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How My Weakness for Chocolate Led Me to Better Health Choices
It involved some improvising in the kitchen
I have only a few weaknesses when it comes to food, but one reigns supreme: chocolate. I don’t have to have it all the time, at least not daily, but if I buy chocolate, I will eat it rather quickly.
If it’s not dark chocolate, I may eat the whole 100-gram tablet in one day. If it’s dark chocolate, then I’ll eat one, two, three, maybe four squares a day. Dark chocolate may be considered healthy, but four squares a day is still a lot.
Why?
Because I can bake a whole chocolate cake with that amount of cocoa. And it comes out so delicious that I don’t crave chocolate while eating it. And did I mention it lasts a long time? Meaning it lasts long in the fridge, yes, but it’s also a lot of cake to eat.
I bake it in a medium round pan and it probably makes for twelve servings when I portion it. Which lasts me and my family a whole week.
A nutrient-dense chocolate cake!
There are plenty of chocolate cakes out there, and many of them are worse than chocolate when it comes to their fattening, clogging the arteries potential. My vegan chocolate cake is made with olive oil and relies on bananas and dried…
