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« on: Tuesday 03 June, 2008 »
Hi everyone,

I haven't been on here for ages... I know chocolate crackles don't exactly fit in the raw food category  rolleyes but I was wondering if it might be possible to make them 'pretty much raw' or if that's just not possible. Of course when you are using cooked ingredients like rice bubbles well they just aren't raw but... I'm trying to shift gradually and have been making the proper ones and wondered if you could swap ingredients to get an almost raw version.

For example.. the recipe is for 4 cups of Rice Bubbles, 1 cup icing sugar, 1 cup of desicated coconut and 3 tablespoons of cocoa and then 250g copha just melted over a low heat and all mixed together.

So I was wondering what I could put in instead - could I use Coconut Butter in place of the copha or can you not heat/melt it at all? Would it work as well do you think as the copha?

I could put maybe some raw cacao for the cocoa and I guess real coconut shredded for the desiccated one (not that I even know what desicated is...)

The sugar... hmm. I know that's not a good ingredient. What could go in instead?

The reason I started making chockie crackles was to stop myself eating cadburys chocolate, but raw would be better - I wonder how raw I could get with crackles and not lose the yumminess.

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« Reply #1 on: Tuesday 03 June, 2008 »
You can suss out an organic food store that sells things that look like rice bubbles such as kamut. Coles health food section has this also. You can substitute icing sugar for agave syrup or xylitol powder. Not sure if cacao butter will replace the sticky copha(you can try honey for the stick). But some raw and some processed ingredients wont hurt as you start out....

There a plenty of raw choccie recipes you can google on the internet. Try googgling raw crackles to see if someone has been nifty in the kitchen.

There you go goggled it and up came raw pleasure lol http://raw-pleasure.com.au/component/option,com_rapidrecipe/page,viewrecipe/recipe_id,97/Itemid,81/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jefah/2456028985/
Lol how didnt i think of coconut butter to replace copha lmao. Well there you go super intelligent beings out there.
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« Reply #2 on: Tuesday 03 June, 2008 »
Hey, wow!! That is excellent  yahh

Thanks so much - I practically live on Google and didn't even think to look - smart thinking!

Well, that's wonderful. I'm glad to hear a bit of processed is ok to try to get going.  Those recipes sound really good and I'll try a few variations until I get just the right taste/consistency. Man, I could live on Chockie Crackles at the moment but I know they are doing me no good. So if I can switch to raw/raw-ish I'll be much happier.

Really glad I posted here.

Thanks rawconnection!!!

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« Reply #3 on: Tuesday 15 July, 2008 »


Hey there Jaydubs,

saw your post and thought I'd give you a recipe of mine for chocolate crackles.

there's a photo of them on flickr, link below:

http://flickr.com/photos/jefah/2456028985/


You might want to play around with the amounts, I only made these two or three times as I don't have much time at the moment. I'm hoping to do some more gourmet stuff  and perfecting recipes soon as I'll have some time coming up. Exciting!

Sprouted dehydrated buckwheat is very 'crackly' like. Smiley


Meg's Raw Chocolate Crackles (nut free)
All volumes are approximate as I'm not big on exact measurements... sorry!

Ingredients:

2 tablespoons of coconut oil
1-2 tablespoons of agave nectar or other sweetener
2 tablespoons of desiccated coconut
1 tablespoon of cacao powder (or more if desired)
1 tablespoon of sprouted dehydrated buckwheat (more can be added)
Pinch of salt dissolved in minimum of water

Melt coconut oil by immersing the bowl in a larger bowl filled with hot water.

Add sweetener and stir, add cacao powder and salt water and stir until thoroughly mixed.

Add coconut and buckwheat and mix completely in.

Place mixture into medium to small paper muffin trays and store in fridge or freezer.

Enjoy!
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« Reply #4 on: Tuesday 15 July, 2008 »
Hehe!

I'm an idiot, I just realised that the photo rawconnection had linked to on flickr was my choccie crackles.

Yayyy! I'm famous, or I was till the link stopped working!  yahh
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« Reply #5 on: Saturday 16 August, 2008 »
If you don't have the sprouted dehydrated buckwheat, they are in the RP shop, they are called Buckies.
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« Reply #6 on: Monday 06 October, 2008 »
Klomasius! Yr crackles are... WICKED GOOD! Here i'm getting all nungee, wanting something sweet & ridiculous... My only regret- completely out of coconut! Out! Aaargh! & i only have 2 lil' hearts firming in the freezer- i used a silicone heart shaped ice cube tray to mold the mix. Wanted you to know i really appreciate yr posting this. Thanks! Love
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