Decadent Raw Food Dessert Recipe: Dream Bars

With Valentine’s Day just around the corner, we are pleased to offer our readers this special raw food recipe for a dessert that everyone’s sure to love! It’s from one of our favorite recipe books, The Raw Transformation: Energizing Your Life with Living Foods by Wendy Rudell (with a foreword by–who else?!–David Wolfe). So if you’re feeling like munching on a decadent dessert that’s virtually guilt-free, give Dream Bars a whirl. And let us know how it goes!

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DREAM BARS

4 cups ground walnuts
6 cups raw rolled oat groats
1 ½ cups grated coconut
1/3 cup olive oil
¼ cup agave syrup or honey
2 tsp vanilla
1 recipe Fudge Sauce (see below)
½ cup grated coconut
1 cup pecan halves

In a food processor grind walnuts and raw oats until mealy. Add in coconut, oil, vanilla, and agave syrup. On a teflex sheet pat batter into a large square about ½ inch thick. Dehydrate until chewy. Flip over and dehydrate the bottom side.

Spread chocolate Fudge Sauce on top about ¼ inch thick. Sprinkle with shredded coconut and decorate with pecan halves. Make sure that each square you cut has a pecan half on it. Keep in the freezer.

Fudge Sauce
½ cup raw almond butter
¼ cup cacao powder or carob powder
¼ cup agave syrup or honey
1 tsp Nama Shoyu
Water

Blend all together, adding water to achieve desired consistency.

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