These little raw chocolate bites are truly scrummy! Packed full of wonderful raw ingredients they are a real treat for your bod, but taste delicious, rather indulgent and naughty! Before I get carried away let me explain the reason I use raw ingredients! They are generally are richer in nutrients than their baked/toasted/stewed/roasted equivalents. However if you don’t have raw ingredients, make them with what you have – they are still full of wonderful-for-you goodness, and a million miles better for you than a processed chocolate which is mostly fat & sugar!
I have been eating lots of the nákd raw bars of late which are not cheap! So decided I would have a go at making my own version of them. The thing which is wonderful about the nákd bars is that they have minimal ingredients and all of them are raw.
Sticking to their simple approach and noting that their main ingredient is often dates, I soaked some to get them soft and gooey. Once they had soaked for a while I drained them and bunged them in the magi-mix. Then I added some raw almond butter (a.k.a almond butter) we make our own with uncooked almonds – but you can buy raw almond btter too. If you prefer another nut btter use that! And of course the wonderful, über chocolatey raw cacao powder. Having tasted it I wanted to add a dash of vanilla – you can follow suit or ignore it. Like all my recipes I think you should take them and make them your own. We all have our preferences and our bodies respond differently to different foods. Mine loves almonds but not cashews! If yours likes cashews I think cashew btter would be delicious in these!
I decided to roll my little raw chocolate bites in chopped hazelnuts and they are YUM! I keep them in a sealed container in the fridge and they don’t last long!
raw chocolate bites
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Yield:
makes 22 -
Cooking Method:
blitzing! -
Prep Time:
10 mins -
Cook Time:
0 mins
Allergens:
tree nutDietary:
dairy-free, egg-free, gluten-free, healthy, paleo, raw food, refined sugar-free, soy-free, vegan
These raw chocolate treats are nutritious & delicious, rammed full of wonderful raw ingredients they taste a little naughty but are really nice for you - win win 🙂 If you don't make your own raw almond b*tter, you can buy it online. Super simple to make, you just blizt the soaked dates, almond b*tter, raw cacao powder & vanilla, then roll them into delightful little bite-sized balls and coat in what ever you fancy. Enjoy!
Ingredients:
- 1 C dried dates - stoned & soaked*
- ¼ C almond b*utter (a.k.a almond butter)
- 2 Tbs raw cacao powder
- ½ tsp vanilla extract chopped nuts for coating
Method:
Into your magi-mix or juicer** bung all the ingredients in the order listed above & blitz until a wonderful dark past is formed.
I then roll the mix into balls and cover in chopped hazelnuts - you can cover them in coconut or raw almond flakes.
Pop them in the fridge for a couple of hours and then enjoy!
Notes:
*I soak the dates for a couple of hours before use - it makes them softer!
**I normally use my wonderful Samson juicer with it's mincing cone - but the ones photographed today were made with my magi-mix, so be confident that you can make them with a magi-mix perfectly.
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