Healthy Homemade Chocolate

HAPPY VALENTINES DAY!

Valentines day is known for celebrating love and...Chocolate!

As you must know already- chocolate is my best friend. I love chocolate. Chocolate never disappoints. Especially when its healthy!

With all the cakes, nice creams, puddings and more amazing healthy desserts you can make chocolate, we tend to ignore how amazingly chocolate tastes on its own.

Cacao is pretty healthy. Dark chocolate has recently been discovered to have a number of health benefits:

1. It is good for your heart (aka Valentines day), eating a small amount of dark chocolate can lower your blood pressure!

2. It is good for your brain. It helps improve cognitive function, and reduces the risk of stroke!

3. It helps control blood sugar

4. Its high with vitamins and minerals.

So, dark chocolate has many more pros to it, and what connects it directly to Valentines day is that it contains phenylethylamine (PEA), which is the same chemical your brain creates when you feel IN LOVE.

We have to remember that usually the dark chocolate we buy, is full of sugar (depends on the cocoa percentage) and fat, so we shouldn't consume too much of it. In the next recipe I'll show you how to make homemade chocolate with only healthy ingredients.

*Amounts are always important, even when eating healthy and using healthy ingredients. It's always important to control your amounts.

This next recipe is very easy to make, it's vegan, Paleo, sugar free, and absolutely delicious.

Ingredients:

1/2 cup coconut oil

1/2 cup cocoa powder

1/4 cup maple syrup or honey

1 tsp vanilla extract

Instructions:

1. In a small sauce pan, mix a spoon the coconut oil and cocoa powder over small heat.

2. Add the maple syrup/honey, and the vanilla extract and mix until smooth.

3. Pour the chocolate into molds and put in the fridge overnight or at least for a few hours until hardened.

*Keep the chocolates in the fridge so it won't melt.

Have a romantic Valentines day <3