Black Forest Gateau Ceremonial Cacao Smoothie

Who spiritual doesn't love a little heart opening ceremonial cacao ritual, but there is so little out there when it comes to unusual ways of making it beyond the standard warmed up cup with cayenne pepper and agave.

Experimented with something a bit unusual and here is the recipe:

First make up the cacao. Ceremonial cacao is bought in a block, a great source in the UK is https://ritualcacao.co.uk/shop/ashaninka-ceremonial-grade-cacao but do look around :)

You can make the cacao by grating it or slicing it into smaller chunks, then mixing it with the appropriate amount of water or oat/nut milk for your desired quantity and warming it through till it's melted, not allowing it to boil.

Leave in the fridge / freezer to cool down.

Then in a blender / smoothie maker
add the cacao, lots of frozen cherries ( to taste, I used about half a bag of frozen cherries), 1/2 a teaspoon of cinnamon, a teaspoon of vanilla essence, 3/4 dates, extra oat milk (or another nut milk) and some extra cacao chunks to add some texture.

I like to flow with this recipe and adjust to taste.

on the top I sprinkled freeze dried raspberries, some shavings of dark chocolate and some glittery edible hearts :)