America loves gossip.
Is anyone else a little scared that so many more people are interested in Lindsay Lohan’s drinking habits than, say, how to make Raw Snickerdoodle Cookies?
Yeah, me too. America’s obsession with useless gossip is utterly frightening. But here’s a piece of juicy gossip that isn’t useless:
If you add 4 tbsp cocoa powder to the Raw Coconut Cream Pie recipe, you get chocolate cream pie. You heard it here first. Now go spread it around town.
Raw Chocolate Cream Pie
- heaping 1/2 cup Thai coconut meat (about 110g)
- 1 1/2 cups raw zucchini (250g) (For a pie with a more traditional “coconut cream pie” taste, or if you don’t want the green color, omit the zucchini and add that much more coconut meat.)
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 1 tsp pure vanilla extract
- 1/4 cup cacao or cocoa powder
- stevia or sweetener of choice, to taste
- Optional 2 tbsp coconut oil, for a richer taste
- Optional for a mint chocolate chip pie, add a few drops pure peppermint extract
Add all the ingredients together and blend very well. If you’re using a Magic Bullet, you might want to blend the zucchini a little first so it doesn’t stay chunky. Transfer your mixture to a pie crust (or pie pan, for a crustless pie) and freeze. If you freeze it more than a few hours, thaw before eating.
Does this pie have a really strong coconut flavor or is it more like chocolate? Do you think you could possibly try to concoct a chocolate peanut butter cream pie?! 🙂
I have one!! I think it’s going in my cookbook, but mention it in your email and I can send you the recipe!
If you can’t find the Thai coconuts would coconut cream be an ok substitute, or is there something better?
How many calories do you think would be in a serve of this?? It seems as though it would be suspiciously low! Hehe
Okay Katie, this one really got me. I am always looking for ways to use up Zucchini and of course – also looking for ways to eat more dessert. I was shocked at how good this was. It took no time to throw together – and definitely curbed my sweet tooth. What a great no-guilt snack!!(I didn’t have coconut meat but used my normal old shredded coconut..still delicious!!)