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Fudge babies

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Ever since I decided to kick the sugar out of my diet once and for all, I’ve been doing pretty well.

Except for a small incident involving Lyndzee Vieweg and a shared piece of chocolate cake, that is. Shhhhhh!

Anyway, mostly I haven’t wanted anything sweet which is unusual for me. But yesterday I wanted a cookie. Badly. I started looking around the internet for paleo sweets and remembered Fudge Babies.

These little goodies are not only easy to make they are totally not bad for you!

You will need

  • 1 cup of walnuts
  • 1 package of dates (mine were 227 grams)
  • 3-4 tbs cocoa
  • 1 tsp vanilla

Place all ingredients into the food processor and whir them up. Form them into balls and voila! Almost instant chocolate paleo goodness. Nom! 🙂

Memorial Day – not just for barbeques

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How about a loaf of FABU chocolate sour cream bread? Yes? It is amazing. I topped it with raspberry jam and made it even better.

Chocolate Sour Cream Bread

1 cup Sour Cream (not non-fat)
1 cup Sugar
4 tablespoons Butter, at room temperature
1 teaspoon Vanilla Extract
2 Eggs
1 cup Unsweetened Cocoa Powder
1/3 cup Milk
1 teaspoon Baking Powder
1/2 teaspoon Baking Soda
1/4 teaspoon Salt
1 + 3/4 cups All-Purpose Flour
3/4 cup Chocolate Chips
1/2 cup chopped Walnuts, optional, for topping

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease and flour a loaf pan.

Using a hand mixer on low speed beat together sour cream, butter, sugar and vanilla together in a large mixing bowl. Add eggs one at time beating after each addition.

On low speed beat in cocoa, milk, baking powder, baking soda and salt. Mix in flour by hand until smooth. Batter will be fairly thick. Mix in chocolate chips. Pour into loaf pan.

Scatter walnuts and chocolate chips evenly across top. Bake for 50-60 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool on wire racks.