It’s Valentines Day week, and it’s also the week of my birthday, oh and my sons birthday too!!! It’s a busy week this week!
Because my son and I both love chocolate, and because it’s Valentines Day week I whipped up these yummy chocolate bites for the occasion. Truth is, I’ve been making these for the last month, but we’ve gobbled them up before taking pictures of them!!
These chocolate caramel hearts are made with real food ingredients, the caramel is nutty and chewy, and only 2 ingredients. The chocolate is equally as easy, and made with only 4 ingredients you likely already have at home.
Caramel Ingredients:
- 1/4 cup tahini
- 10 soft deglet or medjool dates
Chocolate Ingredients:
- 1/4 cup coconut oil melted
- 3 Tbsp raw cacao powder
- 2 Tbsp maple syrup
- pinch himalayan salt (optional)
Directions:
- If dates aren’t soft, soften by soaking in some boiled water for 10 minutes, and drain water.
- Place dates and tahini in a high powered blender and blend until smooth, this is the caramel part of the heart.
- Place tahini and date caramel in small heart shaped candy molds.
- Freeze until firmed up.
- Meanwhile prepare a baking sheet and line it with parchment paper and ensure there is space for it in your freezer.
- Prepare the chocolate by adding all the chocolate ingredients together, whisking to ensure there are no clumps or dry bits.
- Gently pop the heart shaped caramel out of the molds.
- Using two forks, dip each caramel heart into the chocolate and place on parchment paper. Alternatively you could stick a toothpick into each heart and then dip the hearts into the chocolate.
- Freeze until chocolate has become solid. Enjoy!
Happy Valentines Day ladies!
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