Raw foodists are people who eat food only in its raw form. Fresh vegetables and fruits, nuts, herbs, berries and dried fruits - all this is suitable for a raw food diet. The main condition is that the products are of vegetable origin and not subjected to heat treatment. But this does not mean that raw foodists do not cook at all. There are many recipes for dishes made from raw ingredients, including delicious cakes.
Is it possible to eat cakes with raw food
Even experienced raw foodists need psychological relief. Previously, you could eat your favorite candy or a piece of cake, and life became more fun. In raw food, everything is a little more complicated, and not always fruits and nuts can replace a sweet treat. It is precisely because of this that breakdowns occur, especially among those who have just recently switched to a new power supply system for him.
Experienced raw foodists know that you can make up for the deficiency of vitamins that affect mood, using dried fruits and seeds, such as sesame and poppy seeds. In this case, it is not necessary to use products in their pure form. It is much more interesting and tastier to cook a favorite dessert from them - a raw food cake.
A simple recipe for a raw chocolate cake
Among the recipes of raw food cakes there are really a lot of delicious desserts. In addition, they are prepared very simply and quickly. One of them is a chocolate raw food cake. It consists of nut-chocolate filling and glaze. A step-by-step recipe for cooking is presented below.
To create the filling, you will need 100 g of walnuts, 50 g of pistachios and hazelnuts, 100 g of raisins, several pieces of dates and dried figs. All ingredients should be crushed in a blender, add 2 tablespoons of cocoa powder, juice of 1 orange, 3 tablespoons of coconut oil and mix thoroughly. After this, the mass must be laid out in any form covered with parchment, and sent to the freezer for 1 hour.
Now you can start preparing the glaze. In a water bath, melt 50 g of cocoa butter, add 2 tablespoons of cocoa powder, vanilla, half a lemon zest and mint. Next, you need to get the cake out of the freezer, free from parchment, put the dessert on a dish and pour over the icing. Enjoy your meal!
You can make a raw food cake without glaze, and chop the nuts in the filling not into crumbs, but simply chop them finely with a knife. All the same, you get a delicious chocolate dessert for raw foodists.
Raw Food Cake: Napoleon Recipe
The traditional "Napoleon" is not only pleasant in taste, but also high in calories. For food raw foodists, it does not fit. It is much more useful to cook “Napoleon” from fruits and nuts.
Raw food cake according to this recipe is easy to prepare. We need:
- Wash 1 large apple and 1 pear, peel. Cut the fruit in half, pull out the core. Slice each half of an apple and pear into thin slices.
- Prepare nut crumbs. Separately chop 1/2 cup almonds and as many walnuts. Add 1/2 teaspoon of vanillin and cinnamon to the crumbs.
- Make a healthy cream for the Napoleon raw food cake. To do this, combine 7 tablespoons of liquid honey with zest and juice of 1 lemon. Add 1/2 teaspoon ground ginger.
- Make a cake. To do this, you can use any form or lay out the ingredients alternately right on the plate. The first layer is the apple slice, which must first be dipped in honey, then in the walnut. The second is a pear slice in honey and almond crumbs. The third is the apple again. The fourth is a pear, etc.
- The assembled cake should be decorated on top with the remaining nut crumbs and raisins.
Prepared according to this recipe, “Napoleon” will become an adornment of any holiday not only for raw foodists, but also for all those who try to adhere to the principles of proper nutrition.
Raw food "Honey"
The cake according to this recipe is prepared on the basis of nuts with the addition of the obligatory ingredient - honey. You can use any nuts, but the most delicious dessert is obtained with almonds.
For the cake you need to chop 2 cups of almonds, after soaking it for several hours. Add half a glass of sesame and flaxseed, prunes and grated carrots. Combine in a blender until smooth. Add honey to taste. For impregnation, you can prepare a cream of banana, honey and juice of half a lemon.
The raw-food cake turns out to be quite wet due to carrot juice. If desired, it can be dried a little in the oven, heated to a temperature of no higher than 40 degrees.
Raw Carrot Cake
This cake can really be called useful, since all the ingredients that are used to prepare it do not need to be heat-treated. And this means that all important vitamins and minerals are stored in full. A raw food cake, the recipe of which is proposed below, is prepared from carrots, raisins and oatmeal with the addition of spicy spices. And to make it really look like a real mouth-watering dessert, it is decorated with coconut cream on top.
Making a cake begins with preparing nuts for the cream. To do this, a glass of cashew nuts must be soaked for at least a day. If this is not done, then you will not be able to get the cream of the desired consistency. Grind a glass of walnuts and 100 grams of oatmeal in a blender. Grate carrots (3 pcs.) On a fine grater and combine with nut-oat crumbs. Add 50 g of dates and raisins and 1 tablespoon of coconut oil.
Raw food dough for the cake is ready. Now it can be laid out in a mold (not too tight) and proceed with the preparation of the cream. In a blender, beat the soaked cashew nuts (pre-drain the water), 100 ml of coconut milk, 1 tablespoon of oil, 3 tablespoons of honey and a teaspoon of lemon juice. Pour cream on top on a raw food cake and decorate with chopped cashew nuts if desired.
Carrot cake for raw foodists is ready. Enjoy your meal!
Cheesecake
Let's make a nut-free raw food cake. To create a cheesecake according to a traditional recipe, cookie crumbs and cottage cheese are used. But it is absolutely not suitable for raw foodists who do not eat animal products. Therefore, they prepare cheesecake from products such as green buckwheat, carrots, beets, cocoa butter, cocoa powder, lemon and honey.
For the dough and cream you will need 2 cups of buckwheat (necessarily green), which in advance, preferably at night, pour water. In the morning, sprouts will already appear on it. After this, squeeze the juice from carrots and beets. For the test you only need the cake. You can drink the juice, since it is not used in the recipe. Cake, zest of 1 lemon, half sprouts of buckwheat and 2 tablespoons of honey must be chopped with a blender until smooth. Now the dough needs to be dried at room temperature or in the oven at 40 degrees for about 12 hours.
Dry batter will look like cookies. Now, as for a regular cheesecake, you need to grind it into crumbs, add a little water to make the mass look like plasticine, and put it in a detachable form. Top with the filling: the remaining whipped buckwheat sprouts, honey to taste and 4 tablespoons of cocoa butter. Raw food cake must be kept in the freezer for 10 hours, and 15 minutes before eating, get out of it. If desired, you can sprinkle the cheesecake with cocoa powder before serving.