Review: Chocolate alternative. Vegetarian book

[Thermomixer]

Welcome zebraa - great to have you on board and appreciate your positive feedback.

[cathy79]

Made these tonight - was going to try and put them in moulds, but decided that definitely wouldn't works.  So rolled them in little balls and into the fridge to harden.  DD will be giving them to her little pre-prep friends tomorrow for easter as they can have nuts, but there are some dairy allergies there.  Yummy!

Then need to find something to make for the school where they can't have nuts - will probably do Jo's Raw Cacao Treat Balls.

And the best way to wash the bowl is to leave some behind, add some milk, 80deg speed 4 for a few minutes until heated through - makes a really yummy hot chocolate.

[meganjane]

Great idea Cathy!! The bowl washing, I mean.

[Ceejay]

Just made this today but used the raw cocao nibs instead of cocoa powder so that DS1 can eat them... turned out well!  

May try to cut down the coconut oil a tad next time too... 

This is how it went into the fridge after being "scored" by DS1:

[Tebasile]

Mmmmmhhhh....I have to try this. I don't have the book, but found the recipe on your blog. Thank you Moonmobile.

[cathy79]

Mmmmmhhhh....I have to try this. I don't have the book, but found the recipe on your blog. Thank you Moonmobile.

Ditto - thanks again.

Yes, should be able to reduce the coconut oil a little without any problems.  Will have to make many batches to test the quantities...

[Ceejay]

Has anyone tried it without the sugar/syrup?  Wondering if it's sweet enough without adding this too. 

[cathy79]

Has anyone tried it without the sugar/syrup?  Wondering if it's sweet enough without adding this too. 

Do you mean the 20g of honey?  I guess you could try it if you think it's too sweet, or maybe increase the dates.

[Ceejay]

I used rapadura but yes.. without that..will try it next time. 

and in other good news.. the 15yo says it's yummy... and that he prefers it to chocolate. 

[Thermomixer]

Great work - just in time for Easter.  They look good - well done DS1 - a Masterchef in the making.

[Denzelmum]

Made one today with rice bran oil and normal salt. 140g almond and 65g of cashews, still the same amount of nuts with slightly different proportion.  Work very well, it's like different sort of brownies instead of chocolate.  Made 2 x 2cm, loving this!  As it's name, great alternative for sweet.

[tarosuma]

I would love to compare this recipe with the one I made up myself - could somebody pretty please pm me with it? 
thanks so much!

[judydawn]

Will do.

[Denzelmum]

Thanks JD

[Zan]

oooh I'd love this recipe (I'm sure I'll be thinking JD :-) )
So it worked well with the ricebran oil?? (I can't have coconut, though not tried the oil)