27 Sep, 2009
Frozen Banana Tart with Dark Chocolate Glaze (a Raw Vegan Recipe for Anyone)
Posted by: Angela Leeds In: *LGS Daily Recipe|Desserts|Great Raw Pot Luck Recipes|RAW CHOCOLATE
This tasty tart has a smooth creamy banana filling made rich with raw cacao butter, and is topped with a drizzled glaze of explosively flavorful dark raw chocolate. Got quite a lot of Ooos and Aaaaahs until it was finally done and ready for sampling by the marginally raw, 20-something set roaming my kitchen…who noisily gave their whole-hearted approval and demolished the entire dessert. 
Three minutes later…
The filling here is quite sweet, which is offset beautifully by the dark, slightly bitter chocolate. If you have a sweet tooth and enjoy both bananas and dark chocolate, you’re going to love this.
It’s neither hard nor time-consuming to make, although it does require two ingredients which are rather exotic to most kitchens: raw cacao butter and organic soy lecithin, both of which my health food store stocks as a matter of course. I use Navitas Naturals brand cacao butter.
With the soy lecithin, it’s a recent experiment in my own kitchen, as I normally don’t go anywhere near soy products, whether processed or natural. But I’ve been reading of certain health benefits it possesses, and I know of some respected raw food enthusiasts who use it regularly in small quantities, so I’ve decided for the time being to stock it in my kitchen and play with it. It’s a great emulsifier, allowing fats to incorporate smoothly and creamily into liquids, which is what it does in this case.
If you prefer not to use it, you can leave it out. The frozen banana filling will just be a bit more crystalline in texture and less creamy, which isn’t the end of the world. If you do use the soy lecithin, make sure you purchase an organic product, otherwise you’re pretty much guaranteed a product genetically modified to withstand higher levels of pesticide…not a good thing.
In this recipe, there is more pie filling than the shell can accommodate, so you can freeze it in a bowl and drizzle some of the chocolate glaze over it to make a nice frozen raw ice cream treat. But if you’d like, you can double the tart shell recipe for a larger portion and use all the filling for a single dessert.
Needless to say…great for company!
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