Raw Valentines

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How do you grind your raw cacao into flour? What appliance do you use?

 

In a message dated 2/19/2006 1:53:32 PM Eastern Standard Time,

outreach writes:

 

For Valentine's Day, I made raw " chocolate covered " cherry bon-bons. The

" Chocolate " was fresh cacao mixed with ground date. Usually, I grind up the

dates in the cuisinart or blender and it is such a pain to get it to mix and

it always comes out to chunky. I decided to use my Greenstar like a

Champion, and the date puree was amazing, no water needed. Clean-up was

difficult, but any appliance that you put dried dates is difficult.

 

I was super impressed with how the greenstar made a velvety date fudge to

add the cacao to. It is a great machine.

 

I mixed the date fudge with dried cacao that I had picked and dried myself

then ground into flour and put through a sifter. I then kneaded half a pound

of sifted cacao into one pound of date " fudge " added a few dried spices and

rolled flat. I then 3x3 inch square of flat " chocolate fudge " and wrapped it

around a frozen cherry.

 

When it thawed, the cherry center was liquid and sweet in a fudgy chocolate

shell.

 

Many friends (including non-raw) were blown away by their ALL RAW

valentine's " chocolate covered cherries " !

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Guest guest]

For Valentine's Day, I made raw " chocolate covered " cherry bon-bons. The

" Chocolate " was fresh cacao mixed with ground date. Usually, I grind up the

dates in the cuisinart or blender and it is such a pain to get it to mix and

it always comes out to chunky. I decided to use my Greenstar like a

Champion, and the date puree was amazing, no water needed. Clean-up was

difficult, but any appliance that you put dried dates is difficult.

 

I was super impressed with how the greenstar made a velvety date fudge to

add the cacao to. It is a great machine.

 

I mixed the date fudge with dried cacao that I had picked and dried myself

then ground into flour and put through a sifter. I then kneaded half a pound

of sifted cacao into one pound of date " fudge " added a few dried spices and

rolled flat. I then 3x3 inch square of flat " chocolate fudge " and wrapped it

around a frozen cherry.

 

When it thawed, the cherry center was liquid and sweet in a fudgy chocolate

shell.

 

Many friends (including non-raw) were blown away by their ALL RAW

valentine's " chocolate covered cherries " !