This healthy chocolate pie crust recipe is ridiculously easy.
As in, I made it in about 30 seconds.
Yes, a 30-second healthy pie crust.
This recipe saves you precious time, so you can spend that time on the important part: the filling!
Like this No-Bake Chocolate Pumpkin Pie.
Or my favorite chocolate fudge pie, but I won’t link to that one today because you’re probably bored of my incessant mentioning of it!
Anywhoos… in addition to its simplicity, this healthy chocolate pie crust is great for numerous other reasons: It’s chocolate. (Yay!) No lard, no partially-hydrogenated oils, and no ingredients you can’t pronounce. (You can pronounce “cocoa” right?) No added sugars, no flour, and it’s also gluten-free.
Healthy Chocolate Pie Crust
Healthy Chocolate Pie Crust
Ingredients
- 2 tbsp cocoa powder or cacao powder
- 1/2 cup raw cashews (or almonds, walnuts, pecans, or macadamia nuts)
- 1/2 cup shredded unsweetened coconut (See nutrition link below, for substitutions)
- 1/8 tsp salt
- scant 1/2 cup pitted dates (8 small dates) (Readers have said that raisins work as well)
Instructions
Healthy Chocolate Pie Crust Recipe: Combine all ingredients in a food processor and blend. Then transfer to an 8-in baking dish or aluminum pan (as shown above). Using a piece of wax or parchment paper, smush into the pan and pour desired filling on top or refrigerate until ready to use. (Notes: I like Sunmaid dates, as they’re softer. Also, you can probably use a blender, but I haven’t personally tried it and therefore cannot vouch for it. And feel free to double or triple the healthy pie crust recipe for a bigger pie.)
I can’t show you what went on top of this particular healthy chocolate pie crust, as it’s scheduled to be Mothers’ Day dessert, and my mom reads my blog.
Happy Mothers’ Day to the most compassionate, selfless woman I know.
(Do you think we look alike? Just a little?!)
Pie crust: Love or Hate?
If we’re talking about that traditional flaky stuff, I’m going with yucky. When I lived in China, we frequented a restaurant that made really good apple pie. Except… I dislike crust, and my sister loathes apple pie. (Really. I don’t know how.) So we’d save money by sharing a slice: I’d eat all the filling and leave her the crust. Win for me, win for my sister, and big win for my mom who was paying!
Also, are you making anything for Mothers’ Day? I just took breakfast out of the oven: Fat-Free Banana Bread.
When I was a toddler, I would beg my mom for scraps of raw pie crust. I loved it! No clue what I was thinking! Ewwwwwww.
Perhaps tomorrow you can share the filling you used….? ;o)
I thought the same thing. 🙂
I’m running behind and probably won’t get it up for a few weeks. But it was the Red Velvet Fudge Pie. (I don’t mean to be a tease with that recipe; circumstances caused me to change when I’d originally planned to post it. But as always, if you absolutely must see a recipe before I post it, just ask!)
Not to worry…I won’t rush you. 🙂 I am excited for a new recipe!
I made the chocolate-strawberry truffle pie for the first time on this crust. It is AMAZING!
i have always been a pastry fan – try & avoid most these days do to amount of fat it contains – but even a crumble topping with oats & flour…. yum! its even nicer when its gone a bit gooey and soaked up some of the juices from the cooked fruits 🙂
Mothers Day in the UK was 18th of March which is also the day after my mum’s birthday plus my step dad had just been diagnose coeliac so i made this gluten free cake http://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/1162651/lemon-and-orange-cake
my first very tasty attempt at gluten free baking
yay! I love the “raw” crusts…this is almost raw, I guess it could be with raw cacao instead of cocoa. And happy mother’s day to your mom…she looks like a fun lady! And to you too, because as a mother of dogs myself, I know they sometimes forget to say it.
We juiced for a quick mother’s day breakfast and then lunch will be salmon, asparagus and lemon caper mashed potatoes. I’m also doing a goat cheese app and then lemon pound cake, ice cream and balsamic fruit for dessert.
Ooh edited! 🙂
Im not a big pastry crust fan. You and your sister are like my girls…opposite on food likes/dislikes. I made your lemon bars yesterday and could’ve ate the entire pan!!!
This crust looks great….coconut does make everything better
your sister looks like your mom, and you look just like your dad!!!
Yum! Too bad you didn’t post this before I made my dad a chocolate peanut butter banana pie. This would have been perfect!
I love that this is so easy to make! Thanks, Katie!
I have to admit, I do looooove flaky pie crust. And I’ve discovered that most prepared pies in grocery stores are accidentally vegan!! Dallas and I shared a strawberry rhubarb pie that we found at Wal-Mart of all places! The crust is definitely the best part 🙂
Awesome! I’ve been needing a new pie crust recipe! I should’ve known you wouldn’t let me down! Happy Mother’s Day! You’re a mommy to Batman, right? 😉
I made chocolate-spinach pancakes and snickerdoodle pancakes!!! (my parents have never eaten snickerdoodles… what????)
Yum! So delicious sounding! Love it!
Awesome crust recipe!
Love the pics of you and your mom. So adorable!! 🙂
Your mother raised a great lady.
albeit a chocolate covered lady 🙂
So your mom gets extra props. And so does mine.
You and your mom look so cute together!! 🙂
And yes, I love both the pie crust and the filling. I didn’t use to like the crust as a kid, but that has since changed!!!
Wow, that is crazy easy, but looks fantastic! Can’t wait to see what you made 🙂
LOVE pie crust. And I’m talking the flaky Crisco and flour type. That being said most pies I’ve tasted do not have very good flaky crusts.
So my theory is you haven’t had a decent pie crust made for you. I’d dare you to eat my apple-cranberry pie and not dig both the filling and the crust:)