Monday, October 24, 2011

SuperPowder chocolate balls

Raw SuperPowder chocolate ball have become a part of my daily lifestyle. I make a batch every single Monday to last me throughout the week (sometimes Fridays too if I share and run out).  Since I began making it I progressively alter it slightly, making it better each time...making it even more healthy and super;) Here is my current super nutrient dense recipe. 
I always make some with the frozen bananas, but this time I dehydrated some organic blueberries to add to the bunch, and will be adding goji berries to some as well.  These can more appropriately be called SuperPower Chocolate Balls.


Ingredients
  • 1/2 cup of raw cocoa powder
  • 1/2 carob powder
  • 1/2 cup almonds
  • 1/2 cup sunflower seeds 
  • 1/2 cup walnuts
  • 1/2 cup pecans
  • 1/4 cup coconut oil
  • 1 tbs heaped of organic raw Lucuma powder
  • 1 tbs heaped organic raw Mucuna powder
  • 1 tbs heaped organic raw Maca powder
  • 1 tbs level of organic raw Mesquite powder 
  • 1 tbs heaped organic raw Yacon powder
  • 1 tbs level organic raw Shilajit powder
  • 1 tbs level organic raw Deer Antler Velvet powder
  • 2 tbs vanilla raw whey protein powder
  • Himalayan salt (a pinch in 3 tbs of warm water...to use a 1 tbs of the water)
  • 8-10 dates
  • Drizzle of raw honey (or clear raw agave) for extra sweetening
  • 1 raw vanilla bean (extract bean seeds and mix in with coconut oil)
  • 1-2 drop full of liquid vanilla creme stevia (for more sweetening and vanilla flavor)
  • cup of shaved coconut to coat chocolate balls 
  • few tablespoons of coconut milk used to blend dates
  • frozen bananas chopped up into bite size pieces
  • dehydrated organic blueberries
  • organic goji berries 


Recipe:
  • Before beginning, make sure you freeze bite-size pieces of banana the previous day. You can freeze the whole banana, and peal and chop right before use...sticking it back in the freezer until the moment you use it. Also thoroughly wash your hands!  You use your hands for mixing ingredients.
  • Blend the almonds, walnuts, pecans and sunflower seeds...it's ok to leave in a few chunks for texture
  • Mix together the cocoa powder, carob powder, Mucuna powder, Shilajit powder,  Lucuma powder, Maca powder, Mesquite powder, Yacon powder, Himalayan salt (use a tbsp of the water), drizzle Agave or raw honey, 1-2 a drop full of liquid vanilla creme stevia (fore more sweetening and vanilla flavor). 
  • Blend the dates with coconut milk for a creamy consistency and blend into mix.  I also add the coconut oil and the vanilla bean seeds to the blended mix for more moisture and a creamy outcome
  • Mix all ingredients together now and massage with hands into a nice firm batter
  • Roll into small balls, flatten some for a different shape
  • Roll in coconut shavings and you are done! Store in Freezer
To make the banana, blueberries or goji ones 
  • Take out the bite size frozen bananas from the freezer (don't take out before hand they will get soggy as they defrost and become very hard to coat in chocolate. I take out a couple pieces at a time.
  • Take a mold of the chocolate mix and wrap around the banana pieces. Roll in hand gently and roll in coconut shavings to seal
  • To make it with dehydrated blueberries and goji berries, just mix in the berries with as much chocolate as you'd like the ratio to be, and roll into small balls. Roll in coconut shavings to seal. 
 All 21 ingredients:p  It's not called Super for nothing! All healthy and powerfoods. I soaked the dates in the coconut milk.
Dehydrated the blueberries for about 11hrs
 After blending all nuts, and mixing all dry ingredients, I add the blended dates, coconut milk and coconut oil and mix in with my hands. Usually just one hand.
 Mix until it looks something like this...with no powder left in the bowl
 The extra ingredients to add include, organic goji berries (a superfood!), dehydrated blueberries (I dehydrated frozen organic blueberries for about 11hrs), and frozen organic banana pieces
 I then grabbed a chunk of chocolate and equal amount of blueberries (these turned out soo delicious! And extra bit of chewiness and sweetness)
 It mixed in really well...the blueberries were not 100% dry, so it added a little bit of moisture which was great
 After doing a few blueberry-only balls, I added in the goji berries to the mix...they were fabulous!  After freezing for a little while they almost turn a little crunchy, although only chewy at room temperature. Definitely a do again recipe:)
On the right are the fruit ones, at the bottom the bigger ones are the banana ones, in the middle of the container are the blueberry only ones and at the top are the blueberry and goji berry ones. Then the container on the left are just plain chocolate.