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Chocolate Fudge-Almond

Editor's note: The recipe and introductory text below are excerpted from Charlie Trotter and Roxanne Klein's book, Raw.

Recipe information

  • Yield

    Yield: 2 cups

Ingredients

1 cup raw almond butter, at room temperature
1/2 cup maple syrup
1/2 cup Green & Black's Organic cocoa powder
Seeds from 1/4 vanilla bean
1 1/2 teaspoons nama shoyu

Preparation

  1. In a food processor, combine all the ingredients and process until smooth. The mixture will have the consistency of a ganache. Use immediately, or store in a covered container in the refrigerator for up to 2 weeks.

Reprinted with permission from Raw, by Charlie Trotter and Roxanne Klein. © 2003 Ten Speed Press
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