This healthy Chocolate Fruit Dip is lightly sweet and made with avocados, cocoa powder, maple syrup, and vanilla. A healthy dessert that’s perfect for dipping fresh fruit, cookies, crackers, pretzels, and more. Paleo friendly and vegan recipe.
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Why You’ll Love This Recipe:
- Only 6 ingredients to pure chocolate bliss.
- Sneaky way to include healthy fats into dessert – and satisfy those chocolate cravings.
- Pairing with your favorite fruits means you are getting additional fiber, vitamins, minerals, and antioxidants.
- Real ingredients, easy to throw together, and a dip everyone will love (yes, even kiddos)!
Recipe Ingredients
No special ingredients required, which means all with need is a handful of simple ingredients from grocery stores. For this chocolate avocado dip, we will need:
- avocados – if you want to enjoy this fruit dip recipe sooner rather than later, make sure to grab ripe avocados if you can. Or allow the avocados to ripen at room temperature.
- maple syrup – the liquid sweetener here keeps this as a delicately sweet recipe and vegan friendly. Free free to make it a little sweeter with extra maple syrup or coconut sugar.
- cocoa powder – make sure to use unsweetened cocoa powder, or swap it out for raw cacao powder. Note: The base of this dip is cocoa powder. Although you can use a different kind of chocolate, like paleo chocolate bars, and melt it in a microwave-safe bowl or mixing bowl over a pot of water to achieve the same chocolate dip taste, I have not tried this method myself. But let me know in the comments if you do!
- vanilla extract – vanilla adds a nice dose of floral sweetness.
- pinch of salt – a little sea salt is needed to enhance all that chocolate flavor.
- non-dairy milk – optional, but the milk helps thin out the dip if it’s a little on the thick side. Use any dairy-free milk you have on hand, like almond milk, cashew milk, oat milk, or coconut milk.
Find the full detailed instructions with measurements in the recipe card below, at the end of this post.
How to Make Chocolate Fruit Dip
Chocolate fruit dip takes less than 5 minutes to throw together, which means it is the perfect healthy fruit dip to serve for a special occasion or just because. Here’s how I like to make it:
Add Ingredients to Food Processor
In a small food processor bowl or blender cup, add avocado, maple syrup, cocoa powder, vanilla extract, and salt.
Blend
Blend until smooth, scraping down the sides of the bowl or cup a few times with a rubber spatula.
Adjust Consistency (optional)
If the chocolate dip is a little thick, add 1-2 tablespoons plant-based milk to thin to your desired consistency. Process once more until you have a smooth and creamy dip. Transfer to a small bowl to serve.
Serving Suggestions
This healthy chocolate fruit dip is the perfect anchor to build a beautiful dessert charcuterie board whether you’re serving for friends and family, Valentine’s Day, Mother’s Day, or want to do something fun with kids! I love how the look of this board came out so here are our favorite ways to serve:
- Fresh Fruit Platter: fresh strawberries, blueberries, raspberries, banana slices, apple slices
- Healthy Snacks: graham crackers, crunchy cookies, salty pretzels
- Homemade Treats: Vegan Chocolate Chip Cookies, Dark Chocolate Chunk Cookies
- Extra Toppings: give it a little pizzazz by finishing with whipped coconut cream, vegan chocolate chips (I love Enjoy Life), vegan chocolate syrup, chopped dark chocolate bars, or orange zest
- Nut / Seed Butters: use a butter knife to swirl in some peanut butter, almond butter, or sunflower seed butter
How to Store & Make Ahead
Leftover dip will keep in an airtight container in the refrigerator for 2-3 days. Because we’re using avocados, you want to make sure to place a piece of plastic wrap directly on the surface for ultimate freshness. Give it a good stir the next day and day after.
Making Fruit Dip for a Party?
If serving this easy vegan fruit dip to guests, you can prep the avocado chocolate dip the morning of, wash and dry berries, slice any fruit and build a board with cookies, graham crackers and pretzels, then tightly wrap and chill up to 2 hours.
More Vegan Chocolate Recipes You’ll Love:
If you make this Healthy Chocolate Fruit Dip recipe, be sure to leave a comment and star rating on the blog! I love hearing from you, and it helps others learn more about the recipe too. Xx Ashley
Avocado Chocolate Fruit Dip
Ingredients
Chocolate Dip
- 2 large ripe avocados, pitted and peeled
- ⅓ cup to 1/2 cup pure maple syrup*
- ⅔ cup unsweetened cocoa powder, cacao powder may be subbed
- ½ tablespoon vanilla extract
- pinch of sea salt
- 2 tablespoons non-dairy milk, to thin as needed
For Dipping
- strawberries, blueberries, raspberries, sliced bananas
- pretzels
- graham crackers
- crunchy cookies
Instructions
- In a small food processor bowl or blender cup, add avocado, maple syrup, cocoa powder, vanilla extract and salt.
- Blend ingredients until smooth – you may need to scrape down the sides of the bowl or cup a couple of times with a spatula.
- Thin as needed: If you'd like to thin out the fruit dip, add milk 1 tablespoon at a time, to thin to desired consistency. I used 2 tablespoons.
- Serve: Transfer dip to small serving bowl. Serve with assorted fruits, graham crackers, pretzels, crunchy cookies and more. Enjoy!
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This post was originally sponsored in partnership with California Giant Berry Farms in 2017. It has since been updated with more information. All opinions expressed, as always, are my own.
This recipe originally published June 2017. The photos and post have been updated with more instructions – same delicious recipe!
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