{"id":594,"date":"2010-10-22T22:58:30","date_gmt":"2010-10-23T05:58:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nathalielawhead.com\/candybox\/?p=594"},"modified":"2010-10-22T22:59:50","modified_gmt":"2010-10-23T05:59:50","slug":"2-ingredient-raw-confections-dipped-candy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.nathalielawhead.com\/candybox\/2-ingredient-raw-confections-dipped-candy","title":{"rendered":"2 Ingredient Raw Confections: Chocolate Dipped Candy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s something I started making recently. My sister keeps saying that they are the best dipped candy she&#8217;s ever had.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/nathalielawhead.com\/gudeats\/chocolate-diped5.jpg\" alt=\"Raw Chocolate Dipped Candy\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Chocolate dipped dates. It&#8217;s smart because it&#8217;s apeshit easy to do and the dates are used to sweeten the chocolate so no additional sweeteners are required. The nut-like caramel flavor of the date combined with the very aromatic fresh chocolate taste like the two where meant to be.<br \/>\n&#8230;I like meant-to-be&#8217;s.<br \/>\n&#8230;Especially when it comes to something sweet.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Ingredients<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>*<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/vivapura.net\/index.php?main_page=product_info&#038;cPath=67&#038;products_id=203\" target=\"_blank\">Raw Cacao Paste<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\n*<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sanmarcosdatefarm.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Dates<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Recipe<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>*Cut the dates in half and remove pits.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/nathalielawhead.com\/gudeats\/chocolate-diped.jpg\" alt=\"Dates\" \/><\/p>\n<p>*Refrigerate the dates.<br \/>\n(It&#8217;s necessary to thoroughly chill them so that the chocolate begins to harden on them the moment they&#8217;re dipped.)<\/p>\n<p>*Melt the cacao paste in a food dehydrator or double boiler.<\/p>\n<p>*Dip the dates!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/nathalielawhead.com\/gudeats\/chocolate-diped2.jpg\" alt=\"Chocolate Dipped Dates\" \/><\/p>\n<p>At this point you can sprinkle crushed nuts, coconut shreds, cacao powder, or other yummy things over them.<\/p>\n<p>*And place them in the fridge to harden.<\/p>\n<p>Wait about 20 minutes for the chocolate to harden, and you&#8217;ve got chocolate dipped candies.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/nathalielawhead.com\/gudeats\/chocolate-diped4.jpg\" alt=\"Raw Chocolate Dipped Candy\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/nathalielawhead.com\/gudeats\/chocolate-diped2.jpg\" alt=\"Chocolate Dipped Raw Candy\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4522,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nathalielawhead.com\/candybox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nathalielawhead.com\/candybox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nathalielawhead.com\/candybox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nathalielawhead.com\/candybox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nathalielawhead.com\/candybox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=594"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.nathalielawhead.com\/candybox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":624,"href":"http:\/\/www.nathalielawhead.com\/candybox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594\/revisions\/624"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nathalielawhead.com\/candybox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nathalielawhead.com\/candybox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nathalielawhead.com\/candybox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nathalielawhead.com\/candybox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}