Salty chocolate treat
Chocolatey. Coconut-tastic. Seed-a-rific. Oh, yes. We went there with this recipe. Dark chocolate with tons of nuts and seeds, makes a fantastic low-carb snack! Grab a piece to go, before heading out to greet the day!
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servingservings
Ingredients
- 3½ oz. 100 g dark chocolate with a minimum of 70% cocoa solids
- 10 10 hazelnuts or pecans or walnuts
- 2 tbsp 2 tbsp (10 g) roasted unsweetened coconut chips
- 1 tbsp 1 tbsp (8 g) pumpkin seeds
- sea salt
Instructions
- Melt the chocolate in a double boiler or in the microwave oven in 20 second intervals.
- Bring out 10 small cupcake liners, no bigger than 2 inches in diameter.
- Add the chocolate to the cupcake liners.
- Add nuts, coconut chips, seeds and lastly a few salt flakes if you like the saltier flavor.
- Let cool and store in the refrigerator.
Tip!
If you don’t have cupcake liners, you can just pour the chocolate in a small baking dish with parchment paper, no bigger than 8 inches x 8 inches. Spread nuts and coconut flakes on top and when the chocolate has hardened, break up into nice uneven pieces. You can also add chili for flavor, and perhaps some dry berries if you’re not that sensitive to sugar.
Also, you can mix and match the nuts for your own unique flavor profile!
Meals
Breakfasts
Desserts
Snacks
Dairy free
Vegetarian
Bread
Only keto
A serving of the spinach frittata recipe could be the main part of a complete meal. At 3 carbs for the centerpiece of a breakfast, lunch, or dinner, that would count as a very low carb choice. It might even fit into a keto meal plan.
A serving or two of the low carb bread might be part of a sandwich, adding a few extra carbs, but making it more filling and satisfying than, say, plain ham and cheese served alone. Again, it helps fill out a complete low carb meal that might be a little less strict.
But, as the title suggests, this chocolate recipe is a "treat", intended as a dessert or a snack, not a substantial component of a full meal. It would be something extra to enjoy occasionally if you're not trying to maintain a very strict low carb diet.
http://www.dietdoctor.com/how-low-carb-is-low-carb
Last year my husband and I ventured into a cleanse using only raw milk and it was amazing to say the least. If anyone wants info on this I can spill the beans, just don't want to ramble on Amy more and bore you all. Lol.
Onward LCHF'ing we go...
I buy cocoa butter by the pound and melt it in a double boiler adding Swerve or Tagatose sweetener instead of sugar (very very low glycemic index for both sweeteners. I also add cocoa powder and sometimes powdered heavy cream (milk chocolate). I put some peanut butter in the middle sometimes too! Really good although a bit more work. Pretty easy now that I have made these three times so I am getting quicker at it!
I put a teaspoon of the melted chocolate into each liner. I think they came out a bit thinner than in the pic, but maybe my liner was too big. 2 teaspoons seemed to be a better size but would that double the carb amount?
I topped some with coconut flakes sea salt and an almond in the middle. Some with pumpkin seeds and a sprinkle of pumpkin pie spice. Some just with sea salt. DELICIOUS. Super creamy and hits the spot. Will make this often!