Wahls Fudge

Life’s full of simple pleasures.

Many of those have been taken away from the chronically ill.

Their ordeal is hard enough as it is, but it’s made harder because they often aren’t able to enjoy some of the little things in life.  Like dessert.  That’s because some of the chronically ill have a wide variety of food intolerances and eating dessert (or for that matter, the meal itself) often makes them feel sick.

It really stinks on those rare occasions when the disabled person is able to get out and enjoy a family gathering.  It’s tough being the only one not having a piece of birthday cake. 

Well, here’s a recipe my wife found that she can tolerate, and it’s a serviceable dessert on most nights.  She really does look forward to her treat, and many sick people know what a world of difference it makes to have something, anything, to look forward to.

The recipe is found in a book called The Wahls Protocol.  Now we don’t endorse or recommend any diet on this blog because everybody is different and what works for one person doesn’t work for the next, or it may even make them worse.  This type of diet seems to agree with my wife, but we don’t recommend it for you.  We do recommend that you investigate it, research it, and see if it is something that would help you. You can visit Dr. Wahls’ website here.

Anyway, Wahls Fudge is a great, creative, easy to make recipe found in the book, and my wife can now enjoy “dessert” because of it.

 

We’ve found that making the entire recipe yields too much, so we make half the recipe.  Believe it or not the recipe, as written, still contains too much sugar for my wife to tolerate, so we only use half the amount of raisins.  So to make it exactly the way we make it, follow the quantities in parentheses.

Ingredients

1 Avocado (We use the full avocado.  It’s hard to use less than 1 avocado!  I guess you could just eat the other half…)

1 Cup of Coconut Oil (½ cup coconut oil)

½ Cup of Shredded Coconut (¼ cup coconut)

1 Cup of Walnuts (½ cup walnuts)

1 Cup of Raisins (¼ cup of raisins)

1 Tsp of Cinnamon (We use the full teaspoon)

2 Tsp of Cacao Powder (We use two teaspoons of cocoa)

 

Combine all ingredients in a blender or food processor.  Whip until it has a uniform consistency and all of the “chunks” are broken up.  Spread into a Pyrex dish.  Refrigerate overnight.  When solidified, cut into squares.  The entire recipe makes about 16-20 servings (8-9 the way we make it).  It will keep in the fridge for about a week.