Description
Purple sweet potatoes give this delicious vegan dessert its vibrant hue and you certainly can't go wrong with a layer of chocolate ganache.
Ingredients
Scale
Crust:
- 1 cup crushed cinnamon cookies (the crunchier, the better! We used these)
- 1 cup chopped pecans
- 1/4 cup creamy cashew butter
- 2 tbsp maple syrup
- 2 tsp vanilla
- Pinch sea salt
Filling:
- 1 cup raw, unsalted cashews, soaked in room temp water for 1-2 hours
- 1 1/2 cups steamed, mashed purple sweet potatoes (about 2 small potatoes)
- 1/2 cup maple syrup
- 2 1/2 tsp pumpkin pie spice
- 2 tsp vanilla extract
- 2 tsp orange zest
- 1/4 cup orange juice
- 3 tbsp full fat coconut milk
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 7 tbsp melted coconut oil
Chocolate ganache:
- 1/2 cup melted coconut oil
- 1/2 cup maple syrup
- 1/2 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
- 1/2 tbsp vanilla extract
- 1 tsp pumpkin pie spice
- 1/8 tsp salt
Instructions
Crust:
- In a food processor, pulse cookies into crumbs. Measure out one cup (save the rest in a sealed bag!).
- Add all crust ingredients to food processor and pulse to combine.
- When you can pinch the mixture between two fingers without it crumbling, it's done.
- Press into parchment paper lined 8x8 pan. Put in freezer to harden while making filling.
Filling:
- Wash and peel sweet potatoes. Dice roughly and steam until fork tender.
- Let cool completely, then mash the potatoes.
- Add all ingredients except coconut oil to blender and blend until smooth and creamy. Slowly stream in coconut oil and blend.
- Pour over top of crust and smooth out with a spatula. Freeze for 2-4 hours or until mostly hardened.
Chocolate ganache:
- Melt coconut oil.
- Whisk remaining ingredients into coconut oil until smooth. Pour over top of the frozen cheesecake and smooth with spatula. Freeze at least one hour, or until solid.
- Let soften in room temp for 10-15 minutes before slicing. If you're not serving immediately, store in refrigerator or freezer so they do not melt.
- Prep Time: 30 minutes
- Cook Time: 4 hours
- Category: Dessert
- Method: No Bake
- Cuisine: American
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1 Bar
- Calories: 616
- Sugar: 29.7 g
- Sodium: 424.4 mg
- Fat: 44.5 g
- Saturated Fat: 23 g
- Trans Fat: 0 g
- Carbohydrates: 52.6 g
- Fiber: 4.5 g
- Protein: 6.8 g
- Cholesterol: 0 mg