Holiday Chocolates
These healthy holiday chocolates by Pure Joy Academy’s Elaina Love prove decadence doesn’t have to destroy your devotion to clean eating this season.
Ingredients
1 cup melted cacao butter
1/4 cup melted coconut oil
1 1/2 cups cacao or cocoa powder
1/2 cup lucuma powder (if you don’t have lucuma add carob powder or mesquite powder)
2 tsp. vanilla extract (or vanilla essence)
30 drops caramel essence or 2 teaspoons butterscotch extract
1 1/2 tsp. Sweet Leaf white stevia powder with no additives
1/2 tsp. high mineral salt
Note: Lucuma and cacao butter can be found at most health food stores.
Directions
- Blend everything together in a dry (no moisture) blender until smooth.
- Pour mixture into chocolate candy bar molds or onto a large cookie sheet.
- Let set up in the refrigerator (do not freeze) until set (about 5 to 10 minutes).
- Keep stored in the refrigerator or at room temperature.
Chocolate Additions
Divide the batter into three bowls then add the following ingredients:
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Bowl 1: Almond-Cranberry 3 Tbsp. powdered coconut sugar or xylitol (ground to a powder in a coffee grinder) |
Bowl 2: Cinnamon-Pecan Bark 3 Tbsp. powdered coconut sugar or xylitol (ground to a powder in a coffee grinder) |
Bowl 3: Buckwheat Crispies 3 Tbsp. powdered coconut sugar or xylitol |
Directions
- Mix additions into your chocolate.
- Pour into your favorite holiday chocolate molds or in mini candy cups.
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