Healthy coconut Cocoa fudge

If you want something sweet to eat and yet want to avoid loading yourself with processed sugar and unwanted calories, then this is one recipe you can try. Fudge of this kind is usually made with coconut butter, but I like the crunch of coconut in the fudge, so I did not blend it a lot in the food processor, but you can always do that.

Ingredients:

• 3 cups shredded unsweetened coconut
• 1/2 cup cocoa powder
• 1/3 cup organic honey
• 2 tsp vanilla extract
• 1/2 tsp sea salt
• 1/4 cup peanut butter
• 1/4 cup pureed raspberry or raspberry preserve (without sugar)

Method:

Place the coconut into a food processor and blend on high till it becomes soft. You can continue blending for about 15-20 minutes if you want to make coconut butter. (I did not blend it for so long)

Remove coconut from food processor and place it into a medium bowl. Add all the remaining other ingredients and mix well. Heat a pan and pour the mix and cook for about 5 minutes till the mix is hot and starts binding together. You can avoid the heating part if you are using coconut butter. Since I did not wait till the coconut turned into coconut butter, I had to warm the mixture.

Press fudge into a small dish lined with parchment paper. Place in freezer for 10 minutes remove and cut into 15 small pieces.