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Recipe: Holiday Chocolates

Holiday Chocolates

Holiday ChocolatesThese 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

  1. Blend everything together in a dry (no moisture) blender until smooth.
  2. Pour mixture into chocolate candy bar molds or onto a large cookie sheet.
  3. Let set up in the refrigerator (do not freeze) until set (about 5 to 10 minutes).
  4. Keep stored in the refrigerator or at room temperature.

Chocolate Additions

Divide the batter into three bowls then add the following ingredients:

Bowl 1: Almond-Cranberry

3 Tbsp. powdered coconut sugar or xylitol (ground to a powder in a coffee grinder)
1/2-1 cup chopped almonds (soaked and dehydrated)
1/4-1/2 cup dried cranberries sweetened with apple juice

Bowl 2: Cinnamon-Pecan Bark

3 Tbsp. powdered coconut sugar or xylitol (ground to a powder in a coffee grinder)
1/2-1 cup chopped pecans (soaked and dehydrated)
1 1/2 tsp. cinnamon powder or 10 drops cinnamon oil

Bowl 3: Buckwheat Crispies

3 Tbsp. powdered coconut sugar or xylitol
1 cup buckwheat (soaked and dehydrated)

Directions

  1. Mix additions into your chocolate.
  2. Pour into your favorite holiday chocolate molds or in mini candy cups.

Find more delicious recipes at greenlivingaz.com/recipes

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