Chocolate Dipped Rice Cakes
This dessert is so simple, and isn’t restricted to the holidays. With just three ingredients (and sometimes 2) you can have a crunch, sweet, low-fat treat. Use your favorite rice cake or puffed corn cake, melt semi-sweet good quality chocolate chips (or your favorite carob or peanut butter chips), add a drop of two of extract if desired, and you’ve got a light, satisfying dessert.
Servings: 6 Servings
Calories: 128kcal
A simple, kid-friendly treat to prepare and enjoy, with chocolate and low calorie rice cakes
Ingredients
- 6 Rice Cakes - or puffed cork cakes
- ½ cup Semi Sweet Chocolate Chips - or peanut butter chips
Optional Additions to Choose From
- 1-2 drops Flavor Extracts - if electing to add to chocolate
- 1 teaspoon Peanut Butter - per rice cake (see notes)
- 1 sprinkle Sea Salt - per rice cake (if using)
- 1 sprinkle crushed nuts - per rice cake
- 1 sprinkle orange zest - per rice cake
- 1 sprinkle flax seeds - per rice cake
- 1 sprinkle instant coffee - per rice cake
Instructions
- Melt the chips over low heat in a double boiler, or, gently melt in your microwave, watching carefully and stirring often, in 10 second increments, until smooth.
- Add 1-2 drops of extract, if any, and stir until blended.
- Pour melted chocolate in a shallow dish.
- Spread wax paper or parchment on a cookie sheet.
- Dip the rice cakes in the melted chocolate and place chocolate-side up on the wax covered cookie sheet. A silicone brush is useful for getting chocolate into nooks and crannies.
- Sprinkle with sea salt, if desired.
- Put cookie sheet in the fridge to firm up the chocolate.
- Store in individual wax sandwich bags after chocolate is firm.
Optional Peanut Butter Version
- We made one batch into Peanut Butter Chocolate Dipped Cakes by spreading 1 teaspoon of peanut butter, very thin, on a rice cake, and then dipped that same side into chocolate, to seal in the peanut butter. This was a hit.
Optional Mini Version
- Purchase the smallish sizes, just 2 or so inches across, for mini dipped rice cakes, or, use these small versions to make a "dipped sandwich."
Spa Index Kitchen Notes
The calorie count is based on semi-sweet chocolate chips and no additional toppings. Be sure to factor in the different count for peanut butter chips and any toppings added. There are many variations we like, including:
- Chocolate PB: Use equal portions of chocolate and peanut butter chips
- Chocolate Orange: Chips + 1-2 drops Pure Orange Extract
- Chocolate Almond: Chips + 1-2 drops Pure Almond Extract + chopped nuts
- Chocolate Mint: Chips + 1-2 drops of Mint Extract
- Chocolate Coconut: Chips + 1-2 drops of Coconut Extract
- Chocolate Rum: Chips + 1-2 drops Rum Extract
- Bluth Cakes: Chips + 1-2 drops of Banana Extract + chopped nuts (this was a surprisingly funny addition to our holiday table plus a tasty hit)
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Nutrition
Serving: 1 Cake | Calories: 128 kcal (6%) | Carbohydrates: 19 g (6%) | Protein: 0.7 g (1%) | Fat: 5.6 g (9%) | Sodium: 2.3 mg | Fiber: 0.4 g (2%)
Photo courtesy of Mr. GC
Very easy. Made some with chocolate chips and some with peanut butter chips, and put frozen yogurt inside for rice cake ice cream sandwiches.
So simple and good!
It’s a pity I didn’t find this collection of cookie recipes before Christmas! Yummy.
I really like this recipe.It’s one of those simple but “why didn’t I think of that” things. All the ingredients were in my kitchen. Crunchy chocolate snack without loading me down with fats and sugars. I used mini rice cakes, different flavors too. Melted peanut butter chips and dipped cinnamon rice cakes. That was also good.
I’m afraid the audience who will get your Bluth Cakes joke is pretty slim to none these days! Pity, because I laughed out loud. It’s a riff on Chocolate Covered Bananas with Nuts, sold by the Bluth Family at the Banana Stand (Arrested Development, TV Show).
I guess we should have left a note. :)
HAH!!!!!! Two laughs in one day.