Get out your food processor. Puree:

• 2 cups organic black beans (The beans add protein and lots of fiber which help to prevent blood sugar spikes. You can play a ‘mystery ingredient’ game with your eaters… they won’t guess.)

Process the rest of the wet ingredients in the food processor with the beans:

• 2 large eggs or egg substitute*
• 1/2 cup raw honey or a variation with 1/4 cup honey and a half cup of chopped dates, for vegan, use Rapadura sugar or a combination of Rapadura and dates
• 1/3 cup coconut oil (liquid if by hand, if using a food processor, it will get blended in)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Combine the following dry ingredients and then process for a short time into the wet ingredients:

• 1/2 cup raw cacao powder
• 4 tablespoons Reishi powder (Reishi is a powerful medicinal mushroom known for its immune enhancing actions. You can find powdered reishi online at Mushroom Harvest at a reasonable price.)
• 2 tablespoons tapioca starch or Arrowroot powder. Madelon uses a tablespoon of Kudzu dissolved in just enough water to make a paste
• 1 teaspoon cinnamon
• 1/2 teaspoon Himalayan pink salt or sea salt
• 1 teaspoon baking soda

Bake at 375 degrees for about 20 minutes. These got a little dry for me at 25 minutes. See the ‘molten’ version below (suggested by Susan and based on a combination of this recipe and Mollie Katzen’s Chocolate Eclipse), if you aren’t making these to travel – they are messy but amazing.

Madelon likes to add Goji berries to taste, I leave them out. Also, Madelon cooks them at 350, for an hour.

Adding Molten Chocolate:

• 1 cup semisweet chocolate chips (optional, mix by hand into batter)
• 3/4 cup Rapadura sugar
• 1/2 cup plus 2 tablespoons (1.75 oz | 48g) unsweetened cocoa
• 2 1/2 cups boiling water

Combine the sugar with the unsweetened cocoa in a small bowl. Sprinkle evenly over the top of the batter, which you have already spread in its pan.

Pour on the boiling water. (As Molly writes, pricelessly: “It will look terrible, and you will not believe you are actually doing this, but try to persevere.“)

Place immediately in the preheated oven. Bake for 30 minutes, or until the center is firm to the touch. Cool and turn out to serve so the molten-ness becomes a kind of glaze.