Chocolate Pie 
So as a vegan, sometimes I have to get creative with food ingredients in recipes, and others not. The challenges of being a vegan though are nothing compared to what the Raw Foodie must experience. Everything they eat has to be in its raw state, or dehydrated. Nothing cooked above 118 degrees... the heat at which food is dehydrated. So when I was invited to dinner at a raw foodies house my head was spinning. How can I make something delightful, and delicious, but uncooked. Well thank God for the internet because I found a recipe for this pie... and altered it to what ingredients were available to me (I will put in italics the original ingredients where substitutes were made). So Here we go!!!
Pie CrustIngredients:1/2 cup almonds soaked for 8 hours, then drained
3/4 cup pecans
3/4 cup walnuts
3 pitted prunes (
4-6 dates)
2 Tbsp agave (
2Tbsp maple syrup the heat it is processed at is too high to be considered raw)
2 tsp cinnamon
pinch of sea salt
Directions:
1. Combine nuts in a food processor, chop until they are a fine meal
2. Add prunes and agave, blend until mixed
3. Add cinnamon and salt, blend until mixture form a ball in food processor
4. Press evenly into a pie plate and refrigerate
mmmm...mmm delicious... now here where things get weird...
Chocolate FillingIngredients:3 avocados (stay with me here, the outcome is truly delicious!)
1/2 cup of agave (
1/2 cup maple syrup)
1 Tbsp vanilla extract
1 1/2 Tbsp tahini (aka: sesame butter) (
cold pressed coconut butter I had none)
(3/4 cup raw carob powder I skipped this because I don't like it)
4 Tbsp organic cocoa powder
1/4 cup shredded coconut (optional... I added this because i had no coconut butter)
berries of choice
Directions:When you choose your avocados make sure to do the touch test. Avocados should be firm, but yield to gentle pressure. Ones that are darker in colour tend to be the best place to start.1. Cut your avocados in half
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aren't they pretty? Avocados are so beautiful on the inside!)
2. Pit your avocados and scoop out the flesh into your food processor along with the vanilla, tahini, shredded coconut and agave. Blend away (a blender also works for this)
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wiggle the spoon between the flesh and skin and scoop it out like ice cream)
3. Once it is nicely blended add in your cocoa powder and blend.
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mmm... chocolate... you can tell it was avocado because there is some green on my spatula)
4. Fill in your pie crust and top with berries
Ta-Da!!! The chocolate turned out similar to pudding in taste, I actually took some that was left over and just dipped raspberries in it and ate it. I was pleasantly surprised and fully intend to make it again whether raw foodies are around or not. Also, this pie managed to pass a five year olds taste test. He loved the chocolate filling.
Would you try this? What is the strangest dessert you have ever tried?
Comments (3)
Huh. For some reason I wasn't aware there were people who only ate raw foods.
But on another note: omnomnom chocolate. I love how raspberries and chocolate look together.
Wow interesting... using Avocados for this. Did you see this somewhere or did you come up with it? Very inventive, I have about a dozen avocados now, I may play with them to see what I can do based on this concept :)
And even more wow is that this is a Raw Dish. Amazing.
I saw it somewhere, I wish I cam up with it, but I have never done a raw food anything aside from a salad and I wanted to make a dessert. It's been tested now, and it was fabulous, even a five year old ate it! and asked for more!!! I did adapt it to what I had/liked though.