I like chocolate, especially when I can chew on it.
Thankfully my friend and raw kitchen elf came up with this “bliss kiss” recipe. I’ve found that when I make it with cacao butter (in place of coconut oil), it’s a particularly easy way to travel and still have my chocolate bliss fix.
[Cacao butter will stay solid at room temperature after it's been refrigerated once. Kisses made with coconut oil need to stay frozen or refrigerated (I like frozen) so they don't get mushy]
When you play with your own variations, please comment what works best for you … I love trying new versions of this and getting even more great ideas!
4 Tbsp Mayan Gold Cacao (Chocolate) Powder
4 Tbsp Tocotrienols
¼ tsp Sun Fire Salt
1½ Tbsp Vanilla Agave Nectar
1½ Tbsp Coconut Oil
1 Tbsp Chia Seeds
Optional:
1 Tbsp Goji Berries
1 Tbsp Cacao Nibs
½ tsp Vitamineral Green or Blue-Green Algae
2 drops Orange Essential Oil
Stir the dry ingredients together in a bowl. If you are including any of the optional ingredients, add them in now too. If you decide to add any of the powdered greens, I suggest you also add the orange essential oil to cover any potential “green flavor”.
Add the Coconut Oil and Agave Nectar and stir. It works best and is more fun to get your hands into the mix now and really mush all the ingredients together so that the oil and agave bind the dry ingredients well.
Create small teaspoon-size drops of the mixture and place them on wax paper. You will get about 10 little bliss kisses per recipe. Freeze your bliss kisses for best taste and longevity, though you may find that after licking your fingers you desire to eat them all up quickly.
You can also use Carob in your bliss kisses to make a sweeter kiss. Try using half Cacao and half Carob or substituting Carob for the Tocotrienols in the recipe.
For an extra-creamy and more truffle-like bliss kiss, substitute Cacao Butter for the Coconut Oil. Mmmmmm. Enjoy!
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Part of the fun of making bliss kisses is how chocolatey you get your hands from mixing the batter and forming the small bliss kisses. You can see the size of my bliss kisses (about a half to a whole teaspoon) on the wax paper below my chocolate-covered hand.
The best part of making bliss kisses has to be licking my fingers when I’m done!
And this is the lovely Laura, creator of the recipe
Another note on this … I like chia seeds in my bliss kisses because they make it crunchy. But then you can get chia seeds caught in your teeth and they get a little slimy roaming around there in your saliva. Though that is really the way the Aztec warriors used them.
I ALWAYS add Vitamineral Green to my bliss kisses (and my chocolate bliss).
I've not yet tried this, but I bet you could grind your Chocolate Bliss powder in a coffee grinder or dry compartment of your vita mix (to grind down the hemp seeds mostly), and then use that to replace the cacao powder and/or all dry ingredients in this recipe. hmmm… I'll report back next I try that one out!
Yep, it works great! Simply use 1/2 Cup Chocolate Bliss powder in place of the Cacao Powder, Tocotrienols and Sun Fire Salt. You won't need to grind the Bliss Powder – I never once tasted a full hemp seed in my kisses. Oh, and if you like it a bit more milk chocolatey, simply add some more Tocotrienols back in. Enjoy!
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