CHOCOLATE AVOCADO ICE-CREAM

Wonderful little burst of luxuriousness, and super healthy to boot, keep these to hand in the freezer or fridge to cheer you up in those I want moments, you will not be disappointed.  Low in bad fat, high in good fat and calories your body is going to love these.

My geeky science bit...

Cacao is a super food and a small amount of 70% chocolate every day is a super boost to your health, one of the highest foods in antioxidants that remove cell damaging free radicals from your body, 50g gives you RDA 37% iron, 29% magnesium, 5.5g fibre, 44% copper, 49% manganese! calcium, potassium, protein, phosphorus, zinc and selenium.  Avocado another perfect super food that produces compounds necessary for your liver to cleanse toxins, vitamin B6, K, C, E, potassium, frolic acid, high in fibre, helps lower blood cholesterol, 1 avocado has 67% mono-unsaturated fat as oleic acid, 19% fat as palmittic and linoleum acid, 14% saturated fat but your body deals with this differently, it uses this fat rather than storing it in fatty acid chains which is how your body deals with bad simple carbohydrate saturated fat.  Coconut regulates your thyroid, highly nutritious, rich in fibre, vitamin C, E, B1, B3, B5, B6, iron selenium, sodium, calcium, magnesium,phosphorus, MCFA medium chain fatty acids as lauric acid the body converts this into the highly beneficial compound monolaurin which is anti viral, anti bacterial that in the body destroys a wide variety of disease causing organisms.  MCFA's are rapidly metabolised into energy in the liver, these saturated fats are used up more quickly by the body and less likely to be stored as fat.  Honey trace amounts of minerals, calories come from the complex carbohydrates, no fat, 95% of the energy comes from fructose and glucose.

INGREDIENTS

(Makes 9 balls)

1 ripe avocado

1/4 cup of high quality cacao 70%

1 tbsp organic honey

1 tsp vanilla extract

80ml coconut milk

Handful of chopped walnuts (optional)

Lollipop sticks

Super fast and easy to make, place all the ingredients, except the walnuts in a blender and blitz until you have a gorgeous creamy chocolate mousse, using a small ice cream scoop, scoop out balls of chocolate mousse and drop into the chopped nuts, gently roll around and place on a tray, pop in the lolly stick and place in the freezer to freeze individually, once frozen place in an air tight container and keep in the freezer.  If you are not using walnuts then just pop on to a tray and freeze as above.