I enjoy finding healthier ingredients to cook with and sharing those products with you. Anytime we can reduce sugar, the happier our bodies are. Wax Orchards is a company out of the beautiful state of Washington and they have found a way to cook down three fruits (pears, pineapple and peaches) to a honey consistency. Their products are rock stars.
They use the Fruit Sweet product to make other products like these amazing fudge products.
Now back to the recipe – Hmm? What to do?…What to do? My soon-to-be daughter-in-law passed on a gluten free recipe; and I modified it to utilize the products. It took me a couple of tries to get it where I wanted but it has been triple family-approved by my husband, daughter and 2-1/2 year-old grandson and that’s enough for me.
- 2 (15 oz) can garbanzo beans, rinsed and drained
- 1 cup peanut, almond, or your favorite nut butter (no sugar added)
- 1/2 cup Wax Orchards Fruit Sweet
- 1/2 cup Wax Orchards Classic Fudge or Peppermint Fudge
- 3 cage-free eggs
- 4 tsp of pure vanilla extract or 1 vanilla bean
- 1 tsp salt
- 1/2 tsp baking powder
- 1/2 tsp baking soda
- 3/4 cup semi-sweet or dark chocolate chips
- Sea salt for sprinkling
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees
- Coat a 9 x 12 pan with nonstick cooking spray.
- Rinse and drain garbanzo beans.
- If using a vanilla bean, slice down the center and remove the paste by scraping a spoon down the length of the bean. Set aside.
- Place garbanzo beans into a food processor and pulse 7-10 times, scraping occasionally until they start to break down.
- Add all other ingredients except the chocolate chips and blend until smooth.
- Add in half of the chocolate chips and pulse until chocolate is your desired consistency.
- Pour and smooth batter into prepared pan.
- Sprinkle the remaining chocolate chips on top of batter.
- Place in oven for approximately 35-40 minutes, depending on how your oven cooks. A toothpick should come out clean.
- Take out of oven. At this point you can leave the chocolate chips as is or using a small flat spatial or butter knife spread the hot chocolate on top (acts almost like a frosting).
- Now is the hard part - you have to let this cool completely. It's going to be hard because the smell says Eat me Now.
- Cut into squares - these freeze well.
Gather the ingredients
This is the hard part – letting it cool completely before cutting into bars
These are delicious as is but here are a few more ideas on how to plate them:
Fresh Strawberries and an Ice Cream made entirely with frozen bananas in a food processor
Banana Ice Cream and Coconut Cream
