Cooking 4 Life: Raw Dessert – Banana and Chocolate Cups
Wednesday, October 26, 2011 at 8:50AMI know people who love dessert. Not like dessert, but LOVE dessert, they’ll eat chocolate before dinner, heck, they’d eat chocolate cake for breakfast if no one was watching. And why not? Something sweet and satisfying, childhood memories and a sugar coma all mixed together is a recipe for a big smile on your face. Today’s recipe in our Cooking 4 Life series is sinfully simple, devilishly delish and can easily be grown in a garden.
Healthy, Simple, Raw Recipe
With many families shunning highly processed food, it’s become important to have multiple recipes that keep ingredients in their raw form. Sure this is easy with a lot of main courses, but desserts can be pretty tricky business. To make these chocolate cups, you need a ½ cup of buckwheat, 3 tbsp of cacao powder, 3 large dates and a little over 1/3 cup of cold water. In a processor, put in ½ a cup of buckwheat until it becomes like flour, then in a bowl add that buckwheat and cacao. In the same processor put in the 1/3 cup of cold water and 3 large dates until it becomes like a date jam. Add the buckwheat flour and date together until it becomes like dough, place in a muffin tin and put in the freezer for at least 1 hour.
Raw Banana Filing
To make the filling, you will need 3 large frozen bananas and ½ a vanilla pod (to taste). Put the frozen bananas in a bag and smash (until they’re small chunks), mix in the vanilla (be careful, it can be over powering). Put the banana and vanilla in processor with a fresh banana. Finally, use chocolate cups, fill with a spoon of the banana mixture
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