Chocolate, Raspberry & Coconut Cups

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Sometimes I surprise myself with my creations! Or it just happens that Saturday nights - the only chilled time in the kitchen - happens to be my magic time. Either way these chocolatey, coconut, raspberry morsels come with a warning of 'highly addictive'. Oh and they are dairy-free and gluten-free! You can also check out the video for this on my you-tube channel!

Ingredients:


Dr Julie's Chocolate (slightly adapted)


5 Tb of Coconut Oil (heaped)
1/2 C of Coco Powder
1 Tb of honey
Dash of vanilla essence


Filling:


1 Cup of frozen raspberries
2 Tb coconut oil
½ cup of shredded coconut
1 Tb honey
1 Tb coconut milk


Cup


Directions:


1. Make Dr Julie's Healthy Chocolate

-Melt coconut oil on low heat and quickly mix in other ingredients. You may find you can take it off the heat to mix in the other ingredients, the less temperature the better! This has slightly less honey than my original recipe due to the sweetness of the filling...but you could add a bit extra if you wanted!  Pour into mini silicon muffin cups (I got mine from Stevens) and place in freezer.

2. Make Filling

Place all ingredients into a small blender. I use the Healthy Baby Food Maker (!!) as this is a nice small size as there is not a lot of filling (the blades of my big food processor would not even touch this!). Spoon filling on top of chocolate base and place in freezer

3. Finish Top

Just spoon the remaining chocolate on the top and freeze until set.

4. Enjoy (and try to keep some for the following night!).

Top

Bite

xxx Dr Julie Bhosale

 

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