Carob Cubes

FBI Gloves continues The second recipe I made from Café chocolada is Carob Cubes. Success again, it was delicious! We had them for breakfast with freshly squeezed orange juice. I bet they’d also go perfectly with milk. Or topped with some chocoalte ganache and/or with some sour cherries just like in Melitta’s Yogurt Cake. I only made a slight adaptation, added orange instead of lemon zest.

Carob is an ancient tree from legume family. It is mostly used in cakes. Very nutritious, super-food. It was used as a sweetener before others appeared. And the beans could be preserved for years on the tree, though dried a little, but still edible. It is also used as a substitute for chocolate and it’s powder has no fat, no saturated fat and no cholesterol (source), though, it’s not something that can compete with the taste of chocolate ;) But, it is used for making dog “chocolate” treats, and let me tell you, my dog just loves it!

In Talmud, it is said that Rabbi Chaninah lived on it, and according to Matthew, John the Baptist ate it.

And the same John had his raiment of camel’s hair, and a leathern girdle about his loins; and his meat was locusts and wild honey.

Matthew 3:4 (King James Version)

Well, I like this interpretation more that the one that says term locusts refers to grasshoppers.

If you’d like to join this month’s FBI Gloves, make something from Café chocolada, blog about it and send your entries to me by the end of the month to palachinkablog [at] gmail [dot] com.