I just made Golden Cream Pie, one of Holly‘s recipes. It was great, although not quite as good as when Holly makes it!

(Also, I didn’t have dried cherries, so I used fresh ones, which made the base not very base like!)

Pastry:
100g or ½ cup almonds, soaked
100g or ½ cup hazelnuts/ filberts, soaked and dehydrated if possible
5 dates, fresh if possible
5 prunes
1 banana
30g pitted dried cherries (if available)
handful cacao nibs

Filling:
hemp milk made with 200ml or 2/3 cup hemp seeds and juice of 2 oranges and water as necessary (click for hemp milk recipe)
a few pieces orange peel/zest
2 dried figs
½ banana
50g or ¼ cup macadamia nuts
30g or a handful goji berries

Decoration:
handful fresh cherries
sprinkling chocolate powder

Process all the pastry ingredients except the cacao nibs together until smooth, mix in the nibs and form the pastry base on a plate.

Blend the topping ingredients until smooth and fill the pie.  It will set in a few minutes
Sprinkle raw chocolate powder on the top and decorate with halved cherries.

I made myself a dehydrator:

Ok, not quite. I worked out how to dry stuff using my radiator! I’ve been using this method to melt my cacao butter for a while now, then started drying some orange peel for making the orange oil which then led me to try and dehydrate a cookie…

So I was experimenting with a recipe for a cake base and I thought “mmm, this would make a good choc chip cookie, so I added some currants and, there it is:

Ingredients:

• 60g almonds, soaked
• 6 dates, soaked
• 2 prunes, soaked
• 50g cacao nibs
• 1 tsp lucuma
• 1 tsp mesquite
• 1 tsp cacao powder
• 10g currants

I put everything except the currants into the food processor and processed until the texture was ‘cake like’ (took quite a while, kept having to stop and stir it up a bit). I then added the currants and processed briefly. I ate most of it as it was and dried one cookie for an hour or two, but I think if you have a dehydrator it might make good cookies. You might want to add more cacao powder, 1tsp doesn’t make them very chocolaty.