Easter candy anyone?

[Tornadic Thoughts]

I don't celebrate hellidays nor indulge in the marketed goods that each promotes, but still dig a sweet treat on occasion. However, I can't/won't do store bought stuff anymore due to the ingredients and how they wreak havoc on my innards and such. I used to love the reese's peanut butter anything.

I make my own version now that involves removing the pit from some medjool dates, stuffing them with whichever nut butter I have on hand and closing them up, then melting some carob chips (I no longer eat any kind of chocolate due to caffeine content) and dipping them in to fully cover, then sticking them in the fridge to set up. Satisfies the craving and tastes like they should be really bad for me, but aren't. Yum, and then some. :)

 

[Friday]

Shan't be having any due to sugar n dairy content.

It’s incrediably difficult to find chocolate without dairy contamination... there’s only 1 dedicated dark chocolate line in the world (Barry Cacao owns it, these days), and it doesn’t operate every year. Most so called vegan chocolates are actually super contaminated with dairy (which they don’t list, because they’re buying their cacao pulsed on shared lines from their suppliers and then chocolitifying it themselves, they’re not legally required to; the same as vitamin manufacturers don’t know which batches of calcium are sourced from where, because here simply buying “calcium” by the ton from Brenntag or Chempoint, so they’re not legally required to list allergens from other stages in the manufacturing process), although most kosher (pareve) chocolates are not very contaminated (they steam clean the entire line between runs) it’s still about 50/50.

EnjoyLife isn’t the best chocolate in the world (Oh Vahlrona & Callebaut how I miss you!), but it’s pretty decent / better than Hershey’s by a mile. Sorta halfway in between McChocolate & TheChoclatierBigBoys. BUT they test each and every single run for allergens (and when a run tests positive? They sell it off. Never even once had a bad reaction from their chocolate.

:sneaky:

For minimal sugar? Put a little drizzle of melted chocolate or chocolate sauce (add coconut creme &/or vegan margarine in your pan with a handful of chocolate chips a splash of vanilla for a lovely chocolate sauce where a little goes a long way!) on a plate, some sliced early season strawberries, some fresh cracked black pepper, & voila! 1/100th the sugar of chocolate covered strawberries, but all of the happy.

If fruit is too much sugar? Check out mole (moh-LEY) sauces :happy: dark chocolate and fire roasted peppers... goes lovely on any kind of meat. I have a 3 day mole recipe that I need a gas mask for (and a garden) that I almost never make, and a couple hours on the stove using already smoked peppers version. Good stuff.

 

[Freida]

cadbury eggs -- I wait all year for them! Jelly beans - minus the black ones ick!

 

[FauxLiz]

@Freida the black jelly beans are the best. I collect them from everyone else and savor them.

 

[Teasel]

I dont think iveeverhad a chocolate covered strawberry, I might have a bash at that :)

 

[FauxLiz]

never had a chocolate covered strawberry? @berlinda you must try this they are so good and decadent.

 

[Teasel]

Yes @FauxLiz I (literally) haven't lived :D

 

[Tornadic Thoughts]

You're gonna love it, @berlinda ! I make an avocado pudding with avocado/carob powder/liquid stevia extract (or soaked dates) and dip strawberries in it for break-fast some days. What a tasty way to start the day, for sure. :)