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I’m dreaming of a (healthy) White Christmas!

December 17, 2012 · 31 Comments

I'm dreaming of a (healthy) White Christmas!

 

White Christmas is one of those traditional foods that only makes an appearance once a year! To be honest, I wasn’t really ever a fan.

Sickly sweet with an oily copha taste….. hmmm…….

My daughter and I experimented yesterday and come up with something a bit healthier and a whole lot yummier.

 

I’m dreaming of a (healthy) White Christmas!

**vegetarian, gluten-free, egg-free, additive-free, thermomix**

 

Okay, so this is what you need:

2 cups organic brown rice puffs

1 cup organic dried cranberries

1 cup organic, raw, unsalted pistachios

1 cup organic coconut flakes

200g Green and Blacks organic white chocolate

200g organic, virgin coconut oil

 

white xmas thermy

 

Okay, so this is how you do it:

Chuck your white chocolate and coconut oil into the thermomix. Melt on 50 degrees, 1 minute, speed 1.

Throw in the rest of your ingredients and mix, reverse, speed 1 for about 20 seconds.

Pour into a baking paper lined small tray (or you could fling into muffin cases).

Whack into the freezer or fridge until firm and set.

It must be stored in the fridge – it will melt quickly, particularly in this weather. The freezer is better!

Enjoy.

white xmas tray

 

Top Tips:

*If you don’t have a thermomix – melt the chocolate and coconut oil together in a saucepan and pour over other ingredients in a large bowl and mix well.

*I don’t add any sugar or sweetener as the chocolate and craisins make it sweet enough. But try it and add some if you want to.

*Use any combination of fruit and nuts you like – I just think cranberries and pistachios are so Christmasy!

*If you love chocolate, try making my really healthy chocolate crackle recipe into a slice with some craisins and pistachios!

 

 

Do you like White Christmas? Would you make this?

 

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Comments

  1. Lou says

    December 17, 2012 at 4:28 pm

    Oh YUM. Pistachios and white chocolate are just the most dreamy combo – this looks fantastic! So pretty!

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  2. Lea Murphy says

    December 17, 2012 at 4:40 pm

    This looks gorgeous, thank you!

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  3. Natural New Age Mum says

    December 17, 2012 at 7:18 pm

    thanks girls 🙂

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  4. Christie @ Fig and Cherry says

    December 17, 2012 at 7:20 pm

    Love yours Sonia! Will link to it tonight when I can get onto the computer. My aim was to make my version vegan so couldn’t indulge in the white chocolate, but it would be so yummy with it like in your version!!

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    • Natural New Age Mum says

      December 17, 2012 at 7:26 pm

      thanks Christie! 🙂

      Reply
  5. Fairy says

    December 30, 2012 at 8:59 pm

    Thanks, Sonia. I did not get around to making this recipe this year but have added the link to my food planner for Christmas 2013.

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    • Natural New Age Mum says

      December 30, 2012 at 9:41 pm

      Wow – that’s getting organized in advance – I am inspired 🙂

      Reply
  6. Fairy says

    December 31, 2012 at 7:24 am

    I am finally learning my lesson with special occasion recipes. They often only come to light in the few weeks or so before the event so it makes sense to take note of them when I find them. 🙂

    I don’t have a Thermomix but I do love your fresh and healthy recipes.

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  7. Jessie says

    November 21, 2013 at 11:28 am

    I pinned this last year to make this year but seeing that one of the ingredients is rice puffs has me thinking. From my reading over the year, grains which are treated under pressure to create flakes and puffs etc aren’t as great as they’re made out to be (Sally Fallon in Nourishing Traditions mentions it I think) so I wondered if you could suggest anything that might work as a substitute? I know that it is sort of one of the ingredients fundamental to White Christmas and chocolate crackles etc.

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    • Natural New Age Mum says

      November 21, 2013 at 12:56 pm

      Hey Jessie, yes I know! maybe just leave them out and add in some more fruit and nuts like macadamias?

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      • Jessie says

        November 21, 2013 at 1:23 pm

        Thanks for that. Macadamias would work well I reckon. 🙂

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        • Jessie says

          November 21, 2013 at 1:36 pm

          Hang on… POPCORN! 😀

        • Natural New Age Mum says

          November 21, 2013 at 2:31 pm

          I thought about that but does the popping make it go bad? confused :/

        • Jessie says

          November 21, 2013 at 3:18 pm

          I don’t think so because it’s just heat (not extreme) heat popping it. I think that rice puffs and corn flakes etc are forced under extreme pressure but I could be wrong. Even so, I’d refer popcorn as I can get organic corn and pop it myself in coconut oil and ensure it’s as natural and healthy as possible.
          A quick look at nourishing traditions says that popcorn is not too bad in moderation as it’s prepared without soaking or fermenting. 🙂

        • Natural New Age Mum says

          November 21, 2013 at 3:37 pm

          oh that makes sense… yes we use organic popcorn and coconut oil or airpop 🙂

  8. Bea says

    November 24, 2014 at 4:21 pm

    I’m wondering if cacao butter would go well, seeing as it stays more solid at room temp?

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    • Natural New Age Mum says

      November 25, 2014 at 11:26 am

      Give it a go! I find it hard to source so I usually just use coconut oil and keep them in the fridge! 🙂

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  9. Kathy says

    December 8, 2014 at 9:32 pm

    Thanks for all the effort with this post – some great recipe ideas.

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    • Natural New Age Mum says

      December 8, 2014 at 9:38 pm

      thanks Kathy!

      Reply
  10. Judith says

    December 13, 2014 at 10:57 am

    Made this yesterday and just love it! I’ve never liked the traditional white Christmas – even aside from the questionable ingredients – but this one is delicious and also went down well with friends not so familiar with wholefood eating. So pretty & Christmassy too. I look forward to trying the chocolate version. Thanks for the recipe!

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    • Natural New Age Mum says

      December 13, 2014 at 2:41 pm

      Thanks Judith – so lovely to hear some feedback! 🙂

      Reply
  11. Sam says

    December 11, 2015 at 11:38 am

    Arrrrgh just started making this and only have 60g coconut oil any substitutions or need to go to shop ?

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    • Natural New Age Mum says

      January 4, 2016 at 8:30 pm

      Sorry Sam I was on holidays! How did you go?

      Reply
  12. Catherine says

    December 28, 2016 at 8:35 pm

    I made this for Xmas & loved it thanks!!! I think the rice puffs make it. Thank you ?

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    • Natural New Age Mum says

      December 31, 2016 at 10:32 pm

      So glad you liked it Catherine! 🙂

      Reply

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