Super quick and easy these Honey Flavoured Chocolate Bars are a great homemade alternative to the traditional (and overly packaged!) Easter egg!

I’ve been a little impressed this year with just how many vegan Easter eggs are available.   But disappointed with all the packaging that still comes with them.  I know they’re delicate and fragile things, but a thin bit of chocolate (that tastes like any old regular bar or chocolate) surrounded by THAT MUCH plastic feels quite wrong to me.  My answer?  Make your own honey flavoured chocolate bars instead!

“Vegan honey?” I also hear you say.  Well yes, and as always thanks to innovative people and companies like Foodie Flavours who bring us tastes that we may miss as vegans.  I’m not getting into the debate here about whether vegans should eat honey (I had enough of that on Christmas Day), I’ll leave that to you and your conscience.  And in no way does this natural flavouring replicate any perceived health benefits of honey.  But damn it tastes so like it!  I’ve even been adding a couple of drops to my morning porridge for that wonderfully warming honey flavour I miss.

This honey flavoured chocolate is also ridiculously easy to make.  Because all of Foodie Flavours natural flavourings and essences pack quite a punch in just a few drops a little goes a really long way.  It also doesn’t really alter a recipe.  Adding actual honey to melted chocolate would affect the chocolate consistency once it sets.  Chocolate is a wonderful thing but it’s also a delicate balance of ingredients that give it that melt on the tongue, slightly sensuous texture.

The honey flavouring (which is all vegan by the way) gives the melted dark chocolate a rich, slightly sweeter flavour.  Honestly, I have to stop making this as we can’t stop eating it!

Making these homemade chocolate bars couldn’t be easier:

Start by melting the chocolate.  I recommend a good quality dark chocolate bar – with a high cacao percentage.  Something around 70%.   This gives a really rich flavour of its own, compounded by the sweet honey flavour.

Add about 20-25 drops of the honey flavouring.  Dip a finger to taste.  Cookie’s perks.

Pour the melted chocolate into your moulds.  Leave to set in the fridge for around and hour.

Now, while that’s as easy it can possibly get you can of course fancy up your chocolate bars.  I got a 2 silicon mould set – one makes a large chocolate bar and the other makes those dinky little, Instagram trendy mini chocolate bars.   There are a tonne of different chocolate mould shapes on Amazon – you can really go to town with your homemade creations!

For the small chocolate bars I painted some edible gold lustre dust into the crevices before pouring in the melted chocolate.  For both mould shapes I drizzled a little melted vegan white chocolate a la Pablo Picasso before pouring in the melted dark chocolate.  For the larger bars I also scattered in some freeze dried raspberry pieces also before pouring in the dark chocolate.  And OMGOSH it tastes amazing!!  Just the right amount of fruity, chocolatey, honey sweetness, rich dark cocoa flavour.

Side note, the freeze dried raspberries also make a great porridge topper.  Because yes it’s March, yes it’s still freezing here and yes I’m still eating porridge every single day.

Did you know we also wrote a Vegan Chocolate Review post?  Lots of honest opinion about LOTS of the vegan chocolate currently available.  All that taste testing though.  The hardship 😉

I’d love to hear from you if you make these Honey Flavoured Chocolate Bars! Just leave a comment as it’s so helpful and I love to hear how the recipe worked out for you! Thank you so much!

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