Raw Chocolate Cake
By: Cheryl Dowling
Published: Monday, March 23, 2015 - 10:28am

Ingredients




Crust
2 tablespoons orange zest
3/4 cup raw walnuts (or nut of choice)
1/3 cup dates
Filling
1/2 cup dark cocoa or carob powder
2 medium avocados
2/3 cup maple syrup
1/4 cup coconut oil
Optional Toppings
Nut of choice (almonds, walnuts, pecans work well)
Fruit

Preparation

1 Crust 2 Soak nuts if desired, for 1 hour or longer. 3 Mix ingredients into a blender or food processor, until dates and nuts are chopped. 4 Press into pan, and place into the fridge while you prepare the filling. 5 Filling 6 Combine the filling ingredients into a food processor or blender until completely smooth. 7 Pour onto cake crust, and place back into the fridge overnight (or a minimum of a few hours). 8 Eat cake as is or continue below and add toppings! 9 Optional Toppings 10 Remove cake(s) from pan and decorate with chopped nuts around the edges or top with fresh fruit.

About

This recipe makes 2 individual cakes or 1 small cake. A spring pan lined with parchment paper works best. The cake resembles those orange chocolates you eat around Easter (Omit the orange zest, if you’d rather have a cake without this flavour).
This recipe is raw, vegan, and free of gluten, refined sugar and soy.