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White Chocolate Candies with Vanilla Bean, Coconut, and Honey


If you know me in real life, every so often, you'll see me limping around like I've hurt myself or hear me utter weird phrases like "burpees" or "snatches".  It's because I belong to this pretty intense gym called Crossfit.

Despite what its name might otherwise suggest, Crossfit is nothing like BowFlex or any of those rather questionable fitness programs that you see on TV. Instead, it's the fitness program that fire departments, law enforcement, and military organizations use to get fit and stay in shape. Its emphasis is on constantly varied and high intensity workouts -- kinda intense stuff like Olympic lifts and cardio intervals. It's hard to imagine a 5"3 girl like myself lifting 50+ lbs overhead, I know, but I gotta make up for eating all these baked goods, all right?!

A lot of Crossfitters follow what's known as the Paleo Diet. It excludes grains, dairy products, salt, refined sugar, and processed oils. Yeah... I don't do that. I mean, I run a cupcake blog after all. But every so often, I inadvertently get guilted into rethinking my eating habits by the young/beautiful/healthy people at my gym who can lift way more than me. Maybe if I can just give up my beloved grains and sugars, I'll be able to complete a Helen in under 8 minutes...?


But eitherway, when I saw Coco from Roost's paleo-ish recipe for White Chocolate, Vanilla Bean Cups with Toasted Coconut & Pink Salt after a particularly intense Crossfit workout, I decided to give it a try: 
The candies tasted more like coconut and honey than actual white chocolate itself. They were easy to make, but looked incredibly impressive. People actually oohed and aahed when I brought these to my Crossfit gym. Their eyes boggled even further when I told them that the candies were Paleo and made of nothing but healthy fat (cocoa butter, coconut oil), natural sweeteners (vanilla bean, honey) and healthy grains (coconut flour). They were gone within two minutes.

So,  Crossfitters, this recipe is for you:

For All Altitudes
(Adapted from Roost) (makes approximately 16 candies) in candy, dairy-free, final recipes, gluten-free, paleo, successful recipes at high-altitudes, white chocolate

