February 2017
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Eating in<br />
Prepare a brownie or baking tin<br />
by lining it with baking paper<br />
and then pour in the mix. Bake<br />
for 20 minutes and leave to cool<br />
on a roasting tray.<br />
For the cream, blitz the soaked<br />
dates, coffee shot, walnuts and<br />
maple syrup. Spread onto the<br />
brownie before serving.<br />
Enjoy and happy Valentines day.<br />
Diana Warrings is a qualified<br />
nutritional therapist cooking<br />
delicious & healthy food, shared<br />
on irmagreen.com<br />
Nutritional therapist Diana Warrings gives her<br />
recipe for love on Valentine's Day<br />
Not only do these delicious<br />
brownies taste good, the coffee<br />
and dark chocolate are rich in<br />
antioxidants and the walnuts<br />
and ground almonds give some<br />
extra fibre and omega oils<br />
as well as some vitamins and<br />
minerals.<br />
The rich and creamy coffee and<br />
walnut flavour is divine, but<br />
please remember that coffee<br />
and chocolate may have a<br />
stimulating effect and possibly<br />
won’t make you want to go to<br />
sleep too soon after, though on<br />
Valentines Day this may not be<br />
such a bad thing :)<br />
Method<br />
Preheat oven at 175C and melt<br />
the chocolate in a bain-marie.<br />
Once melted, set aside. Keeping<br />
the bowl on top of the hot water<br />
pot will assure it stays liquid.<br />
While the chocolate is melting<br />
away, blend the dates, the<br />
content of the vanilla pod and<br />
the maple syrup until you have<br />
a smooth paste. Set aside.<br />
Separate the egg yolks from the<br />
egg whites and set both aside.<br />
Next place the coconut oil and<br />
the date-maple syrup paste in a<br />
food processor and blend until<br />
you have a smooth paste, then<br />
add the chestnut flour, ground<br />
almonds, egg yolks and salt and<br />
blend until everything is well<br />
combined.<br />
Now the melted chocolate is<br />
ready to go in, carefully blend<br />
everything together until<br />
smooth.<br />
Whisk the egg whites until<br />
white and fluffy, then fold into<br />
the chocolate mix and add the<br />
walnut pieces.<br />
Ingredients (makes 10-12)<br />
For the brownies:<br />
250g of organic dairy free dark<br />
chocolate 100g of organic walnuts<br />
125g coconut oil<br />
100g ground almonds<br />
100g chestnut flour<br />
75g organic dates<br />
(soaked in warm water for<br />
30-60minutes)<br />
30ml organic maple syrup<br />
4 organic eggs<br />
1 pinch of salt<br />
2 tsp finely ground espresso coffee<br />
powder<br />
Vanilla from one vanilla pod<br />
For the coffee & walnut cream:<br />
125g organic walnuts<br />
75g organic dates (soaked in<br />
warm water, 30-60minutes)<br />
3 tsp organic maple syrup<br />
1 double shot espresso<br />
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