No religion here, just chocolate ;)

 

Although I am not religious by any means, I sure do love chocolate and I thank this wonderful earth for producing such an amazingly complex and decadent food.  My family and I celebrate Easter in a “let’s get together and have dinner” kind of way.  As a kid, I would wake up on Easter morning and find colourful tin foiled eggs laying all around the house.  My brothers and I would wake up to a basket in our room so we could fill it with the eggs we found.  Of course as a kid, the chocolate was filled with milk products and other unidentifyable ingredients with funny names.  

This year I felt a tinge of sadness as I walked by aisles of easter bunnies, cadbury cream eggs and chocolate shelled mini-eggs.  I felt a little left out.  Of course that feeling never lasts and when I got home my grandma and mother decided to equip me with an easter egg chocolate mold and two giant bars of dark chocolate.  

My younger brother and I got to work last night and created six solid easter egg halves.  Two we mixed with peanut butter, one we added some rice krispies (organic ones of course :P) and the rest we left as plain, luscious chocolate.

The results:  Extremely decadent and wonderful!

I win and the animals do too!  I would say this was a success.

For lack of finding the traditional wicker baskets and coloured hay I grew up with, I positioned my eggs as such:

 

 

Regardless of whether you can or can’t eat chocolate, you can still enjoy these pictures and hopefully make yourself a cup of hot carob.  

 

 

HOT CAROB DRINK:

200 ml Rice milk

1 tsp carob powder

1 tsp sugar (or other sweetener I presume)

Vegan cream (optional)

Vegan Carob chips (optional)

Warm the milk in the microwave or a saucepan until it is steaming. In your cup add the sugar and carob powder and add a small amount of milk and stir. Add in the rest of the milk. I find that the carob powder doesn’t dissolve too well and tends to sink to the bottom of the cup so you need to stir before drinking. I like to serve it with some carob chips on the edge of the saucer or if I am feeling really indulgent with some vegan cream sprayed on top and carob chips sprinkled on the cream.

(From: http://www.recipesforvegans.co.uk/hotcarobdrink.html)