The Costa Rica News (TCRN) – What do you do in the heat of the Costa Rican summer when all you want is a piece of cake?
Whip up this super easy and scrumptious raw vegan, no-bake, cake made with nature’s most perfect foods. It is creamy, sweet, fresh, tart, and beautiful.
Coconut Berry Blast Banana Ice Cream Cake
Ingredients:
10 strawberries for outside, cut in half
Vanilla ice cream cake layer
2 cups cashews
2 bananas
1 cup dates
1/4 cup melted coconut oil
Seeds from 1/2 vanilla pod (or 1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract)
Coconut milk or coconut water, as needed
1 cup frozen blueberries
1 cup frozen strawberries
1 cup of nut milk or coconut water, use as needed 1 cup dates, walnuts or another banana
Preparation:
To make the first layer: place the halved strawberries around the edge of a spring form pan. Set
aside. Now blend all the vanilla ice cream cake ingredients together until smooth, adding as little
vegan milk or coconut water as possible (I used about 1/4 cup). Spread into the bottom of the
pan, this should press the berries to the inner edge. Put in the freezer.
To make the berry layer: blend it all up until smooth. Carefully spread over top of the vanilla ice cream cake layer and put in the freezer for about 2 or 3 hours, until it’s set. Then cut and serve with other berries! Let it
soften a little before eating, because it makes it creamier.
Recipe compliments of Amber Zuckswert, founder of Epic Living Retreats and Epicself.com in Manuel Antonio
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San Jose, Costa Rica