Recipe: Chocolate-Avocado Pudding

This week’s healthy recipe comes by way of Marni Wasserman, a Toronto-based Certified Nutritional Practitioner who we absolutely love. Her values align strongly with ours, and her cooking classes happen to be an amazing value – 8 recipes in 3 hours!

Here’s a recipe you’ll be able to use as a substitute for highly processed Hallowe’en treats this weekend.

Raw Chocolate Avocado Pudding

Ingredients:

• 2 ripe avocadoes
• 2 tbsp vanilla extract
• 2 tbsp maple syrup (raw purists can leave this one out)
• 4 medjool dates (soaked overnight)
• 1 tbsp pure unsweetened raw cocoa powder
• 1 tbsp raw almond butter or 1/2 cup raw almonds (soaked in water for 8 hours overnight)
• 1 tsp cinnamon

Instructions:

1. Combine the ingredients in a blender and whirl until well-blended into a thick, creamy pudding.
2. Divide the pudding into 2 servings.
3. Enjoy!

Health Benefits

• Avocadoes are a source of healthy fats, potassium, manganese, vitamin E, and folate. Folate has been shown to have positive effects towards heart disease, stroke, fertility, and depression.
• Almonds are a good source of healthy fats, calcium, protein, vitamin E, and riboflavin (vitamin B2). Riboflavin deficiencies have been linked to cracked lips, dry and scaling skin, and iron-deficiency anemia.

More of Marni’s recipes (including lovely cooked vegan ones) can be found on her blog. Thanks Marni!