(gentle upbeat music)
Hey everyone, this is Mason with Mountain Rose Herbs,
and today I'm going to teach you
how I make my homemade chocolate bars.
I'm not a chocolatier, but my wife, she loves chocolate.
And I don't have a sweet tooth really,
but I did want to partake with her,
so I learned how to make homemade chocolate.
So yeah, I'm not claiming that this
is how chocolatiers make chocolate,
but I think that this
gets you 99% of the way there flavor-wise,
plus you get to select your ingredients,
and you get to add all sorts of herbs to it if you like.
In this recipe today, I'm going to add maca and bee pollen.
So, let's just jump right into the recipe.
So, first thing you need is one cup of roast cacao wafers.
(wafers clink)
And you're going to bring that to a medium, low heat,
medium heat.
And as that melts,
you're going to take one cup of roast cacao powder,
and then just slowly stir it in to the roast cacao butter,
and fully integrate the two.
Then you're going to take a half a cup
of organic peanut butter,
and then stir that in until it's fully integrated.
Okay.
And then you're going to take a half a cup of maple syrup
as the sweetener.
You could use honey, too.
Pour that in.
You're almost there.
(whisk scrapes)
As I mentioned, we're going to use maca and be pollen.
For the maca we'll just throw it right in.
That's about a tablespoon,
and then for the bee pollen
we're going to wait for it to cool down a little bit
so you don't lose any of those beneficial health properties.
And then we're going to add a tablespoon of bee pollen.
At this point you should start smelling
really rich, chocolatey smells.
It smells amazing.
So, at this point you can turn the heat off,
and get a sheet pan lined with parchment paper,
and we will layer it out.
And you could double the recipe as well.
I usually do.
Also play with the amounts of peanut butter
or nut butter that you use.
You can also omit the nut butter.
I think it adds a nice creaminess to it,
but yeah, if you have an allergy or something,
feel free to just omit it.
You could also use different fun chocolate molds as well.
I'd say that's about as good as it's going to get.
And then next step is just pop it into the freezer.
After that, I'd say maybe a couple hours,
it's ready to go.
So, I'll go put this in the freezer now.
All right, so I just pulled this from the freezer,
and it's ready to go.
You'll see I sprinkled some extra bee pollen on this one
just for decoration.
So, there you have it.
There's our homemade chocolate bars.
If you would like two more herb inspired variations,
just go to blog.mountainroseherbs.com,
and search for chocolate.
Should pop right up.
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Until next time, take care.
Wow, this is good.
And there's a maca and bee pollen in there too.
- Ooh.
I like it a lot.
- You like it?
(all laugh)