Chocolate Dipped Pears

Photo: Anonymous

Ingredients

8 whole pears, any variety

1 cup cacao nibs powder

3/4 cup agave, or sweetener of choice [adjust amount as needed]

1/2 cup water

2 teaspoons organic vanilla extract

Preparation

Remove any labels, like the organic stickers, from each pear and rinse the pears with water. Chill pears in the refrigerator for about an hour.

Meanwhile, make the cacao sauce dip. Blend all ingredients [except the pears] together in a food processor until smooth.

Pour the chocolate sauce into a bowl that is deep enough to submerge a pear. Slice off the bottom to create a flat even surface. Take each pears by its stem and dip it into the bowl of chocolate covering as much of the pear with chocolate as desired, then place the pear on a small plate and allowing the excess chocolate to run onto the plate creating a pool off chocolate.