One of my favorite things about summer is fresh cherries! This recipe for my Triple Chocolate Cherry Bars is coming a little late in the cherry season so using fresh or frozen cherries will work just great.
This recipe is super easy to toss together and can be dressed up or kept simple. Either way you decide to make this recipe it is the perfect combination of dark creamy chocolate and tart beautiful cherries.
I gave two options for extract in the recipe below. One is for almond extract and one is for vanilla extract. The almond extract will give this recipe a more intense almond cherry flavor. If you enjoy that give it a try. If you are more into a dark chocolate with a hint of cherry use the vanilla extract.
This recipe is vegan, gluten free, dairy free, no-bake, all natural, whole food ingredients.
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Ingredients:
- 1 Cup Natural Almonds
- 1 Cup Natural Walnuts
- 1 Cup Soft Fresh Pitted Medjool Dates
- 1/4 tsp Sea Salt
- 1 tsp Vanilla Extract
- 3-4 Tbsp Natural Cocoa Powder (you can use carob here if you wish)
- 5 Large Ripe Avocados (Pitted and Peeled)
- 1/4 Cup All Natural Pure Cashew Butter or Almond Butter
- 1 tsp Vanilla Extract (or almond extract is lovely here)
- 1/2 tsp Instant Espresso (Optional but gives it an awesome flavour)
- 1/4 Cup Plus 2 Tbsp Cocoa Powder
- 4 Tbsp Maple Syrup (Coconut Sap or Agave)
- 1/3 Cup Mini Vegan Dark Chocolate Chips
- 1 Cup of Fresh Pitted Ripe Cherries
Directions:
- Place all crust ingredients in the food processor and pulse until the mixture is a crumbly dough.
- Grease your 8x8 pan with a healthy non-stick cooking oil OR line with an over flowing piece of parchment paper for easy removal.
- Press dough evenly into the bottom of your baking dish.
- Place all chocolate avocado ice cream ingredients into a clean food processor bowl (excluding chocolate chips and cherries) and blend until completely smooth stopping to scrape down the sides.
- Mix in cherries and chocolate chips with a spatula.
- Layer chocolate cherry mixture on top of chocolate brownie crust.
- Place in the freezer for 3 hours OR overnight.
- Remove from freezer, let sit for 5-10 minutes before slicing, slice and serve immediately.
- Store in the freezer.
- *In the pictures above I used coconut whipped cream, some extra cherries and my simple Icy Square Chocolate recipe to drizzle over. Not needed but can be fun.
DAMY Members - 1-2 Slices is a great treat option.
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I can’t eat avocados, is there a suitable substitute.