Healthy Recipe: Vegan Choc Doughnuts

Key to Life Health and Fitness • May 31, 2020

Healthy Recipe: Vegan Choc Doughnut

Ingredients


  • 130g skinless hazelnuts, toasted
  • 340g pitted dates, chopped
  • 50g (1/2 cup) raw cacao powder
  • 1 tablespoon coconut oil
  • 2 teaspoons maca powder
  • 60g dark chocolate, melted
  • 20g freeze dried strawberries, crushed
  • Chopped hazelnuts, to sprinkle


Method


1. Lightly grease four (9cm-wide) holes of a doughnut pan. Process hazelnuts until coarsely ground. Add the dates, cacao, coconut oil and maca. Process until well combined. Spoon into the prepared holes, pressing down firmly to fill. Place in the fridge for 30 minutes to firm.


2. Use either a blowtorch or a hot towel to warm the base of the doughnut pan, turn the doughnuts out onto a clean surface.


3. Drizzle the doughnuts with chocolate and scatter with the crushed freeze-dried strawberry and chopped hazelnuts.


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