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Homemade chocolate

Dear friends, today no baked goods, but something that makes every woman happy: homemade chocolate. Super easy, very quick to prepare, and also incredibly delicious. When I have last-minute guests, I always make a batch of chocolate.

The most important ingredient for the chocolate is raw cocoa butter. You can order it online, but also buy it at health food stores like Holland & Barrett. At the Noordermarkt, you can find various raw food stands where they sell it too.

Raw cocoa butter is a plant-based fat that comes from, yes, the cocoa bean. And it makes sense that it makes us happy, because this main ingredient of chocolate is full of good substances like serotonin and the love drug phenylethylamine. Bad sleeper? Have another piece, because cocoa butter is also the best source of magnesium. The butter is made using the cold-press method, which preserves all the nutrients. Moreover, chocolate has a beneficial effect on your heart. What are you waiting for? From now on, you can just make the tastiest and healthiest chocolate yourself.

I'm pimping it today with chopped nuts, cinnamon, and raisins. But coarse sea salt and macadamia nuts also work well. Or how about coarse toasted coconut flakes?

Tony, eat your heart out!

Ingredients (for one bar of chocolate, 1 cm thick)

• 150 grams (raw) cocoa butter (available at health food stores or at the organic market)

• 25 grams extra virgin coconut oil

• 50 grams cocoa powder

• 2 tbsp maple syrup

• pinch of salt

If you want:

• seeds from one vanilla pod

• 1 tsp cinnamon

• 50 grams chopped almonds

• a handful of raw millet for a crunchy bite

• a handful of raisins

Preparation:

1. Take a saucepan, fill it with water, and bring it to a boil.

2. Place both the cocoa butter and the coconut oil in a (glass) bowl that is just large enough to float in the saucepan.

3. Melt the cocoa butter and coconut oil in a bain-marie.

4. Sift the cocoa powder and add it to the coconut mixture.

5. Also add the maple syrup and cinnamon and mix until everything is well combined.

6. Take a small baking dish (15-20 cm) and line it with baking paper. Using small cupcake molds works too.

7. Pour your chocolate mixture into it.

8. Distribute the chopped nuts and raisins over the chocolate

9. Place the chocolate in the refrigerator for at least three hours or in the freezer for an hour.