This recipe is on page 324 in the “Desserts” section in My NEW Cookbook: Flavilicious Cooking. You can see all the amazing recipes here: www.FlaviliciousCooking.com
Chocolate Almond Cups
Author: Flavia Del Monte
Recipe type: Dessert
Prep time:
Cook time:
Total time:
Serves: 6
Ingredients
- Chocolate Almond Cups
- Prep Time: 5 Minutes Cook Time: 5-7 Minutes Total Time: 2-3 Hours Yield: 6 Servings
- 1 cup plus 1 tablespoon cacao or cocoa
- powder
- 100g cocoa butter, melted
- 1⁄4 cup honey, melted
- 1⁄3 cup whole almonds or more
Instructions
- Using a double boiler, melt honey and cocoa over the lowest
- heat possible. Add approximately 1⁄4 pot of water.
- Place cupcake liners inside of a cupcake tray to use as molds
- for the chocolate.
- Place the cacao or cocoa powder in a medium sized mixing
- bowl.
- Once the honey and cocoa powder have melted and are
- combined well, add the mixture to the cocoa powder and mix
- well.
- Add the whole almonds and combine well.
- Add 1 tablespoon drops into prepared cupcake liners (use a 1
- tablespoon cookie scoop for ease).
- Place the tray in the fridge to speed up hardening.
Nutrition Information
Calories: 255 Fat: 22g Carbohydrates: 21g Protein: 4g
Hi, I’ve just bought your cookbook, enthused by the approach to healthy ingredients and cooking processes. I’m very disappointed to find that very many of the recipes include either honey or maple syrup, both of which are high in fructose- (I realise not as high as sugar, agave and HFCS). Since my objective is to remove all sources of sugar and fructose from my diet, I won’t be able to use many of your recipes. How about recipes with Stevia or Xylitol? Do you have any suggestions for replacing the honey and maple syrup with either of these healthier natural sweeteners?
Hi Mary,
Honey and maple syrup contain natural sugars which isn’t nearly as bad or quite the same as manmade sugar. Nonetheless, if you would rather not have honey and maple syrup, you will just have to do some trial and error with the other sweeteners to see what amount works the best. Add a little at first then try it, and slowly add more of the sweetener until you have your desired sweetness.
All the best!
Anna, CPT, FF Specialist
Hey Mary,
If you research raw honey and maple syrup, you will quickly discover the high natural sugar content is NOT BAD FOR YOU. Nor will you gain weight eating raw honey or maple syrup.
Eating things such as bad grains, processed flours, processed sugars and soy products will add weight and lots of carcinogens into your body.
The entire reason for this cookbook is the SHOW people what eating real foods looks like. Honey and maple syrup are the least of your worries if you are thinking weight gain or poor health.
Hope that makes sense….just try not to think about the mainstream “marketing” ploys around what made you think those 2 sugars are bad.
YES, you can use stevia in place for any maple syrup or honey. There is a page all about sweeteners and which ones you can use.
Is the cookbook a download or hard copy?
It’s a digital download…no hard copies!