Day 5 of our Real Food Remix holiday edition: tasty recipes utilizing real food ingredients so you have some ideas for healthy desserts this holiday season.
So far we’ve looked at recipes for:
Today, we’re going to tackle one of my favorites from all of them: the creamiest raw blueberry cream pie you will ever taste!
This raw pie turned out great and is friendly to nearly all food lifestyles: 100% raw, paleo & vegan-friendly ingredients, gluten free, and dairy free.
And most importantly, 100% processed junk free and made with real food ingredients. Let’s take a look at it…
Ingredients
Crust
1 cup raw almonds, soaked 4 hours minimum
1 cup raw hazelnuts, soaked 4 hours minimum
8 pitted medjool dates
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1 teaspoon ground ginger
1/2 teaspoon ground clove
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Filling
1 1/2 cup raw cashews, soaked 4 hours minimum
2 cups fresh blueberries
3 tablespoons maple butter
2 teaspoon vanilla extract
pinch of pink salt
Optional Topping: About 2 more cups of fresh blueberries on top at the end (see picture below)
Directions
Crust
1. Place all your ingredients in a food processor and blend until everything incorporated to a sticky mixture.
2. Take a 9 1/2″ pie pan with removable bottom like this one and form the mixture into the pan for your crust.
3. Place crust in the freezer… on to the filling next.
Filling
1. Drain and dry off your soaked cashews
2. Place the nuts and all other ingredients into your food processor and blend until incorporated and very creamy (no chunks).
3. Once you have your filling, remove your crust from the freezer and add your filling in the middle of the pie crust and smooth over evenly.
4. Place back in freezer and let it setup over night.
5. When you’re ready to serve, take it out of the freezer and let it sit for 15-20 minutes. You can keep this one stored in the fridge afterwards.
Optional before serving: after 15-20 minutes removed from freezer you can line the top of your pie with your fresh blueberries.
As always with these real food remix desserts, enjoy in moderation while following a healthy 80/20 lifestyle and eating according to your metabolic type for optimal health, energy, vitality and athletic performance.
Buon Appetito!
This is so gorgeous!
thanks Jamie!
Bravo well done. i’ll be trying this one for my son. I have a question though can I use something in place of maple butter? I wasn’t able to find it at the store the last time I looked for it. Thanks for the feedback and time.
David
Awesome David, love that you’re giving a healthier choice to your son. Maple butter can be hit or miss at a local store say like a Whole Foods, but you can get it online at Amazon. I usually always link it in the ingredients part of the posts (because people ask this question from time to time)… but as a substitute, you could always try raw honey or pure organic maple syrup as well. Cheers
WOWZA beautiful creation!!
Thank you Bella, I appreciate it
Are you able to soak the nuts overnight? Would they get to soggy if you do that? I want to make some of your recipes in the morning so I was thinking of soaking them all night 🙂
Thank you for all of these fantastic recipes!
Megan
Hey Megan, yeah that is fine.. 4 hours is just the minimum.. but longer can be even better for some nuts.
Glad you’re enjoying them, did you get a chance to download the real food remix cookbook? I’ve got it free as a holiday gift from me to everyone (social media notified) on this link: http://www.NutritionYouCanTrust.com/holiday ..there’s a lot more recipes in it 🙂
Cheers
Great thank you! I just downloaded it 🙂
Hi Jon,
All these recipes look great and I am sure taste great too. I do have a question about cashew nuts. I am borderline high cholesterol and I was wondering if cashew nuts would be OK to add to my diet. If not, can you suggest a substitute for the filling ingredient for your pies? Thank you so much!
Hi Divya, first thank you for the compliment, I appreciate it.
Regarding your questions: Do you know your metabolic type? See this post: bit.ly/metabolictype. The answer to your question in general “would be ok with my diet”, is it depends… for example if you read the metabolic type post, I discussed Inuit tribes that ate 90% fat/protein in northern hemisphere regions where the ground freezes over. They were perfectly healthy. So the answer is, what’s right for you? The MT post will give a start on finding that out..
The answer to your question in terms of the food stuff itself… I don’t have a problem with raw nuts. Enjoy in moderation. Processed fats, rancid fats, denatured fats from too high heat, etc are fats to try and avoid. opt for raw nuts over roasted nuts (example of heating/denaturing). As for a substitution, unfortunately I don’t have one for the cashews. That’s what gives it the creaminess texture.
Hope this helps. Cheers
Thank you for the detailed response Jon. I will take a look at your article on metabolic typing and then figure out if I can add these yummy nuts to my diet. Until then, I will happily drool over all your gorgeous posts and pictures! 🙂
Best Wishes!
Divya