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Simple Raw Chocolate Recipe

gochocchick — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 22:44:27 +0000

Raw chocolate is incredibly easy to make (especially if you have a CHOC Chick Kit). Here is our simple Raw CHOC Recipe to help you on your way.

Raw chocolate making ingredients:

100g Raw cacao butter
4tbs Raw cacao powder
2-3tbs Agave syrup (or to taste)
1-2tsp Vanilla bean extract
Ice cube trays or moulds

Chop or grate the cacao butter, place in a glass bowl and melt gently over a pan of boiling water. Once the cacao butter has melted remove from heat and add the raw cacao powder and vanilla bean extract. Mix in the agave syrup, make sure to mix this well to ensure the mixture has blended well and taste to see if mix is sweet enough (feel free to add more ageve if you prefer a sweeter taste). You raw chocolate mix will have a runny consistency so simply spoon or pour into ice cube trays or chocolate moulds.

Place in the fridge for 1.5 to 2 hours or in the freezer for half an hour to set. Once set, remove from moulds and enjoy!

Simple and healthy raw chocolate recipe

gochocchick — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 17:47:39 +0000

Raw chocolate is incredibly easy to make (especially if you have a CHOC Chick Kit). Here is our simple Raw CHOC Recipe to help you on your way.

CHOC Chick Raw Chocolates

Ingredients:

100g Raw cacao butter
4tbs Raw cacao powder
2-3tbs Agave syrup (or to taste)
1-2tsp Vanilla bean extract
Ice cube trays or moulds

Raw Chocolate Making Directions

70g of powder (4tbs) and 100g of butter makes approximately 32 chocolates (16 chocolates per siicone mould).

Gently melt the cacao butter over a bowl of hot water (do not overheat or you will damage the nutritional benefits of the raw chocolate). Add the cacao powder, approx 2tbs of agave syrup and vanilla bean extract, whisk well and remove from heat.

Spoon into moulds (try adding nuts and dried fruit to the moulds before spooning in the raw chocolate mixture, my favourite fruit n nut mix is cranberry and macadamia nuts)

Leave to set in the fridge for 1 – 2 hours or 20-30 minutes in the freezer.

Get CHOCCreative and add different liquors, essences and spices to the warm chocolate mix (a teaspoon of chilli powder makes fantastic chilli chocs).

CHOC Chick Fruit and Nut Rw Chocolates

Why Raw Chocolate? Because it Makes you Happy!

gochocchick — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 12:14:03 +0000

As this is my first ever blog, it might be a good idea to explain to everyone why I left a pretty secure and fairly interesting job, working with really lovely people, to set up my own small business at home (on my own!). Well, it all started in January 2008 when I met up with a good friend, who had been seriously ill. We went to see a film together (it was actually the first grown up, non-animated children’s film I had seen in about 5 years) and had dinner afterwards. We talked about her health issues and how she had been told by doctors and nutritionists that she could no longer eat sugar, gluten, dairy foods and of course chocolate. Not being able to eat chocolate was probably the worst one until she discovered she could eat raw chocolate and easily make it herself.

I’d mentioned that having grown up in South America, I really missed the taste of pure chocolate and although I ate far too much commercially processed chocolate, I still craved the taste of the chocolate you find in Venezuela or Argentina. So, I went round to her house the next day and tried her home made raw chocs, they were absolutely divine. They totally transported me back to my childhood.

It was the taste that got me, way before I realised that they were also incredible health benefits to raw cacao. Those who know me, know that I love to enjoy life and for me that include a life full of great food (that my lovely husband cooks!), good wine, lots of music, singing my heart out and being surrounded by wonderful friends and family. I’ve never been a slim person and do tend to overindulge in the things I love, so to discover something delicious that was actually good for me was truly life enhancing.

And that’s why I set up CHOC Chick. I have a real need to share the things that make me happy in the hope that it will make others happy too. Having been immersed in raw chocolate making for a year now, I have not only discovered the pleasure of making delicious treats but have experienced the health benefits as well. I’ve lost weight, my skin looks fantastic (if I may say so myself) and I generally feel happy. I still have a way to go on the weight front, but having hit 40 and now almost hitting 42, I’ve come to realise (wish I’d known this when I was in my early 20 and 30’s) that if you are happy and feel good inside, you really do look good as well.

So for me the raw chocolate business is about enjoying life and being happy. Happy in what you do, happy in what you eat and happy about how you look. Hope I can spread this happiness and share the love of raw chocolate!