Easy Raw Dark Chocolate Bar
After trying to get rid of his allergies for almost 3 months, my son told me the other morning that he only wanted to eat processed candy on his birthday and on Christmas Day because he didn’t want to get sick anymore. Well, he has been obsessing about Peppermint Candy Canes and Peppermint Chocolate Bars even before this holiday season came around. Hmmm, sound familiar?
Well, believe it or not, where we live, all the ‘pretty healthy’ candy canes were all sold out by December! Lucky for my son, a dear friend whose child also has allergies, bought an extra box of TruSweets for him. He decorated our tree with nine of them and ate only one today. As for Peppermint Chocolate Bars, my son was happy to discover that his Mama can make pretty healthy Raw Dark Chocolate Bars for him in less than half an hour! Here’s how:
I use my weighing machine quite a bit. I prefer to weigh ingredients instead of use measuring cups because I have less to wash up afterwards! Notice: my weighing machine is permanently in a ziplock bag to ease clean up!
Melt by placing a bowl of cacao butter in another bowl full of hot water and stir occasionally:
4 oz raw cacao butter (before melting, I first use my fork to break the cacao butter into small pieces… so melting takes only a few minutes)
When melted, add to the cacao butter:
pinch of sea salt
1 drop of doTerra peppermint essential oil (optional, or other flavours to suit your taste)
1 tsp vanilla extract
2 oz raw agave syrup/raw honey/maple syrup
2 – 3 oz raw cacao powder, depending on how dark you want your chocolate
Mix well. Pour into molds and place in fridge or freezer for 10-15 minutes. Remove from fridge or freezer, pop out of molds and enjoy!
I use metal moulds (above) and silicon mini-muffin moulds. For the latter, I only fill them halfway. After they solidify in the fridge/freezer, I pop my thin chocolate
Chocolate Hearts are for every season!!!
That looks sooo good. Where did you buy the raw cacao butter?
Hi Salad Sisters… I usually get my raw cacao butter in my health food shop, but here it is on line through Amazon too: http://astore.amazon.com/mamainthekitchen-20/detail/B003M1H0B6 😉 Hope you like it! It’s so easy to add the spices you love to this one.
have you thought of adding hot pepper (probably cayenne) instead of peppermint? or maybe orange zest? i think that would be delicious.
Yum!!! Those would be delicious! I also love sea salt with dark chocolate… so that would be another fave of mine! 😉