8 Cacao Magic Recipes for Your Valentine

8 Cacao Magic Recipes for Your Valentine

We are getting in the LOVING spirit over here, since Valentine's Day is next week! To celebrate, I've compiled 8 of our all-time favorite Cacao Magic recipes for you to dream up in your kitchen and share with your special someone. Not only does cacao provide that addictively yummy chocolatey flavor, this star superfood also works as a natural aphrodisiac + will make those romantic sparks ignite! 

1) Cookie Dough Truffles 
Gather This: 
  • 1 1/2 cups cooked chickpeas
  • 1/3 cup Cacao Bee Honey
  • 2 to 3 tablespoons mini chocolate chips or cacao nibs 
  • 2 tablespoons natural almond butter
  • 1 teaspoon pure vanilla
  • 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
  • 1/4 teaspoon sea salt
Do This:
1. Using a food processor process the chickpeas, honey, almond butter, vanilla, cinnamon, cacao magic and salt. Process until smooth, stopping to scrape down the sides of necessary. It should come together and look like regular cookie dough. 
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2. Transfer mixture to a bowl and stir in the chocolate chips.
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3.  Roll the dough into tablespoon-size balls and store in an airtight container in the fridge or freezer.
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2) Valentine's Truffles 
Gather This:
  • 1 cup dark chocolate chips
  • 1/2 cup full fat coconut milk/cream
  • 1/4 cup Cacao Magic Superfood + Protein Blend 
  • 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
  • pinch sea salt
  • 2 tablespoons Berry Bliss Superfood + Protein Blend 
  • crushed freeze dried raspberries
Do This: 
1. Heat chocolate and coconut milk in double boiler, stirring until melted. Remove from heat and stir in the vanilla, sea salt, and 2 tablespoons of Cacao Magic. 
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2. Refrigerate until mixture is set but still pliable (about 2 hours). 
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3. Using a 1-inch scoop or melon baller, scoop out chocolate mixture and transfer to a parchment-lined baking sheet or plate. Coat hands in Berry Bliss and roll chocolate into balls and into the raspberries or your other favorite toppings. 
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4. Refrigerate and serve.
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3) Cacao Magic Smoothie Mousse

Gather This:

  • ½ cup frozen banana
  • 1 room-temperature banana
  • ¾ cup full-fat coconut milk
  • ½ avocado
  • 2 pitted Medjool dates
  • 1 heaping tablespoon Cacao Magic Superfood + Protein Blend
  • 1 tablespoon almond butter
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla
  • ½ teaspoon cinnamon
  • Dash of pink sea salt

Do This:

Blend, pour into a pretty glass, top with your favorite toppings, + enjoy!

4) Energy Truffle Bites

Gather This:

  • 12 dates
  • ¾ cup gluten-free rolled oats
  • 1 tablespoon almond butter
  • 1 tablespoon Cacao Magic Superfood + Protein Blend 
  • 1 tablespoon of chia seeds
  • 1 tablespoon of hemp seeds
  • 1 teaspoon of maca 
  • 1 teaspoon cinnamon

Do This:

1. Put all ingredients into the food processor, and then round out the dough into golf ball-sized portions.

2. Bonus points if you then roll them in shredded coconut + goji berries!

3. Store in an airtight container in your fridge.

5) Chocomole

Gather This:

Do This:

1. Pulse dates in the food processor to make a paste. Add the remaining ingredients and process until smooth, stopping to scrape off the sides. If you don’t have a food processor, chop dates and mix by hand.

2. Chill in the refrigerator for 20 minutes and then enjoy!

6) Sweet Potato Cacao Brownies

Gather This: 

  • 2-3 medium-large sweet potatoes
  • 2/3 cup almonds, ground
  • 1/2 cup brown rice flour (I used 1/4 cup brown rice + 1/4 cup buckwheat flour)
  • 14-15 Medjool dates
  • 4 tablespoons Cacao Magic Superfood + Protein Blend
  • 3 tablespoons pure maple syrup
  • 2 pinches pink sea salt

Do This: 

1. Cut into the sweet potato into chunks and place into a steamer for about 20 minutes until they are soft. Once they are perfectly soft and falling apart, remove them and add to a food processor with the pitted dates.

2. Add remaining ingredients into a bowl, before mixing in the sweet potato + date combo. Stir well. 

3. Place into a lined baking dish and cook for about 20 minutes, until you can pierce the brownie cake with a fork bringing it out dry.

4. Remove the tray and allow it to cool for 10 minutes. This is really vital as it needs this time to stick together! Remove the brownies from the tray, leaving them for another few minutes before cutting into squares.  

7) Cacao Mint Smoothie
Gather This:
  • 8 ounces coconut mylk (can use almond, hemp, or oat mylk)
  • 1 frozen banana
  • 2 handfuls frozen organic kale
  • 2 ice cream scoops of coconut mylk Mint Chip vegan "ice cream"
  • fresh mint (about 10 leaves)
  • 1 tablespoon Green Dream Superfood + Protein Blend
  • 1 tablespoon Cacao Magic Superfood + Protein Blend
  • 1 tablespoon cacao nibs
  • 1 tablespoon coconut oil
  • 1 tablespoon sunflower seed butter (could use any nut butter)
  • 2 handfuls of ice

Do This:

Blend, pour into a pretty glass, top with your favorite toppings, + enjoy!

8) Cacao Magic Fiber Breakfast Cookies
Gather This:

Wet Ingredients:

  • 1/2 cup chopped prunes or prune puree
  • 1/4 cup sweetener (such as maple, brown rice or agave syrups)
  • 1/4 cup apple sauce
  • 1/4 cup nut butter (such as almond, pumpkin seed or tahini)
  • 1 egg or 1/2 ripe banana
  • 1 tablespoon olive oil
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla

Dry Ingredients:

  • 1 cup whole grain flour (or gluten-free flour)
  • 1/2 cup psyllium
  • 1/2 cup ground flax
  • 1/2 cup or more of nuts, seeds, trail mix, or chopped dried fruit
  • 2 tablespoons Cacao Magic Superfood + Protein Blend
  • 2 teaspoons cinnamon
  • 1 teaspoon baking powder
  • 1/2 teaspoon sea salt
  • 1/2 teaspoon baking soda

Do This:

1. Place chopped prunes in a blender and just cover with boiling water. Let soak while you prepare the dry ingredients. Also, lightly oil a large baking sheet and preheat oven to 350.

2. Measure all dry ingredients into a large bowl and mix well. Measure all wet ingredients into the blender with the soaked prunes (do not drain), then liquify, and stir into dry ingredients, combining well.

3. Drop batter by the heaping tablespoon onto the greased cookie sheet and flatten just a bit with wet fingers or the back of a wet spoon. Bake for 15 minutes. 

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If anyone from our wonderful tribe makes decadently clean treats with Cacao Magic, please share them with us on Instagram with #MyPhilosophie + #PhilosophieSuperfoods! 

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