Chocolate!
So, you’ve decided you don’t want to be a chocolate lover fraud anymore! Congratulations. But after many years of mucking up chocolate and throwing puss and reproductive animal parts into it, you might need a recipe or 2 or 3 or 20 to get you started on the road to chocolate recovery. So, your task this weekend? Make chocolate, something, I don’t care what you do with the chocolate as long as you promise not to put junk in it. And by junk, just in case I haven’t been clear NO animal parts. Now that we have that understanding, let’s get into some chocolate goodness.
First – a couple of things… When looking for chocolate it’s easy to see if it has animal parts. If it has butter, milk, milk powder, whey, butter milk or gluten it is bad. Just move on from that and look for ingredients that also come from nature. Cocoa butter is cool – it’s butter from the cocoa seed, so that is happiness. Also, look for chocolate that is organic, because you are a chocolate lover, your cocoa beans are precious and should be treated as so. When shopping you can even buy mixes for brownies and cookies as long as you look at the dry ingredients and make sure they aren’t mucked up with animal fillers either. Bob’s red mill is a good brand – you just have to modify the other ingredients. If it calls for milk use the other milks like hemp, soy, hazelnut, rice, almond or oat. If it calls for eggs use applesauce (unsweetened), you can also use banana, flax seed or ener-g egg replacer. If it calls for butter, use vegan butter, or in some cases you can use different kinds of oil (like coconut oil).Just be sure to check ingredients, there are a lot of products out there that also believe in the integrity of ingredients, so you might be surprised of what you can find in the grocery store.
OH! Big side note – please use organic sugar or agave or maple syrup, because most white sugar has animal bone it and that’s just gross, and that’s all I have to say about that, because I want this recipe Friday to be filled with happiness of chocolate from here on out.
Now, for those recipes : There are about a million vegan chocolate recipes out there – so if this doesn’t get you started start googling! 
Happy Vegan Chocolate Chip Cookies
Double Chocolate Almond Explosion Cookies
Vegan German Chocolate Frosting
Dave’s Mexican Chocolate Ice Cream
Can’t wait to try some of these recipes!
I would love to add to PLEASE try to buy fair trade chocolate! There are some awful things going on in the chocolate trade world, and it’s much, much nicer to buy chocolate in from sources that honor both animal and human wellness.