I’ve been consuming raw cacao. Sometimes with turmeric and always as a chocolate treat.

This recipe is the result of a few experiments – a delicious mix of organic ingredients:

Apparently, this can last for 10 days … not mine 10 minutes, maybe!

Lynda Smith

Ingredients

45g raw organic cacao powder

60g raw organic cacao butter

50g Desiccated coconut

125g organic dried dates

125g chopped mixed nuts

50ml hot water

Method

1. Soak the dates in the hot water for 15 minutes.
2. Blend in a food processor. I use a high-powered blender which takes 10-15 seconds. There’s no need to over process. The dates just need to be mashed into a paste.
3. Gently melt the cacao butter over some hot water. Do not directly heat the butter and do it gently. The butter will melt really quickly.
4. Chop the nuts. There will be some finely chopped nuts amongst the small chunks but this is perfect for soaking up the cacao butter.
5. Mix together the dates, cacao, nuts and cacao butter.
6. Roll into bit-sized balls.
7. Cover with desiccated coconut.
8. Place on a tray and leave to cool in the fridge for 60 minutes.

Looking around online, apparently this can last for 10 days … not mine! Gone too quickly!