Experience Nutrition: Chocolate Goji Berry Cream Pie: Delicious Plant-Based Desserts by Melanie Albert, Part 2 of 4

By Melanie Albert, Founder & CEO Experience Nutrition, Intuitive Cooking Expert, and Award-Winning Cookbook Author

Continuing to share with you delicious, beautiful, and “healthy” plant-based desserts: Berry Cashew Cream Pie, Chocolate Goji Berry Cream Pie, Aromatic Apple Berry, and Raw Carrot Cake. The desserts feature berries, chocolate, goji berries, and amazing aromatic culinary experiences with hand-grinding spices, including cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves, and cardamom.

We created these desserts at our hands-on Holiday cooking class at The Farm at South Mountain and I have to say they were all so created with so much mindfulness and heart. Plus, they were delicious.

Today’s dessert, featured on the cover the the January 2019 issue of Natural Awakenings Arizona, is the Chocolate Goji Berry Cream Pie. Links to the other plant-based dessert recipes:

Chocolate Goji Berry Cream Pie

Try this simple chocolate dessert recipe for your family and friends. This gourmet-quality pie is so much fun to make and is beautiful and delicious. Learn to quickly and easily melt chocolate chips right in your oven. Enjoy the pie with superfood goji berries. If you have extra chocolate pie, cut it into small pieces and freeze for snacks.

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Chocolate Goji Berry Pie

Pecan Crust

Simple Ingredients

2 cups raw pecans
¼ cup maple sugar
1½ tbsp coconut oil
½ tsp sea salt

Simple Steps

Pulse pecans and maple sugar in food processor.
Add coconut oil and sea salt.
Pulse to combine well.
Press and shape mixture into the bottom of a 10-inch springform pan.

Thanks to my friend Nathalia, from Brazil for capturing the focus of making the crust for the chocolate pie.

Filling

Simple Ingredients

2½ cups vegan dark chocolate chips
2 packages organic soft silken tofu (260g packages)
1 tsp vanilla extract or 1 vanilla bean, scraped
Pinch of sea salt

Simple Steps

Melt Chocolate Chips

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
Pour the chocolate chips in a single layer onto a flat baking sheet.
Place in the oven to melt for no more than 3-4 minutes or until melted. Be careful that you don’t burn them.

Melt Chocolate Chips in the oven.

Blend the Filling

Place tofu, vanilla, sea salt, and melted chocolate chips into a food processor.
Blend until smooth.
Pour mixture into pie crust and chill for at least 30 minutes.
Top with nuts, and fresh fruit or goji berries.

Chocolate Pie Plating Mise en Place

Chocolate Goji Berry Pie Plating Mise en Place

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Simplicity of the Chocolate Goji Berry Pie

In awe of the beautiful chocolate pie created at the Dessert Cooking Class at The Farm at South Mountain.

The beauty of the Chocolate Goji Berry Pie prepared during the Dessert Cooking Class at The Farm at South Mountain.

While making this pie for the Arizona edition of the January 2019 issue of Natural Awakenings magazine, I had the fun opportunity to create a “birthday pop-up celebration” for urban farmer, Billy Anthony, of the Soil & Seed Garden at The Farm at South Mountain.

My honor to celebrate Billy Anthony’s Birthday with the Pie Pop-up.

Thanks so much to Billy and Bailey for the Soil & Seed CSA (Community Supported Agriculture).

What fun celebrating Billy’s Birthday…thanks so much for “playing”!

Billy Anthony’s Chocolate Goji Berry Pie is ready to enjoy.

The beauty of food…Chocolate Cream Pie with Persimmons & Berries

Enjoying the Chocolate Goji Pie creations.

Yummm…And, the perfect setting, at The Farm at South Mountain to enjoy…

Thanks Billy Anthony for growing the beautiful produce at the Soil & Seed Garden at The Farm. And, Happy Birthday.

Happy Birthday to you, Billy Anthony…wishing you another wonderful year. Thanks so much for so passionately growing all of the incredible beautiful, tasty food at the Soil & Seed Garden at The Farm at South Mountain, Phoenix.

Thanks to Natural Awakenings AZ magazine for featuring my Plant-Based Chocolate Pie on the cover and Plant-Based Dessert recipes in the January 2019 issue.

Natural Awakenings Arizona, January 2019

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PUBLIC COOKING CLASSES IN PHOENIX, ARIZONA

Phoenix friends…hope you or your kids can join us at one of our hands-on intuitive cooking classes this season… Vision Board & Appetizers, Foods for Addiction Recovery, Spring Farm-to-Table, Raw Farm-to-Table, and Kids Food Art.