BLUE & ACAI BERRY CHEESECAKE (RAW)

Raw desserts remind me of the exclusive Konditoreien and Pâtisseries of my childhood in Germany.

I would always be amazed by picturesque  cakes made with endless layers of soft, pastel coloured creams and sweet tasting marcipans. They were laid out in beautiful shop windows with sparkly chandelliers and fancy furniture you had to be careful with. My grandma would sometimes take me there on special occasions for Kaffee und Kuchen.

Then we moved to America and cakes there looked quite different: A lot more colourful and fun! I would be invited to children’s birthday parties and astonished to eat pink princess, Hello Kitty and Rainbow Brite cakes with equally bright (all seven) rainbow colours! Boy oh boy, that was so much fun and they even had blue, yellow and green colours in them. I had never seen anything like it before!

Unfortunately (or fortunately) my mom didn’t think those new cakes were so great. In fact, she insisted that they were to be avoided all together and we never even stopped in the bakery section of the supermarket where
my comic friends were displayed in plastic packaging.

There are many years between then and now and I am still a little fascinated by the craft of confectionery even though I don’t enjoy eating it anymore. It took me years to wean myself off commercial sugars and once you have it out of your system you aren’t going back! Sugar mostly makes me thirsty and feeling a bit sluggish and uncomfortable.

Then raw desserts came to the rescue! Made with natural, low glycemic index sugars and plenty of other wonderfullly healthy ingredients like activated nuts, superfoods of dried berry powders with acai, pomegrante, maca and cacao, which are full of enzymes, minerals and amino acids. And of course these luscious desserts look like they came out of the best Konditoreien or Pâtisseries of the city.