Tonight I was craving chocolate mousse. I decided to get a bit experimental and see what I could come up with in the way of fulfilling that craving while staying raw, healthy, and good for me.
Not-Quite Chocolate Pudding
Ingredients:
2 bananas
1 avocado
2.5 Tblsp cocoa [can be carob or whatever you have]
1 tsp instant coffee granules
4 Tblsp whole leaf aloe vera juice
1.5 Tblsp pureed dates
dash of cinnamon
Sliced the avocado lengthwise, scooped out the seed, and then spooned the flesh out of the skin into the Vita-mix high powered blender. Peeled the bananas, broke them into a few pieces each, and tossed them in as well. Followed with the pureed dates, cocoa, coffee, cinnamon, and finally the aloe vera juice. Blending on Low setting for about 5 seconds.
Instead of mousse what I made was more like pudding and tasted strongly of banana, with undertones of chocolate. Was still quite delicious, full of rich flavour, and I ate most of it myself [too much as it turns out, as a hour or so later, my stomach complained of being overfull].
Mark was amazed and a bit aghast at how much the texture was pudding like, and said it tasted a bit strange to him, with so much going on flavour-wise. He also thought it looked odd [the colour was brown with a few more shades of green mixed in than usual in pudding].
Over all, not a bad first try at a raw dessert, but I think less banana, more cocoa and coffee [and perhaps a few more dashes of cinnamon]. Or alternatively, skip them entirely to go more in the direction of fruit. If I had not specifically been wanting something more chocolate-y, that would have been a great way to go–banana, avocado, mango, papaya, or strawberry…I should definitely give that a try some other time.