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    Raw Chocolate Treats: Healthy Recipes for the Chocolate Lover
    Raw Chocolate Treats: Healthy Recipes for the Chocolate Lover
    Raw Chocolate Treats: Healthy Recipes for the Chocolate Lover
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    Raw Chocolate Treats: Healthy Recipes for the Chocolate Lover

    By Jessica Fenton

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    Jessica Fenton introduces the delicious flavors, health benefits, and versatility of raw chocolate in this beautifully illustrated and informative recipe book. Dispelling the common myth that chocolate is unhealthy, these easy-to-follow recipes for drinks, cookies, cakes, candies, desserts, and party food offer tantalizing ways to boost anti-oxidants and improve overall health. A comprehensive introduction to raw chocolate, from its history to its abundant nutritional benefits, shows why it is becoming an increasingly popular alternative to junk food. For those who want all the benefits of chocolate without the downside—calories, fat, and sugar—Raw Chocolate Treats opens a new world of healthy enjoyment.
     
    In addition to the recipes, the book includes a wealth of resource material such as a section on health benefits, a guide to ingredients, and a discussion of equipment. The author provides numerous kitchen tips and a code that indicates the skill level required for each recipe.
     
    As diabetes and obesity reach epidemic proportions, millions are looking for alternatives to desserts and sweets that are high in sugar and fat. This book makes a strong case for the health benefits of raw chocolate, which has 7x the antioxidants of dark chocolate. The author explains the powerful medicinal and health benefits of raw chocolate, including that it's one of the highest food sources of magnesium, can reduce blood pressure, aids in liver detoxification, and has no cholesterol. The recipes contain only trace amounts of caffeine and are suitable for vegetarians, vegans, raw foodists, people with diabetes or hyperglycemia, and those on a low-calorie, gluten- and sugar-free diet.
     
     
    CONTENTS
     
    Raw Chocolate: From Bean to Butter / Raw Chocolate—a History 10 / Health Benefits 12 / A Guide to Ingredients 14 / Making the Most of Raw Chocolate 18 / Raw Chocolate Equipment 20 / Basic Recipes 22
     
    Drinks / Raw Chocochino/Cacao & Coconut Water Shake 26 / Cacao Maca Boost/Choctail Mocktail 28 / Raw Chocolate & Banana Smoothie / Winter Warming Drinking Chocolate 30
     
    Candies / Raw Chocolate-Coated Brazils 32 / Raw Cacao Fudge 34 / Tangy Lemon Chocolates 36 / Fresh Cherry & Chocolate Truffles 38 / White & Dark Orange Creams 40 / Double-Dunked Raw Chocolate Truffles 42 / Cinnamon-Flavored Raw Chocolate Bars 44 / Peppermint Creams 46 / Ginger Caramels 48 / Almond Butter Truffles 50
     
    Cookies & Cakes / Raw Chocolate Cheesecake 52 / Raw Chocolate Brownies 54 / Rich Raw Chocolate & Vanilla Torte 56 / Chocolate Goji Finger Cookies 58 / White Chocolate & Raisin Snaps 60 / Raw Chocolate Gingerbread People 62 / Love Macaroons 64
     
    Desserts / Neapolitan Ice Cream 66 / Summer Sorbet/Beet & Mint / Choc Chip Sorbet 68 / Guarana & Goji Nutty Loaf 70 / Little Leo's Dessert 72 / White Raw Choc Chip Pudding 74 / Tingly Raw Chocolate Body Paint 76
     
    Party Food / Raw Hemp & Chocolate Spread 78 / Raw Chocolate Gelatin Desserts 80 / Crepes 82 / Banana Split 84
    Birthday Cake 86 / Ice Cream Sandwich 88 / Raw Ice Cream Sundae 90 / Milk Chocolate Fruit & Nut Clusters 92 / Cacao Crackers with Spicy Tomato & Cacao Dip 94
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherNorth Atlantic Books
    Release dateSep 30, 2014
    ISBN9781583948828
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      Raw Chocolate Treats: Healthy Recipes for the Chocolate Lover is a beautiful cookbook by Jessica Fenton. One thing that you need to know at the beginning is that so many of the recipes require a dehydrator power blender. I have a powder blender but not a dehydrator. That information was not in the blurb about this book. I am also waiting for some tests to come back which may indicate that I have to cut down on magnesium and therefore limit raw chocolate!

      The book is very well organized and there are lovely photos of the tempting but healthier chocolate recipes. The author gives a short history of the history of raw chocolate, then she goes into the health benefits. I have diabetes, type II so I was very interested in that. There is an informative list of ingredient in the recipes and when to avoid eating raw chocolate. She also has a section devoted to the equipment you need and a way to substitute your oven for a dehydrator however there are drawbacks to that. She also has a skill level post for each recipe. The recipes ranges from drinks and shakes, to truffles, caramels, tortes, cookies and ice cream sandwiches. The instructions are clear and easy to follow.

      It is a great cookbook for people who love chocolate and want to eat healthier.

      I received this book from the publishers as a win from FirstReads but that in no way influenced my thoughts or feelings in this review.

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    Raw Chocolate Treats - Jessica Fenton

    My Lifelong Love of Chocolate

    I think it’s fair to say that I’ve been mesmerized by chocolate right from the earliest age. I can’t put my finger on exactly what it is about the magical brown stuff that reels me in so deeply, almost in a hypnotic way. In fact, even the sound of the word chocolate never fails to make my face light up, and in more recent years it evokes through my senses a nostalgic state of mind.

    There’s something so special about chocolate, it’s no wonder that it effortlessly maintains its luxurious, decadent profile. But what’s remarkable is that having started at such a tender age, my relationship with chocolate has since grown healthier by the day.

    How I Got into Raw Foods

    It’s my health-pioneering mother who I have to thank for the journey I embarked on as a young adult to find, research, and then reveal the ultimate truth behind nutrition and the fundamental part it plays in achieving long-term optimum health.

    We were the only children at our school to eat organic food. No one around us seemed to know what it was back then in the 1980s, and it was years before the organic food revolution really hit. Teachers and cafeteria ladies alike would try an organic potato chip from our biodegradable bag with a mixture of interest and caution. My mom and dad were not overly well off when we were growing up, but would nevertheless set aside a large part of their household budget to allow for a weekly organic food delivery. Suzanne would appear without fail each week, come rain, snow, or shine, and unpack crates of overpriced, organic versions of popular mainstream foods from her white van. Organic food was proportionately much more expensive than nonorganic at that time, even more so than it is today, simply because there was much less demand for it then.

    When I was sixteen, I was diagnosed with mononucleosis, or mono, and within three years I had developed chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS). Little did I know in my bedridden state that this was the start of my career in natural nutrition. I adopted a vegan diet, free of refined sugars, wheat, and gluten, and then went on to eat a diet abundant in plant-based whole foods in their glorious, natural, raw, enzymatic state. I successfully ridded my body of CFS, at the same time as adding years of vitality to the rest of my life. I went on to run the London Marathon in a little over four hours, in celebration of the fact that I simply could.

    Raw Versus Roasted

    The chocolate recipes I present in this book differ from those in nearly every other chocolate recipe book in one major respect—they feature only raw chocolate. So what actually is raw chocolate? As the term suggests, it’s basically chocolate made from unroasted ingredients. Cacao (pronounced cac-cow) originates from the seed of the cacao pod that is fermented like conventional cocoa but has not gone on to be roasted or heat treated above 113°F/45°C. When cacao remains in its unroasted state, it retains a large proportion of its nutrients, antioxidants, and phytochemicals. In other words, it offers a wide spectrum of health benefits for you and your family to enjoy.

    Raw Chocolate—A Healthy Luxury for Everyone

    We can all benefit from eating raw chocolate in place of roasted chocolate, regardless of what other foods and drinks we consume in our daily diet, because this type of chocolate is truly a luxurious, well-being-enhancing gift from Mother Nature. But if you are looking to achieve improved health and greater energy levels, you can also make a conscious effort to include other plant-base foods in their natural state in your daily diet.

    Dedication

    For my soul mate: Tom BF Fenton, and our beloved son, Leo Finley. Thank you for such an exciting adventure. Also, huge appreciation to the rest of my family and close friends. Thanks to all those who support me in my ultimate mission of making raw food famous. In particular my adorable mom, who’s a superb baby-sitter!

    Raw Chocolate—

    From Bean to Butter

    Raw Chocolate—a History

    Chocolate isn’t just a modern-day ingredient found in confectionery bars; it has been an essential food throughout the ages. Its long, rich history dates back to around 2000 BCE, before the ancient Olmec civilization, and cacao bean mixtures were the beverages of choice of the Aztec, Maya, and Inca civilizations. Cacao beans were historically used as money as well as an aphrodisiac ingredient.

    It was the Spanish explorer Hernando Cortés who introduced cacao beans to Europe in 1519, after having been presented with them when he arrived in Mexico by the Aztecs, who believed him to be their long-awaited god. From chocolate’s first introduction into Spain, the fascination with chocolate continued to spread throughout Europe, although the treasured cacao beans themselves were kept a secret for another hundred years.

    The first chocolate house opened in London in 1657, and it proved to be a favorite meeting place for the elite and wealthy. Nearly a hundred years later, the Swedish naturalist scientist Carolus Linnaeus renamed the European word cocoa to Theobroma cacao, which is Greek for food of the gods.

    It wasn’t until the early 1990s that the health benefits associated with cacao started to reach the public consciousness and its popularity in this regard began to grow. Instrumental in this was the introduction of the first organic chocolate bar, followed soon after by an organic Fair Trade chocolate bar. Raw cacao beans were on sale on a small scale in places such as Glastonbury and Brighton in the UK, but they remained in relative obscurity.

    American raw food advocate David Wolfe took a sample of his Ecuadorian raw chocolate powder along to the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) at Brunswick Laboratories, Massachusetts. Here, it was revealed that there were 955 ORAC (oxygen radical absorbance capacity) units in a single gram of raw cacao powder, compared to just 260 in regular dark cocoa powder—ORAC units are the USDA’s measure of antioxidant capacity (see here). It was from this point onward that the real raw chocolate breakthrough began to emerge.

    Raw Cacao Powder

    Green Is the New Black

    The process used to achieve premium-quality raw cacao products differs from the way that regular cocoa is commercially processed. Raw cacao farming and processing is more environmentally sound, because it’s a far less energy-intensive procedure from start to finish. Raw cacao usually comes from small-scale growers who do not employ children or pay their workers a low wage. In fact, most operate in quite the opposite manner; under Fair Trade plans workers are paid and treated fairly in return for their high-quality crops. This

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