Mousse and the Millennium Falcon

How was your week?? My major accomplishment was that I finished my book for this month's book club.

I feel like that deserves some emphasis. I'M. IN. A. FREAKING. BOOK. CLUB. How adult is that?! Nevermind that I didn't read the book for last month's meeting and basically just sat there eating cheese and drinking wine. Woops...

Speaking of wine, I wanted to go to a winery today. I put on my best Han Solo getup...

Where my other Han Solo b*tches at?

If Lando can do it, why can't I?

The Millennium Falcon would be great to have in this DC winter traffic...

"Why did you just make so many Star Wars references? *Sigh. Now you just sound nerdy AND basic." ...she thinks to herself.

But alas, my boyfriend convinced me that driving to a winery in my little compact car on all those country roads (with the giant snow piles that probably won't melt until April) wasn't such a good idea. WEEKEND RUINED.

So I had no choice but to console myself with some healthy chocolate mousse.

Plus I had some overripe bananas lying around, and I don't know about you guys, but I just can't eat them when they're like this (baaaaaarrrrrrrrff):

I adapted this recipe from Deliciously Ella- introduced to me by one of my super healthy besties.

My chocolate mousse, however, is the lazy girl version (see Ella's full recipe here). Ella is a plant-based diet recipe blogger, who avoids meat, dairy, wheat, and sugar. But wait! Don't eat the hater tots if you love meat and dairy as much as I do - !!Ermahgerd cheese!! - cause this recipe is stupid simple and amazeballs.

Just put an avocado, two bananas, some cacao powder, and maple syrup into a food processor. Blend. Proceed to stuff face.

*Note the use of CACAO powder, rather than COCOA powder. I use the one shown below. I bought it from Whole Foods, but you can also find it on Amazon here. Cacao is much less processed and contains more antioxidants. BOOM. HEALTH.

NOW GO TREAT YO'SELF!

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Healthy Chocolate Mousse

Chocolate doesn't ask questions. Chocolate understands.

Ingredients

• 1 avocado
• 2 ripe bananas
• 3 Tbsp cacao powder
• 1 1/2 Tbsp maple syrup

Instructions

Mix all ingredients in a food processor. You're done!

Details

Prep time: 5 mins Total time: 5 mins Yield: 2 servings (unless you're particularly chocolate crazed = 1 serving)