Healthy Treats

This is my scratchpad for creating candy-like treats to avoid sugar overload.

Did you know about tempered chocolate?  It's important to know why - and how to do it easily using the seeding method - see cooking for engineers.

Inspired truffles

• Step 1. Make a ball or another shape out of inner ingredients of choice
• Step 2. Roll in honey, melted chocolate or another similarly sticky ingredient
• Step 3. Roll in cocoa powder

Honey balls

This is an adaptation from a simple cooks.com recipe

• 1 cup of dry milk or creamed coconut
• 1 cup nut butter of choice
• 1/2 cup honey
• 1/4 cup coconut

Mix and roll into balls. It is reasonable to add a variety of things inside: raisins, finely chopped nuts or dry fruits.

Chocolate nut clusters

Found this at Shannon says Paleo:

• 1 cup Almonds
• 1/2 cup Walnuts
• 1/2 cup Sunflower Seeds
• 1/3 cup Dried Cranberries
• 1 cup Dark Chocolate (70% is preferred)

In other words, make a creative trail mix, melt the chocolate, then mix it up till coated, fish out clusters and lay them to cool.  I will probably want to temper the chocolate to make those.

Chocolate dipped strawberries.

The idea is simple enough - just remember to temper the chocolate if the treats are to sit at room temperature for some time.