Raspberries Raw Cacao Bar

Before I dived in deeply to tell you how finger licking good is this bitter sweet thing, I must confessed I am a truly a chocoholic and if there is ever a Chocolate rehab, i would probably be the first that needed to work on.

This opened secret addiction is all started when i was a barely a teenager,  I would sprinkled my favorite Milo powder on Jacob biscuits that is doubled  dipped with condensed milk and crunching it away pieces after pieces  with a winning grin and then i  had it all  flushed down with a thick glass of  ice milo, of course heavily loaded  with extra powder on top.  Though this maniac chocolate behavior brought me alot of childhood sweet memories but I am glad it had all ended and I never since looked back with  those long nasty ingredients.

I had never once felt deprived of not able to satisfy or not able  finding back my familiar taste  since I was a vegetarian and almost a vegan/raw foodist now. Mother nature is so wonderful and I thanked her for that  and I always do.  Those amazing  plant based ingredients are such a great help on recreating  my once lost and found food like magic! Like this raspberries raw cacao bar,  friends couldn’t believe with just a few ingredients and no dairy involved that spiked with refined sugar, it taste even better than those from the famous store out there.  This was especially  adorned by ladies when every bite is much lesser calories and yet fully  satisfied every taste bud of yours. One of the mom actually told me this is definitely a keeper and something to indulge in the middle of the night (without guilt) when it it her ME TIME !

what you’ll need

1. 20 grams of cacao butter
2. 4 tbsp of raw cacao powder (you can add 1/2-1 tbsp more if you like it bitter)
3. 1 tbsp of  light agave
4. 1 tbsp of coconut oil
5. Topping of your choice (cayenne flakes, finely mince chilli, goji berries, any nuts & fresh or dried fruits)
6. some lemon zest (optional but nice to get a teeny bite of  the refreshing taste)

 

make it happen

• Prepare your chocolate bar mold or muffin liners
• Melt your cacao butter in a hot bath using a ceramic or glass bowl and simmer on top of a pot of warm water. Stirring helps
• Once is melted, pour in your coconut oil and mix it well and add in agave and stirred it evenly
• Add in your cacao power and any minced chilli or cayenne flakes here if you are using any
• Next,  pour in the chocolate quickly (before it get thicken & tricky to handle it) into your mold or muffin liners and deco it with any of your toppings here and pop it into freezer until is hard
• Enjoy the chocolate moment!

 

Coconut Butter

WOW and OMG! That is all I wanna describe for this rich and creamy heavenly smell recipe. It is so simple that should  I  even called this a recipe? 🙂
When i opened up the cover of my blender,  it straight away brings me to the ever mouth-watering picture of everyone favorite, NASI LEMAK!  

Before i had a food blog, i always got confused and misunderstood when a recipe called for a coconut oil, solid coconut oil and coconut butter? Are you equally confused by now?

Ok, to simplify things here. Just think of peanut butter and peanut oil here. One is in a paste form and one is in liquid from. So coconut butter simply means it is in a thick and creamy form that is being created from dried coconut flesh.

I am using BOB’S RED MILLS unsweetened coconut flakes here and it only takes me about 10 mins in a high speed blender rather than i had to pay  14 bucks for about a cup of coconut butter that gives me the same thing! And if you do not owned a high speed blender, a food processor will do the work too but just take about double the time. Let it stop and rest a min in between though.

what you’ll need

1. a packet of unsweetened coconut flakes
2. a little of coconut oil (if needed to get it going)
3. a high speed blender/ food processor

make it happen

• pour the whole packet of coconut flakes into your high speed blender or food processor and blend at medium speed for a start. Using a tamper helps a lot here. Add a little of coconut oil if needed for better blending.
• blend until it is creamy enough and spread on your favorite biscuit and bread and you can even drop a teaspoon into your smoothie for all the goodness! Then lick the rest from the blender!