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Vegan & Gluten-free Christmas Gingerbread Cake

Vegan & Gluten-free Christmas Gingerbread Cake

Vegan & Gluten-free Christmas Gingerbread Cake Just under two weeks until Christmas (woohoo!). Can you believe how fast time is flying? It doesn’t feel that long ago when we were about to welcome 2017, and look at us now. The year is almost over and we’ll soon be welcoming 2018! Crazy! I’ve created something really special to help you celebrate Christmas in style! A gingerbread cake topped with whipped coconut cream and decorated with gingerbread Christmas trees and stars. A really simple and easy to follow recipe that looks super festive and so impressive! A lot of people put so much time and effort into making the Christmas dinner that dessert often gets neglected. I know you can easily buy [...]

Nadia2017-12-13T19:24:07+01:00December 13, 2017|Cakes, Christmas, Cookies, Dairy Free, Desserts, Gluten Free, Sweet Snacks, Vegan, Vegetarian, Video|17 Comments

Homemade Jammie Dodgers (Vegan & Gluten-free)

Homemade Jammie Dodgers (Vegan & Gluten-free)

Homemade Jammie Dodgers (Vegan & Gluten-free) One of my favourite indulgent treats is Jammie Dodgers! If you don't live in the UK you may have never heard of these fun titled biscuits (also known as cookies in other parts of the world!). They're a popular British treat made up of two shortbread biscuits with a layer of strawberry jam sandwiched in between. I really do love their name. They sound so mischievous and naughty. If cookies got together, Jammie Dodgers would be the ones that want to cause havoc and mayhem, but in reality when you see them, they look the absolute opposite of that. They're so cute and innocent with a heart cut out in the middle, a sweet fruity centre and [...]

Nadia2017-11-26T17:41:00+01:00November 21, 2017|Cookies, Dairy Free, Desserts, Gluten Free, Sweet Snacks, Vegan, Vegetarian, Video|9 Comments

Mint Moringa Oreos (Vegan & Gluten-free)

Mint Moringa Oreos (Vegan & Gluten-free)

A delicious, creamy & rich mint moringa filling between two crunchy chocolate cookies. Mint Moringa Oreos (Vegan & Gluten-free) I have made a raw version of Oreos in the past, but today I'm showing you how to make baked Oreo cookies filled with a refreshing mint and moringa filling. They're gluten-free and completely plant-based. Mint and chocolate is such a delicious combination. In fact, my favourite chocolate flavour is mint dark chocolate. I usually have a square or two after dinner if I don't have any homemade treats lying around. Yes, I don't always have an abundance of homemade treats in my house at all times ? Shocker, right? Even the hubby enjoyed these mint moringa Oreos and he's not at all [...]

Nadia2017-12-05T22:26:15+01:00November 7, 2017|Chocolate, Cookies, Dairy Free, Desserts, Gluten Free, snack, Sweet Snacks, Vegan, Vegetarian, Video|12 Comments

Healthified Vegan Oreo Brownies – Using Go Cook, exclusively for Tesco

Healthified Vegan Oreo Brownies – Using Go Cook, exclusively for Tesco

Healthified Vegan Oreo Brownies A delicious, moist and rich chocolate brownie topped with chopped Oreos. Need I say more? Oh, apart from they're also healthier than your average brownies. They're high in fibre with a hidden ingredient and sweetened with whole dates! OK, I'll put you out of your misery. The secret ingredient in these vegan Oreo brownies is CHICKPEAS! Actually this shouldn't come as too much of a surprise since I've already used chickpeas, beans and lentils before in many of my sweet treats.Tesco challenged me to nominate someone in my household who does the least cooking to create something using their new Go Cook, exclusively for Tesco products. Since it's just me and the hubby and I do all the cooking [...]

Nadia2017-11-01T18:27:23+01:00November 1, 2017|Brownies, Cookies, Dairy Free, Desserts, Gluten Free, Nut Free, Sweet Snacks, Vegan, Vegetarian, Video|11 Comments

Chai Ice Cream Sandwiches (Vegan & Gluten-free)

Chai Ice Cream Sandwiches (Vegan & Gluten-free)

Chai Ice Cream Sandwiches (Vegan & Gluten-free) I am a self-confessed cookie monster. I just LOVE cookies, biscuits, or whatever else you want to call them. I love the soft kind, crunchy kind and everything else in between! What's better than eating one cookie? Eating two cookies, of course! And what's better than eating two cookies? Sandwiching some ice cream in between two cookies and creating ice cream cookie sandwiches! The first time I tried a cookie sandwich was on our honeymoon. We walked past a cafe in Spain and hubby asked me if I had ever tried an ice cream sandwich. He was like "you HAVE TO try an ice cream sandwich!" when he found out I'd never experienced the joy of [...]

Nadia2017-10-26T23:47:00+01:00September 10, 2017|Cookies, Dairy Free, Desserts, Gluten Free, Ice Cream, Raw, Sweet Snacks, Vegan, Vegetarian, Video|15 Comments

Cookie Dough Chocolate Bars

Cookie Dough Chocolate Bars

Cookie Dough Chocolate Bars A lush cookie dough centre made with chickpeas in a chocolate shell shaped like a chocolate bar! ? Don't you agree they look adorable? You probably all know by now how much I love using beans and pulses in my sweet treats. From lentil porridge, black bean cookie dough brownies, chickpea blondies and black bean chocolate cupcakes and black bean peanut butter brownies. To make these cookie dough chocolate bars, I'm using a similar recipe to the one I used to make these cookie dough truffles, only I made it much simpler and used fewer ingredients. They're grain-free, gluten-free and are so simple to make! To create the chocolate bar shape, I used this chocolate shaped mould that [...]

Nadia2018-07-26T22:53:56+01:00June 19, 2017|Chocolate, Cookies, Dairy Free, Desserts, Gluten Free, snack, Sweet Snacks, Vegan, Vegetarian, Video|3 Comments

Healthy Chocolate Chip Pretzel Cookies

Healthy Chocolate Chip Pretzel Cookies

Healthy Chocolate Chip Pretzel Cookies Mmm cookies! If someone asked me if I was more of a cake girl or cookie girl, I would most likely say cookie girl! Of course it does depend on the cake/cookie, but overall I'm definitely more partial to a good cookie, especially when it's chocolate chip and homemade! What I'm not a fan of are those large American style cookies that you get from supermarkets, bakeries and coffee shops. Those oversized, sickly sweet, fat laden cookies that don't have much flavour to them other than the taste of sugar! These healthy chocolate chip pretzel cookies are lower in sugar, fat and are made using a mix of oats and ground almonds. With added dairy-free dark chocolate [...]

Nadia2017-05-01T19:43:09+01:00May 1, 2017|Chocolate, Cookies, Dairy Free, Desserts, Gluten Free, snack, Sweet Snacks, Vegan|9 Comments

‘Nutella’ Stuffed Cookie Dough Balls

‘Nutella’ Stuffed Cookie Dough Balls

'Nutella' Stuffed Cookie Dough Balls Nutella is one of those things I miss A LOT since cutting out dairy and junk food and trying to eat more consciously. I know eating a spoon of it won't kill me and if I really wanted to I would eat it, but it's easier for me to avoid such foods because once I have a taste, I want to eat the whole thing. I'm sure I'm not alone in this! It's like recently the hubby bought a bag of salted crisps and I had some while we were watching a film. I never crave salty foods, but since then I've had this crazy craving for crisps, despite always craving sweet food usually. Now all of a sudden all I [...]

Nadia2017-03-18T21:16:43+01:00March 14, 2017|Chocolate, Cookies, Dairy Free, Desserts, Gluten Free, snack, Sweet Snacks, Vegan, Vegetarian|17 Comments

Vegan Gluten-free Wagon Wheels

Vegan Gluten-free Wagon Wheels

Vegan Gluten-free Wagon Wheels Wagon Wheels - another classic British treat I just had to recreate. Do you sense a theme here? It seems I'm drawn to making healthified, vegan and gluten-free versions of some of Britain's favourite treats at the moment. So far I've made my own versions of Oreos, Twix, Snickers, Bounty Bars, Ferrero Rocher, Hobnobs, Jaffa Cakes and now Wagon Wheels! What's next? Who knows, but I'm really enjoyed experimenting with such classic sweet treats, and you seem to be enjoying them too! I say a British classic, however; a quick search online tells me that Wagon Wheels actually originated in Australia before moving base here. Now they seem to be popular the world over, and that doesn't [...]

Nadia2017-06-13T13:23:42+01:00March 4, 2017|Cookies, Dairy Free, Desserts, Gluten Free, snack, Sweet Snacks, Vegan, Vegetarian|17 Comments

Vegan & Gluten-free Jaffa Cakes

Vegan & Gluten-free Jaffa Cakes

Vegan & Gluten-free Jaffa Cakes Jaffa cakes are one of those treats that I missed the most since I started avoiding dairy and gluten. Once a Jaffa Cake pack was opened, there was no stopping me. I would gobble the lot! They're such a comforting snack, especially with a nice warm cup of tea. What makes them even more special is that all Jaffa Cakes are produced at a McVitie's factory in Stockport, which is not too far away from where I live and around the corner from my parent's house! I posted a shot of these vegan & gluten-free Jaffa Cakes on my Instagram feed mentioning that I wasn't sure whether they were only available and sold here in the UK. Many of you informed [...]