Sweet Cream-Chocolate Fruit Sushi

My most popular food post so far is my Banana Apple Fruit Sushi . So I decided to feature some of my more complex fruit sushi inventions! This recipe has a few component recipes. You can make it as simple or as complex as you want. I promise this one is absolutely delicious!

Sweet Cream & Chocolate Fruit Sushi

Ingredients:

Romaine Lettuce Leaves
Strawberries
Blueberries
Cheesecake-Cashew-Coconut-Whipped-Cream
Coconut-Candied-Walnuts
Your favorite organic chocolate syrup,
OR  
Easy Chocolate Sauce
1/2 Cup Agave
1 Date
2 Tbsp. Raw Cocoa Powder
1 Tbsp. Peanut Butter


Instructions:

Wash your strawberries.

Cut them up carefully, these peices will be on display, after all :)

Wash the organic romaine lettuce leaves, being careful not to tear the fibers since this needs to hold creamy fillings! Wash the blueberries as well.

Lay the romaine out flat and cut of peices that are brown or that make it hard to bend the leaf.

Now we have arrived to the good part! Smear on some raw coconut cashew cream!

Add a handful of blueberries.

Add sliced strawberries!

If you have any granola on hand, this is a really good addition. Or use my Easy Coconut-Candied Walnuts recipe.

 

 Roll up the fruit carefully into the romaine lettuce leaf. On its side, poke several toothpicks obout two inches apart and then cut in-between to create a mini skewer. Or you can just eat it just like this!

A delicious fruit burrito! It's really good without the chocolate sauce too. This would make it really easy because you could have the cream on hand, pre-made and just make a snack!  

Take a white plate and squirt little designs of chocolate onto the plate. If you are making your own chocolate sauce, like I did, then fill a zip-lock bag with the sauce and then cut a tiny end off (cut the corner off), so as to make a very small opening. This is like a cheap pastry-frosting bag.

Place a strawberry and a blueberry slice on top of the exposed top.

I added some baby mint leaf shoots.

Yum! I ate the whole plate, no guilt :)

Easy Coconut Candied Walnuts

Use this on top of yogurt, in parfaits or on top of oatmeal with fresh fruit, feel free to add any dried fruit or nut/grain of your choice. This is grain free, gluten free, vegan.

Easy Coconut Candied Walnuts

Granola:
3/4 Cup Chopped Walnuts
4 Tblsp. Coconut Flour or Shredded Coconut

Spiced Syrup:
2 Tbsp. Agave Nectar
1/2 tsp. Cinnamon
1/2 tsp. Vanilla Extract

Directions: Chop the walnuts. Mix the Coconut into the walnuts. In a seperate bowl mix the spiced syrup together. Mix the syrup into the nut mixture. Lay this mixture out on an oven proof sheet and toast for 2-3 minutes in a toaster over or oven at 400 degrees. You may want to stir the mixture halway through toasting. Watch the mixture carefully as coconut burns easily.

Walnuts are my favorite but this basic recipe will work well with almost any variation.

Chop the walnuts.

In a seperate bowl mix the spiced syrup together.

Mix the Coconut into the walnuts.

Mix the syrup into the nut mixture.

Lay this mixture out on an oven proof sheet and toast for 2-3 minutes in a toaster over or oven at 400 degrees. You may want to stir the mixture half-way through toasting. Watch the mixture carefully, as coconut burns easily. You can also eat this raw, but it gets a delightful crunch when toasted! You can make your own coconut flour by putting shredded coconut into a vitamix and pulsing the blades, or just use dried shredded coconut.