Raw Fudgy Bites

What happened here was a little naughty. I turned a perfectly decent brownie recipe into a show-stopping-standing-ovation-worthy choco-sensation. Ladies + gents… well more like gent’ (Hi baby, I made you Raw Fudgy Bites for dessert!), feast your eyes +  weekend appetites with this soooo-good-it-should-be-illegal Raw Fudgy Bites recipe.  

This batch makes 32 squares, enough to keep me sane + happy as I finish writing the copy for Life is Messy Kitchen… well, more like “as I begin writing the copy for Life is Messy Kitchen“. I did Select All + Delete the entire rough draft this Monday. I went psycho killer crazy writer’s meltdown on the project – those where you suddenly accept that perhaps you weren’t meant to abolish world hunger or find a cure for cancer. Tough.

You see, when I sat down to manifest Life is Messy Kitchen, I had big audacious dreams of making Martha Stewart so proud, even though she doesn’t even know I exist, yet. But this Sunday, as I was Googling How To Stop Eating Pizza In 3 Simple Steps, I had a revelation, “I can create The Next Buzz Healthy Cookbook that promises to fix your landfill of issues in one fell swoop, or I can let you see behind The Wonderful Wizard of Oz curtain where sometimes I anesthetize my feelings with Chunky Monkey ice cream, but mostly where I’m trying my very best to be Mayi + re-set my intentions around food with a sense of humor.” I mean, cuz what’s the point in fitting inside your skinny jeans (Wait… do people still wear skinny jeans? No, right? I didn’t think so), if you’re a grumpy Grinch, right?

So how about we cut the crap + drop the #filters + embrace a more humanistic + comic approach to eating + feeling f*ucking A-MA-ZING? Who’s in on this messy adventure? I’m recruiting!

Now, it’s chocolate time baby! Because chocolate does’t ask stupid questions, chocolate always understand.

Ingredients:

• 1/2 cup unsweetened almond butter
• 1/4 cup pure maple syrup (honey works too!)
• 1/4 cup extra-virgin coconut oil
• 1 cup old fashioned gluten-free rolled oats
• 1/2 cup unsweetened coconut flakes (shredded coconuts works too!)
• 1/4 cup cacao powder
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract

Preparation:

Step 1: Melt together in a medium sauce pan the almond butter + maple syrup + coconut oil over medium-low heat until velvety smooth.

Step 2: Remove from heat + add oats + coconut + cacao powder + vanilla. Stir until well combined.

Step 3: Pour into a parchment lined loaf pan + pop into the fridge for an hour.

Step 4: Cut into squares + store in the fridge in an airtight container until ready to plate. Or don’t even bother with plating, I just pop em’ into my mouth (wink)!

So, where was I? (Looked at my chocolaty sticky fingers). Oh right… Raw Fudgy Bites. It’s time to rock n’ much chocolate monsters!

Photography Credit

Marcela Macias