Chocolate Cake – in the Raw
It’s that time of year again, when many of us become melancholy. Just reading Dolores’ post made me realize that we need something to cheer us up.
So here’s a recipe from my friend Julie who has graciously shared her recipe for raw and flourless chocolate cake. It’s delicious! We easily ate half of one of these together.
Flourless Chocolate Cake
(Yield: one 5 inch cake, 4 servings)
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1 ½ cups raw walnuts, unsoaked
dash of salt
10 pitted medjool dates, unsoaked
1/3 cup unsweetened cocoa or carob powder
½ teaspoon vanilla extract
2 teaspoons water
½ cup raspberries for garnish
Place the walnuts and salt in a food processor fitted with the S blade and process until finely ground. Add the dates, cocoa or carob powder and vanilla and process until the mixture begins to stick together. Add the water and process briefly.
Transfer to a serving plate and form into a 5 inch round cake. Decorate the cake and plate with fresh raspberries, coconut, etc. before serving. The cake will keep in the fridge for three days or two weeks in the freezer.
I use a 5 inch springform pan and mostly carob powder. The raw cocoa is very powerful especially for children. Use any fruit.
Enjoy!
Oct 14th
You ate half of it! For a little bit of a thing you’re a darn big eater Diana! We LOVE chocolate cake in this house and a family fav has become molten chocolate cake. But before I make that one again I’m going to try this raw recipe.
Oct 14th
That’s right — and had we not finished it, I would have eaten more! I’m living proof that vegan and hedonistic are not mutually exclusive. I’d LOVE to see your recipe for molten chocolate cake. Let me know how your raw chocolate cake turns out, OK?
Oct 14th
Eat on, Diana… Ya know, chocolate is a valid food group…
Oct 14th
Oh, I will, I will — if ever I can pull myself away from this computer. Won’t be quite as exciting as chocolate cake, though, at this time of night. Crackers and peanut butter will just have to do.
Yes, and a splendid food group it is!
Oct 16th
When I was still in the UK, there was a local store that carried an outrageous selection of impossibly delicious chocolate specialties, bearing exotic/goofy names such as Death By Chocolate… sigh…
Oct 16th
Speaking of chocolate nostalgia, when I lived in Victoria there was a wonderful little truffle shop called “Coco’s” run by three sisters who were trained under a Belgian truffle master, at least that’s the way rumour had it. It was my first experience of truffles and they were TO DIE FOR! The shop was beautifully decorated and each truffle was like a work of art.
I remember reading in “The Chocolateer” that the correct way to eat a truffle is to just put it in your mouth and let it dissolve on your tongue, and you intuitively did that with these (at least I did), because they demanded that level of attention from your taste buds.
Thanks for bringing up that incredible memory. I wonder if there are any others out there who lived in Victoria about 25 years ago who remembers Coco’s? I wonder what ever became of those three sisters…
Oct 17th
Sounds like a Divine Trinity to me, Diana…