Fancy a choc-ice?

June 27, 2014

I used to love these

Many years ago I used to love these – choc-ices and Wall’s Feasts – but I hadn’t given them a thought for ages until my friend passed on a brilliant idea she got from The Raw Chocolate Company. I realise now that this is not a new idea, but it’s a good one so here it is:

Get a couple of ripe bananas,

some cashews, or whatever nuts you fancy,

and some raw chocolate.

Plus you’ll need some lolly sticks or chop sticks or similar.

Soak the nuts overnight or at least for a few hours, then rinse them and spread them out to dry on a clean tea towel for an hour or so. When they’re a bit dryer you can put them through a food processor so that they’re finely chopped.

Melt the chocolate.

Carefully peel the bananas and chop them in half. Then lay them on a sheet of eco-friendly parchment paper and stick your lolly stick in them like so.

Carefully peel the bananas and chop them in half. Then lay them on a sheet of eco-friendly parchment paper and stick lolly sticks into them like so.

By the way, if you don’t have any chocolate or nuts you can just freeze the bananas at this stage and you’ll have a delicious ‘ice-cream’ lolly as it is.

However, if do you want the choc-ice, continue as follows:

Put the melted chocolate and the chopped nuts on separate plates;

First roll a banana in the melted chocolate,

then roll a banana in the melted chocolate,

and then in the nuts.

And pretty soon you should have a plate of nutty choc-ices to be. Put them in the freezer for a couple of hours or more.

Et voila! Simply scrumptious nutty banana choc-ices! Perfectly healthy – have as many as you like – and absolutely delicious!

You may be vegan, you may be raw, but you’ll never miss out on choc-ices again!

😉

Raw Chocolate Chocolate Chip Cookies

June 9, 2014

By Violet's Vegan Comics

Indulge yourself

Believe it or not – this is a health food! Here’s how:

You’ll need 1 cup of organic raw Brazil nuts, soaked overnight, drained and rinsed:

200g or so of pitted organic fresh dates:

3 tablespoons of organic raw cacao nibs:

1 tablespoon of organic raw carob powder (or cacao):

2 teaspoons of organic vanilla extract:

And 50g of organic fair trade raw chocolate:

1. Bung the dates into the food processor and chop/mix into a gooey, pastey consistency. Transfer to mixing bowl.

2. Now put the nuts into the food processor and finely chop into tiny bits. Add to the dates in the bowl.

3. Add cacao nibs, carob powder and vanilla to the bowl and mix thoroughly with a fork.

4. Plonk the whole mixture back into the food processor and process again so that your thick, sticky, soft, heavy mixture is thoroughly and smoothly combined. (My food processor – which is just an attachment of my hand blender – is very small so I did my mixture in two halves).

5. Now pile up your cookie mixture onto a smooth worktop and spoon out enough to make one cookie, press it flat on top with a knife and cut out your cookie. Slide a knife under the cookie and put it on a plate. Cut out all your cookies like this. I made 10 thick cookies out of this mixture, with a bit left over for tasting.

6. Then cover them in melted chocolate:

7. Then chill:

8. Indulge in your health food

Don’t forget, the Brazil nuts in these are packed with selenium, an essential trace mineral which is a powerful antioxidant that combats the damage that free radicals cause in the body, and it can improve cardiovascular health and fight cancer as well. It also plays a role in thyroid health, assisting with the metabolism of iodine and the production of critical thyroid hormones.

Just google it or see here for more info 🙂

So go on – get this health food down you!

Chocolate Intermission

May 27, 2014

By Violet's Vegan Comics

We found some more! Delicious and healthy organic raw vegan chocolate by Raw Living

I chose the Hi Crunch with scrummy goji berries and hemp seeds in, and Miranda chose the White Magic fudge bar. We were both happy with our selections.

And the thing that made me especially happy to find these guys is that there was NO PLASTIC WRAPPING! NONE!!! Just like they used to be in the olden days, these treats were harmlessly wrapped in foil and paper. Well done Raw Living, we are very impressed.

So why not check out Raw Living website and see what you fancy 🙂

Raw Chocolate Nut Truffles

May 14, 2014

By Violet's Vegan Comics

You’ll need:

1 cup of organic raw almonds (soaked over night; thoroughly rinsed, then spread on a clean tea towel to dry for a couple of hours)
200g pitted fresh dates (soaked for 2 to 3 hours)
1 tablespoon of raw cacao or carob powder
1 teaspoon of vanilla essence
Some sultanas
60g of raw melted chocolate

1. In a food processor/chopper/mixer process the dates and then transfer them to a mixing bowl.

2. Then process the almonds until finely chopped and add to the dates in your bowl.

3. Add the cacao/carob, vanilla, as many sultanas as you fancy, and the melted chocolate and mix with a spoon until thoroughly combined.

4. Then return the mixture (a bit at a time if necessary) to your food processor and process together briefly until you have the right truffle consistency.

5. Finally, with a teaspoon spoon little truffles onto a plate and decorate with walnuts (if you like)

Will keep in the fridge for a few days.

It’s as simple as that!

Absolutely scrummy! 🙂