creamy carob bars with milk
April 29, 2023 3:34 PM Subscribe
I can't have chocolate (even a miniscule amount of caffeine or tyramine is a migraine trigger for me), but have discovered carob is - if not remotely a substitute - at least something I can enjoy a little. But possibly due to the association between 'vegan/health-food-craze" and carob in the US, I can't seem to find any carob bars that contain milk to make them creamy rather than dry and crumbly. There seems to be no lack of carob milk bars in Australia and New Zealand, but I can't find anything like that sold in the US. Am I using the wrong search term?
Does it have to be a bar? I used to work in a vegetarian restaurant about 30 years ago (before milk substitutes were a thing in Germany) and we sold a very popular carob desert cream.
1/ Heat 250gr of cream, 75gr milk, 50gr of honey*.
2/ in a separate dish, mix 45gr carob, 40gr of cornflour and 100gr milk
3/ whip 100gr cream
Mix mixtures 1+2, stir over heat until thickened, place over ice bath and keep stirring until cooled to room temp (*I think this was because they used honey which can cause this to become runny again if allowed to cool normally, pretty sure you wouldn’t have to do that with other sweetener. But you are effectively making a kind of custard so it may form a skin if allowed to cool slowly)
Fold in the whipped cream and enjoy.
posted by koahiatamadl at 6:58 AM on April 30, 2023 [3 favorites]
1/ Heat 250gr of cream, 75gr milk, 50gr of honey*.
2/ in a separate dish, mix 45gr carob, 40gr of cornflour and 100gr milk
3/ whip 100gr cream
Mix mixtures 1+2, stir over heat until thickened, place over ice bath and keep stirring until cooled to room temp (*I think this was because they used honey which can cause this to become runny again if allowed to cool normally, pretty sure you wouldn’t have to do that with other sweetener. But you are effectively making a kind of custard so it may form a skin if allowed to cool slowly)
Fold in the whipped cream and enjoy.
posted by koahiatamadl at 6:58 AM on April 30, 2023 [3 favorites]
Milk contains a small amount of tyramine, so you might have to avoid carob bars made with that ingredient. White chocolate is cocoa butter and sugar. It has no caffeine. If made with dairy ingredients, it may contain a small amount of tyramine. However, a dairy-free or vegan-labeled white chocolate should be a safer alternative to look into, which may be more palatable than carob.
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I'm not sure about that. All of the hits in that search result are the same brand / bar, and it contains cocoa butter (as in, more cocoa butter than carob), so presumably you wouldn't be able to eat it anyway.
All of the other carob products sold in supermarkets here are dog treats.
posted by some little punk in a rocket at 12:39 AM on April 30, 2023