5 ingredient no-bake chocolate vegan tart

Improvising within the confines of the hostel kitchen, lacking scales, measuring cups, baking trays, regular size pans, or really any conventional baking tools, I adapted a recipe for a non-vegan chocolate tart which seemed relatively straightforward - and would not require buying about 100 ingredients. Between a new health food shop discovery and the usual supermarkets, I managed to collect everything I needed:

- 300g dark chocolate
- 300ml UHT coconut cream
- 300g oreos
- 100g margarine
- 1 punnet of strawberries

Painfully simple, this recipe was super quick and easy to make. Instructions are not even entirely necessary - looking at the ingredients if you've ever entered a kitchen you could probably guess how its done, but here they are anyway.

1) Start by crushing oreos (or nicely asking your room mate to do it for you)

improvised food processor

2) Melt roughly 100g of plant-based butter or margarine and mix into the crushed oreos. Its possible that it might be necessary to add more butter make the mixture stickier, as the consistency would depend on the type of butter you use. Press the mixture into a baking paper lined loaf tin and place in the freezer while preparing the filling. 

only reasonably sized pot in the kitchen

3) Warm the cream over a low heat (do not boil!) and slowly add broken up chocolate, stirring to melt. Remove from the heat when almost fully melted, and continue to stir until totally mixed. Remove base from the freezer and pour the mixture over.

cream and chocolate

probably would be more convenient in a pot rather than frying pan

3) Chop strawberries (or again ask your awesome room mate very kindly...) and decorate the top, before placing back in the freezer for around 2 or 3 hours. 

strawberries

decorate your masterpiece

ready for the freezer

4) Move from the freezer to the fridge until ready to serve, to avoid rock solid frozen strawberries. When hungry enough, slice it up and serve it to your friends!

slices super easily!

dessert before dinner at Hello

much better reception

Taking all of the restrictions into consideration, this dessert went incredibly well. Replacing ingredients to make it vegan, lacking measuring devices, being a below amateur baker, and having a slightly pickier than average crowd to please, all seemed to work out OK. A great comfort food, I will definitely make this again!