Give your Valentine a delectable chocolate gift that's also good for the heart
This recipe is a luscious way to celebrate your love, or at least your love of chocolate, in a way that loves you back.
It has just four easy-to-find ingredients, each lending its own sensuous element and remarkable health benefits. Rich, dark chocolate, with its intoxicating melt-in-your mouth quality; a touch of fragrant grated orange zest; a generous helping of crunchy almonds; and chewy, sweet-tart dried cherries all bring a considerable dose of health-protective antioxidants along with their flavor. The almonds and cherries add essential nutrients and longer-lasting satisfaction, to boot.
Making this candy is almost as easy as eating it: Just melt the chocolate, stir in the zest, pour into a parchment-lined pan and scatter with the fruit and nuts. (You could swap in any nut and dried fruit you like or have on hand.) Let the candy set in the refrigerator for an hour, then break it into pieces.
It's a simple, but delightful, Valentine's Day gift that is good for your heart in every sense of the word.