I have prepared this Raw Carrot Cheesecake specifically for the event “One Day Cafe in Tokyo.” The cafe was on Monday, and the cake I made on Sunday. The recipe I made at the moment of its production, adding ingredients and tasting. After café, I received two orders for this tart. Yes, if you do not know, I accept orders for cakes! I had to make two cakes just like the guests ate at the café, but I didn’t write a recipe 🙂 I again started to make this tart, remembering all of the ingredients and their number, but I could not prepare an exact copy, but it turned out even tastier! I share the recipe for the second version of the cake, and if you change something you can make it even better! Continue reading →

This is one of most favourite raw dish in my family. I learned about this yummy raw banana bread At Matthew Kenney Cuisine  Academy  two years ago. I am not allowed to share the original recipe, so I changed it a little to make a flavor more friendly for Japanese people 😉 Prepare this recipe the smell of Raw Banana Poppy Bread was wafting through my kitchen and all apartment, and before even to eat, all my family loved it! I love to use poppy seeds a lot, maybe because I am from Ukraine 😉

I use a sprouted oat flour in this recipe, but it’s optional. I am a big fan of sprouting and always sprout something every day! I love to watch how small “babies” come out 😉 You can order sprouted dry whole oats or flour online as well. Oats absorb moisture and also have an emulsify quality, this is needed to keep the bread together. They are also gluten free (technically).  If you don’t like to use oats, you could perhaps use all low-fat nut flour instead, which is a bit moister than oat flour so you might have to adjust the wet/dry ratio. Also you can use buckwheat flour, but it will give a strong flavor. Continue reading →

Very easy to make, low fat raw food sweets! Raw Apple Pie Cake
This recipe I made for my raw food class. You can find many recipes of raw apple pie and all of them are very similar, so maybe this is not surprise for you, but anyway, I would like to share it with you 😉 Like many raw vegans I have a not good reaction for raw cakes made from nuts with oil. So this apple pie cake  is perfect for those who looking for law fat sweets.  Its easy to make and only some ingredients you need. I love this apple pie cake! 🙂 Continue reading →

Its difficult to believe maybe, but the combination of mung beans and apple juice remind a yogurt flavor. This Mung Beans yogurt is not only delicious, but also very rich in proteins and minerals. To make this yogurt even more nutritional, you can easy to sprout mung beans first. Serve it with fruits and your kids will love it! Continue reading →

We’ll be celebrating Easter very soon. One of the first things that might come to your mind when you think of Easter symbols is most probably the egg. This is also the case in the Orthodox tradition. The biggest joy of Eater Sunday for many people simply comes from enjoying a food – eggs and sweet Easter cake – that they did not eat for the past 6 weeks during lent. Lent – the period of fasting before Easter — is practiced in Ukraine much as it is elsewhere. I make a Raw Easter Cake for my family and No Eggs for Easter.  These eggs have a lemon flavor, but you can make your favorite taste and decoration. You can make them different colors or chocolate as well. If you like to sculpt, you will definitely like this recipe 🙂 Kids really love to make these No Eggs for Easter, let them help you 😉 Continue reading →

You have probably heard how important it is to get enough essentials fatty acids (EFAs) in your diet. Some good food sources containing omega-3 and omega-6 fatty acids include  flax seeds, leafy green vegetables and walnuts. Unfortunately, it is not always easy to obtain enough of these fatty acids on a daily basis. Recently, an ancient seed has regained popularity due to its high nutritional value – Chia seeds. You can now find Chia seeds online as well as in many health food stores in Japan.  The seeds are easily digested and do not have to be ground to be used. In Mexico, the seeds are mixed with water and a little bit of lime or lemon juice to make a drink called “Chia Fresca.”  Whole Chia seeds can be sprinkled on your salads or other dishes. Seeds can also be ground and mixed into smoothies. The seeds can be sprouted and used in salads. Also Chia seeds are soaked in water (for about 30 minutes) to form a gel. The seeds soak up to nine times their weight in water. Therefore we often use soaked chia seeds to make raw puddings. If you cant find chia seeds, you can replace them with basil seeds. I often use coconut milk to make this chia pudding, but it’s also delicious with nuts milk and seeds milk as well. You can add your favorite fruits, nuts, granola or chocolate, I often use simply bananas. This short video below showing how I make it and you will surprise how similar it looks to tapioca. I named it Omega tapioca, because it looks like tapioca and has a lot of Omega 😉

In Japan Christmas is very popular holiday now, even japanese people dont know what is it exactly, they love to have Christmas party and give each other gifts. Usually, in this day people eat white cream cake with strawberries. Therefore, japanese grow strawberries for Christmas holiday and for this cake. I decided to make a very similar raw cake for my japanese family. You should understand, even raw food can be unhealthy. Yes, mix of many ingrediends and mix fruits with nuts is not good for our health, but if you have to choose one, of course, raw cake is better than one from the shop. Almost raw cakes are made from nuts, and often from cawshew nuts. Its not easy to find raw cashew nuts,  which will sprout, be careful. This cake is easy to make and very delicious, all my no vegan family loved it and could not understand what is this a nice taste 😉 It was not easy to explan them about raw food, but I tried my best. 🙂 Here you are, I made a video how I made this yummy cake. Hope you will like it!

This cake I made for my November`s raw cooking class for mothers. If you dont know, sometimes I make classes for kids and for mothers here, in Tokyo. Class for kids I named “Raw-Yummy-Tummy” and class for mothers “Raw-Yummy-Mommy” 🙂 In the end of lesson we have a tea time and I wanted to make some sweets at home, so all our guests can try a raw cake. I had nice small dried roses, which I bought before in a supermarket, after dried them in my dehydrater. Those flowers you can buy in Japan in big supermarkets, usually in a veggies  corner. You can eat those roses,  make tea or decorate your dishes. So I wanted to use them for my cake and its why I created my new Raw Rose Cheese Cake. 🙂 There is a recipe for 20-23 cm springform pan. I always have my nuts at home, soak and dehydrate them, so it this recipe I use already dried nuts, but its not necessary to dry them before use. Continue reading →

The end of October and we made a Hallowen Party with our Raw-Yummy-Tummy Cooking class for kids. 25 kids joined our class with parents. This is my first experience to work with so many kids and raw food! I didnt want to use any techniques such as blender or juicer, so I decided to choice a very simple recipe – Raw Pumpkin Chocolate Pudding. I ordered very riped avocados for this lesson, so kids could mash and mix all ingredients with forks. One by one ingredients, mix and mush more until its looks very like chocolate pudding. Its really great and delicious pudding! If you give it to your friends, they will not find from what is made. 😉 Nuts milk and sweetener will erase avocado`s flavor and taste, and I strongly recomend you to use almond or other nuts milk for this reipe, you can try without, but avocado will taste. And you can add some dry fruits or nuts instead of raw pumpkin if you prefer. Unfortunately, I can`t tape a video while my kids class, its prohibit, so I cook it once myself at home for you. Please watch my video 😉 Hope you will like it, its fast and easy recipe!