Coconut berry jello cake

Hello everyone! Today we are going to make delicious plant-based gelatin coconut berry cake! Dates and almond crust topped with very berry coconut milk soufflé. A dairy-free, preservative-free, dye-free healthy dessert that you can fix within 10 minutes or less! If my 4-year-old daughter can do that then you definitely can!

YES! Lenten coconut berry cake!

Cream desserts belong to the category that I miss the most during lent season. I discovered recently that coconut milk is the perfect substitute for dairy cream. So now I am excited to start all the experiments with cream desserts that we are going to turn into dairy-free cream desserts! I came across a berry homemade ice cream variant where the yogurt is being mixed with the berries. But since we can’t use dairy yogurt, we are going to pulse frozen berries in a food processor, mixed it thoroughly with coconut milk, mix in bloomed plant-based gelatin agar-agar and get your exquisite festive berry coconut jello cake ready to enjoy!

I decided to make our coconut berry jello cake in the shape of a heart and would like to humbly suggest making it as a dessert for a New Year Eve. Let this heart jello cake be the symbol of love to come for those who are searching for it and a symbol of love to flourish for those who already found it. There is one piece of advice that I want to share for everyone in the upcoming New Year.

“Don’t be reckless with other people’s hearts. Don’t put up with people who are reckless with yours.”

I came across this advice in commencement speech of Kurt Vonnegut and think its worth sharing especially in the upcoming New Year when everyone is making plans for the future. This advice is exactly what we need to take more steps in life in the upcoming New Year and to believe that everything is possible!

 “… Wear sunscreen.

If I could offer you only one tip for the future, sunscreen would be it. The long-term benefits of sunscreen have been proved by scientists, whereas the rest of my advice has no basis more reliable than my own meandering experience. I will dispense this advice now.

Enjoy the power and beauty of your youth. Oh, never mind. You will not understand the power and beauty of your youth until they’ve faded. But trust me, in 20 years, you’ll look back at photos of yourself and recall in a way you can’t grasp now how much possibility lay before you and how fabulous you really looked. You are not as fat as you imagine.

Don’t worry about the future. Or worry, but know that worrying is as effective as trying to solve an algebra equation by chewing bubble gum. The real troubles in your life are apt to be things that never crossed your worried mind, the kind that blindside you at 4 pm on some idle Tuesday.

Do one thing every day that scares you.

Sing.

Don’t be reckless with other people’s hearts. Don’t put up with people who are reckless with yours.

Floss.

Don’t waste your time on jealousy. Sometimes you’re ahead, sometimes you’re behind. The race is long and, in the end, it’s only with yourself.

Remember compliments you receive. Forget the insults. If you succeed in doing this, tell me how.

Keep your old love letters. Throw away your old bank statements.

Stretch.

Don’t feel guilty if you don’t know what you want to do with your life. The most interesting people I know didn’t know at 22 what they wanted to do with their lives. Some of the most interesting 40-year-olds I know still don’t.

Get plenty of calcium. Be kind to your knees. You’ll miss them when they’re gone.

Maybe you’ll marry, maybe you won’t. Maybe you’ll have children, maybe you won’t. Maybe you’ll divorce at 40, maybe you’ll dance the funky chicken on your 75th wedding anniversary. Whatever you do, don’t congratulate yourself too much, or berate yourself either. Your choices are half chance. So are everybody else’s.

Enjoy your body. Use it every way you can. Don’t be afraid of it or of what other people think of it. It’s the greatest instrument you’ll ever own.

Dance, even if you have nowhere to do it but your living room.

Read the directions, even if you don’t follow them.

Do not read beauty magazines. They will only make you feel ugly.

Get to know your parents. You never know when they’ll be gone for good. Be nice to your siblings. They’re your best link to your past and the people most likely to stick with you in the future.

Understand that friends come and go, but with a precious few you should hold on. Work hard to bridge the gaps in geography and lifestyle, because the older you get, the more you need the people who knew you when you were young.

Live in New York City once, but leave before it makes you hard. Live in Northern California once, but leave before it makes you soft. Travel.

Accept certain inalienable truths: Prices will rise. Politicians will philander. You, too, will get old. And when you do, you’ll fantasize that when you were young, prices were reasonable, politicians were noble, and children respected their elders.

Respect your elders.

Don’t expect anyone else to support you. Maybe you have a trust fund. Maybe you’ll have a wealthy spouse. But you never know when either one might run out.

Don’t mess too much with your hair or by the time you’re 40 it will look 85.

But trust me on the sunscreen.”

Kurt Vonnegut

After eating this incredible meal, you will become a pinch happier, I promise!

Bon Appétit!