Chocolate Bark
I’ve read that eating dark chocolate can radically reduce the risk of developing heart disease. The antioxidants in dark chocolate also lowers blood pressure.
I was walking around looking for treat ideas last week and was very tempted to buy breakfast bars as a post workout snack. The Woolies ‘Buy 3 for R100’ Lindt deal caught my eye and I was so excited to see the 70% dark chocolate slabs up for grabs. I hurriedly took them and a small bag of breakfast mix and committed to making bark. I’ve added salt to mine because it will replace lost electrolytes after long runs but you can leave it out if you want. I urge you not to because the bitterness of the chocolate balances so well against the sweet and saltiness of the ingredients.
Did you know: Cacao seeds were once very valuable and were used as a form of currency. It was originally prepared as a bitter drink, but later evolved into the candy bar we’ve come to love all thanks to a man named Joseph Fry, who in the 1800’s discovered he could mold chocolate by adding melted cacao butter to Dutch cacao.
Ingredients
3 slabs of 70% Lindt chocolate
1 packet of Woolworths breakfast mix
rough salt
or
Nuts, cranberries and rough salt.
Method
Melt the chocolate by suspending a bowl over simmering hot water. Alternatively you could melt it in the microwave. Short 30 seconds burst and a good stir.
Line a tray with wax wrap and pour the chocolate in there.
Sprinkle the breakfast mix and salt over the chocolate. (you can go wild, add coconut, whatever you like…)
Freeze for 30 minutes and break up into pieces.
