Delicious Dessert Carob Recipes

It’s often used as a substitute for chocolate. Are you familiar with carob? Or need some excellent recipes? Well we have great information here.

Carob comes from the brown pod of the carob tree and is found in the Middle East. It is highly nutritious in vitamins and minerals, and is great to include in elderly nutrition snacks. It has also been known as the locust bean, or just locust. Eating locust and honey was also mentioned in the New Testament of the bible.

In combination with natural honey, carob would indeed make a highly nutritious meal. And dessert! We’re all looking for more healthy desserts, especially if our loved ones have elderly issues causing dietary problems, or if they need a nutritional boost.

Carob is naturally sweet, so I use less sweetener in my carob recipes. You can find it in the stores as powder (similar to coco powder), as carob chips (similar to chocolate chips), or in syrup form. When we lived in Kuwait, I bought the fresh, dried carob beans in the market. I then washed and dried them, ground them in my electric grinder myself, and made my own carob powder. (This is a laborious task – it took about two hours to prepare and grind one cup of carob powder).


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Here are a few really good carob recipes!

No-Bake Carob Yummies

This is a yummy family recipe (one of my kids’ favorites) using carob chips instead of chocolate chips. This recipe calls for carob chips, which can be found in the natural foods section. It also calls for honey (raw honey is best) or pure maple syrup as a sweetener. I’ve made it both ways, and personally prefer the maple syrup.

You need:

2 cups of carob chips
½ cup honey (or pure maple syrup)
2 Tablespoons of milk
4 Tbsp butter
3 cups oatmeal
½ cup chopped nuts (walnuts or pecans are great)

Grease an 8x8 cake pan with butter; glass is preferable for cutting and removing the bars later. Melt the following together slowly in a sauce pan (double boiler is best): carob chips, honey or syrup, milk, butter.

Put the oatmeal in a large mixing bowl. When the wet ingredients are melted and stirred together, add the mix to the oats. Then the nuts. Mix well. Press into a greased pan. Cut into squares while still warm. Cover with plastic wrap and refrigerate until firm. This is one of my unique healthy snack recipes – and is still one of the favorites of my grown kids. They ask me to make it every Christmas.

Pie shell
3/8 cup of carob powder
8 oz cream cheese
3/8 cup honey
1 cup Half-and-Half
1 Tablespoon vanilla
1/2 cup water
I package of gelatin

Blend everything together except the gelatin and water. Prepare the gelatin according to instructions. Basically, in a small pan, sprinkle the packet over ¼ cup cold water and let it sit for a minute. Then stir over low heat until totally dissolved. Add this into the above mixture, along with the other ¼ cup cold water, and blend in well. Pour mixture into the pie shell. Chill until set. Top with whipped cream, if desired. It’s also delicious with ice cream. This carob recipe makes a really good healthy dessert.

Cream together:
½ cup honey or maple syrup
3 eggs
½ cup oil

Add in order:
3/8 teaspoon salt
½ tsp vanilla
½ cup carob powder
1 cup whole wheat pastry flour (or regular flour)
½ Tablespoon baking powder

Lastly, add in 1 cup chopped nuts.

Bake at 350 F degrees in a greased pan for 25 minutes or so. A very yummy carob recipe!

This carob recipe for frosting is delicious on the brownies, above!
Blend all ingredients smoothly together:

2 Tablespoons butter
¾ cup non-instant milk
¼ cup carob powder
¼ cup honey or maple syrup
4 Tbspn milk
1 teaspoon vanilla



Carob Microwave Cake -- in a Mug

One of our readers submitted a fabulous and easy microwave cake recipe with an option for using carob powder instead of cocoa. This takes just three minutes to bake. And about five minutes to put together. And it's a real cake from scratch. For those of you wanting natural and healthy ingredients, and perhaps a sugar substitute, there are options for those as well. One of the unique carob recipes. Go to Microwave Cake.


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