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Recipe: Delicious raw vegan chocolate spread or dessert

I experimented with a few ingredients and this utterly creamy and awesome spread was the result. Needless to say I loved it so much I made it 3 times last week! Yum!

This is so simple and fast that it beats any cold cereals, toast or other energy snack.


Delicious raw vegan chocolate spread

Ingredients:

2 ripe avocados, peeled and stoned
1 ripe banana
no more than 1/3 cup of water (add as little as possible)
1 tsp maple syrup or preferred sweetener, as needed
1 drop mint essence
a dash of 70% black cocoa (or your favourite chocolate powder)



Preparation:

Place ingredients in your Vitamin or food processor, blend well, pour into a container and refrigerate. Add water if too thick, or add more cocoa to thicken.


Uses:

Excellent as a dessert, or spread on your favourite fruit/bread/crackers/wraps/breakfast cereals...
You may also add berries, coconut flakes etc as you please.

Variations: this is just another way of getting protein from avocados. So you could use Maca powder instead of cocoa, or any vegetable powder. However, cacao completely hides the avocado taste!




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