Raw Chocolate

The final product: our very own home made raw chocolates!

Today I met up with Ville, a raw foodie from Finland who's also living and studying in Grenoble.  We faced the rain and windstorm and went to the market at Place Saint-André to buy some local, organic produce for lunch. I blended up a yummy soup, and afterwards Ville prepared some amazing raw chocolate for dessert.  Ville has been studying the recipes of Finlands top chocolate alchemist, Jaako Halmetoja, and clearly he's learned a thing or two because the chocolate came out great.  I've gotta do this more often!   All it takes is some cacao butter, coconut oil, honey, salt and of course cacao. We also added in some lucuma and maca, and flavored half the batch with cayenne.  (I definitely preferred the spicy cayenne batch).  The preparation takes some finesse, chocolate can be tricky, but Ville took care of that, and if you want to learn the techniques, this site has instructions. 

Ville filling the ice cube molds with the chocolate mixture

One thing that Ville taught me: never eat chocolate cold.  The flavors of chocolate come out when it is warm, or room temp.  So if your chocolate has been sitting in the fridge, take it out and let it sit for a little bit before you take a bite :).