Raw Lemon “Cheesecake”

This recipe is perfect for people with many different dietary requirements as it is vegan, gluten free and raw.
It only takes about 10 minutes to prepare with a further 3-4 hours setting time in the freezer so is perfect for when you have guests.
As you will see from the recipe it contains almonds and coconut so is sadly no good for those with nut allergies

It is adapted from a recipe that can be found here

Ingredients

• 1/2 cup unblanched almonds
• 1/2 cup Medjool dates
• 2 large ripe bananas
• juice of 1 & 1/2 lemons
• 3 Tbsp coconut oil

Method

Line a small freezer-proof dish with baking paper.

Remove the stalky top bits from the dates and de-pit them. The easiest way to do this is to slice them lengthways after which you can pull out the pit.

De-pitted dates to the left, Pits top right, Stalky bits bottom right

Blend the almonds until fairly fine, then add the dates and blend again.
Tip the mixture into a bowl.

Left – unstirred mixture, Right – stirred mixture

You may find that you need to give the mixture a quick stir in the bowl – my blender left quite a bit of almond at the bottom that was unmixed with the dates.

Squeeze the mixture in a kneading fashion to form a rough dough – it won’t be a smooth dough like bread as there is no real liquid, but as long as it mostly holds together it will be fine.

Press the mixture into the bottom of the dish.

Now blend the remaining ingredients to a thick sauce-like consistency.
Pour/spoon the mixture over the base

Put the dish in the freezer for approximately 3 hours to set.

Remove from the freezer and slice to serve.

Any that is leftover can be stored in the freezer, but this recipe makes only a fairly small amount so you will probably get through it quite quickly.

One quick note – make sure that when you blend the topping your blender base hasn’t come loose or you can end up with a real mess!

Sadly rather than pouring the topping it was more a case of desperately try and save what you can by any means possible!

Happy not-baking!
R

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