Sugar-free Chocolate Syrup

Ingredients:

1/2 cup cocoa powder

2/3 cup xylitol

1/8 tsp sea salt

1/2 cup water

1 tsp pure vanilla extract

Mix cocoa, xylitol, and salt into a medium sized pot.  Slowly mix in the water to make a smooth paste.  Add the vanilla extract then turn to medium heat.  Bring mixture to a boil stirring constantly.  Once boiling, reduce to medium heat and continue to boil for 2 minutes.  Be careful!  The chocolate mixture will begin to expand and try to bubble over.  After 2 minutes, turn off heat and let the syrup cool.  Store in a well sealed container like a jam jar.  I used an old glass jar to save time and money.  You can drizzle this over your Healthy Brownies, coffee, frozen yogurt, or make yourself a guilt-free glass of chocolate almond milk.  Enjoy!

*Chocolate Syrup recipe was created by my friend Kaleigh Tully whose life has been greatly impacted by the sugar-free magic of xylitol!  

Healthy Hawla

Hawla is one of my husband's favorite Indian sweet treats, and it is loaded with sugar!  Well no longer will I deprive my husband of his favorite treat from home.  I have made his favorite treat healthy, and you can not tell the two apart!

Ingredients: 

2-3 bags large carrots

2 cups original unsweetened almond milk

2 cups xylitol

10 cardamoms

1/2 cup chopped cashews

1/2-1 tbsp ghee or organic butter

Peel the carrots by hand, and then shred them in your food processor (or you can crate them by hand). Place the grated carrots in a pressure cooker with almond milk and cook until the pressure cooker gives two whistles.  If you don't have a pressure cooker, you can boil the mixture for 10-15 minutes.  Transfer the carrots from the pressure cooker to a large heavy pot heated at a low temperature; add in your xylitol and ground cardamoms.  The mixture will need to simmer for about 1-2 hours on low to get rid of all the liquid.  Near the end, in a separate pan sauté cashews in ghee or organic butter.  Lastly, add your sautéed cashews to your Halwa, and mix up well.  Serve this treat warm.  Enjoy!

Dark Chocolate Almond Milk

16 oz Almond Milk
1-2 tbsp Raw cocoa powder
1/4tsp Whole leaf stevia(or Raw honey 3TBSP)












Chocolate milk is a favorite of mine, but eating Paleo I do not drink it anymore.  I only buy almond milk, but I never buy almond with any added sugar because I watch my sugar intake very closely.  So why not make my own dark chocolate almond milk, because the store bought kind has 21 grams of sugar!  Its very simple to make.



On medium heat in a pot add your original almond milk. Once it begins to boil add in your cocoa powder and choice of sweetener.  Then place in the fridge to cool, once cooled drink up and enjoy guilt free chocolate heaven!