The second type of fat bomb I've talked about in previous posts also uses coconut butter or manna. No sweetener needed for me, but some might like a little. Probably no more than a teaspoon of whatever you use.
The process to make these is so simple, I have plenty of room here to talk about the various fats I use and why you should not be scared of fats. First I put a tablespoon of grass fed dairy butter and three tablespoons of raw cocoa butter, which is the oil they take out of cocoa to make cocoa powder. Then I filled the rest with coconut butter, or the dried ground up meat of a coconut. On top I put two tablespoons of my lovely Ghirardelli cocoa powder.
Now, you will want to know that cocoa butter has a high percentage of palmitic acid, a fatty acid often demonized as causing heart attacks. But the studies that show that, do not include oleic acid, a fatty acid always found with palmitic which always reversese the would-be harmful effects of palmitic acid, here's an article with references to the studies. As mentioned in the article, even if you drink pure palmitic oil, you body will produce oleic acid to neutralize the harmful effects and leave you with the anti-oxidant and anti-inflammatory effects. So it's all good!
Now you simply mix everything up and pour it into your handy candy molds. These have a little flexible bottom , so they pop out nicely at the end! Very cool.If you don't have a candy mold, you can simply pour it onto a plate or a pie pan and crack it into bite sized pieces after you freeze them. Yes, put them in the freezer to make them hard. The cocoa butter will help make them nice and waxy hard, but the coconut butter makes them soft at room temperatures. Freezing them (about 15-30 minutes) makes them completely hard so you can handle them, and keeping them in the fridge makes them just the right temperature to enjoy.
So what did I have?
1 tbsp dairy butter (12 fat)
3 tbsp cocoa butter (42 fat)
3/4 cup coconut butter (100 fat, 16 protein, 40 carb)
2 tbsp cocoa powder. (2 fat, 3 protein, 3 carb)
I must have misremembered something because usually that comes out to a full rack of coconut bombs, but this only made 17. The total fat is about 168 grams, so call it 10 grams per bomb. That comes with 1 protein and about 2 carbs.
I limit myself to one of these at night but not too late. The fats really do seem to energize me and I have to have time to process that before I try to sleep.
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