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Chocolate Covered Monday – Chocolate & Grape-Nuts

Chocolate Covered Grape-Nuts

Happy Chocolate Covered Monday!!!

Today’s recipe is Chocolate Covered Grapenuts!  Yes, you heard me right – Grape-Nuts!

I get a fair amount of requests for healthy Chocolate recipes, so I decided to experiment with Grape-Nuts. Grape-nuts are VERY healthy for you. After all, they’re made of natural whole grain wheat with barley cereal. I knew they were healthy when I was a kid.  They LOOKED healthy! And because of this, I hated this Grape-Nuts.  My mom ate them and I always scrunched my nose up when offered some for breakfast.  But now that I’m 42-years-old, I find I actually LOVE this cereal and feel SO much better after eating it.

So let’s dive right in and see if my Chocolate Covered Grape-Nuts were a hit.

Chocolate and Grape-Nuts

The ingredients – Grape-Nuts and Chocolate Chips.  Yes, I shop at Costco.  How could you tell?  My Chocolate Chip bag is getting pretty light.  I better make a trip soon!

wax paper on plate

Line a plate with wax paper.

put chocolate chips in a saucepan

Place Chocolate Chips in a saucepan and melt on medium low temperature…

melt chocolate chips

until the Chocolate is smooth like this.

pour chocolate in a bowl

Pour melted Chocolate into a small bowl.

pour in grape-nuts

Pour in some Grape-Nuts.  It depends on how much Chocolate you melted as to how much of the Grape-Nut cereal you need.

stir grape-nuts in melted chocolate

Mix with a fork or spoon.

mix in grape-nuts

Stirring really well until all the Grape-Nuts are covered…

chocolate-covered grape-nuts

Like this.  I added more Grape-Nuts to get this consistency since I didn’t want it too runny.

pour onto wax paper

Pour onto the wax-papered plate.

spread out with a fork or spatula

Spread out with a fork or spatula until as flat and thin as you can get it.

put in freezer for 1 hour

Place in the freezer for 1 hour.

frozen chocolate-covered grape-nuts

Until they look like this.

turn upside down onto a cutting board

Turn upside down on a cutting board.

peel off the wax paper

Remove the wax paper.

bust up the chocolate covered grape-nuts with a rolling pin

Use a rolling pin to bust up into chunks.  I couldn’t get the chunks in the small pieces I wanted so I….

place in a ziplock bag

put them in a sandwich bag…

break apart with the end of the rolling pin

and busted them up with the end of the rolling pin into smaller pieces.  The pieces ended up being all different sizes, some very small and others about the size of a nickel.

pour into a container and store in the refrigerator until served

Pour into a container for storing in the refrigerator until ready to serve.

chocolate-covered grape-nuts

Who thought Chocolate covered Grape-Nuts could look SO good?!?

ice cream

Then we got out the ice cream – the 1/2 fat kind.  It’s actually pretty good!  Have you tried this brand?

chocolate covered grape-nuts

And got out our Chocolate covered Grape-nuts and went to town!  This was SOOOOOO good!!!  And CRUNCHY!!!  For those in need of satisfying your need for something crunchy, this is it!

I always have visions of busted up frozen candy bars to use as ice cream toppings, but it never crossed my mind to use Grape-Nuts as an ice cream topping.  Until today!  I have to honestly say Chocolate covered Grape-Nuts are VERY good by themselves and even better on ice cream.

So now I’m curious – what’s your favorite ice cream topping?

by Laura Rucker on October 4, 2010
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9 Responses to “Chocolate Covered Monday – Chocolate & Grape-Nuts”

  1. Kim Beck — October 4, 2010 @ 1:26 PM (#
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    Well, I must say this recipe certainly makes Grape-Nuts more palatable!
    I wonder what chocolate covered – granola tastes like? hmmm I love granola anyway but chocolate might be a good additive.

    Favorite topping? I don’t eat much ice cream and only have a topping if we buy a special goodie at an ice cream joint. I’d have to say FUDGE SAUCE!!!

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    • gotchocolate replied: — October 4th, 2010 @ 9:48 PM

      I’ll have to try Chocolate covered granola Kim! Thanks for the idea! :) I’ve had plenty of store bought Chocolate covered granola bars or ones with Chocolate Chips in them , but it would be fun to make them at home.

      We don’t eat ice cream much either. We love it TOO much and it’s gone within 48 hours – EASY! I agree with you on fudge sauce. YUM-O! Geez, now I’m thinking about Dairy Queen’s Peanut Buster Parfait!

      THANKS! :( HAHAHA!!!

  2. Virginia from Lady V dZine — October 4, 2010 @ 1:28 PM (#
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    My favorite ice cream topping is honey. Local honey on vanilla ice cream. Yum.

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    • gotchocolate replied: — October 4th, 2010 @ 9:43 PM

      Oh wow! I never thought to put honey on ice cream! VERY interesting. I’m going to have to try that tomorrow night since we still have ice cream and I have a little “teddy bear” honey container in the cupboard. Wow, that must be a MAJOR sugar fix!

      THANKS for the idea! :)

  3. Kathleen B — October 17, 2010 @ 7:00 AM (#
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    Oh yummy! I may actually like Grape Nuts this way. You should contact the company and let them know that if they ever decide to do Chocolate Grape Nuts, you want some money. :)

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    • gotchocolate replied: — October 17th, 2010 @ 7:08 AM

      GREAT idea Kathleen! I was surprised at how good Chocolate covered Grape-Nuts are. REALLY good on ice cream too!

  4. Mary Elderton — March 30, 2011 @ 12:41 AM (#
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    I love grapenuts and I am going to love this recipe! Thank you.

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  5. Shop with Me Mama (Kim) — April 30, 2011 @ 11:44 PM (#
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    OMG. YUM!!!! I am trying this this weekend and will let you know how it goes!! Thanks for sharing girly :)

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  6. Feast on the Cheap — September 23, 2011 @ 8:59 AM (#
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    This counts towards my daily fiber intake, right ;)

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