Chocolate Coconut Rough Berry Tarts

29 Friday Aug 2014

Posted by Wendy Hay in All recipes, Cakes and Bakes, Sweets & Treats

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berries, berry tart, chocolate, Chocolate Coconut Rough, chocolate recipe, coconut, Dark Chocolate, gluten free, Grain Free, marscapone cream, Primal

Yes it definitely is a Chocolate Blog Week.

Someone recently tweeted a comment about Paleo bloggers forever posting treats, pimping cookies and brownies! Are we still Paleo? We have supposedly forsaken sugar and all sweet things. Well here’s the thing. Yes, we do seem to be obsessed with sweet stuff but actually we are obsessed with food full stop/period. Now this will sound crazy, but I think we are so obsessed because we are no longer in the thralls of sugar/carb addiction.

We can eat guilt free, we can now stand back and look at food in a more intellectual and creative way. We have lost that feeling, “if I don’t eat something, right here, right now I am just going to chew my arm off”. So we are more objective. Ok now I am going to stretch this a bit – feel free to laugh or comment, whatever! Now I think the reason we post more sweet stuff is because it looks better in photos (haha!). Yes and also it is more inclusive, both to Paleo and non Paleo folks. Ok maybe I should stop right now, it is starting to sound like a crazy lady excuse to bake tasty treats – even to me.

So onward in my chocolate saga. I posted my Chocolate Coconut Rough slice – or should I say “our”, as the base was from Heather at Cook it up Paleo. I had a bit left over and pressed it into one of those cute tiny flan tins and it ended up looking like this.

Almost too pretty to eat – yeah right, that thought didn’t last long.

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Chocolate Coconut Rough

29 Friday Aug 2014

Posted by Wendy Hay in All recipes, Cakes and Bakes, Sweets & Treats

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almond meal, chocolate, Chocolate Coconut Ganache, Chocolate Coconut Rough, Chocolate Ganache, chocolate recipe, coconut, coconut oil, Dark Chocolate, gluten free, Grain Free, low sugar, Primal

This seems to be the Chocolate blog week! And I think there is still another chocolate recipe to come 🙂

This time I am cheating, or should I say sharing the love, as I just can’t take the credit for the awesome base of this slice. But like many successes sometimes they have to come from a failure.

I came across Heather from Cook it up Paleo when I was looking for a chocolate bliss ball. While these Ultimate Chocolate Macaroons were not quite what I was looking for, her recipe looked so tasty they distracted me and I had to cook them up.

Well, I think that I had only been out of hospital for less than a week. You know old lady gets a new hip, but cooking obsession takes hold and so hobbles on crutches to the kitchen. And this is where the failure comes in. I made the mixture using what I had in the cupboard. Cooked about a 1/3 and froze the rest for later. I couldn’t wait to try them, so did the usual photo and tucked in.

Oh no. At this point I realised that I hadn’t read the all the instructions and in my enthusiasm (read should still be resting quietly in bed), I missed out the egg. Sorry Heather I didn’t tell you this! But don’t get me wrong these were still tasty eggless, but I’d recommend adding a bit more coconut oil!

Anyway, so it did wake me up during the night thinking about that other 2/3 batch in the freezer. That’s when I thought, well why not just mix them up again and add the egg? And as you do at 3am, mind whirring away, I thought why roll these into balls, just be lazy and bake it as a slice. Then top it with some Chocolate Ganache to get a double chocolate hit.

So that’s just what I did and here it is.

But I also saved a little of the mix and pressed that into a mini tart base – well that’s the next post. Sorry this has been a novel before the recipe but that’s how it works out some days, doesn’t it?