Easy Slow Cooker Sugar-Free Low Carb Keto Fudge (Dairy Free & Stove Top Option)
Crock Pot Refined Sugar-Free Dairy Free Fudge couldn’t be any easier or more delicious! Now made completely sugar free with a few adaptions from the original!
This Easy Fudge recipe is made with just 5 ingredients and in the Slow Cooker! You can’t beat an easier dessert for the Holidays!
I originally created this recipe in 2011 before I was even low carb and did use honey. You can use any sweetener you prefer but the New Adapted recipe is by far my favorite! It’s Keto, Gluten Free, and completely Sugar-Free!
Other Easy Desserts for the Holidays that make life less stressful are my Paleo Snowball Cookies, Peppermint Brownie Bark and White Chocolate Fudge and NO Bake Peppermint Bites!
My family asks for this fudge all year through, not just for the holidays! When I first made this recipe in 2011 it was before Lily’s Sweets created their amazing Sugar-Free Chocolate chips. My orginial recipe also used carob chips which are naturally unsweetened, but Lily’s Chocolate Chips are the perfect solution for a low carb fudge!
Although I’m not much of a fudge girl, my family loves it! I was inspired to make some after seeing a recipe from Skinny Crock Pot that seemed to be an easy and simple task and one that wouldn’t involve too much time on my part.
I adapted the original recipe to eliminate honey and make it with Stevia instead. Although its a bit sticky to the touch, it IS delicious and everyone who tried it couldn’t believe it was sugar-free and dairy free! Of course you could still use honey but not having tried it that way I can not comment on taste or texture.
A smaller crock pot, 3 or 4 quart will work better than a larger one. If you plan ahead and have the ingredients ready, you could make this for Christmas now and freeze until your ready to serve!
You could certainly add some chopped nuts within the mixture before spreading into the dish and refrigerating.
OLD PIC Below from 2011!!!! Above pics are with Lily’s Sugar-Free Chocolate chips.
UPDATE: May 2014: Recently I tried this recipe using fresh coconut milk from Silk and it was phenomenal. In fact I think even better than using canned coconut milk and again made with sugar-free chocolate chips as mentioned. A big hit with my entire family!
Brenda’s Notes:
- The fudge may be sweet enough for you with just the sugar-free chocolate chips, but typically those who are not on a low carb diet are used to very sweet type fudge, so if you are making this for others I would suggest adding in additional sweetener as I did in the video.
- Chocolate Liquid Stevia would be fantastic here but I do love my Vanilla Creme Stevia the best.
- This recipe was first published on my blog in December of 2011.
Crock Pot Sugar-Free Dairy Free Fudge
Ingredients
- 2 1/2 cups dairy free sugar-free chocolate chips
- 1/3 cup coconut milk
- 1 tsp. pure vanilla extract
- a dash of salt
- 2 teaspoons vanilla liquid stevia (optional)
Instructions
Slow Cooker method
- Stir coconut milk, chocolate chips, vanilla, stevia and salt in a small 3 or 4 quart crock pot.
- Cover and cook on low 2 hours.
- Uncover, turn off and let sit (no stirring please) for 30 minutes to 1 hour.
- Stir well for 5 minutes until smooth.
- Line a one quart casserole dish with parchment paper and spread mixture in.
- Chill 30 minutes or until firm.
Stove Top method
- Add the coconut milk, and chocolate chips to a double boiler and cook over low heat until melted.Stir in sweetener, vanilla extract and salt until smooth. Remove from heat.Taste and decide if you need more sweetness. Spread batter into a parchment lined loaf pan. Refrigerate 30 minutes.
Nutrition
About Brenda
Brenda Bennett is a certified Nutritional Therapy Practitioner, certified Sugar Detox Coach, certified Keto Coach and certified Life Coach. She has been Sugar Free & Refined carb free for 17 years and has written 2 cookbooks, Sugar-Free Mom, and Naturally Keto and her 3rd book The 30-Day Sugar Elimination Diet, is a four part program to help you detox from sugar, eliminate cravings, balance blood sugar and lose weight all while eating a delicious, nutrient dense whole foods. Meal plan offers two tracks to follow, low carb or keto. She is the founder of the Sugar Free Fresh Start course and Sugar Free Tribe weight loss membership. Learn more.
I need to experiment more with my crockpot and this might be the recipe to try. Thanks!
Really does help when you have other recipes needing the stove or oven.
I LOVE that you made this in the slow cooker. How original!
Thanks so much!
These look so rich and delicious – it’s hard to believe they’re sugar free too!
Thanks Marly and they don’t taste different either.
I’ve never tried anything like this…but, can’t wait to make this. Congrats on the cookbook. It sounds like your nearing the end and hopefully summer is around the corner at your house!
Yes school is done tomorrow so I can focus on finishing this cookbook and horray for summer!
There is seriously no excuse for me NOT to make this : ) Thank YOU!
Thanks Paula, it’s worth a try even if you can eat sugar, this recipe is great for those with allergies.
You can do it and I bet your cookbook will be beautiful and a fabulous hit! I’m not a giant fudge fan either but yours looks hard to resist.
I appreciate your vote of confidence and your encouragement, thank you!
No way! I have got to try these!!! Love the crockpot idea too!
Thanks Ginny!
Couldn’t be more perfect- I love crockpot recipes and I can’t wait to try it with the coconut milk!
It’s very creamy with the coconut milk thanks Wendy!
Another reason to use my slow cooker? And it involves chocolate? Twist me arm. Hahaha.
Wow! And in a crock pot – I don’t own one but this is so cool!
Unfortunately this isn’t dairy free as the chocolate chips have milk fat in them. I thought I had found the perfect Christmas recipe to gift everyone in my family but my granddaughter has a severe milk allergy. Please be careful labeling things as dairy free.
I fixed that link to dairy free sugar free chocolate chips for this recipe, https://amzn.to/3Nq1OAU
The recipe plug in I use remembers the sugar free chocolate chips from other recipes I’ve used and links it automatically to that brand, but it’s updated now.
Crock pot fudge??!! This is brilliant!
I don’t just like this, I love it! I can’t believe you found a way to make fudge healthy!
Wow this is great! My daughter just outgrew her dairy allergy, but we still tend to go for the coconut milk recipes anyway. This looks delish.
I hate to sound cheesy but you can do it! It’s a ton of work, sure. But worth it in the end! The cookbook will be amazing! Especially if it has recipes like this fudge. Drool!
Thanks so much for the encouragement, needed that!
When is your cookbook coming out. I’m just starting paleo then working to me to diet I’m diabetic I love sweets though
Fudge in the crock pot?! Must try this! I heart fudge 🙂
Woah this is pretty darn cool. You really can make everything in a crock pot I guess. 🙂 Love that it is so healthy, that means I can put it in my oatmeal right? 😀
Hi, Just found you site. I’m a diabetic and try my hand at making a lot of recipes sugar free. I am addicted to sweets but sugar is out. I have been using splenda but since I’ve seen your site I will try stevia at least the liquid kind. I’m going to make this fudge as soon as I can get to the store to buy some stevia. But I’m getting off the track of the reason I’m sending this message. WalMart carries sugar free chocolate chips and are very good. Just wanted to let you and all your followers know this. Thank you for your hard work in creating these recipes for all of us to enjoy.
If your diabetic you should be using Stevia spends is bad for you myself and my husband are diabetic and our diabetic nutritionist says Stevia is the best
How about Splenda? I know you use Stevia, but could Splenda be used and how much. Also, what about the sugar free chocolate chips. I just found your site.
Pam
Hi Pam, I don’t use Splenda because it is artificial so I really can’t comment on how much you should use. Of course you can use it though. I’ve never seen sugar free chocolate chips but sure why not.
there are sugar free chips called Lilli’s..they are on Amazon..they are really tasteless in my opinion..
Hershey’s makes a sugar free chocolate chip!
I’m not sure what size slow cooker I have, but I believe it’s one of the larger ones. Will this recipe still work if I use that? Or do you have another recommendation? My 7 yr old is anxious to try this recipe. We currently have sugar in our diets, but my plan is to start w/ your recipes to help my family get off the refined sugars then the white flours. I found your site from skinnymomskitchen’s facebok page. So excited!
Wonderful thank you for stopping by! You would be able to still use this with a large crock pot and that is certainly a great idea, they really won’t notice too much difference if you start slowing trying new recipes every week. My kids love all the desserts, its my picky hubby who is the toughest critic!
Thank you! I only found Vegan chocolate chips are they the same as grain sweetened? They had grains listed on the ingredient list. We’re trying 4 of your recipes this week. I’ll let you know how it goes, as my husband & child are also very picky.
Not sure, never tried the vegan chips. The grain sweetened haven’t been around at whole foods in a while, I had stocked up, but I haven’t seen then recently. Great about the all new recipes you are trying, hope they like them!
Saw this recipe and had to try it – I love fudge! I am a gastric bypass patient (cannot have a lot of sugar) and over the years the surgery has backfired on me and has made me ill. I made this using honey, forgot to buy liquid stevia, and it turned out quite yummy. Only one question tho – how do I store it? In a plastic container in the fridge or out? Thanks for he recipes!
I’m glad you liked it! Definitely store in the fridge.
Do you think unsweetened baking chocolate would work?
Yes but you will need to increase sweetener since the choc chips used here are slightly sweetened.
How much unsweetened chocolate should I use, if I decide to use that rather than the chocolate chips?
I would use the same amount.
I am a low surger person and the recipe looks yum I would like to try one patch with honey as honey is my go to sweetener. I will deffenitly give it a try, thank you for sharing, I love anything low calorie.
Though I’ve not yet tried this recipe (I plan to & soon!) the canned coconut milk gives food products more ‘body’ than the coconut milk in the carton.
I’ve used both for blender banana shakes, and the canned is so much better!
Saw you called for canned coconut milk. I was wondering why not regular coconut milk (from carton), since it’s hard to open a full can and leave some unused.
If you need to use canned, could you use lite or should it be regular? (this recipe looks wonderful, just want to ask first before trying.)
I’ve not tried it with a carton. Regular is the best choice here.
canned milk is thicker, has more fat in general, and is closer to evaporated milk, at least double the strength of carton milk. if you use the “lite” it won’t have as much fat but will still be concentrated, and will have more “stablilzers” thickeners, etc.
to me that looked like Coconut oil and not milk I’ve never seen coconut milk that thick where do you find it?
I mentioned in my notes I like the fudge better with coconut milk I used so that’s why It’s listed in the ingredients. For the video I used the coconut cream from the top of a can of coconut from Nature Forest.
You can buy actual coconut cream in cans. I bought some the other day at Trader Joe’s. 🙂
I found that confusing as well (video vs recipe coconut milk). I am making it now with 1/3C Silk coconut milk and using the chocolate Stevia. Sure hope it turmns out or else it is a lot of $$ down the drain!
Under my update I shared I used Silk fresh coconut milk and it came out fantastic.
I did a half batch with the honey. I’ve never made any kind of fudge before and was so surprised at how it reawakened at the stirring phase. SO good! * I added a sprinkling of sea salt on top…and may mix a little rum in next time… 🙂
it LOOKS good!
i just HAD to see the reciepe tho
no sugar, no dairy?
i couldn’t figure out what WAS in it!
Good job!
Thank you AND it tastes great too!
I have loose stevia, can that work? what would be the conversion rate between liquid and loose powder? I am so glad i found you. Most family is diabetic. and i don’t need anymore sugar. thank you
Yummy! My husband & adult son are both type II diabetic, but my son always loved having fudge at Christmas. I did a trial run of this at Thanksgiving, and it was a hit! I used 2 bags of Hershey’s sugar-free chocolate chips, & 2 packets of Splenda Naturals (stevia & erythritol) rather than 2 tsp of liquid stevia, and it was wonderful! Some may like it a bit sweeter, but it tasted just like dark chocolate to me! Thanks for helping me rescue one of our favorite Christmas traditions!