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Chocolate-Covered Hazelnut Dates

Chocolate Covered Dates are a healthy alternative to regular sweets. These homemade healthy candies are vegan, gluten-free and refined sugar-free. It’s a simple recipe with only 4 ingredients, and very easy-to-make. Juicy and sweet from the inside, chocolatey and crispy from the outside.

Dates are well-known sugar replacements and have many nutritional benefits. This could be the perfect sweet treat that you are craving – healthy and so easy to make.

These homemade healthy date candies could be a beautiful and delicious gift for friends and family.

Chocolate-Covered Hazelnut Dates are:

White refined sugar-free
Perfect as gift for a special occasion
Vegan
Healthy
Easy to make
Sweet and chocolatey

TIME: 10 min preparation, 30 minutes to set in the fridge | SERVINGS: 20

Ingredients:

20 juicy pitted dates
50g dark sugar-free & vegan chocolate
1 handful of toasted chopped hazelnuts
2 tbsp coconut oil

Instructions:

Melt the chocolate with coconut oil at a very low temperature.
Dip the dates into the chocolate and cover them fully.
Sprinkle each date with chopped roasted hazelnuts.
Put it in the fridge to set for 30 minutes or more. Store in the fridge.

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Vegan Tiramisu

This Vegan Tiramisu is creamy, sweet, and filled with classic coffee flavors. It’s so delicious, that no one will be able to refuse it. Vegan Tiramisu is much healthier than the classic Tiramisu because it is not so much sweetened, it’s made from homemade ladyfingers and vegan cream. It has fewer ingredients and can be prepared faster than the classic version of this dessert.

This plant-based dessert looks and tastes so good, that you can impress anyone you serve it to, even non-vegans.

Why this Vegan Tiramisu is the best?

White refined sugar-free
Perfect dessert for a special occasion
Vegan
Much healthier than the classic Tiramisu
Creamy dessert lovers will love this
Filling
Soft and fluffy

TIME: 20 min preparing, 30 minutes baking, at least 3 hours or overnight in the fridge | SERVINGS: 10

Ingredients:

Biscuits:

180g oat flour
75g coconut sugar
1 tsp baking powder
1 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp salt
120ml oat or soya milk
120g ripe banana mashed banana
30g coconut oil (melted)

Cream:

250ml vegan whipping cream
70g coconut sugar
1 tsp vanilla extract (optional)

Toppings/other ingredients:

200ml coffee
2 tbsp cocoa

Instructions:

Preheat the oven to 180°C, line a rectangular or square baking tray with baking paper or grease it with coconut oil.
Combine all dry ingredients – flour, baking powder, soda, and coconut sugar in a large mixing bowl.
Mix separately all wet ingredients – milk, coconut oil, and ripped mashed banana.
Slowly add wet ingredients to dry, and combine the mixture well. Don’t over-mix if you want to get it fluffy and soft.
Take a baking tray and pour the batter evenly.
Bake for 35 minutes until ready or the toothpick comes out clean.
Prepare the coffee in a bowl in which you can put a cookie the size of a finger.
After the biscuit base is ready, set it aside to cool down.
Continue with the preparation of the cream. Take a large mixing bowl, and add vegan whipping cream, sugar, and vanilla extract. Use a hand mixer to make the cream fluffy, and mix it until it has at least doubled the size.
Cut the biscuit base into ~ 3cm wide strips. If the strips are too thick, you can cut them in half.
Take a rectangular or square glass bowl/container. Dip the biscuit stripes into the coffee and place them close to each other in the bowl.
As soon as the first layer of the biscuit base is ready, pour a generous amount of cream over it and repeat the process until there are no more ingredients, but finish with a cream layer.
Take cocoa and sprinkle it over the Tiramisu.
Put the Tiramisu in the refrigerator for at least 4 hours or overnight.

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Coconut Bounty Bars (sugar-free)

These vegan Coconut Bounty Bars are one of the easiest bars that you can make at home. You can enjoy almost the same taste as the original Bounty bars, but with much healthier ingredients. Only a few ingredients and 15 minutes of your time and you will get coconutty, healthy, vegan grab-and-go homemade Coconut Bounty Bars.

These Coconut Bounty Bars are:

Coconutty
Dairy-free and lactose-free
Easy to make
Healthy
Naturally sweetened with honey
Vegan
Grab-and-go snack
Refined sugar-free

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TIME: 15 min preparing, at least 30 minutes in the fridge or freezer SERVINGS: 7

Ingredients:

100g shredded coconut
100g coconut milk (canned, thick part)
40g honey (runny)
50g vegan dark chocolate
1 tbsp coconut oil

Instructions:

Blend shredded coconut using a blender or process it in a food processor until you get it close to flour consistency.
Take a bowl, and add blended shredded coconut, coconut milk, and honey. Combine all well until the sticky mixture is formed.
Melt the chocolate at a very low temperature, and add the coconut oil to get the chocolate more liquid. Combine all until getting a smooth and liquid mixture.
Make rectangular bars by hand. Cover them with melted chocolate. Tip! Take a fork, place a bar on the fork, and hold it over the chocolate mixture. Take a spoon in the other hand and cover the bar with chocolate. The excess chocolate will drip off.

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Chocolate Banana Bread

This Chocolate Banana Bread is so soft, moist, delicious, and chocolaty. Chocolate and bananas are such a delicious combination, the soft and creamy bananas give a healthy sweet taste and the cocoa is a great addition to give the Banana Bread a light chocolate flavor. It will go perfectly with your favorite tea or coffee. Chocolate Banana Bread is easy to make and this is the best way how to use your ripe bananas.

Chocolate Banana Bread is:

Moist & soft
Vegan
Chocolatey
Filling
Easy to make

How to store it?

Store Vegan Chocolate banana Bread in an airtight container at room temperature for 3 days. You can also store it in the fridge for up to a week.

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TIME: 10 min preparing, 1h baking SERVINGS:

Ingredients:

430g ripe banana puree (~ 4 medium bananas) + 1 for decoration
125g olive oil
150g coconut sugar
100ml soy or other plant-based milk
260g oat flour
Pinch of salt
2 tsp baking powder
1 tsp baking soda
60g cocoa

Instructions:

Preheat the oven to 170°C.
Line a rectangular baking tray or loaf tin with baking paper, or grease it with coconut oil.
Blend ripe bananas with milk or mash the bananas with a fork into a smooth mixture and add milk. Then add oil and stir it well again.
Take a large mixing bowl, and add all dry ingredients – flour, sugar, cocoa, baking powder, soda, and salt. Mix all.
Combine both mixtures, do not over-mix. If the dough looks too dry add a bit more milk, if too wet add a bit of flour. It can be affected by how soft, ripe, and juicy bananas are.
Pour it into the baking tray. Decorate with chocolate chips, chopped nuts, and sliced bananas.
Bake for ~ 1h until ready or the toothpick comes out clean.

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Juicy Apple Cake (Sugar-Free)

This is the perfect apple cake – juicy, fruity, and full of sweet apples. If you like apples, cinnamon, and cakes, then this recipe is for you. Sweet, moist and in the same time so soft cake, which will be the perfect dessert for autumn evenings with a warm cup of tea or any time you have a lot of apples at home and don’t know how to use them.

The cake is white refined sugar-free, lactose-free, light, juicy, and sweetened with natural sweetener – honey. Easy and super delicious cake for everyone and any occasion.

This Super Delicious Apple Cake is:

Lactose-free
Juicy & moist
Refined sugar-free
Naturally sweetened
Easy and healthy cake
Perfect fall cake

Tips and notes:

Try to choose the sweetest and juiciest apples to get the most distinct taste for Apple Cake.
Use the lemon juice for the apples don’t turn brown and retain their light color.
You can prepare oat flour yourself by blending oats until you get the consistency of flour.
You can replace oat flour with other healthier flour.
You can add chopped nuts to the cake batter, sprinkle the cake with almond flakes, and with more apple slices.

TIME: 15 – 20 minutes preparing, 45 – 50 minutes baking| SERVINGS: 10 pieces

Ingredients:

900g apples
190g oat flour
3 eggs
60g coconut oil
180g greek style yogurt (vegan/lactose-free)
130g honey
1 tsp cinnamon
2 tsp baking powder
2 tbsp lemon juice

Instructions:

Preheat the oven to 180°C.
Peel the apple, cut it into slices, and add lemon juice and cinnamon. Stir it.
Prepare the cake tin, grease it, or line it with baking paper and set them aside.
Take a mixing bowl, and add all dry ingredients – oat flour, baking powder, and cinnamon. Combine all well.
In another bowl, add all wet ingredients and use a hand mixer until you get a smooth mixture.
Combine both mixtures (you can still use the hand mixer) and add apple slices.
Pour the apple batter into the cake tin.
Bake the cake for 45-50 minutes at 180°C or until the toothpick comes out clean.

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Easy No Bake Energy Balls

4 ingredients and a blender or food processor that is all you need to make these healthy Energy Balls. Quick Energy Balls are the perfect grab-and-go snack whenever you want something sweet. These Energy Balls are full of juicy dates and crunchy nuts, that gives a sweet and crispy taste. This is a guilt-free sweet snack, it’s refined sugar-free, vegan, and lactose-free, you have to try this.

A few tips:

If the dates are hard, soak them in a hot water for at least 15-30 minutes,
You can use any other nuts instead of cashews.
You can be creative with decoration – you can roll balls into shredded coconut, seeds, cornflakes, cocoa, chopped nuts, chopped chocolate pieces, almond flakes, etc.

Energy balls are:

No-bake
Vegan
Lactose-free
Banana-free
Easy & quick to make
Refined sugar-free
Healthy snack
Naturally sweetened

How to store Energy Balls?

Store in the fridge up to 5 days.

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TIME: 10 minutes preparation | SERVINGS: 7 balls

Ingredients:

2 tbsp plant-based milk
60g cashews
3 tbsp cocoa
100g dates (~13 average dates)
Chopped nuts, shredded coconut, or more cocoa for decoration

Instructions:

Blend all ingredients until you get a sticky mixture.
Make a ball with your palms.
Roll into chopped nuts, cocoa, or shredded coconut.

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