Are you in love yet?
How about now?
Back when I was in high school, a few friends and I started a tradition of an annual “girls’ night” on or around February 14th. Going off to different colleges forced us to skip a few years, and new friends are added as others move away, but we’re still trying to keep up the tradition. This year, we met a few days before Valentine’s Day, to accommodate the girls with boyfriends… or husbands. (Wow, I feel old.)
One girl supplied the nailpolish, another was in charge of movies. (We ended up watching my favorite: Love, Actually.) Someone else brought wine (red, of course), and it was my job to bring the dessert.
(Surprised?)
Wanting to make something fun and fancy, I decided on pie—chocolate truffle pie. I just kept adding ingredients to the vita-mix, tasting as I went along (best part!). Here was the final, delicious result:
Chocolate Strawberry Truffle Pie
Ingredients
- 2 1/2 cups strawberries, or berries of choice (250g)
- 1/4 cup cocoa powder
- 2 tbsp dutch or additional regular cocoa powder
- 1 1/2 cup raw cashews or macadamia nuts
- 1/2 tbsp pure vanilla extract
- 1/3 cup virgin coconut oil
- 1/3 cup agave or pure maple syrup, or 1/8 tsp uncut stevia
- 1/8 tsp salt
Instructions
- In a bowl, cover the cashews with water and let sit at least 4 hours. Then drain and pat dry. Combine all ingredients in a Vita-Mix or high-powered blender or food processor. Only if using stevia, add 4 tablespoons water. Blend until a super-smooth texture is achieved. Taste and add more sweetener until desired taste is reached. Pour into a prepared pie crust (see below the next photo for a crust recommendation), and freeze.
Notes
(That’s not actually the hot chocolate crust in the photo. I ran out of time to make a homemade crust before the party. But if I’d had time, I would’ve made the hot chocolate one… An excuse to make this pie again!)
If you can’t have nuts, try this recipe: Nut-Free Chocolate Silk Pie.
(I’ve included the above link because I know many of my readers have nut allergies, and I’m sure people are going to ask!)
What do you think of raw desserts?
Although I seriously doubt I’ll ever become a raw foodist, some of my favorite desserts are raw: my fudge babies, mint-chocolate milkshakes, chocolate-raspberry cake, coconut cream pie…
I have an entire recipe category: Over 100 Healthy Raw Dessert Recipes.
I can’t wait to try your mint-chocolate milkshake! I have everything on hand!
Hi Katie – do you melt the coconut oil or leave it solid when you blend it? Thanks so much!
I’d recommend liquid.
I LOVE pie. But all the ones my family eats are so heavy. The pie looks delicious!
I like raw foods, except the dehydrating part as I do not own a dehydrator! And sometimes I’m lazy to make them because that means I have to wash my blender right away or else my parents yell at me (wow…never thought I’d say that on a food blog, comment or not)
http://milk-and-tea.blogspot.com
This looks delicious Katie! And is that an oreo crust? My mom uses ’em to make oreo cheesecakes. Very delicious 🙂
Yes 🙂
I’ve definitely done raw minus the dehydrator no room in the kitchen and we just got the pro series vitamix!!! Im so wanting to make the cashew cheese …anyway I do love getting your emails in my inbox even just to see what you’ve made now! 🙂
Aww thank you!
Hope you’re having fun with your new Vita! 🙂
Made this tonite…I only had 9 in regular graham …Katie as always SO GOOD 😉
Substitute for cashews??? my sister is VERY allergic!
Someone said she used almonds. I think macadamias would be awesome!
Oh yes, I am in love!!!! And Love Actually is the best holiday movie around. 🙂 I need to try this pronto! I might have to make up a special occasion to have a reason to make it. Ha!
I just discovered your blog! I am in love, and yes, crazy in love! I am a terrible cook and an even worse baker, but I think I might even try to make this because it looks so good! Thank you!!!
Ooh I hope you like it!
Surprisingly, I don’t really like to cook! But I love to eat, and so I try to make my recipes as quick (and with as few ingredients) as possible… so people like me can eat without having to slave away with complicated recipes ;).
Hey! My Stevia is just pure Stevia powder, so this recipe makes no sense to me at all in what it comes to amount of Stevia. So could you tell me how much would you use pure stevia? ½ tsp ? Thanks 🙂
And by the way, this looks so asjgasgrjas amazing that I think my laptop gets broken just because I drool so much….
Hopefully this will help: http://www.carriagehousemedicine.com/stevia_conversion_chart.pdf
katie,
the coconut oil you used, is it the solid type? i only have the liquid ones here… would it be the same?
and is there another crust i could do? that has no dates in them? or can i swap the dates with raisins?
As long as your coconut oil says VIRGIN, it’s the right one :).
You can use any crust. If you want raisins, you could try my chocolate-pb no-bake cookies as a crust (or even the pb cookie dough cookies, sans the chocolate).
Thank you so much katie for the response! so happy!
BTW, love from Malaysia! 🙂
WILL TRY THIS RECIPE SOON!
I’m so thrilled this doesn’t have soy in it! And I have a bag of raw cashews ive been dying to use. I will be making this THIS weekend. Horray! Haha everytime I tried to type Horray my auto correct keeps changing it to hortatory.
Haha I almost published a post once that said I’d made chocolate SAMOSAS because autocorrect kept changing samoas without my knowledge :-?.
I spell it hooray or hurray and it doesn’t autocorrect! Also I might try this with almonds as well since I can’t get to Whole Foods at the moment.
This looks so delicious and perfectly decadent. The filling sounds fantastic, I love the idea of using soaked cashews (i wonder if it would work with other nuts) and frozen berries together, so good. I definitely can’t wait to try it (but alas I must wait to be reunited with my food processor) 🙂
I have a question about some of the recipes – how do I know what xx grams of something is if I do not have a kitchen scale (or any scale for that matter!). It seem most of the time you say both volume and grams but I was just looking at hot chocolate fudge babies and it did not seem to specify volume…unless I missed something that was right in front of me (entirely possible!). Thanks for inspiring recipes!
I always always give cup measurements. I just looked at the fudge baby recipe, and it does specify cups for everything… Unless you’re talking about a different page from this one? https://lett-trim.today/2009/10/13/make-these-now/%3C/a%3E%3C/p%3E
Mmmmm so tasty looking!!! 🙂 Happy Valentine’s Day. My friends and I did the same thing this year! A single ladies’ Valentines. So much more fun that a date! I haven’t tried many raw desserts but your fudge baby recipe seems a lot like Larabars, and I love larabars! I’ve also “favorited” some raw puddings and such on foodgawker but have yet to make them.
Katie, love this truffle pie! It looks so dense and incredibly chocolatey and I love the contrast of color between the crust, the filling and the strawberries 🙂 I have featured this post in today’s Friday Food Fetish roundup. Let me know if you have any objections and thanks for the inspiration
Thanks for including me in a great round-up! 🙂