Sugar-free Chocolates
Prep Time 5 minutes
Cook Time 15 minutes
Total Time 20 minutes
Servings 8 servings
Calories 170 kcal
Ingredients
3/4 cocoa butter
1 cup unsweetened cocoa I used Ghirardelli (start with 1/2
cup and add additional if needed)
1/2 teaspoon stevia concentrated powder
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Instructions
Melt cocoa butter in a chocolate melter or double boiler.
Stir in cocoa powder and sweetener(s).
Keep on heat until dry ingredients have been fully
incorporated.
Remove from heat and stir in vanilla extract.
Pour into chocolate bar molds.
CHAPTER 16
Melt with butter over low heat.
Take care, if overheated, chocolate can develop a grainy texture.
From The Recipes of Mercy Faye
A thick, sensuous aroma filled
the kitchen. It had a heady odor that Mercy had never before encountered. By
mixing cocoa, butter, sugar and cider, she’d created something that had seemed
to conjure every stray animal in Seattle. Dogs and cats lined the alley behind
the shop. They stood shoulder to shoulder, each jostling for position outside
the open the door.
“I’ve never seen anything like
it,” Cassie said, wiping her forehead with the end of her apron before
returning to the pie crust.
Mercy shook her head at the
gathered menagerie. “Do animals like chocolate?”
“They certainly seem to think
so,” Hilda said, scooping out a cup of sugar and adding it to the vat of lard.
“I can’t imagine that it’s good
for them,” Mercy said, wiping her hands on her skirt before brushing her damp
hair off her forehead.
“That doesn’t mean that they
don’t like it,” Cassie said considering the animals. “There’s plenty of
pleasurable poisons.”
“Like that scoundrel Drake,”
Hilda said, as she stirred a long handled wooden spoon through the concoction
bubbling in the pot on the stove. An uncomfortable silence filled the room as
each of the girls seemed to remember where they’d been and how they’d gotten
there.
He was the one thing all the
girls had agreed upon. Drake Wallace had been their poison. None of them had
seen Rita or recognized a description of Steele, but they’d all been
intoxicated by Drake Wallace, the cleft-chinned man whom she’d first met on the
ship.
“I wonder if he likes chocolate,”
Cassie said, her hands on her hips.
Hilda stopped the flour cup mid-air.
“What are you thinking?”
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