PinkOnBrown Webzine

I love it when desserts aren’t just yummy but nutritious as well. This pie doesn’t require any baking, just fresh ingredients. Both the crust and the cream can be edited to your liking, just keep in mind how the texture is effected by the ingredients. You want to make sure that the crust is just oily enough to stick together without being greasy and the cream needs to be thick enough to stick together when cut (don’t worry if it doesn’t right away, the pie will need to be frozen and thawed before optimal tastiness is achieved).

Tools/Supplies:
Food processor, or blender (you want to finely blend and chop your ingredients)
standard pie plate (glass preferable)
rubber spatula

Ingredients:
4 cups raw nuts, chopped *(I used 2c walnuts and 1c pecans)
3-1/2 cups raw pitted dates
1 tbsp cinnamon
4-5 super ripe and sweet bananas
1 cup water
2-3 tbsp fresh lemon juice

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Crust:
In food processor finely process 3 cups nuts and cinnamon. Add 1 cup dates and blend until goey dough ball forms.
Press dough into pie pan.

Filling:
Process 1 cup nuts, lemon juice, water, and 4 bananas - until smooth, thick and creamy.

Assemble pie however you’d like. Try sliced bananas on the bottom, on the top, or even create a releif with banana slices using toothpicks to carve details!

Freeze pie for 2-4 hours before serving.

*Don’t be afraid to mix and match your nuts, sweeter nuts like walnuts and pecans work really well. Also don’t forget to consider oil content - i.e. pecans have more oils than walnuts. If your nut mixture isn’t oily enough, add some olive/canola/etc. oil to the pie crust