White Chocolate Berry Cups

White Chocolate Berry Cups by Eat Well NZ

I’ve said it before and I’ll probably say it again – but I really love chocolate!! I’ve always been a fan of white chocolate, but I rarely eat it these days as it’s quite sickly sweet and because it doesn’t contain cocoa you don’t get the antioxidant kick like you do from it’s darker friend.  I bought a big bag of Equa Gold cocoa butter on sale for $10.50 and I’ve been dying to try it out to make some less sweet, all natural white chocolate.  I came up with this idea – white chocolate berry cups

The white chocolate berry cups turned out rather gorgeous –  you bite through the crisp, vanilla white chocolate and get a mouthful of gorgeous tart berry filling and it all melts in your mouth in a delicious flavour explosion.  Bonus is they just use a handful of ingredients and are quick and easy to make too.  Still very much so a treat food, so enjoy occasionally only!

White Chocolate Berry Cups:

Ingredients:

1-2 tablespoons of liquid honey (depending on how sweet you like things)
100g cocoa butter
1/2 tsp vanilla essence or vanilla bean paste

Berry filling:
1/4 cup frozen berries, defrosted (I used boysenberries)
1 tablespoon of chia seeds (use more if you need)

 

Melt the cocoa butter in a pot over a medium heat, stirring regularly.  Once melted add the honey and the vanilla essence and wisk really well.  Take off the heat.  (Note:You might find that the vanilla clumps together at the bottom, don’t stress just give a quick wisk again and just try and scoop up some of the vanilla bit with each spoon when you fill the cups. )

Next, prepare your berry filling.  Defrost your berries in a pot over a medium heat (or in the microwave).  Add the chia seeds and leave to sit for 5-10 minutes.  The berries should go to a jam like consistency.  If not, add another teaspoon or so of chia seeds and leave to sit again for a few minutes.

While the berry filling is doing it’s thing, fill  mini cupcake cases 1/4 fill with the white chocolate mixture and place in the fridge until set. This doesn’t take too long – 5 minutes or so.

Remove from the fridge and add a blob of the berry filling. Top up with white chocolate filling and leave till set.

This recipe makes around 8 cups but if you want to make more, just double the ingredients.  I like to just make a small amount since they’re a treat food.

Feel free to try other combinations too. I tried some with cranberries and cashews instead of the berry filling and they were yummy.