Category: Desserts & Snacks
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Cookie Dough Protein Bars with Cashews and Dark Chocolate (v, gf)
I was at my local natural foods store a few weeks back and they were sampling some delicious cookie dough protein bites. The recipe had all features I enjoy in a homemade protein bar – nut-based, naturally-sweetened, quality vegan protein, and dark chocolate – but I wanted to make my own version, because, well, that’s […]
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Chickpea Blondies with Peanut Butter and Dark Chocolate (v, gf)
Chickpea Blondies with Peanut Butter and Dark Chocolate (v, gf) As someone who has greatly extolled the virtues and deliciousness of the black bean brownie, I’m sorry to report that I had to read it in a magazine before making the connection that if black beans made brownies, chickpeas could make blondies. Once that lightbulb […]
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Banana Espresso Scones with Oat Maple Crumble (vegan, gluten-free)
September through December are my four favourite months of the year. I enjoy the summer, of course, and I find pleasures in every season, but September through December hold the magic – the changing leaves, the cool, crisp days, the first snowfall, Thanksgiving, harvest vegetables, blue skies, cozy sweaters and cowls, baking with pumpkin puree, […]
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Avocado Lime Ice Cream (vegan, gluten-free)
I’ve been wanting to make an avocado lime ice cream for a long time now. The flavours seem so summery, and since baking delicious summer zucchini and carrot cupcakes that also contained avocados, I’ve been reawakened to the joys and possibilities of turning avocados into tasty desserts. This weekend, the last of the summer, is […]
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Summer Carrot and Zucchini Cupcakes with Cream Cheese Icing (vegan)
When I worked as a cake decorator, many moons ago, one of my coworkers always used to describe things as “moisty,” which really made me laugh, because “moisty” is not a word, but somehow it is also more hilarious and more descriptive than just calling something moist. Moist suddenly seems tepid in comparison. So in […]
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Heavenly Vegan Chocolate Chip, Coconut, and Zucchini Muffins
Baking with coconut milk feels so luxurious to me, like the equivalent of taking a bath in milk like Cleopatra – if the milk were non-dairy, of course, and bathing in it weren’t so wasteful and excessive. But you get my point. There is something decadent about coconut milk. It’s the velvet of the non-dairy milks, […]
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Oh So Good Black Bean Brownies (vegan, gluten-free, naturally-sweetened)
Black beans. Dates. Cocoa Powder. Chia Seeds. Almond Milk. Some kind of new age smoothie? NO! Brownies, friends, brownies. Let me lay the scene: these black bean brownies are my homage to the amazing black bean brownies at Minimalist Baker. You can find that recipe here. When I first found the Minimalist Baker’s recipe online, […]
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Easy Dark Chocolate & Almond Butter Cups (vegan, gluten-free)
Sweets for the sweet! I could probably just leave it at that, but I’ve never been that good at brevity, so let me add that these dark chocolate almond butter cups are everything you might want in a special treat: cinnamon-y, chocolate-y, nutty, a touch salty. Are visions of sugarplums dancing in your head? They […]
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