Lucuma fruit powder has a distinctively sweet and fragrant taste that provides a natural sweetening to desserts without increasing your blood sugar levels, unlike many sweeteners that offer empty calories, a lovely and natural sweetener. You can read all about lucuma, the gold of the Incas, here.

Why not give these Lucuma Raspberry bars a go today!

Makes 10-12 individual bars
Prep time: 10 minutes
Total time: 30 minutes

Ingredients

For the Lucuma Raspberry bars

• 3 tbsp Castle Combe raw honey (or your preference of liquid sweetener)
• 1/2 tsp vanilla extract or vanilla powder
• 1 level tablespoon of Elements for Life lucuma powder
• 120ml of coconut cream
• 1.5 tbsp of raspberry powder

For the raspberry cream drizzle

• 2 tbsp of raspberry powder
• 2 tsp of Castle Coombe honey
• 3 tbsp of coconut cream

For the chocolate drizzle

• 2 tablespoons of Elements for Life raw cacao powder
• 1 tablespoons of Elements for Life raw cacao butter
• 2 tablespoons of coconut cream
• 1 teaspoon of Castle Coombe honey
• 1sp of vanilla extract

Extra decoration

Coconut chips dusted in extra raspberry powder.

Method

1. Begin by making your lucuma raspberry bars. Add all the bar ingredients to a food processor and blend until smooth. Transfer to your moulds and pop in the freezer for 30 minutes to firm up into bars
2. Slowly melt the cacao butter over a ban marie on a low heat. You can turn off the heat if it’s getting too warm, and give it a quick blast if it’s starting to set again. This is as you would with our basic raw chocolate recipe
3. Add the raw cacao powder to the bowl and stir in well
4. Add the honey and vanilla, and then mix in really well until you have a smooth chocolate mixture, set aside for drizzling later
5. Bring out the lucuma raspberry bars and pop them out of their moulds. Using a teaspoon, pour a little chocolate over the bars, alternating with the raspberry cream drizzle
6. Decorate with extra coconut chips and enjoy!

About The Author

Niki Behjousiar is a recipe creator and founder of nikibakes. Niki has been blogging for over 10 years and has a passion for gluten free and dairy free recipes. She’s a Persian chef who loves all things spice and particularly enjoys Asian and South American cuisine. She’s always on the lookout for fresh and delicious flavour combinations and uses our spices daily in her cooking and on her blog.

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