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Sugar Free Pure Chocolate Dessert

Filed Under: 101 Days of Blogging, Dairy Free, Eat, Egg Free, Gluten Free, Grain Free, Love, Recipes, Special Diets, Sugar Free, Wellness Tagged With: , , , , , ,

Chocolate. Dark chocolate. Real, raw, rich chocolate. The kind so real, raw and rich that it’s sugar free. That’s what this Sugar Free Pure Chocolate Dessert is all about.

Here’s what they say….

Chocolate is like sex. It can go from a sacred experience all the way to a criminal act.

Victoria Moran told me this during an Institute for Integrative Nutrition lecture.

I started to think about all the ways chocolate is sacred and criminal. I came up with a hot list.

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The chocolate recipe I’m about to give you today combines the very best ingredients with either no label or a very simple label.

Sugar Free Pure Chocolate Dessert

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Sugar Free Pure Chocolate Dessert
Recipe type: Dessert
Prep time: 
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Serves: 2-5
 
Ingredients
Instructions
  1. Place the avocado, Monkfruit, raw cacao nibs, and chia seeds in a bowl.
  2. Melt the Scharffen Berger in a pan on the stove (on low).
  3. Add the Scharffen Berger and avocado mix to a blender (preferably a Kitchen Aid).
  4. Blend on low for about 2-5 minutes, or until the mixture is smooth (it will have texture still, due to the chia seeds and raw cacao nibs - that's okay).
  5. Chill and eat.
Notes
The Monkfruit is the only sweetener you'll use, but it is "sugar free." If you don't want any sweetness, leave it out.

 
This dessert is very rich. Ryan told me I needed to put that full disclosure here. IF you do not like real rich desserts and/or dark chocolate, then this is absolutely not for you. But like I told Ryan, most women would think he’s crazy for not liking it. Okay, maybe that’s just me.

That said, this Sugar Free Pure Chocolate Dessert….

  • has no sugar,
  • but is filled with fat and calories (all the goods!)
  • you do not need a cup full to be satisfied -> I have 3-5 bites, and I’m a choco-holic
  • the label of the avocado says: avocado, the label of the chia seeds say: chia seeds, the label of the raw cacao nibs say: raw cacao nibs and the label for the Scharffen Berger 99% cacao says: Cocoa Beans, whole vanilla beans

This is super simple and truly savory.

It’s neither sacred nor criminal.

It’s just life.

Sugar Free Pure Chocolate Dessert sarahkayhoffman.com

Sugar Free Pure Chocolate Dessert sarahkayhoffman.com

Sugar Free Pure Chocolate Dessert sarahkayhoffman.com

Do you like milk chocolate or dark chocolate better?

Xox,
SKH

Gluten Free Tropical Dessert Parfait

Filed Under: 101 Days of Blogging, Eat, Gluten Free, Love, Recipes, Special Diets Tagged With: , , , , , ,

Love this Gluten Free Tropical Dessert Parfait, and you will, too. In fact, you may have even stumbled here after Greatist shared it via 62 Healthier Gluten-Free Desserts. (Thanks, Greatist!)

Confession: I try not to look horizontal. Sometimes I can’t help it.

There are so many amazing blogs out there with food images and recipes I could only wish to enjoy. I am envious of the bloggers who can eat anything and everything they want. Their recipes are so much sexier than mine….for the most part anyways. I do my very best to help Gutsy girls not sit around and daydream about the things we can’t have 🙂 I know that for everything we want, there is always a substitute just waiting to be used.

I swear on every “Top X Foods to Eat While in an Airport/Traveling,” I see a Healthy Yogurt Parfait option. And the part that always gets me is the granola. The damn granola. I’m going to go out on a limb and assume that that granola is never gluten-free granola. And thus, I am never able to enjoy them while out and about.

Light bulb moment: parfaits, while they taste awesome with granola, can be made with a granola substitute.

This light bulb moment had me in the kitchen, making my very own parfait. For Ryan and I, it was dessert. But for you, and for us at a later date – totally travel-worthy, too!

Gluten Free Tropical Dessert Parfait

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Gluten Free Tropical Dessert Parfait
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Serves: 2-3
 
Ingredients
  • 1 cup Greek Yogurt
  • (3) The Laughing Cow Smooth Sensations Classic Cream Cheese (1/3 less fat)
  • 2 Tbsp Nutiva Organic Chia Seeds
  • 2 Tbsp flax seeds
  • 2 Tbsp raw cacao powder
  • ½ mango
  • 1 small peach
  • ½ banana
Instructions
  1. Mix together in 3 separate bowls (1/2 of the mango + 1 cheese wedge, ½ of the banana + 1 cheese wedge, ½ of the peach + 1 cheese wedge). Set bowls aside.
  2. Mix together in another bowl (aka the "new" granola): chia seeds, flaxseeds, and raw cacao powder.
  3. Slice/dice/cut the other ½ of the mango, banana, and peach. Set aside.
  4. Take your cup or bowl and begin the layering. Layering I used was as follows (beginning from the bottom, and working your way towards the top): dollop Greek yogurt, "new granola,"cream cheese mango flavor, diced mangoes, dollop Greek yogurt, "new granola," cream cheese banana flavor, sliced bananas, dollop Greek yogurt, "new granola," cream cheese peach flavor, sliced peaches.
  5. Top it off with a dollop of Greek yogurt, "new granola," and a peach slice.

 

Ingredients

Flaxseeds, Chia Seeds, Raw Cacao
Flaxseeds, Chia Seeds, Raw Cacao

Gluten Free Tropical Dessert Parfait sarahkayhoffman.com

Gluten Free Tropical Dessert Parfait sarahkayhoffman.com

This parfait not only makes an awesome, savory dessert, but you could also turn it into a breakfast! I mentioned breakfast the other day. No, you don’t have to have it. But this will make you want to. Chocolate? For breakfast? Yes, please!

Alright, your turn! Tell me about the best gluten-free parfait you’ve ever had or make! I’m kind of on a roll….

Xox,
SKH