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Guilt-free Vegan Cannoli

June 25, 2014 By Lara 9 Comments

How doesn’t like a traditional Italian dessert! Well, this one comes in a healthy, vegan way and is as yummi as the original one!

Ingredients:

1/4 Cup Coconutoil
2 tbsp ground Flax seeds +5 tbsp Water (2 large egg whites)
1/3 cup Almond flour
1/3 cup Coconut Sugar or Stevia
2 tsp pure vanilla extract
2 tablespoon cocoa powder
1/4 tsp sea salt

Method:

Preheat oven to 375.
Grind the flax seeds in a coffee grinder, and mix with water. Allow it to rest till it becomes gelatinous, then use.
In a bowl whisk together the flex seeds (egg whites), coconut sugar, coconut oil and vanilla.
Add in cocoa powder and almond flour.
Spoon the dough, spacing cookies 3 inches apart.
With the back of the spoon, spread each cookie to about 4-inch diameter.
Bake for 6 to 7 minutes, or until edges begin to brown.
Using an offset spatula, loosen cookies from baking sheet and shape into tube form.

Filling

1 cup firm young coconut pulp
2 bananas
1 tsp cup coconut oil
1 pitted medjool dates

Blend ingredients together until creamy. Set aside and refrigerate and then pipe into Cannoli.
Decorate with CHocolate and Pistachios.

Mini Vegan Applepies for Mothersday

May 12, 2014 By Lara 6 Comments

Every mothersday I kind of face the same dilemma. I want to make something special for my mom. Due to my students budget it usually comes down, that I bake something special. After hours scrolling through Pinterest without finding any suitable recipes, I thought about giving up. I might just write a really nice card with a voucher? On Saturday, I took my bike and drove to my grandma in order to get some fresh apples. When my grandma handled me this apples, it immediately reminded me about these days when she made this amazing apple pie. Her original recipe includes a lot of butter, white flour and also sugar. So, why not making a healthy version of a traditional apple pie? And instead of making one big pie, I wanted to make little pies, so everyone on the brunch can have a little warm apple pie. On sunday then the smell of warm apples and cinnamon was filling the whole house and everyone was crazy and wanted to know what it is. I don’t want to but myself into the spotlight, but these little cuties were the stars of the happening. My grandma could not believe that they are actually made without eggs, sugar, cream or white flour.

Mothersday perfect <3

For the Crust:

1 cup vegan margarine
1 cups whole wheat flour
1 Cup Coconut flour
1 teaspoon fine sea salt
1 cup vegan margarine
1/2 cup water

Add all the ingredients in a bowl and start to wrap it. (Do not melt the margarine!) It might be hard at the beginning so this one really needs some muscle effort 😀

Form a ball and then let cool down in the freezer for about an hour.

For the Filling:
3 apples, peeled and cutter into small pieces
10 medjool dates, pitted in the food processor
1/2 Cup crashed hazelnuts (you can also buy a paket with fine hazelnuts that are already crushed)
1/2 Cup Almond Milk + water if mixture too dry
1/2 tsp cinnamon
1/4 tsp fine sea salt
1 tbsp Agavesyrup

Mix everything together in a bowl. When finished place pieces of the rolled out pie dough in a prepared muffin pan. Fill in the apple filling. To finish take your pizzacutter and do a lattice top. Crop as many small stripes as you like and then decorate your mini pies and sprinkle them with more cinnamon.
Bake the mini pies at 410°F for 8 minutes. Reduce the heat to 350°F and continue to bake the pie 20-25 minutes more, until the top is golden and the apples are soft.

Best served warm <3

Super moist Coconut-Strawberry Cake

April 12, 2014 By Lara 4 Comments

Ingredients:

1/2 cup coconut flour
1/4 Cup shredded Coconut
1 tsp baking powder
1/4 cup agave syrup and 40 ml unsweetened applesauce
1/4 cup coconut oil, melted
1 tsp pure vanilla extract
2/3 cup coconut milk (also works with almond or soy milk)

1/4 tsp sea salt and as much stevia or vanilla extract as you like to add flavor.

Method:

Preheat oven to 350F (175 degrees)

Mix first the dry ingredients and then slowly add the liquid ones. Whisk to get a smoothe glaze.

Carefully fold in Raspberries, Strawberries or whatever you feel like.

Bake for 35-40 minutes.

Tip:

Place 3 slices of Lemon on top of the Cake to bring in that extra moisture!

Extra:

I always go the extra mile, so I decided to even fill the cake with a protein berry filling. It is quite easy since I just mixed some proteinpowder with soyjogurt and added in berries. (You can totally do it with quark!)

Homemade Cherry Ice Cream Sandwiches

August 7, 2013 By Lara 8 Comments

I was looking for an extraordinary dessert for months and finally found this recipe for Cherry Ice Cream. I adapted it and made Cherry Ice Cream Sandwiches since I’m a little Ice Cream Sandwich addict *confess

For the cookies you can use any cookie recipe you want. I bet it’s also quite tasty with chocolate cookies!

Homemade Cherry Ice Cream Sandwiches

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Ingredients

2 cups frozen cherries (and some more to put in the Icecream when done)
1 frozen banana
⅓ cup unsweetened almond milk
3 tablespoons dairy-free chocolate chips
Coconut whipped cream made from 1 can of full-fat coconut milk

Instructions

Place all the ingredients except the chocolate chips and the coconut whipped cream in your food processor and blend.
Whip up the coconut full-fat milk and then combine with the previously made cherry mixture.
Fold in the rest of the sliced cherries
Put into a re-used Icecream tin and freeze for about 3 hours.

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