Picture doesn't really do them justice
Well, yesterday I DID finish my schoolwork in time to do some experimental cooking. I give you Dinosaur Droppings. My wife says the name is too unappetizing but I think its hilarious and pretty primal so I am sticking with it. These are basically dark chocolate primal fudge balls and they are absolutely delicious.
I kind of created this in a flurry of experimentation…which means I did not keep very good track of ingredient quantities so I am going to kind of guesstimate what I used. You might need to adjust slightly according to your results but this SHOULD work out as well as it did for me.
Ingredients:
- 1 bar ghirardelli 100% cocoa baking chocolate
- 1/2 can or 7oz of coconut milk
- 2 tblspns coconut oil
- 2 teaspoons vanilla
- 2 tblspoons egg white powder. I am not entirely sure about the necessity of this ingredient but i used it and it worked so I am keeping it in here.
- 1/2 cup to 1 cup almond butter. This is where I really failed keeping track. I just spooned it right into the pan.
- Crushed walnuts (or another nut you would like to use.
-(Optional) Add in some stevia or sweetener if you need it sweeter. I don’t think it needs additional sweetening at all.
Directions:
1. Slowly warm coconut milk in a saucepan on low to medium heat.
2. Add in almond butter and stir until smooth. Keep pan on low-medium heat.
3. Add chocolate bar. It will melt easier if you break it into its section. Stir on low-medium heat until smooth.
4. Add coconut oil and once again stir while keeping mixture on low-medium heat.
5. Stir in egg white powder and vanilla.
6. Once all stirred and melted. Remove from heat.
7. Stir in crushed walnuts (or other nut) and allow mixture to cool enough to handle. You can do this in the freezer or refrigerator to speed it up.
8. After sufficiently cooled, use your hands to roll the mixture into whatever size fudgeballs you would like.
9. Cool the fudgeballs in the freezer or refrigerator.
10. Once cooled and hardened… enjoy! Store in refrigerator.
Try it out and let me know if it works as well for you!
February 9th, 2009 - 12:29 pm
Looks great will have to try. I’ll leave out the egg white podwer as I don’t have any. I’ll also roll them in dark cocoa powder.
February 9th, 2009 - 1:49 pm
I agree with you and your wife….
Your wife is way cool for not ackowledging your childish behavior in naming these….
and YOU are way cool for coming up with the perfect name for these.
Timing is everything, I just read a recipe this weekend for romantic truffles. Heavy cream, butter and dark or semi sweet chocolate and unsweetend cocoa powder. Seemed pretty straight forward.You ever try something like that?
Marc
February 9th, 2009 - 1:54 pm
Joe M,
Hope you like them. I am not sure what is necessary and what is not so feel free to play around with them. You will probably be fine without the egg white powder. Rolling in cocoa powder sounds like an awsome idea!
Marc,
That does sound pretty straight forward. I have never been a fudge fan so this is my first time making it. I had no recipe to really go off, the ingredients just seemed to make sense. I like them though because they are not overly sweet. These “romantic truffles” don’t sound too sweet either and are probably well worth a try. My wife… just doesnt really like chocolate (sweet or not).
February 9th, 2009 - 2:11 pm
Was lucky enough to have SoG hand me one o’ these dino turds today and they were delicious. I normally don’t like fudge either so I was pleasantly surprised.
February 9th, 2009 - 3:01 pm
Roger gets to guinea pig some of my creations.
March 31st, 2009 - 11:45 am
Hey, tried making these yesterday. I decided to double the recipe so I’d use the whole can of coconut milk, but forgot to double the coconut oil and vanilla. Whoops. They still taste great, though. Thanks for the recipe!
April 1st, 2009 - 7:46 pm
Evan,
Thanks for the feedback. I am glad they still turned out decent!
April 30th, 2009 - 8:08 am
these looked awesome so I made them and they looked great but tasted awful, I was very disappointed, I guess I was expecting more “chocolate” flavor but they had to much of a bitter taste I threw them out.
Love all the other recipes I have tried though.
Sam
April 30th, 2009 - 2:52 pm
Ok I love these, they are my new favorite primal dessert! (I did add some agave nectar to mine cause they didn’t seem quite sweet enough for me.)
The second time I made them I poured the whole thing into a shallow container and froze it for a few hours – the result was like almost a scoopable ultra-rich fudge ice cream. Insanely good!
My only problem now is not eating way too much! Thank you for the recipe, I would have never come up with this one on my own!
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