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
What is the best place to keep these rice squares with chocolate?
It says cool dry place on the package, which is where?
A cool and dark place would be inside your pantry, away from the stove, oven, or major appliances which may make the cabinet a bit warm. If you have a favorite place to store shelf stable pantry goods, such as your baking ingredients, they will be safe with those.
Still a boring snack (RICE CAKES) but a tad less boring with the dip. We used white chocolate and then made a snow man face for the Christmas Platter.