Tutorial Tuesday: Clean Eating Chocolate

Today I'm going to show you a quick recipe/tutorial on how to make homemade chocolate to fit a clean-eating diet. Clean eating revolves around unprocessed food and not consuming random chemicals in food. Inspired by this site, I decided to try my hand at handmade chocolate. I'm tweaking proportions in this recipe, my chocolate pieces were a bit oily and a bit bitter, so hopefully yours will look and taste a bit better. But other than that I think this is a great way to have your chocolate - and eat it too!

 Ingredients:
Raw cocoa, coconut oil, raspberries, oats, sweetener of choice (I used vanilla extract and honey, but you can use stevia, agave, or cane sugar - your choice).

 Step 1 - Smash your raspberries. I used frozen berries, so I set the glass bowl in a few inches of warm water to thaw them out. Use the back of your spoon to mash them up.

 Step 2: Stir in 4 tablespoons of coconut oil. Note: my raspberries were still cold, so it hardened the oil a bit. Just watch out for that.

 Step 3: Add 5 tablespoons of cocoa powder. Stir until it's completely dissolved into your mixture. (This might take a minute.)

 Step 4: Add in your remaining ingredients. I used oats and the sweetener. In place of oats you can use nuts, or a little bit of flour. The cocoa is bitter, so use 2-3 tablespoons of your sweetener.

 Step 5: Spoon your mixture onto a cookie sheet lined with parchment paper. You can use a chocolate mold or and ice cube tray if you want them to look prettier.

 

Step 6: Stick in the freezer for a few minutes until they're all set. Enjoy one a day as a treat that will help you lose weight in the process!

While you're waiting, check out the health benefits of raw cocoa powder and coconut oil!

Let me know if you all try this, and what you think!

<3 Laurynn Elise