dessert archive at Ani’s Raw Food Kitchen

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Maroon 5 Halloween Party

Published November 1st, 2008 in DIARY, best vegetarian, ca, california, celebrities, celebrity, chocolate, dessert, eco, event, gluten free, gluten free diet, green living, health, hollywood, korean, korean american, local, natural, raw food, raw food diet, seasonal, superfood, superfoods, usa, vegan, vegetarian, weight loss, whole food and whole foods. 1 Comment

adam levine lead singer maroon 5 and ani phyo halloween

I was asked to cater my vegan raw food healthy sweet treats and desserts for Maroon 5’s annual Halloween party at Adam Levine’s house, the lead singer. I’m honored to have been asked to feed everyone raw vegan sweet treats! Everyone loved them.

adrian grenier from Entourage and Ani Phyo

Adrian Grenier from Entourage is way cute in person. He was Oliver for Halloween, can you tell?

ani phyo halloween

Even Marge Simpson’s sisters were there! Andrea and Sam in real life, 2 way cool amazing ladies. And these were 2 of my favorite costumes of the eve. So stylish!

Happy Halloween Chocolates for Maroon 5

Published October 31st, 2008 in RECIPES, best vegetarian, ca, cacao, california, celebrities, chocolate, dessert, eco, event, gluten free, gluten free diet, green living, health, hollywood, korean, korean american, local, natural, raw food, raw food diet, superfood, superfoods, usa, vegan, vegetarian, whole food and whole foods. 1 Comment

Ani Phyo's raw food chocolates for Maroon 5 Halloween

I’m serving up raw vegan chocolate to Maroon 5 tonight at their annual Halloween Bash. So cool, most of the band is vegan. This healthy chocolate is super easy to make, is super healthy, packed with antioxidants to fight free radicals and aging, and keeps us looking gorgeous. No gobblins here!

Ani’s Raw Vegan Chocolate

1 cup cacao butter, shaved
1/2 cup cacao powder
1/4 cup mesquite powder
2 Tablespoons maca powder
2 Tablespoons agave, to taste

Begin my placing shaved butter into a bowl. Place that bowl into another larger bowl filled with hot water. Set aside to melt into liquid.

Next, add cacao, mesquite, maca, and agave. Stir well. You can even use a Personal Blender to mix well. Transfer into a squeeze bottle, and fill candy molds with chocolate.

Freeze to firm up. Will keep at room temperature.

Apricot Kream filled Acai Tartlets for Maroon 5 on Halloween

Published October 31st, 2008 in RECIPES, ca, cacao, california, celebrities, chocolate, dessert, eco, event, farmers' market, gluten free, gluten free diet, green living, health, hollywood, korean, korean american, local, natural, raw food, raw food diet, seasonal, superfood, superfoods, usa, vanilla bean, vegan, vegetarian, whole food and whole foods. 1 Comment

acai tartlets filled with apricot cream for maroon 5 on halloween

These beautiful tartlets are made with Acai and filled with a blended apricot kream (vegan, raw food, dairy-free). I’ll be serving my raw food treats to Maroon 5 tonight in the Hollywood Hills at their annual Halloween Bash!

Apricot Pudding
makes about 1 cup (about 8-9 servings)

2/3 cup dry apricots
1/3 cup cashews
2/3 cup filtered water
1 Tablespoon vanilla extract
1 Tablespoon pitted Medjool dates

Place everything in high-speed blender, blend smooth.

Acai Tartlets
makes 9 x 2 Tablespoon tartlet cups

1 1/2 cups cashews, measure first, then process into fine powder
2 Tablespoons Acai powder
pinch sea salt, to taste
1/3 cup pitted and packed Medjool dates
2 Tablespoons liquid cacao butter

Process cashews, salt, acai with dates, mix well. Add liquid butter and mix well.

Line small tartlet pans with plastic. Place 2 Tablespoons of mixture into tartlet pan, press firmly, leaving a cavity in center to hold the Apricot Kream. Place in freezer to firm up for at least 20 minutes or more.

To assemble, remove tartlets from freezer. Scoop 2 Tablespoons Apricot Kream into each tartlet cup. Sprinkle with cacao nibs (optional), and serve.

Raw Chocolate Video on VegNews.com

Published October 29th, 2008 in PRESS, VIDEOS, VegNews Magazine, ca, cacao, california, cooking show, dessert, food demos, gluten free, gluten free diet, green living, health, hollywood, korean, korean american, local, magazine, natural, raw food, raw food diet, superfood, superfoods, uncooking show, vegan, vegetarian, whole food and whole foods. 0 Comments

The new VegNews Magazine’s website has launched. And it looks amazing!! It’s just packed to the brim with incredible content and videos. Including one from me on raw chocolate candy making!!

Visit www.VegNews.com and look for my video on the homepage!

Watch video on YouTube

Watch Ani’s Bizarre Foods segment, Travel Channel

Published October 21st, 2008 in Bizarre Foods, PRESS, TV appearance, Travel Channel, VIDEOS, ca, california, celebrities, chocolate, coconut, dessert, dinner, eco, gluten free, gluten free diet, green living, health, hollywood, korean, korean american, local, natural, raw food, raw food diet, seasonal, superfood, superfoods, usa, vegan, vegetarian, whole food and whole foods. 0 Comments

Watch my raw food segment on YouTube from the Los Angeles episode of Bizarre Foods on the Travel Channel!

and…watch the commercial on the Travel Channel site for the episode.

The only food Andrew Zimmern’s been unable to eat on his global journeys is durian fruit, which is my favorite food. I tried to sneak it into his smoothie by blending with coconut milk, coconut meat, and cinnamon, but he still knew it was in his raw food shake.

Andrew spent the afternoon with me in my kitchen, where I teach him about healthy, nutritious, raw food, and we make a raw food meal together for our 2 friends Ana and Seth. The menu included:

Chocolate Shake
Hemp Sunburger on Flax Flatbread
Italian Rawzagna
Chocolate Raspberry Ganache Cake
Strawberry Parfait
Blackberry Cobbler

Only the raw food burger, raw lasagna, and shake made it onto the show. The Chocolate Raspberry Ganache Cake was to live for…the crew loved all the raw food and ate it up.

I’m grateful Andrew included vegan, vegetarian, healthy, organic, raw living foods on his journey through Los Angeles. Andrew’s a super cool, hilarious, sweet, and kind man. What an inspiration he is!! RAWk on Andrew and Bizarre Foods!!

Watch my raw food segment on YouTube

Win Ani’s UNcookbook on Andrew’s site

Published October 12th, 2008 in Bizarre Foods, PRESS, TV appearance, Travel Channel, ca, california, celebrities, cooking show, dessert, eco, farmers' market, food demos, gluten free, gluten free diet, green living, health, hemp, hollywood, interview, korean, korean american, local, natural, raw food, raw food diet, seasonal, superfood, superfoods, uncooking show, usa, vegan, vegetarian, whole food and whole foods. 0 Comments

Read my post on Andrew’s website, where he’ll be giving away free copies of my raw food uncookbook!

I had a great time hanging with Andrew Zimmern, host of Bizarre Foods, all day and making him raw food. I’m so grateful Andrew’s so cool and open to trying vegan raw foods, and for including raw food on his busy Los Angeles visit. Thanks Andrew!

There’re recipes for my Strawberry Parfait and Hemp Sunburgers there too.

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