Raw Vegan Chocolate Brownies with Avocado Frosting

Raw Brownies with Chocolate Avocado Frosting

Adapted from Wayfaring Chocolate and here

• 1 cup (110g) walnuts

• 1 cup (150g) medjool dates, pitted

• 1/3 cup (30g) cocoa powder

For frosting

• 1 avocado

• 70 g/2.5 ozs raw honey (the honey makes them non-vegan though) or agave nectar

• 30 g/ 1 oz. cocoa powder

• 2 tsp vanilla extract

• dash salt

• dash cinnamon

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Step 1 - Combine walnuts, dates and the 1/3 cup of cocoa powder in a food processor and process until the mixture, according to the original recipe, “looks like potting soil”. Pat this into a loaf tin (I placed this in a 2x20cm square pan but found it a bit too thin).

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Step 2 - In the food processor, whiz the avocado, honey or agave, second lot of cocoa, vanilla, salt, and cinnamon until smooth.

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Step 3 - Spread the icing over the brownie base, then put in the freezer for about an hour to set. No matter how long the brownies stay in the freezer, they never become rock-hard.

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