Coconut and lemon are a winning combination. Sweet, tart, creamy, and a bit sour. Gooey lemon bars are always a special treat. Coconut cream lemon bars are a refreshig, zesty dessert!
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Spiced Orange Cherry Walnut Truffles
Various different versions of fruit and nut balls are a classic staple of the raw food repertoire. Simple, delicious, portable, and quick to make, dessert balls are a great go-to recipe that you can pack with you for a snack at work, or bring to the beach for that picnic.
Much of the time, these sorts of desserts are made with dates. While dates are quite nice, it’s good to change things up! These tasty orange cherry walnut truffles combine two of the absolute tastiest fruits.
Banana Cinnamon Rolls
Absolutely nothing beats an ooey gooey cinnamon bun. A dehydrator, some bananas, and dates are the raw vegan answer to this classic comforting dessert. Banana cinnamon rolls are really simple to make, loaded with all kinds of natural fruit goodness, and they’re super duper tasty to boot! A fun recipe when you need (or want!) a little treat.
Avocados Stuffed With Tangy Cashew Cream
There’s more than one way to eat an avocado, that’s what they say! But you might not want to eat them any other way after you’ve tried these cashew cream stuffed avocados! With tamari, lemon, and nutritional yeast, the cashew cream is a tangy treat that pairs beautifully with the natural richness of the avocado. Looks fancy, tastes great! A wonderful appetizer or snack.
Superfood Lime Cheesecake
Cheesecake is kind of weird, isn’t it? I mean, it’s cake, made from cheese. What’s up with that?
Raw cheesecake is less weird, because there’s no cheese! Super delicious, not too sweet, and totally nutritious. This raw vegan lime cheesecake is made from hemp seeds, nuts, lime and coconut. Pure and delicious!
Vegan Garlic Dill Cheese Dip
Cheese is one of those things which people will always ask about. How could you give up cheese? I would love to, but I could never give up cheese! Oh, silly people. Of course you can, because we have cashews! This yummy garlic dill “cheese dip” is an awesome snack for curling up with a book, or watching a movie, or hanging out with friends, or any other activity which might nicely be complemented by snacking. Okay, so that’ s pretty much every activity. Except for maybe jogging.
Enjoy this lovely “cheese dip” anytime, except when jogging!
Delicious & Healthy Carrot Cake Bites
Aren’t these adorable? You certainly don’t have to make this delicious carrot cake as bite-sized hearts, but it’s just so cute that you might as well! This delicious carrot cake recipe has some surprises in it. Like dried mulberries in the cake layer, and coconut water in the frosting. Enjoy it either as one big cake or as scrumptuous little bites!
Raw Vegan Lasagna With Cashew Cheese
If you follow the recipes we post here with any regularity, you already know how crazy we are for zucchini. You might know the famous capacity for this undervalued vegetable to become noodles. Well, lasagna is a sort of noodle. And so here we are! Zucchini Lasagna! This amazing lasagna is lasagna without wheat and without cheese! It’s basically a magic trick. But unlike magic tricks, even you can produce it! It’s remarkably simple. All you need is a food processor. A mandolin is helpful but not required!
Vanilla Coconut Doughnut Holes
It doesn’t get much simpler than this for a delicious bite-sized treat! This take on doughnut holes has a grand total of four ingredients. 10 minutes of your time and 2 steps to make. Literally anyone could do it, and the result is a lovely vanilla coconut confection that looks as good as it tastes.
Dates make for an amazing sweetener (as so many great recipes show!) A natural whole food with plenty of sugary sweetness, dates also come packed with actual nutrients and minerals. Sure, sugar is always something you need to be wary of. But in moderation it is a lovely thing, when you can get it from natural, unrefined source!
Mini Strawberry Cheesecakes
These lovely mini strawberry cheesecake bites are great for snacking on and for sharing. With just a handful of ingredients, you can whip ’em together pretty quick, but they look so fancy they’re bound to impress! And with all the magic sweetness of dates, you won’t need to add any sugar to these delicious non-cheese cakes!
Onion Rings with Chipotle Aoili
Onion rings might not be the first thing that comes to mind when you think of nourishing raw foods. But that’s precisely what makes this incredible raw recipe so amazing! There’s raw pizza, raw burgers, so how could we not have some raw onion rings, too? With all the raw food creativity out there, there’s no limit to what can be done with wholesome, nutritious raw foods!
Zucchini Pasta With Cashew Basil Pesto
If you haven’t tried zucchini pasta yet, now is the time! It’s basically like the pasta you probably grew up eating, except better in every possible way.
For instance, it’s gluten free, it’s raw, and it’s vegan. That means that most anyone can enjoy it. And they will enjoy it, because the texture is great and the flavor… well the flavor is what you make of it. In this zucchini pasta, the flavor is all about basil pesto with a cashew base! With a bit of nutritional yeast for some extra zing and plenty of garlic to keep away colds and vampires, this is a quick and easy meal you can whip up in just 10 minutes or so!
Chipotle Mayo Stuffed Avocados
Do you ever find yourself missing chipotle mayo? Well no more! It turns out that cashews make a great base for raw chipotle mayo, and avocado is the perfect vessel with which to transport said “mayo” to your fortunate mouth!
This recipe looks awesome, tastes awesome, and is super easy to make. You’ve got at least 8 vegetables in this one tight package, and that means a variety of nutrients to keep your engines running clean. And of course, you’ve got all the flavor your taste buds can handle. One couldn’t wish for more.
Chocolate Orange Cake
Chocolate orange is one of history’s great combinations. Like oil and vinegar, salt and pepper, Brad and Angelina, or Batman and Robin. Sure you can have them separately and they’re perfectly good. But when you put them together, oh boy, you really bump it up a notch.
Kicking the flavor combination up yet another notch is a healthy dose of ginger. Ginger is one of the few flavors that rivals chocolate orange, so any recipe that manages to balance all three of these ambrosial flavors is a guaranteed winner.
Turmeric Ginger Cheesecakes
Getting to have cake that is actually good for you is a clear sign that you’re doing alright. With this turmeric and ginger cheesecake, there’s really nothing unhealthy to be had. But not only is it not unhealthy, it’s positively healthy!
Ginger and turmeric are actually closely related, and they’re both super powerful, safe anti-inflammatory natural medicines. Ginger has been shown to be particularly useful for helping with arthritis, while turmeric is great for asthma and auto-immune disorders affecting the skin.
Plus they’re super duper tasty! And that in an of itself is enough reason for anyone to want to get into this turmeric ginger cheesecake!
