Don’tcha love food that’s dual purpose?  Food that’s one thing but cleverly disguised as something else.  Like nice-cream pops with a granola crumble topping – looks like dessert while also quietly screaming breakfast!  And, in much the same way as overnight oats, something that you can prepare a day or two in advance and make your mornings deliciously, nutritiously easy!

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you can sit with a jar and a spoon in your pj’s at the whole other end of the day watching your favourite Netflix tipple and marvel at how delicious a bona-fide healthy dessert really can be.

I’ve made this stuff so many times now – assumed everyone knew about this beyond easy breakfast/dessert thing was to make.  But, just in case, this is our go to recipe for a rich, creamy, chocolatey, peanut buttery concotion.

A bit like vegan cheese, raw cacao powder can also be a bit hit and miss.  Sometimes it’s incredibly bitter and requires you to add more sweet stuff than you’d probably like.  But sometimes it’s full of chocolate flavour and richness and if it wouldn’t take ALL the moisture out of your mouth you could eat it straight off the spoon!  Revolution Foods Cacao Powder is exactly the latter.  The intoxicating smell hits you as soon as you open the bag.  If you’ve never tried raw cacao, only ever using cocoa powder, I urge you to try it.  It has the most incredible depth of flavour and warmth.

Raw cacao powder is made by cold-pressing unroasted cacao beans.  The process keeps the living enzymes and removes the fat (cacao butter)

Cocoa looks the same but it’s not.  Cocoa powder is raw cacao that’s been roasted at high temperatures.  This changes the molecular structure of the bean, reducing the enzyme content and lowering the overall nutritional value.

You also don’t need as much to make something that’s chocolatey rich and wickedly healthy with very little effort.  And if you get to eat what looks like dessert for breakfast I call that winning at life ?

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