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biscotti, book review, dark chocolate, home made chocolate, jenna weber, paleo, raw, raw chocolate, reading, vegan
Anyone else of you bloggers out there notices with days full of fun and laughter your post-schedule gets kind of … non existent? I give you a short summary what happened since last Wednesday:
I spent a lot of time with friends, since it is my last week of semester break. Shopping, having coffee, dining out, doing sports and inviting them over to chit chat even more. Which leads me to dinner planing:
This bad-quality photography is me trying to take pictures out of a Jamie Oliver cookbook my mum borrowed to my boyfriend, who wants to get into cooking. (And who would I be to discourage him by taking it to cook a dinner for friends?… a girlfriend who can cook all meals herself in the future. Naaah…)
Talking about books, I have been reading quite a lot in the course of last week. Guess its the fear that semester is starting with a colossal 45 hour seminar week (not counting the half day of work I need to fit in somewhere and the presentation preparation). So, all what’s fun needs to happen now.
Sleep over including video games, long talks, vino and a little tipsy Asian cooking with my younger brother. He is so adorable, I gave him advice what to cook when he invites a girl over – he hates veg, but was so amazed by my version of Hoi Sin mushrooms and beans, that I had to write down the recipe for him and give away my newly purchased glass of Hoi Sin sauce. That is how you do it, mom 😉 !
Working on new recipes, inspired by all the reading.
Reading even more – if you are a foodie, health food blogger, casual baker or cook I recommend reading Jenna’s autobiographic book “White Jacket Required” – and consequently more baking…
(Jenna’s Dark Chocolate Pistachio Biscotti, with additional cranberries)
… and recipe creating.
So that is the point where we finally come to today’s topic and why I really wanted to write this post, though I will be uploading my What I Ate Wednesday post in no time.
Dark Chocolate Buttons
paleo, vegan, can be raw
Ever fancied to make your own chocolate? Shied back because you had no cacao butter at hand and the recipes sounded kind of complicated? That is exactly how I came up with my dark chocolate buttons.
- 1 heaped tsp coconut oil
- 1 heaped tsp peanut butter (*almond butter for paleo version)
- 3 tbsp cacao powder
- dash of salt
- 1/2 tsp honey
Melt the coconut oil and peanut butter in your microwave or on the stove.
After melted, stir in just enough cacao powder that it thickens a bit, but still remains as liquid as melted chocolate. Fill 10 holes of your praline form (I used a silicon one) with half a teaspoon of the mixture and let it harden in the freezer for 15 minutes.
The result will be intense, rich, a little salty and melt on your tongue. Store them in an air-tight container in your fridge and enjoy as a treat or decadent round up for a home-cooked meal.
With An Open Mind 
I definitely have a hard time sticking to a blogging schedule when I have a lot of things going on, but that’s a good thing 🙂 After all, being out there living life is so much better than writing about it. That being said, I’m happy you popped in to share your recipe because holy.wow does it sound good. I’ve never thought about adding a nut butter to homemade chocolate, but it sounds amazing. Definitely going to give it a try!
That’s exactly what I thought – better enjoy the time to actually do stuff, as soon as classes start I still will be able to write about it 😉
Happy that others get that easily excited as me about such a recipe – I want to switch it up a bit, adding sea salt, dried fruit, nuts, vanilla…. Curious how they will turn out.
Ooh those look good! And simple too!!!
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