And Is There Such a Thing as a Healthy Chocolate Cake?

“What’s that? A healthy Chocolate Cake?” I hear you gasp. Well, yes and no. It has no butter in it, so you’re already losing the fat element. It has banana, of course, which we all know is really good for you (high in potassium which is great for regulating blood pressure and the function of [...]

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Healthy Chocolate Truffles?

To make chocolate healthy pretty much means to  lose what we love most about it: cream, full fat milk, sugar.  What this loosely translates as is chocolate in its most natural form: pods, nibs, cocoa butter, unprocessed cocoa. However, I am always up for a challenge, and having sourced some Cacao Nibs on an unnamed [...]

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NEWSFLASH – FAT FREE CHOCOLATE!!

We’re all looking for a guilt-free way to indulge ourselves in heaps of chocolate, right? I think I may have the solution.
For all Chocoholic Gaming Afficionados, it was recently brought to my attention that there are three (yes, three!) games out there devoted to Theobroma Cacao.  Since then I have played all three games (not [...]

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A Healthy Chocolate Mousse??

Mousse is possibly one of the easiest sophisticated desserts to make but even easier to eat. It can be luxuriously dense or as light as a cloud. It can be savoury or sweet and it can be baked or, um, not baked.
I wanted to do something slightly different from the norm. What about those poor [...]

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