How to Make Vegan Chocolate Candy Recipe [Video]

Delicious and decadent raw vegan chocolate candy recipe with a boost of superfoods. You simply need to melt, mix and mould!

I don’t know why it took me so long to create this vegan raw chocolate recipe. After all, it is so easy and rewarding to make your own chocolate candies or bars. Most importantly, you get to choose the ingredients knowing exactly what goes inside.

Vegan Chocolate Candy Recipe

The basics of any raw chocolate recipe usually are cocoa butter, raw cocoa powder and refined sugar. Also, homemade raw vegan chocolate recipes often use virgin coconut oil.

Instead of cocoa butter, coconut oil and cocoa powder I decided to go for cocoa paste or cocoa liquor as it is whole food, the way nature created it. In case you didn’t know, then cocoa liquor is made from whole, cold-milled, cold-pressed cacao beans, and can be used just like conventional baking chocolate.

Watch how I make those candies in the below video:

Now, make sure you choose raw cacao paste for those candies! Otherwise the recipe wouldn’t be raw any more!

Raw cocoa paste has not been heated above 45°C (114°F) and contains a naturally rich supply of antioxidants. Moreover, it is also known to be one of the highest dietary sources of magnesium.

I usually buy raw as well not raw cocoa paste using the first in raw recipes and the latter in baked recipes.

Superfood Powders

Next, I like to add some nutritional value to my healthy recipes. Hence, I use superfood powders in my raw chocolate recipe:

• Lucuma is a rich and sweet fruit native to Peru. It is also known as the gold of Incas containing iron and calcium.
• Baobab is the fruit of Africa’s ‘Tree of Life’. Besides containing 34% soluble fibre, it is also a rich source of vitamin C. Soluble fibre contributes to slow energy release, which sustains us for a longer period of time. Hence, it is ideal for those who experience blood sugar fluctuations (diabetics, people on candida diet).
• Yakon is an ideal substitute for sugar made of yakon root. However, as it is not as sweet as sugar, you’d need to add more. Yakon tube is also very delicious when eaten raw – almost tastes like honey.
• Carob powder is made from dried, roasted carob tree pods and looks a lot like cocoa powder. You can use carob powder as a natural sweetener because it’s really sweet. It’s also a perfect substitute for cocoa.

Other superfood powders that you can use in a raw chocolate recipe:

• Maca
• Camu camu
• Rosehip
• Mesquite
• Acai
• Blueberry
• Sea buckthorn
• Apricot Kernel
• A small amount of spirulina or chlorella

Spicing It Up!

Furthermore, here are some ingredients to give extra flavour and spice up your raw chocolate recipe:

• Cayenne or chilli pepper
• Black pepper
• Vanilla

Finally, if you’d like a protein boost, add those powders to your raw chocolate recipe:

• Pumpkin seed flour
• Sunflower seed flour
• Almond protein powder or almond flour
• Coconut flour
• Chia seed flour

How much can you add? If you want the same consistency as my raw chocolate recipe below, replace something from the list of ingredients 1:1. However, you can also make the batter thicker – as long as you can whisk the paste, it is fine! Also, it is totally fine if the batter is not pourable at the end – use a spoon to press it into chocolate moulds.

Now, the more powders you add, the denser the candies as fat percentage diminishes. However, I find it is totally fine to add about 2 more tablespoons to my raw chocolate recipe. Find out which consistency you prefer! I tend to like the denser candies as it has more flavours and nutrients.

Although this here is a great recipe for raw chocolates, don’t forget that it is still not a health food. You heard that right! Even though this lovely chocolate is made of plant-based whole food ingredients, it is all the same quite high in fat, namely in saturated fat (see nutritional info below). So, don’t eat the whole batch at one go. Instead, take it as an afternoon wake-up treat.

My homemade vegan raw chocolate recipe is so good because it is:

• Gluten free
• Refined sugar free
• Tasty as hell
• Easy to make
• Candida diet friendly

Sweeteners for my raw vegan chocolate candy recipe

As a former Candida overgrowth sufferer, I use xylitol or stevia in my recipes. However, you can opt for agave nectar, maple syrup, coconut nectar, coconut sugar, yakon syrup, raw cane sugar, or palm sugar.

In case you’re new to whole food plant-based eating and/or are used to overly sweet treats, start with more sweetener and as your taste buds adjust, add less every time!

So, what are you waiting for? Go to the grocery store if you don’t have the ingredients and whip up some delicious homemade raw chocolate candies!

I’d love to hear from you if you do try the recipe – your feedback means a world to me! So, please let me know in the comments below if you make these candies and lease tag me in social media whenever you try one of my recipes! I’d love to see your creations! Instagram @thenutriplanet and Facebook @nutriplanet.health.hub

Raw Vegan Chocolate Candy Recipe with Superfoods

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• Author: Nele Liivlaid
• Total Time: 1 hour 15 minutes
• Yield: 12 Candies (about 15g, 0.5oz Each) 1x
• Diet: Vegan

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Delicious and decadent raw vegan chocolate candy recipe with a boost of superfoods. You simply need to melt, mix and mould!

Cooling time: 1 hour

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Ingredients

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• 100g (3.5oz) cocoa liquor
• 25g (0.9oz) coconut puree
• 3½ tbsps. ground birch xylitol (or more)
• 1 tsp. cinnamon
• 1 tbsp. lucuma powder
• 1 tbsp. carob powder
• 1 tbsp. yakon powder
• ⅛ tsp. Himalayan salt

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Instructions

1. First, chop up cocoa liquor and measure coconut puree and place them into a heatproof bowl. Next, bring water to simmer in your saucepan. Then, turn off the heat. Now, set the heatproof bowl in the mouth of the pot, making sure the bowl doesn’t touch the bottom of the saucepan. Stir cocoa liquor and coconut puree as it softens. Make sure not to let even a drop of water to come in contact with your cocoa mass. You can also use a double boiler or a water bath melt dish, if you have one.
2. Next, take a small whisk and start sifting and mixing in all the dry ingredients one-by-one.
3. Lastly, add ground xylitol and taste. If you think it needs more sweetness, add xylitol or some liquid stevia or even coconut nectar or coconut sugar.
4. To finish, transfer the chocolate mass into silicone or paper moulds (about 15g, 0.5oz each) and place it into fridge or freezer until set (at least an hour).

• Prep Time: 15 minutes
• Category: Desserts
• Method: Simmering and Freezing

Nutrition

• Serving Size: 1 candy
• Calories: 98 kcal
• Sodium: 27.2mg
• Fat: 8.1g
• Saturated Fat: 4.5g
• Carbohydrates: 6.5g
• Fiber: 3g
• Protein: 1.9g

Tips on my vegan raw chocolate recipe:

• You don’t need to worry if you don’t have all those superfood powders. Lucuma and yakon powder can substitute one another. Furthermore, both of them can be replaced with carob or mesquite, as they are all sweet powders.
• For a hint of fresh sour taste replace either lucuma or yacon powder with one tablespoon of baobab powder, rosehip powder, acai powder, camu camu, sea buckthorn, or wild blueberry powder.
• Instead of paper or silicone chocolate moulds you can also try using ice cube trays. However, I imagine it must be harder to remove the candies when they’re set.

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