Peanut Honeycomb Chocolate Pieces

The Vegan Kind Christmas Selection Box.

Hotel Chocolat Dark Advent Calendar

Dairy free chocolate easter treats

Ingredients:
200g dark dairy free chocolate of choice
25g coconut oil
2 tablespoons of sweet freedom or agave
pinch of salt
100g almonds
100g raisins

Lightly roast the almonds in the oven for about 5-8 minutes, until they get a more golden colour inside the almond when cutting it in half. Set aside to cool, then chop roughly.

Melt chocolate, coconut oil, sweet freedom or agave, and salt on a low heat while stirring. Once all melted and incorporated, turn the almonds and raisins into the chocolate mixture.

Spread into a small dish or baking pan lined with baking paper. Refrigerate for a few hours or over night, then cut into bite size pieces.

Keep refrigerated until serving.

Enjoy

Hot Chocolate for autumn weather

So haven’t been blogging for a long time, and the reason is I have been moving. We have moved in to an old house that needs a lot of updating, especially the kitchen needs to be replaced, so there might not be a lot of post in the near future as well.

At the moment we are so busy fixing up the house, that there isn’t a lot of time for us to cook anyway even if we had a new kitchen. So at the moment most of our meals are whatever is easy and quick, but I still try and eat healthy. So if you would like for me to share easy but healthy meals with you let me know in a comment below.

BeyondDark healthy chocolate

I accidently saw this sweet little pack of chocolate buttons in Sainsbury’s, on the top shelf and a bit hidden between the other chocolates in the chocolate section. I just loved the packaging, and turning it around, it only had the warning ”may contain traces of milk products”, which means it is normally okay for us lactose intolerant people.

Reading the front it says “rich in natural antioxidants” and on the back it says “up to three times more antioxidants than standard chocolate”, this obviously made me very curious and I went straight home to look at their website.

According to the website, this little pack has the equivalent of 25 oranges, 8 bananas or 5 apples in antioxidants. It is stirred for 72 hours, where most chocolates are stirred for 6 hours, to give it a smooth texture. And it has a long list of health benefits from the flavinol antioxidants found in the chocolate.

Tasting the little chocolate buttons really made me hooked on the product, they melt in your mouth and have a really round taste, and not bitter like some 70% chocolates can be.

I went back the next day and bought 10 more packages, and now carry one in my bag at all time for when I have a chocolate craving.

For more information visit the BeyondDark website.

Montezumas

Sunrise (spicy orange), Quick Fix (freshly brewed coffee), Hot Lips (Chilli and coconut),
Creme de Cacao (simple dark) and Moondance (dark almond pralines).

Have bought a few of Montezumas bars before from the supermarket, but finally got the chance to try out there vegan chocolatetruffles, and they were great, I have always had a weakness for good chocolate truffles and these are defiantly very good chocolate truffle that is worth a try.
My favourites where the Quick Fix and Sunrise, that was just perfect with a cup of tea and an old black and white movie.

The people at Montezumas has also made it very easy for people that can't have certain ingredients, marking all their products with little symbols at the bottom of each description, and if you are looking for the once that don't contain dairy, you want to go after the vegan symbol.

For more information take a look at Montezumas website

If you are finding my blog useful, please sign up and show your support.

Moo Free

For all of you who have been missing dairy chocolate like me, because sometimes it need to be dairy chocolate, but haven’t really liked the taste of the ones where milk have been replaced with soy.
Well here is the answer Moo Free Organic Chocolate bar, it is melt in your mouth delicious and every bit as good as old fashioned milk chocolate, though a bit on the sweet side. 
Even Harrods are now stocking this chocolate, and if the fine pallets behind Harrods give it the tombs up you know it has to be good.

For more information go to www.moofreechocolates.com 

If you are finding my blog useful, please sign up and show your support.

Booja Booja Chocolate for Chocolate lovers

When I lived in Denmark, the best thing I could ever think of eating was the champagne truffles from the sweetest little chocolate shop called PB Chocolates in city centre, where not only where all the chocolates amazing the staff in that little shop where some of the sweetest sales staff I have ever meet, they were always up for a chat about chocolate and talked so passionately about it. I often think of this little shop and about the amazing champagne truffles that I no longer can have, and it still makes me smile.

Accidently emptied it before I had a change to take a picture

But lucky me, there is actually a company called Booja Booja that makes dairy free champagne truffles and I literally felt like I had won the lottery first time I saw these on a shelf. The company seems to put so much heart behind the ingredients and products, and  you can certainly taste it in every bite.
On top of being dairy free, they are also gluten free, cholesterol free, vegan, GMO free and organic, and they certainly hold their own against any fine chocolate truffle on the market.

So far I have tried the Champagne truffles and Cognac banana truffles that I can highly recommend, but are defiantly going to try all the other flavours as well.

If you are still looking for an Easter egg for someone this Easter, why not give them one of Booja Booja’s hand painted Easter eggs. I have definatly put a few on my wish list that's for sure.

For more information about Booja Booja chocolate truffles see here

Chocolate I would recommend

I love chocolate so much, and milk chocolate is probably one of the things I miss the most in my lactose free diet, but luckily there are some good dark chocolates out there to eat or use to make scrumptious treats with.

These are the chocolates I normally buy that I have found so far.

My absolute favourite is Willie Harcourt-Cooze chocolate, and if you haven’t tried his chocolate you need to try it, he is so passionate about his chocolate and it really comes through in the taste.
He does two different products his Willie’s Supreme Cacao that is 100% pure cacao, mostly used for cooking, and Wille’s Delectable Cacao that is bars ranging between 69%-72% cacao, and these you can use for both cooking but also for eating, and they  taste absolutely amazing, melt in your mouth smooth with the most different adventures tastes.
The bars only contain cacao and raw cane sugar, so no soy or bad things. 

For more information visit www.williescacao.com

The other chocolate I use a lot in cooking, it is a bit cheaper for when I make cakes or other things where the type of chocolate doesn’t make a big different in taste, is Waitrose’s own continental  plain chocolate that is 72%, it taste good and is great for cooking.

It does however contain soya, but it seems like there isn’t a lot of chocolates out there that doesn’t contain soya.

For more information click here