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If you’ve never made chocolate at home, it’s time to change that.
Making your own chocolate is easy and cheaper than splurging on fancy chocolate bars.
This homemade dark chocolate is clean, made from whole food ingredients with no refined sugars, and is fully customizable – add your own favorite crunch, replace the almond butter with another nut or seed butter, and control the sweetness.
Someone wise once said… chocolate is not candy, it’s food. I fully agree! These nutritious chocolates make a great nutrient-dense dessert or snack.
Plus, it’s fun! Especially when you have a partner who makes it for you, like it is in my case😬
Homemade Clean Dark Chocolate Recipe
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Ingredients:
- 1 cup cacao paste (or ceremonial cacao)
- 1/3 cup cacao butter
- 1/3 cup crunchy almond butter
- 2 TBS maple syrup (or more if you like it sweet)
- Optional: Add 1 scoop Bulletproof Mitosweet sweetener (can replace with Monkfruit or Xylitol)
- 1/4 tspn salt
Directions:
- Melt the cacao butter and cacao paste in a double boiler (simply a bowl that sits on top of a saucepan with some water).
- Place the melted cacao butter and paste into a blender, and add the rest of the ingredients.
- Blend until smooth.
- Let the blend sit for 15 minutes before you pour it into molds.
- Pour into molds (we love these moon molds) and sprinkle with your favorite toppings.
- Topping ideas: goji berries, mulberries, roasted cashews, cacao nibs, hemp seeds. Get creative!
- Place the molds into a fridge or freezer for at least an hour (or until you can no longer wait).
- Store in the fridge in an airtight container, unless you eat them all at once. #oops
