Experience Nutrition: Super Berry Cashew Cream Pie: Delicious Plant-Based Desserts by Melanie Albert, Part 1 of 4

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

Excited to share with you four amazing, delicious, beautiful, and “healthy” plant-based desserts for you to enjoy creating with your family and friends: Super 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.

The first dessert is the Super Berry Cashew Cream Pie. Links to the other plant-based dessert recipes:

Choose a recipe that you are excited about and then come back and make another one.

Berry Cashew Cream Pie

Create a stunning cream pie that’s simple to prepare and full of flavor. Enjoy the process of adding superfood berries, acai and maqui, to add a beautiful purple layer of color to the pie, and have fun plating with your favorite fresh berries.

Berry Cashew Cream Pie

Walnut Crust

Simple Ingredients

1 cup walnuts
¼ tsp ground cinnamon
½ tsp coconut oil
¼ tsp vanilla
Pinch salt

Simple Steps

Process walnuts into a flour in a food processor.
Add cinnamon and salt and pulse to combine.
Add vanilla and coconut oil, and process until dough is crumbly, but sticks together.
Press crust into the bottom of an 8×8 parchment-lined pan.
Chill in refrigerator or freezer to set.

Filling

Simple Ingredients

1 cup raw cashews, pre-soaked in water 2-4 hours.
2 tbsp lemon juice
1 tsp vanilla extract
2 tbsp light agave
2 tbsp coconut oil
Pinch sea salt
2-3 tbsp cashew milk or water, as needed to blend

Simple Steps

Blend cashews, lemon juice, vanilla extract, agave, and sea salt in a high speed blender.
Add coconut oil, and blend.
Add cashew milk, as needed for smoothness.
Pour filling on top of crust in chilled pan. (Save ¼ cup of the filling to make superfood filling.)
Chill in refrigerator or freezer to set.

Superfood Filling

Simple Ingredients

¼ cup of cashew filling
½ tsp acai powder
½ tsp maqui powder

Simple Steps

Put cashew filling, acai powder, and maqui powder into a small bowl.
Stir with a spoon until thoroughly mixed.
Pour the filling onto the top of chilled pie in the pan.
Chill in refrigerator or freezer.

Berry Cashew Cream Pie: Maqui and Acai Filling

Plating

Simple Ingredients

½ cup fresh blackberries or blueberries

Simple Steps

Cut pie into squares or rectangles.
Plate with fresh blackberries or blueberries.

Plating Mise en Place…

Berry Cream Pie Mise en Place for Plating

The Superfood Berry Pie…

The Superfood Berry Cream Pie Beauty

A few photos from the Holiday Dessert Cooking Class at The Farm. Thanks to my photographer friend, Nathalia from Brazil for capturing the event.

Melanie Albert, Holiday Desserts Cooking Class at The Farm at South Mountain

Blackberries onto the Berry Cream Pie

A few more fun photos from the Holiday Dessert Cooking Class at The Farm

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

Natural Awakenings Arizona, January 2019. Start the New Year Off Right

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Purchase Melanie Albert’s award-winning cookbook, “A New View of Healthy Eating: Simple Intuitive Cooking with Real Whole Foods”

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.