each individual ingredient into Fatsecret.

      Hope that helps!

      Rebecca

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  14. These are suuuper tasty! I just started this diet and decided to try to make these. I used Truvia granulated instead of liquid, which I found a converter for here: http://www.stevia.net/conversion.html

    I replaced the almond butter with peanut butter, since I didn't have any almond butter, and it was absolutely delicious! To help the peanut butter mix in easier, I mixed it in with some of the coconut oil the recipe calls for after I melted it. Super delicious!

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    1. Hi, Aurora!

      I'm glad you like them. I just had one a few minutes ago. You can certainly use peanut butter if you like. The reason I do not use peanut butter is because I choose not to eat legumes, and peanuts are a legume. Most people think they are nuts, but they are actually a type of bean.

      Thanks for reading!

      Rebecca

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  15. Hi, Rebecca. I know I'm dreadfully late to the party but I just wanted to thank you for this incredibly easy and satisfying recipe!

    I used the new Nectresse powdered sweetener from Splenda. For others who wish to use this sweetener 60 drops of liquid Stevia = 4.5 tsp of Nectresse powdered sweetener.

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  16. I love these! I put a little bit of salt and unsweetened coconut flakes on the bottom of the candy molds.

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