25 Mar, 2009
Raw Chocolate Smoothie Variations
Posted by: Angela Leeds In: *Live Green Smoothie RECIPES|RAW CHOCOLATE
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I’ve been “choco-vibing” like crazy, lately, with Raw and Live-Green Chocolate Concoctions, and experimenting with ways to jack up the Maca, and wanted to share some recipes variations others might enjoy. The variations are jacked-up nutrition rich in several different kinds of superfoods! Some of the best nutrition that raw foods has to offer…
With my ChocoMacaVerde “Ultimate Live Green Raw Chocolate Smoothie” recipe as the starting point, I’ve whipped up the following awesome concoctions this past week:
- Made an intense raw chocolate ice cream without the greens, but with added macadamia nuts, and definitely using the raw chocolate powder, nibs, and cacao butter in the recipe (and lots of ice).
- Left out the greens and jacked up the raw maca and raw carob (heavy on the raw chocolate nibs and vanilla bean), and made a bit lighter without the addition of hemp seeds (whoops… ran out!).
- Added parsley and substituted pumpkin seeds for the hemp seeds… and doubled the maca & carob.
I also have made a “ChocoMaca Cocoa” a few times using equal parts raw chocolate power, raw maca powder, and raw carob with either raw cane sugar (rapadura) or raw honey. Makes it quite thick, and I tend to need to add more warm water halfway through the mug because it gets too cool.
Maca being the root of a cruciferous plant, it has a bit of that strong flavor that sulphur-rich foods carry (it’s a potent radish, after all), so to my taste buds it requires a little flavor-masking. The ChocoMaca Cocoa does the trick.
