{"id":5966,"date":"2015-12-13T10:01:49","date_gmt":"2015-12-12T21:01:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ascensionkitchen.com\/?p=5966"},"modified":"2018-04-18T18:03:58","modified_gmt":"2018-04-18T06:03:58","slug":"raw-chocolate-cherry-cake-with-caramelised-prunes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ascensionkitchen.com\/raw-chocolate-cherry-cake-with-caramelised-prunes\/","title":{"rendered":"Raw Chocolate Cherry Cake with Caramelised Prunes"},"content":{"rendered":"
This decadent raw cake has a coconut and oat base, topped with two creamy layers - chocolate infused with caramelised prunes, and vanilla infused with fresh ripe cherries. An absolute show-stopper. <\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n With just over a week till Christmas, I’ve been busy trialling recipes out for the special day, and this Raw Chocolate Cherry Cake is as festive as it gets. The addition of caramelised prunes was a genius idea (because, prunes + dark chocolate = always winning). Although incredibly indulgent, it is still made from wholesome, plant based ingredients, and as always, is entirely free from refined sugars.<\/p>\n [bctt tweet=\"RAW Chocolate and Cherry Cake with Caramelised Prunes over at Ascension Kitchen!\"]<\/p>\n I love raw cakes because they are incredibly hard to stuff up. Take your ingredients, blend, whiz, pour, set, done. The art of it is in the quality of the raw starting ingredients and the combination of flavours. Meanwhile, my beautiful Nana whom I went to visit yesterday, was standing behind her kitchen bench with not one but five Christmas<\/a> fruit puddings. She is a perfectionist like me and is on a mission to create the perfect recipe, one that doesn’t see the bulk of the fruit sink to the bottom. She has tweaked the recipe to be health-ified – making it with coconut sugar and organic ingredients (go Nan!) but it still needs to be cooked and watched and fiddled with. It tastes incredible of course but not nearly as simple a feat as a raw cake. And I’m all about ease, grace and flow at the moment, especially at the end of a busy year.<\/p>\n But back to the cake…<\/p>\n <\/p>\nPrunes Prunes Prunes<\/h2>\n