This post is going to change your life. It may not encourage a raw food movement or persuade you to switch to a vegan lifestyle but it will definitely change the way you eat sweet treats.
My oven sucks! No that’s not true, it’s great for roasting vegetables or salmon in foil, but when it comes to baking it pretty much blows. It’s too hot and if I turn it down it doesn’t cook anything so instead of embarrassing myself with raw cakes and burnt biscuits I refuse to bake at home anymore.
But I do love a sweet baked good. Who doesn’t? This is where the raw food movement comes in quite handy. Apparently there are endless possibilities when it comes to what ‘baked goods’ you can create without using a heat source. Love this!
I stumbled across this Raw Brownie recipe the other day by Sarah Britton. She is a holistic nutritionist working in Copenhagen and moonlights as a raw food chef in two of Copenhagen
This raw brownie has no dairy, no wheat, no refined sugar, no eggs and no cocoa. It requires no oven, or stove top in fact it requires no cooking at all.
It only has five ingredients and I would go so far as to say that it would be more than appropriate to indulge in one of these brownies everyday if you so choose.
You still don’t believe me huh? ‘It may be good for me’ you’re thinking ‘but it couldn’t possibly taste like a brownie, could it’? Yeah it could!
The one thing essential to this recipe is a food processor. Please please don’t attempt to try this in a blender it will NOT work.
Ingredients
2 ½ cups of walnuts
2 cups of dates, roughly chopped
1 cup of raw organic cacao
1 ½ cups of almonds, roughly chopped
1 teaspoon of sea salt
Method
1. Place walnuts in food processor and blend on high until the nuts are finely ground (They should resemble cake crumbs. This is what will essentially act as the flour in this recipe.)
2. Add the cacao and salt. Pulse to combine.
3. Add the dates in batches through the feed tube of the food processor while it is running.
4. In a large bowl combine the walnut-cacao mix with the chopped almonds.
2. Add the cacao and salt. Pulse to combine.
3. Add the dates in batches through the feed tube of the food processor while it is running.
4. In a large bowl combine the walnut-cacao mix with the chopped almonds.
5. Press into a lined cake pan or mould (because of the dates the mix should bind together well when pressed into the pan.) Place in freezer of fridge until ready to serve (it is also easier to cut these when they are cold). Sift extra cacao over the top of brownies if desired. Store in an airtight container.
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