Pantry Foods: Mock White Chocolate

mock-white-chocolate

My youngest daughter stated with enthusiasm: “Mom made white chocolate! Mmmm!” Well not exactly, but this Mock White Chocolate will stoke your metabolic fire.

This recipe is safe for someone on the Specific Carbohydrate Diet.

I have been looking for a safe white chocolate or white chocolate substitute for some time. I have made chocolate before but the process is cumbersome and time consuming. It’s an activity best left to the professionals. Unfortunately, even the professionals tend to use less than ideal ingredients.

Cocoa butter is what gives white chocolate its chocolate flavor. Some cocoa butter has a very strong flavor so you may have to adjust how much cocoa butter you add to this recipe. Depending on where you live, cocoa butter might be a bit difficult to find but well worth the effort.

This recipe smells like white chocolate but doesn’t quite have the creamy smooth texture of a high quality white chocolate. I would rather know what goes into my food than have the perfect texture. Of all the creamed coconut I have tried, Nutiva Coconut Manna has the smoothest texture. The recipe will satisfy that after dinner desire, while stoking your metabolic fire.

1c Nutiva Coconut Manna
1T organic cocoa butter or organic coconut oil (optional)
1T local raw honey
1T organic vanilla extract
a pinch of sea salt
1T organic raisins (optional)

Prepare a tray with a layer of wax paper. Heat water in a sauce pan big enough to accommodate a 2c Pyrex measuring cup. Put the coconut manna and cocoa butter or coconut oil into a 2c Pyrex measuring cup and gently warm until melted. Add the honey, sea salt and optional raisins. At the very end add the vanilla extract which will thicken the mixture. Mix very well. Pour the mixture onto the wax paper and spread until fairly thin. Cool in the fridge until solid and then break into pieces.

making-mock-chocolate

Gently heat the coconut manna, cocoa butter, coconut oil, sea salt and honey in a 2c Pyrex measuring cup. Remove from heat before adding the vanilla extract.

This is a good time of year to be consuming coconut products especially coconut oil because of flu season. Please see Swine Flu: Delicious Cure for more information.