Good news for environmentally aware chocoholics ( and the planet).
By mashing up the pulp and husk of a cocoa pod instead of just taking the beans, scientists have made a sweet and fibrous gel that could replace the sugar in chocolate, according to a report published in Nature Food.
This “whole food” approach makes a more nutritious product than conventional chocolate and uses less land and water, the scientists found – while still satisfying a sweet tooth.
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I'm excited to share with you how I make my own healthy, homemade chocolate—using only the best ingredients... because we deserve delicious treats that are good for us too!
Chocolate is my #1 thing, and there are so many nutrients in the real thing, and I actually learned this simple method of making your own superfood in a workshop I took years ago in Israel (of course), so today I am super excited to teach you, because it's so simple, healthy, and delicious!
Ingredients:
1 cup cocoa butter
1 cup cocoa powder
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Healthy sweeteners to taste (honey, date syrup, maple syrup)
Optional: tahini for richness, nuts for crunch, salt for sprinkling
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The motivation was simple. "Why am I paying star market $6 for two frozen bananas dipped in ok #chocolate"
In the words of goodness gracious me: "I can make chocolate #banana at home!"
So I did. Buying a 👩🍳 block of decent semi sweet 🍫 and using up some ripe 🍌, I halved, sticked and 🥶 on a 🌭 bun pan. After dipped in melted 🍫 once cold.
The problem... They're really f-nom-nom-inally good. Way, way better than the store ones. And I have doomed myself to always know what is possible. 🥺🤯 #desert
Ooh no. There's a reason this was going cheap and what the hell is the bunny holding?
Truly awful chocolate. Described as "compound chocolate". I couldn't eat it. #chocolate#NotChocolate
Remember Raisinets? Yeah? Well next time you're at the Dollar Tree, get you some of the dark chocolate Raisinets. You can thank me and curse me at the same time. No probs. #chocolate#candy#raisinets
Preparing for voluntary service at our #culturalHeritage centre & #museum. On Sundays, we have a table with women who do #handicrafts and chat. This is targeted #animation so that people become curious, ask questions and watch. And learn more about our centre. Most of the women #embroider, I show #VisibleMending. Other colleagues give guided tours, baked cake, serve in the cafeteria and explain hot #chocolate today. There is a lecture and a special exhibition about chocolate.
I am just learning how to play guitar. Here is my first song, which I wrote about my white kitten.
If you want to encourage me to keep learning music, please boost. And if you hate my music and want me to stop trying to make it, please boost ironically.
🧵 1/3 The mixture of #museum and #culturalHeritage centre makes visitors of all generations happy. Yesterday we had a #cake competition for our special #chocolate exhibition. I spontaneously found myself on the jury, which had to try all the cakes in order to to give points. A calory heavy work (now you know, why many museums are closed on Mondays - we have to digest.😁 ) Then cakes and torts were slaughtered for the visitors.😋 Women of our association had baken the treasures. #volunteering
I forgot to crack the #chocolate#Easter#egg while the grandson was visiting.
so I sent him this photo and told him I was sorry and had shared it with his #StarWars figures who had left hardly anything at all when grandad and grandma got up in the morning. They’d carved it up with their light sabres and were all lying about like fat little plastic eggs plus Darth Vader had been sick and I made him clean it up.