Flaxfarm
No-sugar Chocolate Linseed Fudge
Fudge flavour and health
I have to confess loving real fudge even if I do find it way too sweet and I know it is super-unhealthy. I aways used to find making it an unpredictable fiddle-faddle but my main issue is cleaning pans of their coating, inside and out, of rock hard sugar. This healthy recipe is for sugar-free fudge – great for the figure and diabetics – and it is much quicker and easier to make, it’s almost instant. My sugar-free fudge is real food, with healthy ingredients nuts, linseed, cocoa so it is full of great nutrients, antioxidants, fibre and omega-3 – and low GI too. It tastes great, with no refined sugar and no naughty fats it doesn’t make you feel guilty but has real fudgy texture.
Lime and Chocolate
As a child one of my favourite sweets was chocolate limes even though I was always a bit disappointed that they weren’t chocoaltey enough nor were they as sharp lime should be. When I made this recipe with the zest of a whole lime it was very grown up and just what I wanted. If I was making it for children I would either use less zest or make it with orange.
No-sugar Chocolate Linseed Fudge
Ingredients
- 80 g dates
- 20-40 g cocoa or cacao powder the more you add the more chocoalatey, bitter and intense
- 30 g nuts - any depending you your food processor you may be best to grind the nuts first
- 35 g Flax Farm ground linseed
- 25 g Flax Farm Cold-Pressed Linseed (Flaxseed) Oil
- 30 g Juice such as orange or lime and zest of 1/2 a fruit add more zest to taste if you enjoy the sharp flavour
- 24 drops Stevia liquid or other sweetner, if required, up to the equivalent of four spoons of sugar in sweetening power.
Instructions
- Place all the ingredients in a food processor and chop/grind (depending on blade/settings available) until all is nicely amalgamated. Not blending the nuts until completely smooth gives a nice crunchy nutty texture to the fudge.
- Tip out into a tray lined with silicon paper. Shape into a square shape or roll about 2 cm wide. Place in the freezer to set hard.
- Cut into slices about 1 cm wide. Allow to come round to room temperature and serve.
