Merry Christmas everyone and I wish you a wonderful time with your family! I hope you are feeling festive despite the circumstances and can enjoy the time with your loved ones.

Today I have another little Christmas inspiration for you. And because today is a very special day, I let my creativity run wild and decorated this super deliciouschocolate mousse with a Christmas tree.

As the base, I used avocado for the mousse. It provides a lot of high-quality fat,three-quarters of it consists of double unsaturated fatty acids, which are balm for the heart and blood vessels. It also provides the highest B vitamins in fruits and doesn’t contain fructose. You’ll find more information of avocados below.

Have fun tryingit out!

  • VEGETARIAN
  • GLUTEN-FREE
  • DAIRY-FREE
  • WITHOUT REFINED SUGAR

Christmas Avocado Chocolate Bowl

Natalie Lutz
prep time 15 Minuten
Dish sweets
servings 4

ingredients
  

For the chocolate mousse:

  • 2 avocados
  • 30 g raw cacao powder (low fat)
  • 30 g honey
  • 50 g organic dark chocolate
  • 3 tbsp coconut milk
  • 1/4 tsp ground tonka bean (optional vanilla)
  • 1-2 tsp speculoos spice

Toppings:

  • 1 Kiwi
  • 1-2 tsp cacao nibs
  • dried berries
  • banana
  • puffed quinoa
  • organic dark chocolate

instructions
 

  • Pit the avocados and cut them into small pieces.
  • Puree together with cocoa powder, honey, coconut milk and spices to a homogeneous mass or put it in a blender.
  • Melt the dark chocolate in a water bath (leave some for the topping) and add to the chocolate mousse. Blend again well. Add a little more honey if necessary.
  • Garnish with toppings and store in the fridge before serving.

This recipe is

vegetarian / gluten-free / dairy-free / without refined sugar
Keyword Eat Your Healthy Fats

GOOD TO KNOW

Avocado – the “butter” from the tree
It looks like a pear, but botanically it is a berry and therefore belongs to the fruit family. It provides up to 30 % of high-quality fat, which does not contain a trace of cholesterol, but consists of three quarters of double unsaturated fatty acids, which are balm for the heart and blood vessels. In addition, the avocado provides us with all essential amino acids (building blocks of proteins), is very rich in vitamins A, C & E, as well as the minerals potassium, calcium, iron & phosphorus. Its B vitamin levels, especially folic acid and pantothenic acid, are the highest in fruits.
The avocado doesn’t contain fructose, only small amounts of glucose (3.5 g per 100 g) and therefore fits well into a diet with fructose intolerance.
It also has a very low glycaemic index (GI). This is 10, whereas the value of dextrose, for example, is 100. The GI indicates the influence of a food on the blood sugar level. The higher the value, the more the blood sugar rises after eating this food.  The avocado therefore fits very well into the diet of diabetics, also in low-carb and Paleo diets, in diets for losing weight and in anti-inflammatory diets, as an unhealthily fluctuating blood sugar level has a pro-inflammatory effect.
However, what to keep in mind: The avocado unfortunately does not leave a good ecological footprint, as it requires a lot of water and special ripening chambers for cultivation and sometimes has very long routes of transport. Nevertheless, it provides a lot of important nutrients and is not used as a staple food, as you might make a dip or sauce from it, mix the fruit into your smoothie or mix it into your salad.
Originally, the avocado comes from tropical regions such as South and Central America, Southeast Asia or Africa. Today, the pear-shaped butter fruit also grows in the subtropics, for example in southern Spain and Israel. In Mexico, for example, its fruit pulp is used to heal wounds, and in East Asia it is used to treat stomach and intestinal ulcers and colic (very severe, labour-like pain). Women eat it for menstrual disorders and use it as a base for homemade skin creams and masks.
 
Nice To Know:
The word avocado comes from the Aztec word ahuacatl, which was also used for “testicle” because of certain similarities.
You should only eat avocados raw, as they lose their flavour when heated!

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