Raspberry Chia Pudding (Vegan & Gluten-free)
Raspberry Chia Pudding - delicious, easy and vibrant breakfast that only calls for 4 ingredients!
Vegan Gluten-free Chocolate Avocado Cake
Vegan Gluten-free Chocolate Avocado Cake One thing that my blog is missing is a good two layered chocolate cake. That's until now of course! I've finally got my act together and made a vegan and gluten-free rich chocolate cake with a lush chocolate frosting. What makes the frosting so lush is the combination of melted dark chocolate mixed with the creaminess and richness of a good ripe avocado! Those two together make for the most decadent, out of this world and delicious frosting! Many of you have asked me for more cake recipes, more specifically a chocolate cake recipe! I LOVE cakes but usually opt for making denser loaves and squares like my banana blueberry bread, banana walnut bread or [...]
5 Ingredient Vegan Crème Brûlée
5 Ingredient Vegan Crème Brûlée A smooth and creamy vanilla infused dessert made without dairy and only 5 ingredients! You can make it with a traditional 'burnt' sugar topping or you could skip that part for a speedy and lush dessert. This 5 Ingredient vegan Crème Brûlée can be enjoyed hot, at room temperature or cold. The hubby preferred it hot whereas I thought the texture is much nicer when served cold. This treat would make an amazing after dinner dessert when you want something sweet yet light. Since I'm using coconut milk as the base for this French dessert, I needed to find a way to add some thickness to the texture for which I used Agar Agar. [...]
Chocolate Crumpets Vegan & Gluten-free with Salted Caramel Spread
Chocolate Crumpets Vegan & Gluten-free with Salted Caramel Spread Crumpets are such a quintessential British tea time treat. Griddle cakes that look like pancakes and cooked like pancakes only they're thicker, spongier/chewier and full of holes! You'll find this treat in many British households, usually shop bought as the idea of making homemade crumpets seems so daunting and definitely a lot of work. That's what I thought anyway until I tried them myself. You do have to wait for the dough to rise, like with any homemade yeasted bread, but once that's done there isn't much to it! I know you can now buy gluten-free crumpets, but they're not vegan. I wanted to create a version that both vegans and anyone [...]
Healthy Christmas Day Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner Ideas
Healthy Christmas Day Recipes - Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner Most households have their own tradition when it comes to Christmas day meals. There is usually a lot of emphasis on the Christmas dinner, but hardly any thought goes into the other meals during the day. Most don't even eat anything else! Apart from maybe mince pies and chocolate in between. I for one prefer eating 3 smaller meals rather than skipping breakfast or snacking on unhealthy festive foods while waiting for the 'main event' by which time I would be starving and end up eating way too much than my stomach can handle leaving me feeling uncomfortable, lethargic and tired the rest of the day. To me, it makes more [...]
Homemade Raspberry Chocolate (Raw/Vegan/Dairy-free) – Video
Making your own dairy-free chocolate at home couldn't be easier! All you need is some coconut oil, cocoa powder and some sort of liquid sweetener. I like to add nut butter, especially cashew butter to make it more creamy and delicious :D but it's completely optional. I would however avoid using peanut butter because the taste is just too overpowering.
Chocolate Matcha Ice Cream Sandwiches
With these chocolate matcha ice cream sandwiches you're getting the best of both worlds - cookies and ice cream! There is something so satisfying about biting into an ice cream cookie that you just don't get from eating ice cream alone.
Healthy Middle Eastern Cardamom Cookies (Vegan & Gluten-free)
Healthy Middle Eastern Cardamom Cookies Growing up in the Middle East meant I got the chance to enjoy plenty of desserts flavoured with cardamom. I love it so much that I can safely say it's my favourite spice. The hubby on the other side, hates cardamom, so I don't get to use it as much as I would like to. However, with Eid (the festival of breaking of the fast) fast approaching, I really wanted to create a Middle Eastern dessert, something that I grew up eating during this time. Last year I created a healthy, vegan and gluten-free version of the most popular Iraqi cookie - Kleicha, or date rolls/date filled cookies and they were a big hit! This year, I wanted to [...]
Raw Oreos Recipe (Vegan & Gluten-free)
Raw Oreos Recipe (Vegan & Gluten-free) This recipe is one of my favourite cookie recipes, along with my date cookies and chocolate tahini cookies. The difference with these is that they're raw/no-bake and are best eaten chilled straight out of the fridge, so they're a really nice cool treat during summer, but are still rich and indulgent. This recipe makes about 15 raw "oreos". Usually when I eat cookies, I simply can't stop eating them. I keep saying to myself 'OK, just one more and then that's it!' but end up reaching out for more anyway, which is a problem :P But because these raw oreos are quite rich, I feel satisfied after just eating one (sometimes two!) but no more than that. So they should last [...]
Vegan Gluten-free Lemon Cake
Vegan Gluten-free Lemon Cake I've been posting way too many chocolate recipes recently, and even though I could never get fed up of chocolate, I realise that you might! It was about time I share a recipe with 0% chocolate, like this zingy, zesty vegan gluten-free lemon cake. Spring is the perfect time for making citrusy light treats. I've been meaning to create a lemon cake for a while now and it's taken me a few trials before I found a combination of ingredients that I was completely happy with. Initially, this recipe was going to be a lemon "drizzle" cake, but to get the white drizzle effect that I was looking for I would have had to use a lot of powdered sugar or [...]