No-bake dessert
Black Forest Cacao Cups
All the classic cherry-chocolate pairing of Black Forest cake, reimagined as a bite-sized raw cup.
Ingredients · 1 serving
- Walnuts, English0.58 oz (17 g)
- Medjool dates, pitted0.3 oz (8.5 g)
- Cocoa powder, unsweetened0.12 oz (3.5 g)
- Table salt0.01 oz (0.2 g)
- Cashews, raw0.42 oz (12 g)
- Sweet cherries, pitted0.56 oz (16 g)
- Maple syrup0.21 oz (6 g)
Method
- Process walnuts, dates, half the cocoa powder, and salt until it forms a sticky crumb.
- Divide the mixture between as many silicone muffin or mini-cupcake mold sections as your chosen number of servings, forming cup shapes with a well in each center.
- Blend soaked, drained cashews with all the cherries listed for the filling, the remaining cocoa powder and maple syrup until smooth.
- Fill each cup with cherry cream and divide the additional pitted cherries listed for the centers among the cups.
- Freeze 1 hour until set, then pop out of the molds to serve.
Recipe from raw-desserts.com (opens in a new tab). The full batch makes 10 servings (10 cups); quantities above are one serving.
Nutrition per serving
| Calories | 231 kcal |
|---|---|
| Protein | 5.7 g |
| Carbohydrates | 20.9 g |
| Fat | 16.5 g |
| Fiber | 3.7 g |
| Sodium | 62 mg |
Highest micronutrients
- Copper: 0.7 mg (78% of the FDA Daily Value)
- Manganese: 1.11 mg (48% of the FDA Daily Value)
- Magnesium: 86 mg (21% of the FDA Daily Value)
- Zinc: 1.58 mg (14% of the FDA Daily Value)
- Phosphorus: 163 mg (13% of the FDA Daily Value)
- Iron: 1.91 mg (11% of the FDA Daily Value)
Calculated from USDA FoodData Central ingredient records. Unknown values are not counted as zero. Illustration, not a photo of the tested result.