Really Simple Christmassy Clementine Raw Chocolate Recipe

I’ve talked about making raw chocolate at home before, but I’ve never actually got round to sharing a recipe for it. It is so easy to make, and tastes amazing – plus as it contains raw cacao it is actually pretty good for you as it contains loads of antioxidants as well as good fats, from the cacao butter and the coconut oil. As well as that it is refined-sugar-free, so it’s much, much better for you than shop-bought chocolate that is made with lots of refined sugar, and cocoa powder (which is heated at high temperatures, thus destroying the nutrients) rather than raw cacao.

I love making this raw chocolate, because it doesn’t take long at all, and I’m much happier letting Ava have some a bit more regularly. Despite the fact it is a dark chocolate and can sometimes be slightly bitter, Ava loves it which is brilliant. We do still have shop-bought chocolate, but it’s great being able to make this easily, and relatively cheaply. Once you have the ingredients in, they last for ages, and work out pretty cheaply I think.

At the moment I am using this cacao powder, this cacao butter, and I always use Lucy Bee Coconut Oil.

Leisure – who make range cookers – have asked me to create a Christmassy twist on one of my recipes as part of their ‘Tribe to Table‘ campaign. Leisure has looked at 4 big foodie trends – Veggie, Meat, Fish, and Baking. I decided to put a Christmas twist on my homemade raw chocolate recipe to make a festive treat, that is refined sugar-free.

I thought the dark chocolate would work really well with clementines for a Christmassy taste – it gives the chocolate a lovely fresh edge, and the different textures are really interesting.

Enjoy!

Really Simple Christmassy Clementine Raw Chocolate Recipe

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Prep Time 10 minutes mins

Total Time 3 hours hrs 10 minutes mins

Course Dessert

Servings 8

Ingredients

  

• 1 cup raw cacao butter softened
• 1/2 cup raw cacao powder
• 1/3 cup coconut oil softened
• 2 tablespoons rice malt syrup (less if you like your chocolate more bitter, and vice versa)
• 2 clementines

Instructions

 

• Melt the cacao butter in a bowl over a saucepan of water, on a low heat, until melted.
• Do the same with the coconut oil if it is solid (which is most likely in this country!)
• Put all of the ingredients together in a bowl, and mix together until it is smooth and chocolatey looking.
• Squeeze in the juice from a couple of the pieces of clementine and stir.
• Place the rest of the pieces of clementine into a plastic tub or other container, and drizzle all of the chocolate all over it.
• Refrigerate for a few hours until it is hard.
• Break into pieces and store in the fridge or freezer.