I have a few great V Day ideas up my sleeve. This year it entails homemade chocolate as well as few other homemade ideas that I will share in the next post {in a few days when it's complete}.
Instead of buying too much stuff, I just decided to use what I had in my pantry and the molds I already have used in past blog posts.
What you will need:
* A chocolate or other type of a MOLD
* Saucepan
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RECIPE
- ½c Cacao Butter
- ½c Agave Nectar {or to taste}
- 3Tbls Maple Sugar Powder {if you don't have this just add more agave nectar}
- ½c Raw Chocolate Powder
- Sea Salt {optional}
- Cacao nibs OR goji berries OR cayenne powder OR nuts {optional}
Melt the cacao butter in a sauce pan on low OR put the cacao butter in a bowl and put it in boiling water until melted.
Then add the rest of the ingredients {except for the last ingredients} and MIX in the warm pan until super smooth. The warm pan helps to homogenize the mixture. {somebody made this recipe and put mixture in vitamix - the mixture was clumpy}.
Pour mixture into the mold. Put the last ingredients as toppings or fold gently into the chocolate mixture.
Freeze mold until hard.
I poured the chocolate into the molds on top of a fun lime coconut crust {this is optional and you can get creative with this}.
doreen
hi!
just wondering if you could post the lime coconut crust recipe? i really want to make these!!
Juli Novotny
@Doreen OK, will do! 🙂
Kimberlie
Looks yum Juli!!
Dina
Would love to have the lime-coconut crust recipe too!! These look really great and I will be making them in the morning!!
chris cote
can I buy a few of these truffles on saturday? I'm friends with Peter.
Anna
Made these and the mixture got really clumpy and thick in the vitamix. When I poured it into the candy shells it started to seperate. Not sure how they will turn out they are in the freezer now. Did I do something wrong?
Juli Novotny
@Anna
That's very weird. My mixture wasn't clumpy at all. Maybe too much cacao powder.
OK, I didn't clarify. Warm the cacao butter on the stove like I said. Then add the other stuff and mix and mix while the pan is still warm (heat off).
Hope that helps. I am going to make more right now - because I am doing new flavors. I will check and see what maybe is wrong with recipe.
THANKS. Sorry.
Juli Novotny
I just did a smaller scale version of this recipe because I ran out of cacao powder. But it turned out right - not clumpy - but it wasn't as sweet as I would like. So, I modified the recipe to be a little sweeter (add more agave). I also recommend tasting it before cooling in freezer, just to be sure that it is to your liking.
Also, don't put in vitamix. Just use the warm pan to mix it all up.
Hope that helps. SORRY about any confusion.