Raw Lemon Slice

I love raw sweets.  I could go on here about how raw food is so good for you because its unprocessed, whole ingredients, paleo, blah blah.  You get the picture right?  Well, the truth is that I love raw sweets because I can’t bake.  I have made way too many cakes that have gone from the oven and straight into the bin.  It breaks my little heart to do that.

So the alternative is raw! No baking required, as an added bonus you are pretty safe not to get any refined flours or sugars in a raw sweet!  Winning!

Right now the lemon tree in my backyard has about one million lemons on it.  No exaggeration.  I have literally been scouring the internet for recipes on how to rid myself of  a few of these lemons!  I came across this little ditty over on the Rawtarian blog:

http://www.therawtarian.com/raw-lemon-bars-recipe

I know, she calls it a lemon ‘bar’ and I call it a ‘slice’. It’s an Australian thing.

For my Thermomix-ers out there here is the conversion:

Ingredients:

130g almonds
200g medjool dates
zest of 1 lemon (I use a paring knife to roughly cut the zest off the lemon and put as chunks in the TM)
juice of 2 lemons
1tbsp vanilla essence
90g shredded coconut
2 pinches celtic sea salt

Method:

Place almonds in TM bowl grind for 5 seconds on speed 7.

Add dates, lemon rind, lemon juice, and vanilla mix 6 seconds on speed 6.

Add coconut and salt mix 8 seconds on speed 4.

Press the mixture into a small slice pan or tupperware and put the fridge for 1 hour.  Alternatively you could roll the mixture into balls and then place in the fridge to chill.