A broken bar of dark chocolate beside a split cacao pod, a bowl of cacao powder, discs of cacao butter, and a honey dipper (illustration)

Homemade 85% Dark Chocolate: Three Ingredients and a Kitchen Scale

Most homemade chocolate recipes call themselves dark without doing the math. This one does. Forty-five grams of cacao butter, forty of natural cacao powder, and fifteen of honey make a 100 g bar that is 85% cacao by weight, with nothing else in it but a pinch of salt and a drop of vanilla. Ten minutes of work, an hour in the fridge.

November 4, 2026 · 18 min · Barefoot Betters