Raw Food Recipe: Easy Chocolate Covered Strawberries

ingredients

• 4 tablespoons cacao powder ($.80)
• 4 tablespoons coconut palm crystals sugar, powdered ($.80)
• 4 tablespoons coconut oil (or cacao butter), melted until liquid ($.40)

• 1 lb fresh strawberries ($3.00)

Wash and dry the strawberries well, leaving the leaves on the stem end intact. Don’t let them sit in water or they’ll soak it up and become mushy. Refrigerate to cool.

Mix together the cacao powder, powdered coconut palm crystals (or your choice of a dry and powdered sweetener), and coconut oil. Cacao butter works even better, if you have it.

Hold each strawberry by the stem end and dip into the hard chocolate shell mix. The chilled strawberry should start it hardening right away. Once mostly hardened, lay on a plastic wrap covered plate and keep in the refrigerator until ready to serve.

Lisa Viger Gotte

Hello! I’m Lisa, a vegan artist, photographer, author, Vegan Life Coach Educator, and RYT 200 yoga teacher. I love showing others how simple and delicious a plant-based diet can be. I draw and paint, cook, write, take lots of pics, eat lots of chocolate, and practice gratitude daily.