Here is a great way to get lots of raw pastured butter into your kids. Chocolate peanut butter fudge – recipe at the end! Don’t know where to get raw butter?
See my Shopping List under grassfed dairy to locate a list of small farms that will mail order you this fabulous food. If you are lucky like me, you already have a relationship with a local farmer who spoils you with lots of raw butter to keep you and your family in top shelf health.
If you are wondering why in the heck I love butter so much, it’s because butter is ALWAYS better than any fake butter spread you can buy at the store.
Boycott all counterfeits. Butter has kept folks healthy for generations. Don’t fall for the demonizing of butter by the media. Remember those anti-egg commercials 35 years ago where the public was duped into switching to eggbeaters or worse, throwing out all those fabulous egg yolks to make tasteless, unsatisfying egg white only omelets! Now the same “experts” are saying “Oops, we were wrong, eggs are fantastic and don’t cause heart attacks”
Trust me, doctors, nutritionists and other so called “experts” will be backpedaling on all the anti-butter advice too. How soon, I don’t know. I only know butter is one of the best foods you can consume.
The more butter I eat (and trust me, I eat a lot of it), the easier it is to maintain my weight. Butter also will NEVER make you fat, but that’s a topic for another blog. Â My cholesterol and triglyceride numbers are also in a healthy range, so don’t fall for that scam too .. that butter will clog your arteries and give you a heart attack.
It’s just a whole lot more profitable for companies to sell you really cheap to make, fake butter spreads than the real thing. That’s why the research has been skewed and interpreted in the favor of vegetable oil spreads instead of good ‘ole butter. Guess who’s funding all the anti-butter research? You guessed it! The fox guarding the hen house again.
Back to the recipe ….
Chocolate Peanut Butter Fudge Recipe
This recipe for chocolate peanut butter fudge is both delicious and healthy made with whole, natural ingredients including real butter. Only 6 ingredients!
Ingredients
- 1 cup butter softened, preferably pastured and raw
- 1 cup raw honey
- 1/2 cup cocoa powder or carob powder
- 1/2 cup creamy peanut butter preferably organic
- 2 tsp chocolate extract optional, use only if you use carob powder
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 1/2 tsp sea salt
Instructions
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Mix ingredients in a large bowl until smooth.
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Spread in a 8x8 pan or one of similar size and freeze for 2 hours.
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Cut chocolate peanut butter fudge into squares and enjoy!
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This fudge recipe makes a great snack for the kids, but don't put in lunchboxes as it will get too soft even with a cold pack.
This video on how to make raw butter fudge may be helpful if you are a more visual learner.
Other recipes you may enjoy include chocolate chip cookie cake or sprouted flour brownies.
What chocolate extract do you currently use? The one in the sources(and many others) use agave syrup.
I use that brand currently. I haven’t found one without agave, but it is such a trivial amount it’s really not a problem.
How essential is the chocolate extract?
I used local summer honey with this latest batch I made last night. You can vary how it tastes by the raw honey you choose.
Yum!
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I make something similar, only I usually mix about half and half coconut oil with butter, adding in peanut butter, cocoa, vanilla, and maple syrup. I make it in my kitchen-aid and just mix to taste with no measuring. It is so creamy and fluffy at first and can be eaten off the spoon, then I spread into a pan and freeze or refrigerate to slice and eat later. It is scrumptious either way, and sometimes I’ll add various nuts, seeds, and/or dried fruit. 🙂
Ohhh yum!!! I will be making this very soon!
Anything you recommend substituting for the chocolate extract to avoid all caffeine? I’m nursing and my baby doesn’t do well with it. Also, I’ll be substituting sunflower butter since I’m avoiding nuts too. Many thanks!
Yum!
Oh wow, I just made this with raw cocoa powder and added a bit of cocoa butter too. YUM I had to stop myself spooning it into my mouth straight from the bowl before freezing it! Delish thanks 🙂