Choc Mango Cheeks Recipe

Ingredients

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1 date (medjool date, pitted)
600 grams mangoes (3 ripe juicy mangoes)

100 grams cacao (cacao butter)
1/2 cup cacao powder (raw)

Nutritional

Serving Size: 1 (73.4 g)
Calories 132.9
Total Fat - 3.4 g
Saturated Fat - 1.7 g
Cholesterol - 0.6 mg
Sodium - 21.7 mg
Total Carbohydrate - 25.7 g
Dietary Fiber - 2 g
Sugars - 20.7 g
Protein - 1.3 g
Calcium - 14.3 mg
Iron - 1.8 mg
Vitamin C - 21.9 mg
Thiamin - 0.1 mg

Step by Step Method

Step 1

Soak the date in enough water to cover for at least 4 hours.

Step 2

Skin the mangoes and cut the cheeks off and then cut the cheeks in half again, then skewer them with paddle-pop or cake-pop sticks in one end delicately to make an 'ice black'.

Step 3

Place them on a baking tray and pop them in the freezer for 15 minutes while you prepare the cacao coating.

Step 4

Drain the date, discarding the soaking liquid.

Step 5

Finely chop the cacao butter and melt by gradually adding little pieces to a saucepan over a very low heat, you will need about 1 cup of melted cacao butter.

Step 6

Transfer to a blender along with the cacao powder and soaked date and whizz until very smooth and transfer to a bowl.

Step 7

Remove mangoes from the freezer and dip into the cacao mixture and then return them to the tray and place in the freezer for a further 15 minutes and if you want to, you can repeat this last step of the process for a double layer of cacao crunch.