Chocolate Brownie Cake
You will love this decadent chocolate brownie cake that needs no baking. It's super easy to make and you only need a very small piece to satisfy your chocolate craving. Best eaten with your favourite seasonal fruit, such as strawberries, peaches, or raspberries.
Servings: 24 pieces
Ingredients
Brownie:
- 1/2 cup raw cashews
- 1/4 cup raw walnuts
- 6 medjool dates pitted
- 4 black figs
- 1/4 cup raw cacao powder
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 1/4 tsp cinnamon
- 1/8 tsp cayenne pepper
Icing:
- 2 tbsp raw cacao powder
- 2 tbsp maple syrup
- 1 tbsp raw coconut oil melted
- 1 tsp water
Instructions
- Process cashews and walnuts in your food processor until they are a fine meal.
- Add the remaining ingredients and process until a slightly moist coarse mixture.
- Press the mixture into a 6 inch cake pan and put in the freezer while you make the icing.
- Whip the cacao powder, maple syrup, melted coconut oil and water together in a small bowl until shiny and smooth.
- Remove the cake from the freezer and cut around the cake pan with a butter knife to loosen the cake. Then carefully flip the cake onto a plate.
- Ice the cake with the chocolate icing and garnish as desired.
- Keeps in the refrigerator for up to a week.
Notes
If you do not have fresh (moist) dried medjool dates and figs then soak them in hot water for 5 or 10 minutes before using in this recipe or your cake will not hold together.