Healthy brownie bites with avocado chocolate mousse, a hormone-balancing, anti-oxidant, melt-in-your-mouth snack that will boost your protein, magnesium and iron levels and power you through the day.
Healthy Brownie Bites + Chocolate Avocado Mousse
What if we didn’t hide the mousse truffle filling inside a chocolate coating?
What if we simply plopped it on top of a brownie pedestal?
Ever so easy to make, melt-in-your mouth creamy. Super-energizing, and full of fresh whole ingredients that boost your mood with cacao, fuel your day with nut butter, and helps to balance your hormones with maca powder.
You don’t need to buy an unhealthy candy bar for mid-afternoon boost. Just pop a few of these healthy bits of magic in your lunch. You will soar through your day!
One reason for the energy boost in this treat is, of course, the dark chocolate. Another ingredient is present that will help you power through your afternoon.
How Healthy is Maca?
And that ingredient is maca powder.
Maca powder is made from the maca root is actually a root vegetable in the broccoli family. It is considered one of the 7 important adaptogens. Okay, quick definition stop!
What is an Adaptogen?
According to Merriam-Webster, an adaptogen is “a nontoxic substance and especially a plant extract that is held to increase the body’s ability to resist the damaging effects of stress and promote or restore normal physiological functioning.”
There are seven other well-known adaptogens besides Maca. They are Amla, Ashwagandha, Cordyceps, Holy Basil, Rhodiola. I won’t go into their benefits now, but look them up! It’s fun to figure out which ones could apply to your situation. Anyway…
You should know that Maca tastes a bit nutty and is known for its nutritional powers. It’s rich in protein, fiber, vitamin C, copper and iron.
For that reason, Maca is known to boost energy, balance hormones, and even reduce sun damage to skin.
And it’s easy to put into chocolate recipes. This recipe especially is no-bake, and fairly easy to make. Just blend up brownie ingredients, press into mini paper cups. Blend up truffle filling ingredients, pour on to the cups and chill. Dust with cacao powder to finish.
How Healthy are Ingredients in Brownie Bites
Dates are a source of potassium, magnesium, fiber, iron and many other essential vitamins and minerals.
Walnuts are full of omega-3, excellent for everything from weight-control to brain support.
Cacao Powder is a clean version of cocoa powder, unprocessed and raw, and rich in all the nutrients naturally found in chocolate, including antioxidants and magnesium.
Avocado, a popular vegetable that has nutrients that benefit every single body process.
Maca Root, as noted above, excellent at balancing hormones.
How to Make Healthy Brownie Bites
Soak dates overnight, blend them with dates, cacao, vanilla and salt. Press dough into mini cupcake papers.
Blend up avocado mousse, add milk to make it pourable, and pour onto mini brownie bites.
Refrigerate, and enjoy!
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Healthy Brownie Bites + Chocolate Avocado Mousse
Healthy brownie bites with avocado chocolate mousse, a hormone-balancing, anti-oxidant, melt-in-your-mouth snack that will boost your protein, magnesium and iron levels and power you through the day.
Ingredients
Brownie bottom
- 8 Medjool dates (soaked overnight, pitted)
- 1/2 cup walnuts
- 1 tbsp cacao powder
- 1 tsp maca powder
- 1 tsp vanilla
- pinch of salt
chocolate mousse top
- 1/4 cup dark chocolate chips
- 1 avocado
- 1 tbsp cacao powder
- 4 tbsp milk
- 1 tbsp maple syrup
- pinch of salt
Instructions
Prep
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Insert 8 mini paper cups in a mini-cupcake pan. Soak 8 Medjool dates overnight; rinse and pit them the next day.
Make Brownie bottom
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Melt the chips in the microwave in a pyrex measuring cup for 45 seconds.
In a food processor, blend up dates, walnuts, cacao, maca, vanilla and salt.
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Add more walnuts if batter feels too sticky; add a touch of water if the batter seems too dry. Variations occur depending on residual moisture and size of your dates. You want a crumbly sticky texture that you can press into the bottom of the cupcake papers.
Refrigerate while you prepare the truffle top.
Make the Truffle top
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Melt the chips in the microwave in a pyrex measuring cup for 45 seconds.
In a food processor, blend up the melted chocolate chips, avocado, cacao powder, milk, maple syrup, and salt.
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You want the mousse to be a thick, but pourable batter for these bites. Add milk if it doesn't seem pourable, like pancake batter.
Make the brownie bites with mousse on top
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Pour the mousse on top of the brownie bases in the cupcake cups. Fill so there is a dome-top. Refrigerate for an hour or so and eat.
If you want to be able to remove the papers, you'll have to freeze the bites, remove the papers, and refrigerate them. I cut mine just defrosted with a hot knife.
Dee Dine is the recipe developer and writer behind Green Smoothie Gourmet. She shares her super healthy wholesome recipes on her blog and her Instagram that she feeds her family and friends. She gravitates toward recipes that are fast to create, plant-based, nutritious, easy, and use familiar ingredients. And chocolate is always a good idea! More about Dee.
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