Can chocolate pie ever be called “healthy”? It can when it’s our Mouth Watering Maca Cacao Pie!
Christmas is a time of year when it seems that everyone around you is chowing down on boxes of chocolates and other sugar-filled treats. You don’t want to throw your healthy anti-cancer eating plans out the window, but you really want to join in and enjoy something sweet. This recipe for Maca Cacao Pie is one of our favorite go-to recipes that’s perfect for just these types of situations.
It’s an easy to make raw dessert recipe that features a number of healthy ingredients and far less sweetener than most typical desserts. It also tastes very rich and dense − so just a small slice can conquer those cravings for chocolate.
A Healthy Chocolate Alternative
This recipe for a healthy chocolate alternative to typical desserts features a number of super foods that work synergistically to create a powerful cancer-fighting dessert and complete health food. Three of the key “superfood” ingredients are:
- Organic raw cacao powder is exceptionally rich in magnesium, vitamin C, and immune-boosting enzymes. Cacao powder is made from cold pressing unroasted cocoa beans which maintains the living enzymes that contribute to good gut health. Be sure not to confuse cacao with cocoa powder − that dark brown chocolaty powder commonly used when baking traditional brownies or chocolate cake from scratch. The two powders may look (and even taste) quite similar, but cocoa (spelled with two “O”s) is made from roasted cocoa beans. The roasting process kills the enzymes and reduces the nutritional profile.
- Chia seeds may be tiny in size, but are packed full of nutrients and contain natural antioxidant properties. Chia seeds are also a good source of dietary fiber, omega-3 fatty acids, and complete proteins. Not to mention being one of the best plant-based sources of zinc.
- Maca is an immunostimulator, energizer, mood enhancer, and stomach cancer fighter. If you’ve not used maca before, you can find it at most health food stores and specialty food stores such as Whole Foods and Trader Joe’s. It’s a powder made from a dried root grown in South America, and is a popular addition to many smoothie recipes.
These three super foods, combined with the remaining healthy, anti-cancer ingredients such as raw nuts, flaxseed, and coconut oil make this dessert both delicious and therapeutic… the perfect chocolate treat for upcoming Christmas celebrations!
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Editor’s Note: This recipe was initially published in 2021 and has been updated in December 2023.
Have been planning on making this for quite some time (ever since you posted it). And now that I finally got my hands on some CLEAN maca (third-party tested for heavy metals and other contaminants), I am ready to make. This is right up our alley. So thanks, Charlene, for sharing! We apprecieate you and Ty and everything you are doing! 🙂
Guess what – I wanted to pin this recipe to my pinterest folder ‘gluten free desserts’. And a window popped up, saying that they’ve blocked this pin, because it may lead to ‘inappropriate content’. Probably meaning, that you’re telling people to heal cancer naturally. Which is obviously totally inappropriate, if you want to make money by killing people with chemo and radiation.
The first ingredient in Lakanto is erythritol. That means it could be 90% erythritol and 10% monk fruit, for example.
This is great! So we get all these organic ingredients and then wrap them in plastic?!
Where is the recipe exactly? No longer visible here on the website article. Could you please e-mail it to me?
Me too! I’d love the recipe, but I can not find it. If you’d please email. I’d be grateful. 🙂
Where is the recipe? Forgive me, but I am not seeing it for the “Healthy Chocolate Pie Recipe: “Mouth Watering” Maca Cacao Pie.” It sounds & looks delicious! This shows the article about ingredients, but no recipe? Can you share please. 🙂 I appreciate ALL the wonderful work you do!
Hello,
Where can I find this recipe? Healthy Chocolate Pie Recipe: “Mouth Watering” Maca Cacao Pie
So…..there’s no recipe for the Maca Cacao Pie here? Where can I find this recipe?
I am also asking where is the recipe or a link to the recipe….this article posted under “Recipes” is devoid of the recipe. I am so sad. Can the webpage be updated with the recipe it is describing? This is first one I’ve looked at so hopefully this isn’t typical of all of the recipes.. I guess I will go to the next one to see.
Maca Cocao Pie (https://www.copymethat.com/r/YXFJbBnID/mouth-watering-maca-cacao-pie/)
Ingredients
Filling Ingredients:
½ cup raw macadamia nuts (soak 1 hour) OR cashews (soak 2 hours) OR hazelnuts (soak 4 hours), soaked in water
½ cup raw cacao powder OR for a darker chocolate add an additional ¼ cup
½ cup cold pressed coconut oil, liquefied at low temperature on stove top
3 tablespoons or more according to taste of raw honey OR coconut nectar* OR Lakanto**
¼ cup spring or filtered water (only if needed to make a smooth filling)
Coconut flakes, raw cacao nibs, and/or nuts for garnish (optional)
Spices:
1 tablespoon chia seeds
1 tablespoon maca powder***
¼ teaspoon cayenne pepper powder
Quality salt to taste, such as pink or sea salt
Crust Ingredients:
¾ cup raw almonds
½ cup buckwheat flour OR ground flaxseed
1 tablespoon cold pressed coconut oil
1 tablespoon raw honey OR coconut nectar*
Quality salt to taste, such as pink or sea salt
Steps (Not given-says steps available here….https://thetruthaboutcancer.com/healthy-chocolate-maca-cacao-pie-recipe …. but not so)
Here’s some alternative directions from another recipe with same name/similar ingredients…read it closely bec not all ingredients are the same (less ingredients) but similar (https://organixx.com/maca-cacao-pie-recipe/). Maybe TTAC will actually provide their recipe????
Instructions
1. Spread a tiny amount of coconut oil on the bottom and sides of a 9-inch glass pie plate.
2. Add all your crust ingredients into a food processor or blender and process until it is a loose cookie dough form or if ingredients begin to stick together.
3. Place the dough mixture in your pie plate and press evenly from the center to the sides and about a half to one inch up the sides. (Place in the freezer while preparing the filling.)
4. Place filling ingredients and spices into a food processor or blender and process until smooth; slowly adding water if necessary. (Blend until you have the consistency of a thick pudding.)
5. Take your crust out of the freezer and pour and spread the filling evenly into the crust.
6. Place pie back in the freezer for two to three hours or until firm.
7. Take your pie out of the freezer and cover the filling with plastic wrap.
8. Place back into the freezer until it is time to serve
9. Remove from the freezer and garnish with cacao nibs, coconut, or crushed nuts. (You may need to allow pie to sit for 10 minutes or so before cutting into slices to serve.)
Notes
Serves 8. Per Serving (based on using macadamia nuts, cacao powder, honey, cacao nibs & buckwheat flour):