MD Vegan made a cream pie using coconut cream and cashews as the cream pie base. I was in the mood for banana and I remembered that in this recipe for vegan cheese cake Bakerita used freeze dried blueberries for intensity of flavor and texture preference.
I don't have a method to freeze dry bananas at home (no dry ice, no vacuum sealer, no deep freezer, not 4 weeks (or space) to make sticky bananas in the freezer attached to my fridge) so when I was at Trader Joe's I picked up some freeze dried bananas. At home I blended them into powder.
I soaked the cashews for maximum creaminess, just for about 4 hours, before blending them with a can of Trader Joe's organic coconut cream. I added the banana powder in at the end. At first just half a bag, then the whole bag.
I took a page from Minimalist Baker and made my cream pies in a muffin tin that makes 6 jumbo muffins. I also did as they did and placed strips of parchment across the bottom of each cup for easy removal.
Here's a photo of the finished product
It garnered significant interest around the house
That's all for now!
Ooh! Can't wait to try it!!
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