Make Your Own ‘Loved Up’ Raw Chocolate Brownies (Vegan & Gluten Free!)

By  Trinity Bourne

Contributing Writer for Wake Up World

I’ve just enjoyed the most awesome ‘loved-up’ raw, no-bake, chocolate brownies and I am really excited to share the recipe.

You’ll need a strong blender or even better, a decent food processor to create them. The thing I love about these raw chocolate brownies is that they offer great nutritional value as well as being vegan, gluten-free and lovingly delicious!

These delicious brownies work fine without frosting. However, if you are feeling adventurous like I was when I created them, I have also included frosting instructions below.

Preparation:  15 – 30 minutes

Waiting time:  Up to 1 hour (plus pre-soak time)

Makes:  8 little brownies

Brownies

Ingredients:

100g pitted dates

100g walnuts or almonds

2 teaspoons vanilla extract

3 tablespoons raw cocoa powder

1 tablespoon extra virgin coconut oil

Other things you’ll need:

A small container/box/tin to put it in before you refrigerate it

Parchment paper to line your container

Note:  If you are using almonds, soak the almonds overnight to soften them and then rinse off the tannin (you’ll see that it has leached into the soak water – simply rinse until the water runs clear). If you’d like to be super healthy and have lots of time then you might like to peel off the almond skins too. Or, like me, you can use them with the skins on. Walnuts don’t need soaking.

Instructions:

1. Soak dates for a few hours in spring (or filtered) water, to soften before blending. If you are using medjool or other soft dates, then there is actually no need to soak, just make sure they are pitted and use them as they come.
2. Grind walnuts or almonds in food processor to small pieces or until flour-like (or flour-like with some pieces etc.).
3. Drain soak water from dates before adding them to food processor along with the vanilla extract. Blend with the nuts until you achieve a pate type consistency.
4. Make sure the coconut butter is either very soft or has melted (oil) and add to the food processor along with the cocoa powder. At this stage I personally prefer to empty the contents into a large bowl and mix and press with the back of a spoon, until I am satisfied that everything is mixed in evenly… feels much nicer than the harsh blade.
5. If you’d like it to be extra chocolatey, then add an extra tablespoon of cocoa powder or two!
6. Line a small container with parchment paper then place the mixture in it. Compress firmly and evenly using the back of a spoon until you have a solid brownie ‘block’. Place in the freezer for up to half an hour, to firm up (or place in the fridge for a little longer).
7. Divide into 8 little brownies with a sharp knife  or  add the frosting as follows for an extra delicious treat.

Frosting

Ingredients:

50g extra virgin coconut butter

2 tablespoons lucama powder (or carob/cocoa powder)

1 ½ tablespoons coconut sugar

You can easily make this as a chocolate or carob frosting alternative rather than lucama. I am a big lucama fan, so the original recipe does use lucama powder. Simply replace it with cocoa or carob powder to your preference.

Instructions:

1. Gently melt the coconut butter by leaving it in a warm place for a while (you might like to do this whilst you are creating the brownie base).
2. Add the coconut sugar and lucama powder, mixing together thoroughly.
3. If your frosting is too runny, then pop it in the fridge or freezer to thicken it up a little until it’s more creamy (but don’t let it turn solid, otherwise you’ll have to melt it again). When you are happy with it, pour it onto the top of the compressed brownie mix that you created earlier. Pop the whole thing into the freezer for 15 minutes. It should thicken rapidly into a delectable frosting.
4. When firm, take it out and slice up with a sharp knife.

Enjoy the loved-up nurturing feeling that you well and truly deserve for creating such a delicious treat!

From my heart to yours,

Trinity

Updated September 2014

Trinity’s Conscious Kitchen

From the Editor:

Did you enjoy this recipe? Keen to try out more healthy, indulgent treats? Check out Trinity’s new book,  Trinity’s Conscious Kitchen!

Published in November 2013 by long-time  Wake Up World  contributor, Trinity Bourne, Trinity’s Conscious Kitchen  brings together a unique collection of vegan, sugar-free and gluten-free recipes that are good for the body and great for the soul.  Trinity’s Conscious Kitchen is a divinely inspired invitation into a world of transformational eating, introducing original vegan, wheat-free, sugar-free recipes designed to create optimal health, and greater spiritual, mental and emotional clarity.

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Further articles by Trinity:

• Top Twenty Tips for Conscious Eating
• What Being Authentic Means… and What Gets in the Way
• The Spirit of the Dolphin
• You Are Enough, Exactly As You Are
• What is Success? A Spiritual Perspective
• Being an Empath
• The Spirituality of Space Clearing: Five Effective Ways to Clear Stagnant Energy
• The Sun Always Shines Within
• 4th Dimensional Entities & What You Can Do About Them (Includes Audio Meditation)
• Embracing Spiritual Abundance

About the author:

Trinity is the author of ‘Trinity’s Conscious Kitchen’, a recipe book designed to inspire soul through conscious cuisine. It’s filled with simple, delicious vegan, wheat-free recipes for spiritual evolution.

Trinity’s journey into conscious eating began about twenty years ago during a profound spiritual awakening, at which point a white light surged though her whole being, dissolving everything it touched, radiating the entire field around her until there was nothing but the pure white light of unity consciousness. During this life-changing experience Trinity experienced the soul of all other sentient beings, trees, creatures, people as one pulsating energy. Transcended into a higher realm of unity and oneness, the experience imparted a divine energy that she has been sharing through spiritual work ever since.

Visit Trinity’s new website  www.trinityskitchen.com  for conscious cuisine or  www.Openhandweb.org  for a huge archive of deep insights for the spiritual journey (a website Trinity supports along with her soul-mate and husband ‘Open’).