Lee’s Raw Berry & Chocolate Torte

Raw Berry and Chocolate Torte

Raw Berry and Chocolate Torte

By: Lee Holmes

Who can resist a rich, chocolaty dessert that is completely guilt-free? You’ll love this raw torte.


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Ingredients

  • Base
  • 1½ cups raw walnuts
  • Zest 1 lemon
  • ¼ cup melted extra-virgin coconut oil
  • ½ cup dried berries
  • 1 tsp stevia powder
  • Filling
  • 1 cup raw unsalted cashews, soaked in water for 2 hours or overnight
  • ⅓ cup raw cacao powder
  • 115g cacao butter, grated & melted
  • 2 tbsp rice-malt syrup or 1 tsp stevia powder
  • 2 tbsp additive-free coconut milk
  • Juice 1 lemon
  • 2 cups mixed berries, plus extra, for decorating

Method


  • To make base, place walnuts in a food processor and blend until finely chopped. Transfer to a bowl and add lemon zest.
  • Place coconut oil and dried berries in food processor and blend. Add to walnut mixture and combine well.
  • Press mixture into a 20cm springform cake tin and chill in the freezer for 30 mins.
  • To make filling, place all ingredients in food processor and blend until smooth.
  • Remove base from freezer and spoon filling over the top.
  • Chill for 2 hours in the fridge, or 1 hour in the freezer, until set. Scatter over extra berries before serving.
  • This will keep in an airtight container for up to 1 week in the fridge, or 2 weeks in the freezer.

  

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Lee Holmes

Lee Holmes

Lee Holmes is a nutritionist, yoga and meditation teacher, wholefoods chef, Lifestyle Food Channel’s Healthy Eating Expert, blogger and author of the best-selling books Supercharged Food: Eat Your Way to Health, Supercharged Food: Eat Yourself Beautiful, Eat Clean, Green and Vegetarian, Heal your Gut, Eat Right for Your Shape and Supercharged Food for Kids.

Lee’s food philosophy is all about S.O.L.E. food: sustainable, organic, local and ethical. Her main goal is to alter the perception that cooking fresh, wholesome, nutrient-rich meals is difficult, complicated and time-consuming. From posting recipes, her passion to share her autoimmune disease story and help others has snowballed and the blog has recently taken home the overall prize at the Bupa Health Influencer Awards as well as the best blog in the Healthy Eating category. She also runs a four-week online Heal Your Gut program.

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