Rutabaga: HEALTHY CHOCOLATE LOLLIPOPS

HEALTHY CHOCOLATE LOLLIPOPS

Ingredients:

125g soft butter

½ cup of brown sugar

2 eggs

1 tsp of baking powder

30g (1/4 of cup) cacao powder

100g Philadelphia soft cheese

2-3 tbsp of caster sugar

100g of dark chocolate

2 tsp of oil

ALSO plastic or paper sticks and shredded coconut/ ground almonds/ rice krispies for decorations

STEP 1 – Bake a cake

1. MIX together butter and sugar using an electric mixer. While mixing add each egg at a time.

2. Mix flour, baking powder and cocoa together. Add it gently spoon by spoon to butter, sugar and eggs mix.

3. When all the ingredients blend together transfer it to a round tin approx. 20cm wide and bake in preheated oven for 25min in 180 degrees.

4. When cake is baked take it out of the oven and cool it down.

STEP 2 – Making the lollipops

1. When cake is cool break it to pieces and transfer to a blender and blend.

2. After blending transfer to a bowl and mix together with Philadelphia cheese and caster sugar. You could mix it all together in the blender if you want.

3. Knead the dough; if it’d dry you can add some more Philadelphia cheese.

4. Form small bowls, around 3cm wide. Keep then on baking paper and under the baking foil in fridge for at least 4h.

5. Melt chocolate with an oil in water bath.

6. Dip the end of each stick in warm chocolate and then stick each stick to each chocolate bowl.

7. When all done keep it in fridge for another 30minutes.

8. After 30min dip each bowl in still warm chocolate and while still warm decorate with your choice of decorative. You can use healthy options like me, which is shredded coconut, ground almonds and rice krispies.

9. Leave it for 10min for chocolate to cool down.

10. Enjoy with your child!!