Tuesday, November 2, 2010

Chocolate dessert

Ingredients:
1. 1/2 banana; 2. 1/2 C cashew; 3. 2,5 tablespoon of honey; 4. 1 teaspoon of lemon zest; 5. 3 tablespoon of cocoa; 6. 2 tablespoon of shredded coconut; 7. 1/6-1/5 C water; 8. 1 teaspoon coconut oil (optional);
Preparation time: 30-40 min and few hours to refrigerate dessert, makes 1 serving
Recipe:
1. Process nuts in food processor with banana, 1/2 tablespoon of honey and lemon zest.
2. Put this paste into a cup covered with plastic and freeze it for 1-2 hours.
3. Melt coconut oil with the rest of honey. Add cocoa to oil and honey, mix well.
4. Process shredded coconut in food processor, add water and process again. Add this coconut milk to the mix of honey, oil and cocoa.
5. Frost frozen cashew-banana base with chocolate, let the dessert sit in a fridge for 1-2 hours.
Bon appetit!

Sunday, October 31, 2010





chocolate dessert with cashews, banana, lemon zest, cocoa, honey, shredded coconut.

Wednesday, October 20, 2010

almond and cashew cheese



this is not a dessert...:)
this is cheese made of  fermented almonds and cashews. i used recipe from this beautiful web site http://www.rawmazing.com/

Monday, October 11, 2010

Raw almond brownie






Ingredients:
1. 3/4 C raw almonds; 2. 2 table spoons sesame seeds; 3. 1,5 C pitted dates; 4. 1/4 C raw cacao powder; 5. 1/2 C strawberries.



Preparation time: 20-25 minutes, makes 4 servings
Recipe:
1. Soak almonds in warm water over night;
2. Process almonds in food processor, combine with pitted dates and process again;
4. Combine this mixture with sesame seeds and cacao powder. Mix it well by your hand;
5. Shape this mixture into a bar. Refrigerate for 1 hour, cut this bar into 1" thick slices. Use strawberries for decoration. Bon appetit!

Thursday, October 7, 2010

Chocolate hearts with blackberry

Ingredients:
1. 1/2 C shredded coconut; 2. 3/4 C pitted dates; 3. 1/4-1/3 C cacao; 4. 1 table spoon of sesame seeds; 5. 1 tea spoon of coconut oil; 6. 1/2 C blackberry; 7. 1/4 C sunflower seeds or cashews; 7. 1 tea spoon of honey.


Preparation time: 35-40 minutes (plus 1 hour to freeze cookies), makes 2 servings
Recipe:
1. Process shredded coconut in food processor, add cocoa and sesame seeds and process again.
2. Add pitted dates and coconut oil, and process again.
3. Line shapes with plastic and put mixture into shapes.
4. Freeze cookies for 1 hour.
5. To make blackberry cream process seeds or cashews in food processor or blender, add honey and berries and process again.
6. Frost cookies with blackberry cream. Enjoy! 
source: http://real-meal.ru/index.files/chocolate_hearts_english.html

Sunday, October 3, 2010

grape icecream


read recipe of blackberry icecream. in this case i used grapes istead of blackberries.

banana orange candies






Ingredients:
1. 1-2 bananas; 2. 1/2 C cashews; 3. 1/2 C pitted dates; 4. 1 tea spoon of orange zest.


Preparation time: 15-20 minutes (plus 1-2 days to dry bananas), makes 2 servings
Recipe:
1. Cut bananas across into thin slices (about 1/10" thick). Dry banana in the sun (if the weather is appropriate), or dry them in dehydrator. Do not dehydrate them too much, banana slices should be sticky and flexible.
2. Process cashews, pitted dates and orange zest in food processor.
3. Shape this mixture into 1" balls. Cover each ball by dehydrated banana slices (as by scales).