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Hawaiian Sweet Potato Pie

4 sweet potatoes
½ cup orange juice
2 slices unsweetened, dried pineapple
1 cup chopped walnuts

Soften the dried pineapple slices by soaking them in the orange juice in the refrigerator overnight. Steam sweet potatoes until soft. Blend sweet potatoes, pineapple slices, and orange juice in a food processor or VitaMix. Fold in the chopped walnuts and continue to blend until you can say to your kids with a straight face, “What walnuts?”

Peach Ice Cream with Nut Pie Shell

16 oz. frozen sliced peaches
½ cup soy milk
½ cup ground walnuts
½ cup ground macadamias
½ cup ground pecans
4 coconut-date rolls

Make the nut crust by kneading the ground nuts with the date rolls and pressing into the bottom of a glass pie pan. Blend the frozen peaches with the soy milk and spoon into nut crust before serving.

Monkey Fudge Popsicles

2 ripe bananas
1 cup cashews
3 Tbsp. raw carob powder

Blend the mixture until smooth and place in a Popsicles tray for freezing at least 2 hours before serving.