Here are some of ingredients you can use to make it taste better and still be paleo-approved. Raw honey, almonds, fruit, and coconut milk! And yes, I took a picture, because pictures make me hungry:
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| Ingredients that go well with dark chocolate |
Here's some ideas for what to do:
- Melt it and mix it with pieces of very sweet, ripe fruit that have been simmered in a pan (the heat extracts the sweetness). Then, let it cool enough to where you can form it into balls, and reharden it in the freezer
- Melt it and combine it with a little raw honey and nuts (by "little" I don't mean half the jar of honey, remember it doesn't do you any good to go without table sugar if you're pigging out on honey)
- Melt it and combine it with coconut milk and a touch of raw honey (if you add enough coconut milk, you will eventually get a syrup-like consistency. This is what you want if you want to be able to pour the chocolate into molds)
In this picture, I had melted half a dark chocolate bar with about 1/4 of a cup of coconut milk and 1 tablespoon of raw honey. When I poured it on the sheet I added the fruit, nuts, and shredded coconut.
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| A Paleo chocolate bar |
Anyway, I'm sure there's more discoveries to be made in the realm of Paleo candy making, but that's about the extent of my expertise (I specialize in eating candy only). I still have to experiment some with mint and peppermint extract, because I bet that would be good too. But you get the idea. 5 grams of natural sugar added to 1/2 a chocolate bar can go a long way for taste, that's for sure.


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