Here is a recipe for Fudge Frosting and Strawberry Green Smoothie
from Raw Food Made Easy for One or Two People, by Jennifer Cornbleet.
Fudge Frosting
Fudge Frosting with Strawberry Green Smoothie
1/2 cup date paste (see note below)
1/2 cup agave nectar, maple syrup or honey
1 tsp vanilla extract
2 avocados, mashed (1 cup)
3/4 cup organic cocoa or carob
2 tsp coconut oil, warmed
Place the date paste, agave nectar, and vanilla extract in a food processor and process until smooth. Add the mashed avocado and cocoa or carob powder and process until creamy. You may need to stop and scrape down the sides of the bowl with a spatula a few times. Add the coconut oil and process until smooth. Use the frosting immediately if you are using it to spread as it will be difficult to spread once chilled. Use it as a fresh dessert with strawberries or raspberries or freeze it and use as ice cream.
Note: To made date paste, place 1/3 cup water and 1 cup soaked pitted dates in a food processor and process until smooth. Yield: 1 cup. Stored in a sealed container in the fridge it will keep for 2 weeks.
Strawberry Green Smoothie
1 large handful of wild edibles (I used dandelion, nipplewort, chickweed, herb robert, plantain & cleavers)
2 leaves of cavolo nero or other kale
Soaked chia and pumpkin seeds in 1/2 cup water
5 large strawberries (give a lovely strawberry flavour)
1/2 cup grapefruit juice
1 kiwi fruit (scrub off the hairs)
1 banana
1 tangelo peeled
1 cup water
Blend up the greens and soaked seeds plus their water in the added water and juice. Add the fruit and blend again. If it is too thick for your liking add more water. Enjoy!!
I’ve decorated the smoothie in the photo above with herb robert flowers, forget-me-not flowers and a strawberry.
Fudge frosting and raspberries & Strawberry Green Smoothie
