I guess you should eat this immediately.

It is possible that my recent discoveries in the area of raw nut-laden recipes have derailed my ETL weight loss journey. Nonetheless this cake is quite amazing. Perhaps it is not good if you are not coming off of two months of sugarlessness and wheatlessness. My palate might be completely crazy now. But I think it is GREAT. It even makes me feel bad about my sarcastic comments in the last post and is causing me to refrain from remarking on how the Trail Mix Cookies from the raw desserts book taste like how it would be if you left a Larabar in your pocket for two weeks.

The recipe calls for raw cacao powder but after reading all the various wacky rants on the internet about how it is either an amazing superfood or going to kill you immediately, all written by some total nuts who say things like “once I did a fast where I lived on water and raw cacao for 2 weeks and it was AMAZING” or “I find that I feel best when I eat very little and do a huge amount of yoga so as to exist on a higher plane of purity” I decided to just use the regular dutch-processed cocoa powder that I already had (although it is processed with alkali and therefore has no antioxidants blah blah blah).

Blend in food processor:
3 cups walnuts
2/3 cup cocoa powder
1/4 tsp salt
Add and blend:
1 cup pitted, destemmed medjool dates
Pat into cake shapes.

Blend in food processor:
1/3 cup dates, pitted, destemmed
1/4 cup agave syrup
1/2 cup ripe mashed avocado
1/3 cup cocoa powder