Thursday, February 20, 2014

Strawberry Raw Cake For Friends

Strawberry raw cake for friends photos by Kreetta Järvenpää www.gretchengretchen.com





Winter feelings with friends.

 
Strawberry raw cake for friends photos by Kreetta Järvenpää www.gretchengretchen.com

Strawberry raw cake for friends photos by Kreetta Järvenpää www.gretchengretchen.com

Strawberry raw cake for friends photos by Kreetta Järvenpää www.gretchengretchen.com

Strawberry raw cake for friends photos by Kreetta Järvenpää www.gretchengretchen.com

Cauliflower soup, freestyle recipe by my husband

Cook cauliflower, cellery, onion, garlic, vegetable stock and spices and herbs like caraway, herb mix. After vegetables are soft add a bit of salt and butter/dairy free substitute for butter and oat cream. Puree with hand mixer. Use parley and roasted sunflower seeds to garnish. 


Strawberry raw cake for friends photos by Kreetta Järvenpää www.gretchengretchen.com

A beautiful handmade present with charming drawings from other side of the world and organic bisquits a little bit closer. Thank you!


Strawberry raw cake for friends photos by Kreetta Järvenpää www.gretchengretchen.com

And here it is. My very first raw cake. Literally in ice. 

Before making I read few recipes and made a trip to Pinterest and after this I made my own version. You can find my inspiration recipe in English here and other one in Finnish here. From these lovely blog post's you can check also how to make a raw cake. I can't eat lemon so I chose to use passion fruit and buckthorn juice instead. Exotic, maybe...and I used organic strawberries that we picked last summer.


Kreetta's Strawberry Raw Cake recipe

Ingredients:

Crust:
a good 1 dl pecan peanuts  
7-9 soft dates
rose salt to taste
Dates are quite sweet so the salt is balancing the taste. 
 
Filling:
about 3dl cashews (soak over night in water)
Inside of 1 passion fruit
2-4 spoons of sea buckthorn juice or these two you can replace with juice of 2 lemons
1 tsp. vanilla powder
slightely less than 1 dl melted coconut oil
1/2-1 dl honey

2 dl strawberries
I used freezed organic strawberries.  


Strawberry raw cake for friends photos by Kreetta Järvenpää www.gretchengretchen.com

These bisquits were my back up plan. Luckily didn't need it.


Strawberry raw cake for friends photos by Kreetta Järvenpää www.gretchengretchen.com

We ate well, talked a lot and went a bit sledding. Lovely day.


xo
Kreetta

6 comments:

  1. Oh yum! Totally going to try this recipe. My favorite raw food restaurant makes it with pomegranate and lemon and I've been wanting to make it at home. Love your blog by the way!

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  2. I am loving the light in these photos! Great job. Can't wait to try the cake recipe,too.

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  3. @Dana Sounds good! Pomegranate is totally worth trying too. Have to remember :) Thank you so much!

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  4. @Barbara Please do try! I forgot to have proper decoration but I will next time :) Thank you Barbara!

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  5. beautiful images, so much light! and that raw cake sounds and looks so good...

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  6. Hi Lena! Thank you! I'm so happy the light is coming back for us!

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