Ultimate Raw Chocolate
If you make this raw chocolate recipe yourself, by hand you have full control over the ingredients and their proportions. In this way you can make a healthy version of this “food of the gods” – tailored exactly to your personal tastes. It’s great to add a smattering of almonds or a mix of smashed nuts to give it an extra boost.
Raw cacao is particularly high in minerals especially magnesium. This is the mineral that prevents cramping and aids muscle recovery.
Coconut butter is good for metabolism, the thyroid and improving bowel flora.
Lucuma is a natural sweetener – the more you use the more creamy and less strong and “buzzy” the chocolate is – remember chocolate contains a fair amount of caffeine.
You can add nuts, dried fruits, vanilla essence or powder and other delights to your chocolate – I particularly like geranium and orange with cinnamon which can seriously enhance this raw chocolate recipe.
Be careful with using essential oils (less is more) – essential oils should not be taken internally by young children, pregnant women or anyone with stomach ulcers. For a party I make a batch of these and then sprinkle with edible glitter… sparkly and delicious.
Ingredients for your raw chocolate recipe
3 heaped tablespoons of coconut oil (you can use cocoa butter which sets harder with a more traditional chocolately texture), but I don’t like the taste as much and it isn’t as good for you)
3 heaped tablespoons of raw chocolate powder (or you can mix cocoa powder and lucuma powder in as well) sift everything so there are no lumps
A few squeezes of date syrup to taste (less is more!); if on a sugar free diet use stevia drops to taste
10 drops of orange or 5 drops of peppermint essential oil – best to choose organic for this purpose and omit if giving to pregnant women (it is likely to be harmless, but best to err on the side of caution).
Raw Chocolate Method Recipe
1. Make a bain marie (take a small saucepan and bring some water to a gentle simmer. Place a pyrex glass bowl over the saucepan so that the bowl does not go in the water.
2. Add the coconut oil and or cocoa butter to the bowl and melt. Take off the heat when it is liquid and leave to cool a bit, but not harden – 2-5 mins
3. Add the drops of essential oil and a couple of squeezes of biona date syrup or drops of stevia, stir.
4. Add the sifted powders and stir everything together creating a chocolate sauce. Taste the sauce and add more lucuma if liked – or more chocolate powder. The consistency you’re looking for is similar to double cream.
5. Pour into rubber ice cube moulds or special chocolate moulds (more flexible and easier to use) and refrigerate or freeze to set. I pour into a glass jug and use this to fill the moulds – much easier.
6. Pop the chocolates out the moulds and store in a glass jar in the fridge. Enjoy this raw chocolate recipe! Please feel free to share out to your friends and family or keep it a secret and surprise them with your chocolate making skills.
