Cacao butter is the fatty part of the cocoa bean, which is used to make chocolate.
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I used chopped
raw cacao butter in this to give the flavor of white chocolate but you can just use extra chocolate chips if you prefer.
By the way, if you don't have vegan chocolate, you can mix
melted cacao butter with cocoa powder and sweetener of your choice.
Melt the raw
cacao butter in a warm water bath or in a small saucepan on low heat.
* I like my chocolates best when made
with cacao butter, but this can be an expensive and hard to find ingredient, so you can just sub in coconut oil instead!
* You can easily sub in raw
cacao butter for the coconut oil, if you want to make a more shelf stable chocolate.
But today, we're keeping this healthy and simple by just using a little bit of chopped raw
cacao butter on top of this smoothie.
* To make the raw chocolate melt 3/4
cup cacao butter and then stir in 1/4 cup cacao powder and 1/4 cup maple syrup.
And homemade chocolate chips taste even better then store bought, especially if you use pure
cacao butter as the base!
Begin by adding the coconut butter and
cacao butter into a pan on a low heat for about a minute or so, to melt.
To make chocolate: Melt finely
chopped cacao butter and coconut oil in a bowl over another bowl of boiling water.
Gently melt the coconut oil and
cacao butter together by placing in a bowl set over a steaming pot of water with the heat turned off.
I'd like to make the pure chocolate, do I need to
buy cacao butter or can I make it?
Spring for
cacao butter if you can, it lasts a long time, and is cheaper to buy online than in the grocery store.
There's nothing questionable added, just health - giving ingredients
like cacao butter, raw cacao powder, avocado oil, maple syrup, sea salt, and hazelnuts.
This is
because cacao butter has a higher melting point thus making the chocolate harder when it sets.
I have only ever made this recipe with
cacao butter before but I imagine that cocoa butter should work well too as I think they will give very similar results.
If you don't have
cacao butter then feel free to replace it with an equal amount of coconut butter + 1 tsp coconut oil.
Today's recipe features real, raw
cacao butter which is where white chocolate actually comes from before they add a bunch of sugar and dairy milk to it.
When the mixture is smooth, add the melted
cacao butter gradually through the top of the blender while the motor is running, followed by the coconut oil.
What was crucial to the end result was the heart shaped molds and using beautiful
creamy cacao butter.
Quality cacao butter has the potential to reduce markers of inflammation with its high levels of antioxidants, benefiting heart, digestive, hormonal and joint health.
I then added raw cacao powder to create a rich chocolate flavour, and a
little cacao butter to enhance and provide setting quality.
Coconut sugar crystals don't dissolve in
cacao butter so grind the sugar into a very fine powder.
And homemade chocolate chips taste even better then store bought, especially if you use
pure cacao butter as the base!
I plan on trying it out soon but accidentally bought cocoa butter instead of
cacao butter!!!!! Can I use it instead or does it not do the same thing?
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