No. Instead, I had pie.
And, shock of all shocks, it wasn’t chocolate. I wanted to change it up a bit from last year’s chocolate mousse pie.
So, this year I chose velvety, homemade Raw Key Lime Pie. (For the recipe, click on the link and read the optional ingredients).
Yeah, it was as good as it looks. If not better. I didn’t even miss the chocolate. No, seriously! I’ve always had a thing for cheesecake; as far as cake is concerned, my hierarchy is: chocolate mousse pie, then cheesecake. Then maybe coconut cream pie. After that, who cares?!
A few posts ago, I mentioned that I attended a Labor Day Barbecue on my birthday, and I brought a raw key lime pie.
The barbecue started around lunchtime, and while I obviously didn’t partake in any of the barbecued-meat-eating, I did help myself to copious amounts of the grilled veggies on offer (the sweet griller—a.k.a. my neighbor—made sure the vegetables were grilled in a separate section from the meat). Then, at around 3PM, after we all started feeling hungry again, thanks to some strenuous badminton, swimming, and debating (Uh-oh, political debates!), it was time for dessert. Bring on the raw Key Lime Pie! (Just don’t tell anyone it’s raw. They think vegan is weird enough.)
Tentatively, I pulled the pie outta the freezer (where I’d been letting it set) and served it to the guests—myself included. Then they all sang “Happy Birthday” to me before digging in. Luckily, it was a big hit. Those of you who have tried raw desserts probably aren’t surprised by this.
To compliment the key lime variation, I opted for a raw gingerbread crust.
It was good. The crust almost stole the show from the cake, itself! And that’s coming from a girl who normally loathes crust. (P.S. to the extremely perceptive readers out there: Yes, the photo above is actually from the “cashew cookie” page, not gingerbread. I forgot to take a photo of the crust while making it. But it didn’t look much different from the above.)
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Question of the Day:
What was your birthday dessert this year?
Or what will it be?
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Err, I ate a Peanut Butter Cookie Larabar! November last year, I finally located one and just didn’t want anything else. But I was rather disappointed by it…Coconut Cream Pie is a far superior flavour.
I’d much rather have your raw key lime pie though! And it’s fantastic that you’re educating so many meat-eaters about the wonders of vegan desserts 🙂
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~Jess~
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I wasn’t big on the pb-cookie one either. Oh well, I guess different flavors exist because peoples’ tastes are different!
For my b-day this year, a good friend of mine made cupcakes out of my best-ever chocolate cake recipe and topped them with swirled chocolate-coconut-cashew butter frosting!
Your raw key lime pie looks awesome. I’m not the least bit surprised everybody loved it. :]
My birthday dessert is always banana creme pie. I am also a brat about it and it must be from Marie Callenders 🙂
I’ve never been keen on birthday cake..espescially not chocolate cake! Give me a plain bit of vanilla sponge (without icing!) anyday! xx
That looks good. I’m on a chocolate kick now. My birthday dessert is going to be either peanut butter cookies or a chocolate cake/brownies. Maybe I will have it all. 🙂
Oh my! That raw pie looks amazing! Raw desserts are so tasty and healthy at the same time! I’ve requested a vegan ice cream cake from my mom for my 30th birthday next month, and I believe Ms. Poopie Bitch is going to surprise me with a cake too…so I may have two cakes, which I’m pretty sure I deserve seeing as how I made it to 30!
Oh my gosh, I love key lime pie! And I also love getting people to eat healthy things without them noticing, muhaha.
When it comes birthday desserts, I am a traditional cake + ice cream kind of girl! When my mom asks what kind I want I just say, “Pretty!” And then she always decorates it beautifully 🙂
Awwww… I can totally see you with a princess cake. A princess cake for a princess :).
looks amazing!!!! so my bday dessert this year was absolutely HORRIBLE! my sister knows i love vegan foods (though i am not vegan) and went out of her way to order a vegan chocolate cake from whole foods. her boyfriend came over and 2 of my friends after we went out to dinner and everyone tried the cake with me and then once i said i didn’t like it (i rarely admit this when ppl give me gifts) everyone looked relieved. it just was so dry and had a weird apricot gel in the middle that did not go with the chocolate. should have made my own key lime pie or chocolate fudge babies 😉
Oh Andrea, I am so sorry! I have had that chocolate cake (“Joy’s chocolate cake”) and it is VILE! You’re right, it’s so extremely dry. It gives vegan desserts a very bad name :(.
My mom’s all time favorite dessert is key lime pie. The first time I had some was in the Florida Keys..soo yeah, it was pretty dang delicious. 🙂 Glad yours was a big hit! Not surprisingly since you’re practically a master chef. 😉
My birthday treat last year was homemade hostess cupcakes! They were a whole lotta fun. 🙂
“my hierarchy is: chocolate mousse pie, then cheesecake. Then maybe coconut cream pie. After that, who cares?!”
Amen.
I do not remember my 22nd birthday dessert, but I’m guessing it was a variety of mini-bundt cakes from Nothing Bundt Cakes…because that’s what is always is. I don’t even like cake that much, but I LOVE FROSTING!