I have a bet with someone that I can make a raw chocolate cake that tastes great - anyone with a good recipe please help!!!! Thanks. Bonnydiane

I just went on google and found this one; I never made it before but you should try it:

[www.thebestofrawfood.com]

Serves 10

Ingredients for the crust:

1/2 cup cocoa powder
1/2 cup carob
1/2 cup finely ground almonds
1/3 cup agave sirup
1/4 cup coconut or cacoa butter
Pinch of sea salt

For the chocolate filling

2 cups cocoa powder
1.5 cups agave sirup
1 cup coconut or cacao butter
1 tablespoon Vanilla extract (optional)1 tablespoon Lucuma Powder (optional)1 teaspoon Maca Powder (optional)

For garnishing:

Strawberries, raspberries, or oranges for garnishing.

Crust:

Combine and mix all ingredients. You can best do this by hand or standing mixer). It should have a dough-like consistency. Press the dough evenly into a 7 inch tart pan. (A removable bottom, a plastic cling wrap lining or one of these new flexible silicon pans are easiest.) Chill in the fridge for at least an hour if you have time.

Filling:

Blend all the ingredients in a blender until very smooth. Poor into the cake crust. Put the cake back in the fridge and chill for at least another hour.

Before serving, decorate the cake with the berries, orange or other nice looking fruit.

cake- never done that
but chewy cacao brownies-

raw food real world has some amazing looking desserts- i usually don't eat them

but for the brownies-

raw cacao powder or nibs ground fine 1/2 cup
1 1/2 cup dates
1 cup almonds

process together until smooth and sticky- press into cake pan and refrigerate

to make it more cakey, a cashew/date/water icing would rock. haven't made one for a cake yet- but you just whip it up in a blender until it tastes amazing and you eat it by the spoonful- someday i'll put it together.

peace-

There are a ton of great raw chocolate cake recipes on www.gliving.com check out the green chef section, and all the raw chefs! I've made most of the raw chocolate cake recipes on gliving... all have been delicious.
I have photographs of the ones I've made on my new raw site.

Sunflower
Raw Food Chef and Writer
Comfortably Raw
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