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These chocolate lollipops are a delicious and beautiful chocolate treat full of the dried fruit, freeze dried fruit, and nuts of your choice.
Making chocolate lollipops from home is easier than you think! Not only are they beautiful and delicious, but they come together quickly and are easy to customize to your tastes.
This recipe was inspired by chocolate lollipops that I ate in Bordeaux when I lived there. They had dried kiwi and dried strawberries on them, and they were just delicious. I decided to recreate them at home and so this recipe was born. If you love chocolate and fruit together, try my Chocolate Covered Pumpkin Stuffed Dates or Fall Chocolate Bark.
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What makes this recipe great
- It is easy to make. All you need is the chocolate mold, lollipop sticks, and recipe ingredients.
- It is easy to customize. Use your favorite nuts, dried fruits or freeze dried fruits. You can also use any type of chocolate that you want.
- These chocolate lollipops make beautiful gifts or decor.
Recipe ingredients
- Chocolate chips– dark chocolate, semi-sweet chocolate, white chocolate, dairy-free chocolate all work here. Enjoy life chocolate chips are dairy-free and gluten-free, HU chocolate chips are Paleo.
- Dried fruit-I found that raisins, apricots, and figs tasted really good with the chocolate. Freeze dried fruits work amazing as well. Freeze dried strawberries were taste amazing here as well.
- Nuts– almonds, pistachios, hazelnuts, peanuts all work here.
See recipe card below for a full list of ingredients and measurements.
Additions/ Substitutions
- You could use an orange oil or mint extract to season the melted chocolate.
- Feel free to use the dried fruit of your choice, fruit dried kiwi to dried cherries or cranberries. The sky is the limit.
Step by step instructions
Step 1: Arrange the dried fruit and nuts into the bottom of the chocolate mold.
Step 2: Add the lollipop sticks.
Step 3: Melt your chocolate in the microwave and pour into chocolate molds.
Step 4: Make sure the melted chocolate is poured into every mold.
Step 5: Add more dried fruit on top of the melted chocolate.
Step 6: Put the lollipop mold into the refrigerator for an hour.
Expert tips
- I like to melt the chocolate in these awesome silicone mixing bowls. They bend, which makes it really easy to pour the chocolate without a mess.
- Make sure not to burn your chocolate as you melt it, otherwise it will be become hard and difficult to manage. That is why it is important to heat the chocolate up slowly. That is why I only heat the chocolate in 30 second batches in the microwave.
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Chocolate Lollipops with Dried Fruit
Equipment
Ingredients
- 3/4 cup semi sweet chocolate chips
- 1/2 tsp melted coconut oil, or olive oil
- Dried fruit or freeze dried fruit of your choice, raisins, goji berries, pumpkin seeds, dried figs, almonds, freeze dried strawberries etc
Instructions
- In a microwave safe bowl, mix the chocolate chips with your oil. Put the bowl into the microwave for 30 seconds, then mix everything around. Heat for another 30 seconds, mix everything around again. If the chocolate isn't completely melted at this point, heat for another 20-30 seconds and mix. Set the melted chocolate aside.
- Arrange the dried fruit in the pattern of your choice, in the chocolate candy molds, put the lollipop sticks into the mold, then top the individual chocolate molds with chocolate until the mold is full. ( If you want to make the chocolate easier to pour, heat it in the microwave for 15 extra seconds). Smooth out with a knife if you need to.
- Top the chocolate filled molds with dried fruit to make double sided lollipops, again arrange the dried fruit in the pattern of your choice.
- Put the mold into the refrigerator for 1 hour.
- Lift the lollipop sticks upward, and the chocolate lollipops should pop out of the mold easily.
Notes
- I like to melt the chocolate in these awesome silicone mixing bowls. They bend, which makes it really easy to pour the chocolate without a mess.
- Make sure not to burn your chocolate as you melt it, otherwise it will be become hard and difficult to manage. That is why it is important to heat the chocolate up slowly. That is why I only heat the chocolate in 30 second batches in the microwave.
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
This look absolutely delicious! Thank you for the elaborate recipe and the pictures too. I look forward to trying to make these!
The point of the Paleo diet is, and I feel some people forget this, to not only diet, but to eat delicious foods at the same time. It’s the only diet I’ve come across that cuts out food groups, yet still focusses on everyone’s need to eat great food.
I’m a real foodie, and would not survive on any other diet, but Paleo has been very good for me. I’m reviewing paleo cookbooks you might be interested in at the moment on my site
I totally agree with you Katie! A lot of people think Paleo is boring and restrictive, but it doesn’t have to be! 🙂 I’ll check out your cookbooks!
Great idea – super cute and looks yummy!
Thank you!! 🙂
Oh Boy I can t wait to have one with a delicious cup of coffee What a treat….
Thank you This is a great idea.
Yum! I’m going to have one with coffee now!