Raw Chocolate Sauce

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A good chocolate sauce can transform any dessert from ordinary to divine.

And eating raw food doesn’t mean you have to forgo the pleasures of a good chocolate sauce.

This recipe uses a simple – but decadent – combination of agave, cacao powder and cashew butter, with a hint of kvanilla to create a magnificent chocolate sauce.

The cashew butter is optional, but it adds such a rich nutty depth to this sauce that I’d never consider leaving it out.

Beside, it also means that you don’t have to use coconut oil, which so many raw chocolate sauce recipes do, and I find that coconut oil can sit very heavily sometimes.

I love this recipe because it’s another “just chuck everything in the blender” recipe, which means that it’s fast as well.

So the next time you sit down to dessert and realise that you’re all out of raw chocolate sauce, it won’t take you long to whip up another batch.

It’s OK, off you go. I’ll wait.

This is an incredibly versatile raw chocolate sauce that allows you to easily control the thickness by adjusting how much water you add.

Add a tiny amount (or none) and you can create a rich chocolate icing.

Add lots and you’ll create a perfectly runny sauce for drizzling over ice cream.

And as a bonus, you can “clean out” your blender with some almond milk, making an instant chocolate milk as a reward for all your effort.

So, what are you going to smear chocolate sauce all over first?

Raw Chocolate Sauce

This raw chocolate sauce recipe uses a simple blend of agave, cacao and cashew butter, with a hint of vanilla, to create a rich, decadent chocolate sauce.

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Category: Dessert, Sauce

Cuisine: Paleo, Raw, Vegan

Tags: dairy-free, egg-free, gluten-free, oil-free, salt-free, soy-free, sugar-free

Cook time: 15 minutes minutes

Makes: 250 ml (5 serves)

Calories per serve: 31.5kcal

Author: Nikki, Eating Vibrantly

Ingredients

• 1/4 cup agave nectar (70g )
• 1/4 cup cacao powder (25g)
• 1/4 cup cashew butter (50g)
• 1/8 tsp vanilla bean powder or 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
• 1/4 cup water (60g)

Method

• Add all ingredients to blender or food processor and blend until smooth.
• For a thicker sauce, allow it to sit in the refrigerator for several hours or overnight.
  

Preparation

• Before: -
• During: 15m
• After: 5-6h for sauce to thicken (optional)
• Need: Blender

Nutrition Information

Serving: 30g; Calories: 31.5kcal; Carbohydrates: 5.7g; Protein: 1.3g; Fat: 1.5g; Saturated Fat: 0.6g; Polyunsaturated Fat: 0.2g; Monounsaturated Fat: 0.7g; Sodium: 3.7mg; Potassium: 103mg; Fiber: 2.6g; Sugar: 0.5g; Vitamin C: 0.8mg; Calcium: 70mg; Iron: 1.1mg

Tips

• I actually halved this recipe when I adapted it from Karen Knowler’s Chocolate Dipping Sauce recipe, because I didn’t want to make so much at once. This amount works well in a small blender jug, but if you’re doing it in a larger jug, or in your food processor, you may need to double the amounts to get it to blend properly.
• You can use almond butter instead of cashew butter, if that’s all you have on hand. In theory, this raw chocolate sauce recipe should work with any nut butter, including peanut butter, but I just haven’t tried it with anything other than cashew.
• The nut butter is optional. You can make a really nice chocolate sauce with just the agave and the cacao and vanilla, but it won’t thicken up as much (or taste as nice, in my opinion).
• Vanilla powder is just ground up dried vanilla beans. You can make your own vanilla powder by air drying vanilla beans for a month or two, and then grinding them finely in a spice or coffee grinder. Or you can save yourself the trouble and buy something like Loving Earth’s Vanilla Powder. You can also just use vanilla extract instead.
• For a thick sauce that you can use as icing or a ganache, add around 30ml (1/8 cup) water.
• For a runny sauce, use around 125ml (1/2 cup) water. Your sauce might seem really runny when you first make it, but let it sit in the refrigerator for a few hours and it will thicken up nicely.
• No matter how much water you add, this sauce will thicken up quite a bit after a few hours in the refrigerator. Make sure you take this into account when deciding how much water to add.

 Take it further

• Try making your own, truly raw cashew butter by grinding raw cashews, like Loving Earth’s Really Raw Cashews, into homemade cashew butter. You can do this in a food processor, or you can use a homogeniser, like the Champion Juicer. I’ve yet to try this, but it’s on my ‘to do’ list.

Have an awesome day!

Nikki H Stokes, Eating Vibrantly

I studied Biochemistry and Genetics at Monash University, graduating with a Bachelor of Science, with Honours. I've always had a passion for natural health, having grown up with asthma, eczema and numerous food allergies, and I wanted to help my kids avoid the same issues. I love blending science and alternative approaches to find the best of both worlds, and I'm always looking for ways to create more amazing health and happiness in my life.
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