Olive Oil Chocolate Spread

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Preparation info
  • Serves:

    8

    • Difficulty

      Easy

    • Ready in

      20 min

Appears in
Babka, Boulou, & Blintzes: Jewish Chocolate Recipes from around the World

By Michael Leventhal

Published 2021

  • About

Israel’s own Hashachar Ha'Oleh ('Rising Dawn'), a cheap sugar rush of spreadable chocolate originally created as a way to get calories into young Israelis for breakfast or after school, used to give Nutella a run for its money. But its base of cheap chocolate and vegetable oil has caused it to suffer a bit of bad PR in recent years. For a kid, the parent-endorsed idea of being able to spread chocolate on any sort of supporting vehicle (my favourite: matzah) holds massive appeal - and