AJ’s Dairy-Free Chocolate Turtles

Turtle Chocolate Coating and Filling Ingredients:

I will sometimes double the ingredients if I want my turtles covered with extra chocolate or if I also want to dunk in sliced bananas to freeze along with them!

1/4 Cup Coconut oil
1/4 Cup Raw Cacao (not cocoa)
2 Tbs canned Coconut milk/or coconut cream
3 Tbsp Monk Fruit or Coconut Sugar
2 tsp Vanilla
Pinch of H.pink salt (very small pinch)

To Make the Chocolate:
1. Melt coconut oil in a saucepan, then stir in the remaining ingredients above. Taste and adjust if needed.

Turtle Shell Ingredients:

8 Medjool Dates (these taste like caramel when frozen-FYI) Yummmm!!

16 Raw Pecans

To Make the Turtle Shells:

Use a large plate or a pan and line it with Parchment Paper.

Slice your Medjool Dates lengthwise in half removing the Pitts.

Lay the sliced Medjool dates on their backs so you can fill the shell with the chocolate (place these on your parchment paper). I just use a spoon to scoop out some of the melted chocolate to fill in the shell.

Lay a pecan on top of the filled in Medjool date shell.

Scoop out additional chocolate filling to completely cover the top of the whole turtle. Put as much chocolate as you want! It can get messy but that is okay!

Freeze your turtles for 2 hours. Enjoy!

Storage: Either keep in the freezer or refrigerator after they have set (2 hours) as they will melt!