Raw Reese's Cups

[Jennifer N]

Raw Reese's Cups
Category: Raw Foods

This recipe is suitable for a: vegetarian/vegan/raw diet


Preparation Time: 20 minutes
Serves: 8


Ingredients:
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Filling
- 1C unsoaked almonds or nuts of your choice
- dash salt
- 1 T honey or agave

Chocolate
- 4 T coconut oil
- 2 T carob or cacao powder
- sweetener to taste more to taste


Instructions:
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To make the filling, grind the nuts and salt in a food processor until the mixture begins to stick together, about 5-10 minutes. Don't over-process into nut butter. Put mixture in a bowl, and mix in the sweetener, adding more if you like it really sweet. Mixture should be crumbly, but able to be squeezed and shaped into eight Reese's-sized patties. If it's not ready, toss it back in the processor.

For the coating, soften the coconut oil if necessary, and stir in the carob or cacao. Sweeten to taste, adding more carob/cacao if necessary. Put mixture in the fridge until it firms up enough so that it will coat the patties and not slide off (slightly less thick than frosting). Coat each pattie in chocolate, and place on a baking sheet (no need to grease, it's oil!) and place sheet in fridge. When firm, transfer to a freezer-proof container and enjoy!


Additional comments:
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The nut mixture really has that fake peanut butter texture, yum! Since "real" raw almonds are pricey and a pain to come by in many places, I cut my mix with sunflower seeds (cheap!).

I use a mix of raw carob and cacao, and use about 1-2 tsp sweetener; if you use all carob, you'll probably need less (or none), as carob is naturally sweet. Adding more cacao will make it super chocolaty, but pricier, so I skimp and it tastes fine.

If you don't like patties, you can roll balls or whatever, doesn't matter. If you do this on a warm day, be prepared to stop and start as coconut oil melts at 76 degrees. A chocolate that is too thin will slide off the patties.

Extra chocolate coating can be frozen into a chocolate bar!

[jenna]

another recipe put in my subscriptions.

[Jennifer N]

Try it, it's yummy!! There are probably fancier "chocolate" recipes, but I like to keep things pretty simple.

[Satya]

i'm going to attempt this tomorrow and i think i'll use a combination of almonds & raw brazil nuts. i need something healthy to appease this insatiable sweet tooth i have lately..

[Satya]

these are great. i used 1/2 almonds & 1/2 brazil nuts. i also added a tsp cinnamon to the chocolate mixture, but you can't even taste it. it actually tastes very coconut-y. my friend said it was like an almond joy. these are definitely in my repertoire now

[ripvanfish]

Does cocoa powder count as a raw food? (I'm not trying to be a smartass, I'm really curious.)

[froggythefrog]

It can -- I am not sure if you must seek out coca powder that's specifically raw or if it's typically that way.

[Jennifer N]

Typically it's toasted, same as carob, you have to buy specifically raw powder.

[PneumaticJawz78]

Typically it's toasted, same as carob, you have to buy specifically raw powder.

Or, take raw cocao nibs and stick 'em in a coffee grinder/food processor for a few seconds. Shaazam.

[MollyMormon]

That looks so great. I was disappointed when I saw coconut oil. It never gets cool enough to keep the oil together. All my coconut oil is runny oil all the time. I would have to AC my house in the winter to make them.