Every healthy diet needs a chocolate treat! Dark chocolate, nuts, and seeds support a healthy heart, decrease weight gain, and help prevent diabetes. In addition, nuts and seeds decrease inflammation, help maintain blood circulation, and help maintain blood pressure.
I stumbled across a similar recipe and adapted it to meet my healthy criteria of no sugar. I also added my choice of nuts and seeds. You can adapt this recipe to use your own preferred dried fruit, nuts, and seeds. I also use unsweetened cocoa disks from Mexico, so I can adjust the sweetener as needed.
Healthy Chocolate Chunks
Healthy chocolate fruit/nut chunks
Ingredients:
1 bag of Lily’s no sugar dark chocolate chips or 2 Mexican cocoa disks melted with maple syrup, honey or Stevia added for sweetener.
Handful of dried dates (chopped)
¼ c. dried cranberries (craisins)
½ c. roasted almonds
½ c. pistachios
¼ c peanuts
¼ c. pumpkin seeds
2Tlbs olive oil
1 Tlbs Maple syrup
(Use nuts of choice: pecans and macadamia nuts work well too. Use seeds of choice: sunflower, chia, flaxseeds, etc). Use choice of dried fruits: dates, apricots, raisins, and cranberries. I like to use a variety of different nut, fruit, and seed combinations since they all provide a variety of essential minerals and vitamins (Eat to live; don't live to eat!)
Place chopped dried fruit (dates & dried cranberries) in bowl of water while preparing nut/seed mixture.
Melt chocolate slowly with 1 -2 Tlbs of olive oil to give the chocolate a smooth consistency and texture. I melt chocolate in a measuring cup for 1 minute in the microwave and then stir until completely melted. If chocolate gets too hot, it will clump up and you want to keep a smooth texture. AFTER CHOCOLATE IS MELTED: Add natural sweetener if needed-not needed if you use Lily’s no sugar added dark choc chips)
Chop nuts and seeds together and roast in a pan with a Tlbs of olive oil until you get a nutty aroma.
Mix drained dates and dried cranberries (Craisins) into nut mixture.
Add 1 Tlbs of maple syrup to nut/date mixture.
Pour 1 tsp of melted chocolate in a silicone muffin pan. Pour remaining melted chocolate on top of nut/fruit mixture.
Place a spoon full of nut/fruit mixture on top of chocolate in each section of muffin pan.
Spoon remaining chocolate on top of fruit/nut mixture.
Refrigerate overnight until chocolate is firm. Serve for dessert or enjoy as a snack!
We eat one as a dessert with our breakfast every morning. This would make a wonderful snack as well!
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