The best recipes are maximum delicious for minimum effort, and in those terms its hard to beat these White Chocolate Coconut Truffles! They’re pretty, they’re ambrosial, and it only takes five minutes to whip them up!
Avocado Chocolate Mousse
This raw vegan dessert is deceptively simple, and super tasty. Mousse made from avocado will always have a certain quality to it that sets it apart, but that’s totally okay! It’s delicious. Make sure you use an avocado that is plenty ripe.
Peanut Butter Ice Cream Bites
Crunchy, creamy, a little bit savory and a lot sweet! A wholesome, delectable dessert that would be good for sharing, but you aren’t going to want to share. Raw vegan Peanut Butter Ice Cream Bites! Pop ’em in your mouth.
Make Your Own Raw Chocolate
Making your own chocolate is super fun and a lot easier than you might think. The best part is that you get to mix it up with your favorite flavors, or whatever wacky idea comes to mind!
Minty Mango Coconut Chia Pudding
Chia seeds are absolutely amazing. Not only do they make decent pets, they provide a complete range of amino acids (a full protein), are full of fiber, omega-3s, fiber, antioxidants, and a broad spectrum of nutrients. And that’s just the chia seeds! This pudding packs a powerful nutritious punch. It makes a fantastic make-ahead breakfast or afternoon snack.
Mini Tomato Tarts
Tomatoes are awesome. Sun-dried tomatoes are unbelievable! So much flavor! These sun-dried tomato tarts are zesty, delicious, creamy, and a bit nutty! Wonderful as an appetizer or for a tasty snack.
Immune System Boosting Green Smoothie
It’s the time of year when the flowers wake up to welcome back the sunny days. As lovely as that is, for those of us with allergies and other auto-immune issues, it can be a bit of a mixed blessing. So, since you’re probably going to be having smoothies anyways, why not have a delicious immune system boositng green smoothie? Drink your veggies and kick that rickety old immune system into shape!
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!
Raw Homemade Veggie Wraps
This recipe is probably the best way to use up leftover bits and pieces ever imagined. There’s something uniquely lovely about wraps, and the ability to make up some delicious wholesome raw veggie wraps from your kitchen scraps seems to good to be true — but it isn’t! And these wraps are so much better than your typical wrap because the wraps themselves are made of veggies! It’s veggies all the way down, people!
You can make these lovely wraps out of whatever you happen to have lying around and they should turn out awesome, so long as you stick to the proportions in the recipe.
Chocolate Caramel Banana Cake
Banana cake is where it’s at. What sort of mood are you in? Are you happy? Well have some banana cake. Feeling sad? Banana cake will make you feel better. Craving something indulgent and rich? Banana cake! Celebrating? Have some banana cake!
It’s soft but it’s firm. It’s got crunchy nuts but the creaminess of banana. It is the yin and yang of cake. It’s a good piece of dessert, is what we’re saying. And if all that weren’t enough, it’s so simple even the clumsiest cuisinier could put it together.
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!
Mango Peach Matcha Layered Smoothie
Don’t be fooled by the name of this smoothie! Mango and peach might be the two central ingredients, but there’s a lot more going on here than just those two wonderful fruits! We’ve got bananas, we’ve got celery, we’ve got chia and coconut water. We’ve even got some turmeric.
And that’s just for the base layer! Some of the really fun stuff comes in on the next layer. Here we’ve got our spirulina, our hemp seeds, and of course, our matcha powder. All these high-energy, protein and nutrient rich foods make this an excellent smoothie to enjoy after a good workout.
Of course, you should feel free to throw on any extras you might want. Blueberries and pomegranates make for a fine topping!
Carrot and Cauliflower Rainbow Wraps
There’s nothing as refreshing as a fresh, crispy veggie wrap. With such a diversity of ingredients, these rainbow wraps are light and yummy, but also super nutritious and healthful.
You can make any sorts of substitutions you like with this highly flexible recipe. Fill your wraps with whatever veggies you’ve got handy. The currants make a particularly nice sweet and tart addition, but you can substitute for raisins or even other dried fruits if you choose.
These wraps are a bit different than most, in that the veggies take the form of a kind of cous cous. The texture of raw veggie cous cous is pretty unique, and is well suited to wraps (or rolls). The tahini helps to tie the “cous cous” together and adds that peculiar sesame flavor the way only tahini can. And then it all gets laid onto a bed of creamy avocado and your favorite deep greens. Mm.
An awesome finger food to invigorate yourself on a warm summer day!
Cauliflower Cous Cous Cucumber Rolls
Usually, cous cous is made of seminola. And usually you don’t find it rolled up in cucumber. That makes this dish somewhat unusual, and that’s partly what makes it so great. Sometimes you come across ideas you can’t believe you hadn’t thought of. For ideas like these cauliflower cous cous cucumber rolls, we can all just be glad that someone came up with it.
In this case, the cous cous is made not from wheat but from cauliflower. The little cauliflower crumbles actually do a pretty good job of imitating traditional cous cous, but with the added benefits of keeping these cucumber rolls raw and gluten-free!
These refreshing morsels make a great appetizer or snack if you’re entertaining. Easy to make, easy to enjoy, and light on the stomach. Shared between just a couple people, they also make for an awesome light lunch.
The combination of raisins, tahini, and chili makes for a really neat texture and flavoring. Mildly sweet, a little spicy, and a little creamy, these cucumber rolls manage to pack a lot of flavor while keeping it mild. Tahini really has a unique capacity for tying things together, and is great generally if you need to avoid using peanut butter.
Almond Honeycomb Hearts
The heart is a symbol of vitality and love. What better way to share your love than with these lovely Almond Honeycomb Hearts. These cute little heart-shaped drops of sweetness are full of the natural goodness of almonds, coconut, cacao and honeycomb.
A simple but elegant treat for the loved ones in your life. Tiny little things, you can make a whole bunch to share with your friends, or keep them for an intimate evening with that special someone. Don’t forget that handful of love.
