Recipe

Chocolate and peanut butter popsicles.

Cashews, coconut milk and maple blended smooth, with a date and a spoon of peanut butter hidden in the middle, dipped in dark chocolate.

Category
Sweet things
Total time
20 min
Makes
8 popsicles
Helps with
Flexible salad base

Ingredients

  • •  1 cup cashews, soaked overnight (or for a min of 4 hours)
  • •  1 cup (250ml) coconut milk
  • •  6 tbsp (120g) maple syrup
  • •  2 tbsp coconut oil
  •    a pinch of salt
  • • 4 dates
  •    8 teaspoons of peanut butter (I like chunky)
  • •  1 bar dark chocolate, melted with a little coconut oil, to dip

Method

  1. Blend the cashews, coconut milk, maple, coconut oil and salt until completely smooth.
  2. Lay half a date and a spoon of peanut butter into each mould, then pour the mixture over.
  3. Freeze until fully set (at least two hours), then dip in melted chocolate. 

per popsicle

399 kcal · 7 g protein · 29 g fat · 33 g carbohydrate · 3.2 g fibre


Good source of

magnesium · copper · iron

From Katia

Four hundred calories, and I am not going to pretend otherwise. It is a desert — made of cashews, dates and dark chocolate rather than of sugar and vegetable fat, which is a real difference, but it is still a desert and it is better eaten as one.

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