Raw Chocolate Brownies with Acai Ganache

By: Adele of Vegie Head (www.vegiehead.com)

For a decadent dessert recipe that is loaded with antioxidants, make this recipe for Raw Chocolate Brownies with Acai Ganache from Adele of Vegie Head (www.vegiehead.com). This is a brownies recipe you won't soon forget.

Notes

Keep these in the freezer until you are ready serve them- the ganache melts a little bit!

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Makes12 squares

Ingredients

1 cup almonds, soaked for 4 hours
1 cup raw cacao, plus 1 tablespoon cacao
5 dates, pitted
1/4 cup coconut oil
1 pinch sea salt
3 ripe bananas
1 tablespoon 'RioLife' Acai powder

Instructions

Blend almonds, 1 cup of cacao, dates, coconut oil and salt in a high powered blender. You may need to add a little bit of water to make the mix sticky....a teaspoon at a time!
When the mixture is sticky, pour into a small dish that has been greased with coconut oil.
Clean blender, then puree bananas, acai powder and 1 tablespoon cacao.
Pour banana ganache over brownie base.
Freeze for 30 minutes, and cut into squares with a hot knife.
Sprinkle some more cacao on the top and serve.