Rawr Foods and Chocolate Blog

Make Mum love you on the 14th!

Kendra — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 18:49:27 +0000

Pink Gift Bar Collection

Whether your mum loves cacao, eats raw, likes pretty packaging, avoids dairy or sugar, prefers to put natural things in her body or just loves delicious chocolate, she’s bound to adore Rawr’s raw chocolate gift collections.

The Pink Collection is perfect for girly girls, with the addition of an Innocence bar for those who like their chocolate less dark.

The Dark Collection is great for those mums who like exactly the opposite!

If you want to show her how much she means to you the Love Collection is ideal, or if you want to combine holidays order an Easter Egg box!

All collections come ribbon-wrapped with a recycled card tag, plus you can add a gift message at checkout and have the option of delivery straight to mum.

Order by midday on Thursday 11th March for delivery by the 14th.

Raw Chocolate Easter Eggs

Kendra — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 19:58:00 +0000

4 x 70g Eggs

Recycled Packaging

Solid Raw Chocolate Egg

Easter is fast-approaching, and Rawr’s chocolate Easter eggs are almost ready. Probably one of the most original Easter gifts you’ll see this year, and possibly the only raw chocolate eggs in the UK! They were a massive hit last year, and are now available for pre-order.

Incredibly cute blue recycled egg boxes packed with multi-coloured, foil-wrapped, raw chocolate Easter eggs.

Four solid 70g eggs (that’s a satisfyingly chunky amount of chocolate!) in After Dinner mint, orange Zest, and dark Purity.

Raw, refined sugar free, vegan, fully recycled and recyclable packaging, and stacks of originality and fun!

Rawr on the Radio – Listen Here

Kendra — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 20:00:08 +0000

We had a wonderful time on 209 Radio on 20th February, talking about raw chocolate, how ours is made, how Rawr’s grown, and our future plans. The presenters also did some taste-testing and reviewed a range of our flavours, which was great to listen in to!

If you missed it, here’s the link to our section of the show:

Listen Now:

Rawr on the Radio

Kendra — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 10:24:06 +0000

Rawr are being interviewed tomorrow lunchtime on Cambridge’s 209 Radio Flavour of the Month show. The show runs from 12-1pm, and you can catch it on 105 FM or via the online links. We’ll be talking about raw chocolate, how we make ours, and more.

Recipe: Raw Coleslaw

Kendra — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 14:17:35 +0000

Raw Coleslaw

Summary: I created this recipe from a mish-mash of other coleslaw recipes, as a way of using up the excess of cabbage in our fridge! Sweet and creamy.

Ingredients

small red cabbage
4 large carrots
1/2 an onion
2 cups cashews
3 tbsp apple cider vinegar
1 tsp salt
1 cup water
2 tbsp yacon syrup OR 5 dates

Instructions

Roughly chop the cabbage, carrots and onion and pulse them in a food processor until you have the required coleslaw texture. Pour the chopped veg into a large bowl.
Rinse the food processor. Process the cashews until ground to a powder.
Add the water a little at a time (1 cup is approximate, you may want more or less).
Add the vinegar, salt and yacon syrup or dates to taste and continue to process.
Mix the mayo with the chopped vegetables and serve! Refrigerate what you don’t eat.

Preparation time: 15 mins

Number of servings: 8

Recipe: Raw Pancakes with Cinnamon Apple Sauce

Kendra — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 18:45:51 +0000

Raw Pancakes

Summary: There are numerous raw pancake recipes out there, so raw fooders needn’t miss out on Shrove Tuesday. Last year I made pancakes from ‘Ani’s Raw Food Kitchen’, this year I borrowed a recipe from Charlie Lagoa’s newsletter. As you can see from the picture, mine didn’t come out looking too attractive (or very pancake-like!), but they tasted fab.

Ingredients

1 cup ground flax seed
1 cup water
1 cup ground almonds
8 dates
2 apples
1/2 tsp cinnamon

Instructions

Process the flax seed, almonds, water and 4 of the dates in a food processor.
Spread on teflexx sheets to 1cm thickness, in circular pancake shapes.
Dehydrate at 115 F for 10 hours.
Before removing from the dehydrator, make the apple sauce by processing the apples, 4 dates and the cinnamon together.
Serve the pancakes with the apple sauce on the side (and any chopped fruit you fancy – bananas work well). For a more traditional pancake taste you could go with raw ice-cream, broken pieces of Rawr chocolate, or a combination of lemon juice and agave.

Serves 2.

Recipe: Raw Carob Carrot Cake

Kendra — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 17:00:16 +0000

Summary: This is a great use for the pulp left over from juicing carrots. The original recipe can be found in Jeremy Safron’s book ‘The Raw Truth’; I’ve adapted it here. Makes a large cake – pictured is an individual portion, not the whole thing! Really tasty and filling, and not excessively sweet.

Ingredients

1 cup soaked almonds
2 cups soaked dates
3 cups carrot pulp
2 cups dry walnuts
2 cups dry sunflower seeds
1 cup dessicated coconut
1 cup raw carob powder
6 dates, soaked
1 cup water
1 cup soaked cashews

Instructions

Process the walnuts and sunflower seeds in a food processor. Put in a large mixing bowl and add the carob and coconut.
Process the almonds to a powder, then add the dates and continue processing. Put in a second mixing bowl, and mix in the carrot pulp.
Gradually add the dry mixture to the wet, mixing well with your hands or a spoon.
Press the resulting cake base into a cake tin or large bowl.
Process the cashews, then add the 6 dates and water to make the cake topping. Pour over the base.
Refrigerate what you don’t eat straightaway.

Preparation time: 20 mins

Number of servings: 12 (makes a big cake!)

Meal type: dessert

Rawr Valentines Gifts

Kendra — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 21:49:59 +0000

Rawr Love Collection

Chocolate is one of the most traditional Valentines gifts and one that will always be appreciated by the receiver. It’s easy to see why: it tastes great, is a sensual experience to eat, and its endorphins make you feel great!

Giving chocolate is hardly a new tradition: it’s been given as a gift since Aztec times. Those Aztecs knew a thing of two about the link between chocolate and passion, considering it to elevate sexual power, and drinking cocoa at wedding ceremonies (following in their footsteps, Rawr has recently had their first wedding favours order).

Yet when most people give Valentines chocolate, they end up giving a load of refined sugar, emulsifiers, hydrogenated oils and generally unnatural ingredients to their loved one, plus a sugar crash post-consumption, and probably some guilty thoughts about wobbly thighs/bums/tummies. Not so sexy. With Rawr, you can be guaranteed, as always, a delicious, quality, high-cacao chocolate without any of the nasties.

If you’re looking for the ideal gift grab a bar or two of Rawr Passion (the heart-themed wrapper says it all), or even better, the Love Collection: 4 of our best-selling large bars (including Passion), wrapped with red organza ribbon and finished with a recycled card ‘Love’ label.

Order by midday on Thursday 11th February to ensure delivery for the big day.

Top Raw Recipe Websites

Kendra — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 17:38:17 +0000

Raw recipe books can be a great resource, but there are also some excellent websites out there that offer raw food recipes for free! Here’s a few of the ones we use most here at Rawr:

1. Gone Raw. This was a staple website when we first starting eating raw. It’s perhaps not the easiest to search and use, but there are so many recipes listed and so many members that you’re bound to find something.

2. Raw Food Recipes. Easy to use and pictures for everything. It always helps to know what you’re making is meant to look like!

3. The Daily Raw Cafe. Again, beautiful pictures, and some really yummy recipes. This lady must spend all her free time making raw food and blogging about it!

4. Raw Food Living. Attractive website with lots of recipe ideas, including milks, dressings, mains, cheeses, desserts etc.

5. Loloville. No pictures, but lots of recipes.

6. Living Foods.

7. Have Raw Cake and Eat It. A fab website run by Annette, a raw fooder in the village next to ours.

8. We Like It Raw. Colourful recipe ideas.

A simple internet search will throw up many more websites. If you know of a good one, please feel free to comment and let me know!

Rawr in Urban Larder, Cambridge

Kendra — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 20:44:26 +0000

Urban Larder opened just a short time ago on Halloween, and already stocks a wide and impressive range of local wholefoods and delicacies (including, from today, Rawr chocolate!). Unique in its incredibly cute location – a small shop surrounded by greenery and antiques in Hope Yard, with pink cake wallpaper – it’s well worth a visit. Lots of veggie and vegan treats on offer, and some gorgeous fresh fruit.