Healthy Homemade Chocolates
Easy, healthy homemade chocolates with a peppermint centre — they look spectacular and taste even better.
Ingredients
- Chocolate shell
- Raw Criollo Cacao Powder1/2 cup
- Raw Criollo Cacao Butter30g
- Brown Rice Syrup (or Blue Agave Syrup)2 tsp
- Raw Blue Agave Syrup (alternative)2 tsp
- Extra virgin coconut oil3 tbsp
- Peppermint centre
- Coconut butter (homemade, see notes)3 tbsp
- Peppermint culinary-grade essential oil1 drop
- Brown Rice Syrup (or Blue Agave Syrup)1/2 tsp
- Extra virgin coconut oil2 tbsp
Method
- 1 Chocolate: Melt the coconut oil and cacao butter together in a bowl set over hot water.
- 2 Chocolate: Once melted, remove from the heat and stir in the cacao powder and syrup, then pour into a jug.
- 3 Chocolate: Arrange 12 mini silicone cups on a tray and fill the base of each with chocolate.
- 4 Chocolate: Chill in the fridge or freezer to set (about 10 minutes), keeping the remaining chocolate warm over the hot water.
- 5 Centre: Melt all centre ingredients together in a bowl over hot water until combined into a firm, manageable mixture.
- 6 Centre: Divide into 12 equal portions and mould into flattened balls.
- 7 Assembly: Place a peppermint centre into each set chocolate cup, leaving space around the edges.
- 8 Assembly: Return to the fridge or freezer to set, then pour the remaining chocolate over each one to fully coat.
- 9 Chill until firm before serving.
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cacao powder, raw, organic
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cacao butter, raw, organic
$28.30
This recipe for homemade chocolates is easy, healthy and looks spectacular... well for an amateur chocolate maker, I couldn't believe my eyes as I watched them come out of their moulds.
*To make your own coconut butter: take 1 cup shredded or desiccated coconut and some melted extra virgin coconut oil plus a pinch of salt. In a blender place the coconut and blitz on high speed until it becomes a butter consistency, add the salt and some coconut oil to adjust the texture as you go. You are aiming to make a buttery paste. If you all of a sudden think it is too runny remember it thickens as soon as you rest it.
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