Cecilia’s Raw Coconut Cream Pie Recipe

-This recipe is modified from the I Am Grateful: Recipes and Lifestyle of Cafe Gratitudeé Gratitude Cookbook

 This is my all time favorite raw dessert!

Crust:

2 and ½ cups dry coconut flakes (If you can, make your own. I use a grater pictured to the left)
1 vanilla bean seeds scooped out
½ cup well packed finely chopped dates
1 tablespoon coconut butter or oil (optional)

Put everything except the dates in the food processor with the S-blade on and add the dates slowly until the crust sticks together. Press crust into a coconut butter greased, 9 inch pie pan.

Filling

2 cups young coconut meat (about 4 young coconuts)
1 cup young coconut water
3 tablespoons non gmo soy lecithin granules
¼ cup Artisana Coconut Butter
¼ cup coconut oil (I like Nutiva Brand)
1 tablespoon soaked and chopped Irish moss (optional)
1 vanilla bean seeds scooped out
1 cup dates soaked

Blend the Irish moss with the coconut water in the blender until smooth. Then add all the other ingredients and blend until smooth. Pour into the pie crust and let set in the fridge or freezer for at least one hour.

Optional Garnish

Banana Lime Sauce
(Darell whipped this one up)
Blend a banana in the blender with juice from ½ lime and pour on top of the pie
and or
¾ cup dry coconut flakes to sprinkle on top of the pie 

Notes 

• Click here to learn how to open a young coconut
• In the picture above I made a mango sauce, but I didn’t like it as much as the banana lime sauce.
• If you can’t find a coconut grater,  another trick is to put the coconut meat through a juicer and dehydrate the pulp. It works great in an centrifugal ejection type juicer like the juiceman juicer, lequip mini, breville . . .
• Irish Moss is optional, it just gives the pie a spongier texture. Here are some sources (cause I know you will ask! ) www.purejoyplanet.com/, www.royalhimalayan.com/, and www.cafegratitudestore.com/
• If you like this dessert you might enjoy some of my other raw food recipes.

♥,
C

Question of The Day:
What is your favorite raw dessert? If possible, post the recipe below in the comments section.