Want to make your own healthy chocolate at home? Here's a simple chocolate recipe with alternative sweetening for those who don't want conventional white sugar. Perfect when you want to serve something delicious or why not during the Easter celebration?
You'll need
100 g cocoa butter
50 g cocoa powder
100 g carob powder or lucuma
2 tbsp coconut palm sugar, xylitol or honey
50 g – 100 g dried fruit and/or nuts/seeds. You can for example use raisins, goji berries, coconut, hemp seeds, cashews, almonds, pumpkin seeds etc.
How to make it?
Melt the cocoa butter on low heat.
Stir in all other ingredients until it becomes a smooth mixture.
Pour into molds. Silicone molds work optimally we think.
Place in the freezer for 15 min.
Then store in the refrigerator.
Nice silicone molds are available for example at Panduro.
Vegan Chocolate Mousse
Plant-based chocolate mousse with avocado is as simple as can be to make yourself at home.
You'll need
2 ripe avocados
5 tbsp carob powder
2 tsp vanilla powder
2 slices kiwi
4 small pieces watermelon
2 wooden skewers
Fresh mint for garnish
How to make it?
Put avocado in a blender together with carob and vanilla and blend until smooth.
Take kiwi, watermelon that you've sliced and thread the fruit onto skewers.
Put mousse for one person in a small bowl.
Garnish the mousse with a little fresh mint.
Place a fruit skewer on top.
Serve and enjoy.
