I take No 1 grandson on a Saturday so I have to persist. Yesterday at Aqua was painful. A bit miffed today as they are closing our Health Club at the end of May to replace it with a "luxury care home". We're quite a community and no one is happy about it. So We're all in search of a new place that isn't all body builders and pink lycra. I think I'll go to the Club attached to the Edinburgh College as quite a few from my group are planning on going there. It has a similar mix.
Your ‘after eights’ sound good @PW1. Did you actually sandwich the peppermint/ coconut cream between the chocolate leaves, or just make a chocolate cup for it?
I adapted an idea from a different thread (low-carb recipe thread
?). I only made 9 chocs.
I melted 30g 100% choc with 10g coconut oil.
Then put about half teaspoon into the little cup cake paper cases and tipped each case around to get the chocolate to spread thinly.
Froze them for a few minutes.
Repeated the choc to add another layer, froze again.
Then got about 20g Tesco coconut cream (I tipped out the liquid portion), I mixed the cream with about 1/2 teaspoon peppermint extract. I had checked that the peppermint extract was ethanol based not sugar. I kept tasting this until I got it just right.
I put about half teaspoon of coconut cream mixture on top of each chocolate layer. Froze again - this time it needed much longer in the freezer.
When the coconut cream mix was hard, I topped them with another couple of chocolate layers. This bit was slightly more difficult since the chocolate was cooling very fast on the frozen coconut cream. Finally gave them some more time in the freezer.
The first two ones I tried came out with a liquid centre - tasty but messy to eat. I managed to resist trying any more for another hour or more and the next couple came out much better. I’ve got some left for after dinner desert (probably tomorrow when we have our family meal).
The texture and taste is pretty close to the real thing. Although, I think they are likely to melt quickly at room temperature. Next time I might try them with creamed coconut instead of coconut cream, because the creamed coconut still has the coconut fibre in it, so that would hold together better.
Definitely going to do these again. Mmmm.
Thanks @PW1 they sound fab.
I keep forgetting about that recipe thread, some good ideas there.
What is the coconut oil added to the chocolate for? Would it set better without? Or perhaps it would be dull without and the oil keeps it glossy?
I think that is why I stick to small batches each time,
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^Happy Easter Day all
@ziggy_w your baking Easter Day sounds fun hope bgs weren’t challenged by the small amount of real sugar!
Each button is only 0.2g of carbs so you’d have to eat a lot to really cause probs! I know about balsamic vinegar it’s been ditched in our house we now have just apple cider vinegar in house and I just use that in recipes that require balsamic.Hi all
@shelley262 it sounds like an eventful day, I do hope everyone’s ok. I think you did well to stick at just 2 of your HC treats! Thanks for bday wishes too.
@maglil55 I hope your sister’s getting good care and improves soon, your son is really good and on the ball with the food.
I’ve had a ridiculously piggish day and am quite ashamed... started ok
B: coffee and cream
L: smoked salmon, avocado and a few olives with apple cider vinegar/ olive oil dressing. Greek youghurt with strawberries
Mid aft snack: Adonis blondie bar then a bit later some olives then some sunflower seeds.
D: slow cooked lamb shoulder with garlic and thyme. The recipe called for 250ml of balsamic vinegar to make a sauce at the end but thank heaven I checked carb count first! Assumed it’d be low as its just vinegar but no!
Cauli mash, cavolo nero and broccolli.
Later ate loads of HC 100% buttons while the family hunted for Easter eggs I’d hidden for them. No idea why I bought the bag of buttons in with me - I usually just take 5 out. Schoolboy error!
Really hope I can stop nibbling now. I’m so annoyed at myself.
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