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Lip Smackin' Raw Chocolate Base

Naturopath Lauren Glucina
Lip Smackin' Chocolate Base
RAW • DAIRY FREE • GLUTEN FREE
SOY FREE • REFINED SUGAR FREE
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Ingredients
  

  • 1 cup raw cacao butter liquefied (you will need about 230gm solid)
  • 1 cup raw cacao powder
  • ¼ cup coconut palm sugar ground into a powder using a spice grinder (or, replace with pure maple syrup for a silky smooth chocolate - sometimes you get a bit of texture with coconut sugar)
  • ¼ cup 100% pure maple syrup
  • ¼ teaspoon coarse sea salt
  • 1 vanilla bean scrapped

Instructions
 

  • To get liquefied cacao butter, gently melt in a metal bowl standing in a larger bowl filled with hot water.
  • Add the coconut palm sugar (if using), maple syrup, salt and vanilla and whisk well, keep the bowl over the hot water to help the coconut sugar dissolve.
  • Sift in the cacao powder.
  • Give it a good whisk.
  • Stop here (pour into moulds, set in fridge), or temper your batch so that it stays firm at room temperature.

TO TEMPER:

  • Using a thermometer, gently warm your chocolate batch over a bowl or saucepan of very hot water to 45˚C (113˚F).
  • Now, you will literally have to have a saucepan filled with iced water handy, to rest your bowl in to bring the temp back down, to 27˚C (80˚F).
  • Finally, move your bowl back over the hot water to reach 31˚C (88˚F).
  • Your chocolate is now ready to pour into moulds. Set them in the freezer. They will now stay firm at room temperature.

Notes

To avoid your raw chocolate seizing:
You need to have all ingredients at a constant temperature. For example, cold maple syrup straight from the fridge mixed with warm, melted cacao butter will cause the mixture to seize and go lumpy.
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