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Raw Chocolate Almond Fudge Cake

Chocolate Crust Ingredients:
1 cup pecans
5 dates, pitted
2 tbsp. raw cacao powder or carob with chocolate extract to taste

Chocolate Almond Fudge Cake Filling Ingredients:
1 1/2 cups of cashews
1/2 cup water
1/2 cup raw liquid sweetener of choice
1/2 cup coconut oil, melted
1/2 tsp. vanilla extract
1/4 tsp. almond extract
1/4 tsp. Himalayan sea salt
1 cup raw cacao powder or 1 cup carob powder with chocolate extract to taste

Chocolate Crust Instructions:
In a food processor, combine all crust ingredients and pulse until sticky.
Press into the bottom of spring form pan.

Chocolate Almond Fudge Cake Filling Instructions:

Put all ingredients into high-speed blender and blend until smooth and creamy.
Save one cup of filling and set aside.
Pour rest of filling into spring form pan and spread evenly.
Place in the freezer for 1 hour.
After one hour, pour 1 cup of filling into piping bag and pipe over frozen cake in preferred design.
Return to freezer for 3 more hours or until serving.

I stole this recipe from Healthy Holistic Living and I'm going to try it tomorrow. 

There have been more storms tonight, but they've been pretty mild and now it's raining, which is nice, especially for the vegetable garden. The corn and the asparagus are thriving on all the rain from the last couple of weeks.

The chickens have been laying again .. Murphy's Law because I bought a dozen organic eggs AND a dozen free range from the supermarket. Maybe the threat that I made about them becoming our Christmas dinner did the trick!!

I finally mailed all of the Christmas gifts today. I sent them regular post and in total, they cost over $62! If I'd posted them 'express', it would have been almost double that amount. Perhaps I need to get my family to live a bit closer so that I can hand deliver instead!

After we went to all the trouble of putting up the outside Christmas lights, we keep forgetting to turn them on. Luckily some of them are solar lights, so they twinkle and glow all on their own, but the lights that frame the house, the santa and the tree need to be turned on. By the time we get into the habit, Christmas will be over and it'll be time to pack them away again!

I've yawned at least six times while writing this, so I think it's time to go to bed.

Nite all.