MONDO Peanut Butter Chocolate cups

That are kinda good for you! 

Right, here we go, peanut butter choc cups that are similar to the famous Hershey's treat. I love American chocolate and jelly beans and donuts but I don't want to put shitty food in my body any more so I have been researching raw choc recipes on other blogs. These two in particular are a real inspiration for me, Rawified and Fork and Beans.

Tested them on the English teacher. He was reasonably impressed but I think he needed them sweeter. This recipe obliges.

I am trying to make my choc's low carb as well. Feel free to follow the awesome recipes on these blogs which use honey, agave and maple syrup. So delicious and still really good for you too. Or use mine that mainly use Natvia which is a brand of fake sugar that is reasonably natural being stevia and erythritol, or just plain stevia.

The better the cocoa, the better the chocolate.

There is a tiny bit of alcohol in the recipe, to dissolve the fake sugar, but it is cooked off in the microwave, so these choccies are ok to give to the kiddies. Although you probably won't want to share them at all, so tell them they have dog pooh in them or just don't have kids around you when you make them. I did share, but I need feedback. I have recommended more sweetener than I used in my first batch. They just needed a bit more to kick through the strong bitterness of the raw cocoa.

Ingredients

Choc

1/2 cup  Coconut Butter. You get this from all health food shops, it is a bit pricey but goes a long way.
6 heaped tbs of Raw Cocoa Powder. Again a bit pricey but worth it. Or any good quality cocoa.
4 tsp of sugar replacer.
1 cap full of gin or vodka or other alcohol
1 tablespoon of malt syrup

Method

Nuke the coconut butter in a pyrex jug or similar, or in a small saucepan for about 30 seconds. It melts fast. Mix in the cocoa powder and malt syrup.

In a little cup or bowl, mix the sugar and alcohol. Place in a microwave (bit hard on stove as it is so little) and heat for about 40 seconds or until 'sugar' has dissolved. Granulated sugars of most kinds will not dissolve well in the coconut butter. Another option would be to use a liquid sweetener, but I am yet to get one.

Mix the sugar syrup into the choc syrup. DONE!

You can do so much, just put it in molds as is or add any ingredients you like - vanilla, peppermint essence, dried fruit (high in carbs though) nuts. Whatever you love.

Now for the peanut butter filling! 

1/2 cup natural peanut butter. Not the crazy chemical stuff you normally see on the shelf.
1 teaspoon of salt, or more to taste. This is supposed to be super salty.
3 teaspoons of sugar replacer done with the vodka/gin again. The filling also needs to be super sweet.
1 tablespoon melted coconut butter.
1/2 finely ground coconut. I just whizzed it in the whizzer.

Mix all ingredients together. NOM. Test to see you are happy with the level of sweetness and saltiness. This is key to trying to get them like the Amercano ones.

To assemble

I used a mini cupcake pan, but if you don't have one that is cool,  just put the little foil chocolate patty pans on a tray. First layer in a bit of the choc and then pop in the freezer for a few minutes to set, then add a layer of the peanut stuff, freeze again, then another layer of choc, and freeze again. 

You could do this in any kind of mold, or in a take away container as a slab which you then cut up. Set in the freezer for a while if you need to cut it. Then gobble up. But be careful, they are super duper rich, and are best nibbled. This kind of choc does melt faster in the fingers than store bought crud.

I reckon you could store them for a while, but pffft, as if!  Thinking of making these as chrissie presents this year. My family always get home made presents from me I think they think the presents suck, but I don't care. I usually make them hand made soap. They think I am insane. Whatev's.

Enjoy this eating healthy chocolate. It gives you super powers.

So fricken yummy. My kid loves them. I love them. I am not normally a huge fan of chocolate either.

Today I invented gf/vegan/sugar free BALLS....

Ok, so I invent stuff. Friends on Fb will have seen me do this. I have invented some pretty cool food. Mostly sweets.

 At the moment I am on a low carb- high protein - high fat diet, and because I have half a brain I think it will be cool. I am trying to loose the 5 kilo I put on when I broke my toe in a pole dancing accident a couple of years ago. I had to stop Irish dancing too. Dancey style exercise is my other favourite thing next to inventing stuff.

So now I am tap dancing with Miss Naomi AND I am on the low carb diet. Most grains make me sick anyway, like really gross farty and bloated sick, so this can't be a bad thing.

My brother is also doing this diet and he is studying to be a nurse. He is heaps smarter than me so I reckon it will work. He also has a lot more to lose than me. So far he has lost 6 kilo! YAY HIM!*

I like sweets. Sweets contain carbs. I don't like fake sugar because it contains carcinogens and stuff that makes you fart and farts are gross. So I am experimenting with Stevia. I bought some of the little packets last week at the stupidmarket.

WARNING. Do not eat stevia straight from the packet, it tastes like shit.

I just invented - Almond and Coconut Balls. Vegan, Gluten Free, Sugar free, Low Carb.

 

Recipe goes like this,

1 cup coconut
1.5 cups almond meal
1/2 tub tofu cream cheese like Tofutti.
3 little packets of stevia or some other chemical sugar replacer that will make farts.
Some sugar free jam - I used Dick Smith Raspberry sugar free jam, cos he's a rad bloke.

All measurements and times are approximate and to taste. If you hate coconut, just use almond meal. 

Chuck all the dry stuff in a bowl and mix. Then slap in the tofutti. I mixed it with a fork until my arm was hurting and then I mixed it with my hands. It should resemble playdough that has been made with the wrong flour. Make it into walnut sized balls. Or the size of your favourite Tv characters' balls. Then pop onto a tray lined with baking paper. Then with your awesome finger push a hole into the top of each ball. Fill the hole with about 1/4 tsp of jam. Bake in a oven at about 180C or the equivalent. If you don't know what that is you can google it. I can't be bothered. Cook until golden. Then try one and burn your tongue. Turn off the oven and leave the cookie balls in there for a while. It will make them a bit crunchy on the outside.

Then, if you want to make them really ace, melt some sugar free chocolate (available in the protein bar section of the stupidmarket) and blob some on top. The brand I use is also made with stevia, so its is chemical free.

Fucking YUM!

I tested them on lil't's percussion teacher and she didn't die! you can see her ongoing blog here as she is still alive and all, she invents percussive soundscape things. It is called Momentum.

*disclaimer thingy - I am body proud, and believe everyone should be so, but also I like to be body comfortable, which is a different thing. I haven't felt right since I put on the weight. It isn't much but I am reeeeally short so it is like a real person putting on 15kilo, it is simply uncomfortable. My pants hurt me and my plumber crack is scaring my kid. Also, with my brother, he looks like a freaking movie star when he is in comfy body mode! Awesome.