My Popple's chocolate bars is my most recent discovery online, where the natural, warm and welcoming tones of their website instantly made me want to explore their products. When the chocolate collection arrived at my door, I was over the moon to find the packaging look and feel just as they did on my screen!  That is- very cool, creative and tastefully designed.

The flavour I went for first was always going to be anything peppermint, and I just loved that Mr Popple had a combo of 'mint and lime'! I would've liked for the flavour to be more pronounced, but then again I'm the biggest critic of my mints. So the next bar I decided to sample was 'cherry aid' which surprised even me, because cherry is not something I'd ever liked combined in anything. Until now! What a delicious surprise! It just gave so much depth, flavour and texture to the chocolate, BIG thumbs up!

Euphoric Orange is a delicious bars and like the rest, being packed with superfoods- pretty much a good meal replacement. The chocs are a little grainy, so don't expect a smooth creamy melt, but this is actually a really good thing, I love that for a change. To me it just makes it obvious how much amazing superfood you are having and how close the ingredients are to their natural state, which is so hard to find these days in packaged products, even many raw food brands. I love that the bars include yacon syrup for a sweetener instead of the common agave.

Super fruit was another surprise for me. I would never go for a fruit and nut kind of bar, because I end up picking out all the raisins (just can't do raisins), and to my biggest ever delight- no raisins!! But what there was is a generous selection of the most beautiful dried fruits and berries ever- even inca berries, the taste took me all the way back to Ecuador for a moment... a really really good moment.

CHOC Chick and their famous slogan 'Love Chocolate? Make Chocolate!' have been hitting lots of press as of recently and for good reason! More and more people are discovering the amazing supercharge, superpower, super-health benefits of raw cacao and more and more people want to have a go at making their very own chocs!

"The new CHOC Chick Master kit is perfect for those who have discovered how easy making raw chocolate is and want to indulge in a range of raw chocolate recipes and share the love."

The pictured white and dark layers of chocolates are one of my creations in Seduced, using Choc Chick's cacao butter and cacao powder. You know I do love making my own chocolate and having the butter and powder as separate ingredients, I can always play with different chocolate intensities from white to milky to really dark chocolate, just by changing the proportions.

This kit has all the beautiful quality and basic ingredients you need to get started with your chocolate making and has enough in there to make around 80 individual raw chocolates or 6-8 chocolate bars (using plastic containers) and over 100 truffles! Also use it to create a bunch of recipes (included in the kit) such as raw chocolate cake, ice cream, chocolate mousse, fondue and chocolate cocktails (CHOCtails!)





1/2 cup melted cacao butter
1/2 cup cacao powder
2 Tbsp Sweet Freedom
Pinch salt
2 cups mix of dried fruits and nuts (I used- pineapple, goji berries, macadamia nuts, almonds and cacao nibs)

Gently melt the cacao butter in a double boiler or a dehydrator
Add the cacao powder and stir well
Add the sweetener and salt and stir well
Pour the chocolate mixture over the fruit and nuts in a bowl and stir
Scoop the mixture by the spoonful onto a non stick or lined tray
Transfer to the fridge to set for 15 minutes
Store in the fridge

This recipe was especially selected from my eBook Seduced-Raw Chocolate Recipes to get very excited for! How do you like it? If you do, just wait till you see another 21 creations! Available to download in seconds! More please>>


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