It’s no secret that I love chocolate. I eat chocolate every single day and consider it a fail on my part when I skip a daily dose of the cacao goodness.
Yes my friends, that is a 1 pound block of chocolate. Technically speaking it’s cocoa mass since it’s completely unsweetened, but why speak in techy terms when anything chocolately is involved?
When it comes to chocolate, I prefer the bitterest of the bitter. Anything with less than 85% cocoa content honestly tastes too sweet for my palete, and this unsweetened chocolate brick is heaven.
I’m also an avid lover of honey and couldn’t resist purchasing a slab of honeycomb the other day at Whole Foods.
Gorgeous!
Today I present to you two recipes involving rich dark chocolate. I’m hesitant to call them recipes because they’re so easy. I challenge you to flirt with bitter cocoa, you won’t regret it!
Dark Chocolate Honey Drops
What you’ll need:
- 2 ounces of unsweetened chocolate *
- honeycomb, refrigerated for at least 2 hours until firm **
* Please trust me on this and don’t use sweetened chocolate…use 100% unsweetened baking chocolate unless you want your teeth to cry out in sugary sweet pain
** I suspect that raw, unprocessed honey would work as well since it remains firm at room temperature
Directions:
1.) Chop up the baking chocolate into small chunks
2.) Melt the chocolate in the microwave in 30 second intervals to prevent burning
3.) Take small thumbnail-sized pieces of honeycomb and carefully dip them into the melted chocolate
4.) Place each piece onto a piece of wax paper or parchment paper
5.) Refrigerate for an hour
6.) Enjoy!
Even if you’re not a fan of extremely dark chocolate, you will be surprised how perfectly the sweet honey balances out the unsweetened chocolate.
Pepperminty Choco-Dipped Pretzels
What you’ll need:
- approximately 2 ounces of chocolate *
- 15-20 pretzels
- 4 small candy canes or 1 large candy cane **
* I used unsweetened baking chocolate from my chocolate baking brick
** I’m sure you can use other toppings like coconut flakes
Directions:
1.) Blend the candy canes until a powder forms (about 5 seconds)
2.) Melt the chocolate carefully in the microwave and throw in a handful of pretzels to coat well. Continue until all the pretzels are covered.
3.) Place the pretzels on parchment or wax paper and immediately sprinkle the candy cane topping over each pretzel before the chocolate dries
4.) Refrigerate for at least 15-20 minutes until the chocolate sets
5.) Enjoy!
I love love love the sweet and salty combo and these totally satisfied my craving. However, the bitterness of the chocolate is definitely more noticeable because the only sweetness to balance out the bitterness comes from the candy cane bits. If you don’t enjoy dark chocolate, use semi-sweet chocolate chips instead.
While these “recipes” are messy, they’re also incredibly quick and easy to make. Plus, they look pretty too!
How dark can you go with chocolate?
Does a bite of chocolate a day keep the doctor away?
♥ Irina
omg, the chocolate coated honey comb is some serious food porn. Sadly I never seen honey comb in a supermarket in Germany – but as soon as I will, I absolutely will make your recipe.
You can use regular unprocessed honey for this recipe as well! Raw, unprocessed honey is very firm at room temp so it will definitely work
I used to be into super dark chocolates until I realized milk chocolate with nuts was more my gig. Although if there are pecans or walnuts involved, I’m totally down for dark – ha!
When I was young I used to hate chocolate + nuts but now I love the combo as well!
Wow, should not have opened this at work. It looks so good!
Thanks! Hopefully I “inspired” you to try it out
Yum! I love bitter chocolate too. I may have to try the honey recipe although I’m a little scared of buying an actual honeycomb.
I was scared of honeycomb too…I had absolutely no idea how to deal with it but ended up just eating it as is!
holy moly those honey drops, I love super dark chocolate so those sound bomb. make some for me? please? haha
Haha sure!! Just as long as you promise to pay a little visit to Chicago soon
Um, yes please to all of the above. Feel free to send any leftovers my way!
I like chocolate of any variety, but I am a pretty big fan of dark chocolate. I don’t like to go *too* dark though…75%ish is usually my limit.
75% dark used to be my go-to but nowadays I’m all about the 85% dark chocolate variety. Don’t worry about the unsweetened chocolate here though, the honey totally balances out the bitterness!
I love grilled bananas with chocolate icing
I like dark chocolate when I have it and the darker the better! I really want to make the honey recipe like OMG! These are really creative girl they look like they would be a lot of fun to make with kids actually! Babysitting idea for me!
I hope you try out the recipe! The pretzel recipe would definitely be a fun one to make with kids because they can get really creative with toppings.
Oh.my.word
This is NOT a post I should be reading at 9:30 at night 
I think I’m going to have to take a trip to the kitchen when I finish up my comment. I mean… honey and chocolate? IT sounds like heaven. I’m definitely a firm believer that a bite of chocolate keeps the doctor away, and when it comes to what kind I like, I have to admit that I’m not really that discriminate. Sometimes I’m in the mood for dark and sometimes nothing will do but a bite of melt-in-your-mouth milk. It’s all good in my books 
It’s never too late for chocolate
Although please tell me that I’m not the only one who is affected by the minimal caffeine content when I eat it too close to bedtime? I hope you try out the recipe!
I love! So creative. But I Amin awe at the honey comb pictures…. I feel like I should lick the screen. Wow.
Thanks! The honeycomb purchase was really random but for some reason…out of NO WHERE…I had a craving for honeycomb. I waited for 3 weeks for Whole Foods to re-stock their supply and it was oh so worth it
As a kid, I used to despise dark chocolate—couldn’t handle the bitterness! I could only handle white/milk chocolate so those were my favorites. Now I like (most) flavors of chocolate…not sure about 100% dark or 98% or whatever since I haven’t tried it!
I was the same as a kid! The sweeter the better. Now I can easily chow down on super dark chocolate, especially when I combine it with something super sweet like dates or honey. You should give it a try!
LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE. I firmly believe that a bite of chocolate a day can keep the doctor away!!! I didn’t initially like dark chocolate very much, but after hearing about all of its health benefits how could I not adapt? LOL
Where do these recipes come from!?!?!? Do you invent them yourself? Or what is your incredible source!?!?!?!?
Oh man you NEED to try more dark chocolate! It’s something worth splurging on (price-wise I mean) because high quality dark chocolate is very pleasing to the palate. Not sure how I came up with these recipes…I was just craving chocolate-covered EVERYTHING so it happened
Those chocolate dipped honey combs look incredible! I need to look out for them next time I’m at Whole Foods
They’re such a great snack! I’ve seen honeycomb in other grocery stores as well, just keep your eyes out for it and you won’t regret it
Yum! I love bitter chocolate! The honey comb and dark chocolate looks so good! Ahh I want some dark chocolate now! lol
Go get some! Chocolate makes for a good bedtime snack (as long as the minor caffeine content doesn’t keep you awake)