Chocolate Cake #2

I made another chocolate cake! This one is from the ebook Raw on $10 a Day (or Less!). I prefer this one to Ani Phyo's cake because it tasted more like a cooked chocolate cake. I plan to contact Lisa to see if can share the whole recipe with you.

The batter consists of soaked dates, buckwheat groats, ground flax, banana, salt, vanilla, olive oil, agave, and cacao powder. The batter smelled and looked like chocolate cake batter.

The frosting is the same one I used from Ani Phyo's dessert book because it rocked: Medjool dates, agave, avocado, cocoa powder, and sea salt.

It's a five layer cake. Mine doesn't look exactly like Lisa's picture in her book. My cake layers were flatter than hers. But it was worthy of making a second time, and sharing with other people :-). Tasty stuff, good for breakfast, lunch, or dinner :-).

I'm about to make an easy Strawberry Fruit Cobbler from Sweet Gratitude now!

Love,
Althea

◦

Chocolate Cake #2

Chocolate Cake and Citrus Dressing

Ganache Fudge Cake

I'm keeping it simple these days. I had a revelation last night. I want to be a gourmet raw food chef + inspirational speaker + author. There is nothing wrong with that ambition. Currently, I am a wife, mom to two sons, a caretaker, a yoga teacher, professional intuitive, blogger, author, cook/cleaner/laundrywoman/ chauffeur/teacher/grocery shopper, etc., etc.

See where I'm going with this?

I am busier than I ever thought I would be. And my Candida is kicking my tail up and down the eastern seaboard. Anytime I even bite into cooked food, I feel my energy decrease and my mood shifts.

I have not given up on blogging through Everyday Raw and Light Eating for Survival. But my shift has got to be on simple raw food that heals me. I can make super impressive gourmet food later. Right now, I'm making simple, tasty raw food which holds my interest.

Recently, I adapted a recipe from Ani's Raw Food Desserts. Ani's Raspberry Ganache Fudge Cake has, well, raspberries :-). I don't care for raspberries with chocolate. I left them out.

The "cake" is walnuts, carob powder, sea salt, and Medjool dates mixed together in a food processor.

Ganache Fudge Cake

The frosting was wicked good. It's Medjool dates, agave, avocado, cocoa powder, and sea salt. That could be a pudding. Jona would only eat the frosting. The rest of us ate the cake. The carob gave it a malty feel. I would absolutely make it again.

Creamy Citrus Dressing

This is from Raw Food Real World. It's a blend of avocado, orange juice, lime juice, cilantro, green onion, shallot, sea salt, olive oil, and black pepper. The recipe calls for jalapeno pepper, but I left it out. This dressing lasted me a week, and it was very simple to prepare.

Coming up, I made an easy carrot cake that took less than a half-hour to make :-).

love,
Althea

◦

Chocolate Cake and Citrus Dressing