Raw Chocolate Birthday Cake

December 4, 2015

Ingredients

Cake
1 cup rolled oats
1 cup gooey dried figs
1/4 cup raisins
2 tablespoons cacao powder
1/2 teaspoon vanilla powder
Water, if needed
Pinch of himalayan salt

Frosting
1 cup gooey dates 1 tablespoon cacao powder Water, as needed 1/8 teaspoon cinnamon powder 1/8 teaspoon vanilla powder 1/8 teaspoon chili powder (optional)

Garnish
Raw chocolate sauce (use this chocolate chunk recipe)
Mint leaves

Instructions

Cake
Grind the oats into flour.
Then in a food processor, blend the flour with the rest of the ingredients, adding some water if you need to, until you get a heavy dough-like mixture that holds it’s shape when you press it between your fingers. It should also be easy to the whole thing into roll into a giant ball.
Roll out flat, about 1/4-inch thick, and cut into large circles with a cookie cutter: cake layers! The once I used was about 4 inches across. Put the cake layers in the fridge until they have hardened up.

Frosting
Blend everything until smooth and thick, adding water as needed.

Assembly
Frost a cake layer, then add another on top, and so on and so on until you’ve used up all your cake or all your frosting. Decorate as you like (I threw on some hazelnut butter instead of chocolate sauce since I used up all my cacao) and enjoy! This would be terrific with banana ice cream.
Notes

Use buckwheat groats, almond flour or any nuts instead of oats; use any other gooey dried fruit instead of figs and dates; use cocoa or carob instead of cacao.