Nuts – Healthy Choices by Sabine: Sugar-free and Healthy Dessert Recipes

Chocolate Cookies with Hazelnuts

Chocolate Cookies with crispy pieces of hazelnuts and taste of chocolate will be a great snack for any occasion. These Chocolate Cookies with Hazelnuts are much healthier, because they are lactose-free, white refined sugar-free, and wheat flour-free. Enjoy them still warm from the oven with your afternoon tea or coffee.

Cookies are such a popular and easy sweet snack, consisting of the ingredients you almost always have at home. 5 ingredients and 30 minutes of your time and you will have healthy, delicious, and soft Chocolate Cookies with crispy hazelnut pieces.

These delicious cookies are:

Lactose-free
Chocolatey
Dairy-free
Chocolatey
Nutty
Crispy
Refined white sugar-free

Tips for making these cookies:

To combine the dough use your hands – knead, press, and combine it well.
However, if the dough seems too sticky or dry, add a little more flour or plant-based milk or melted coconut oil.
Sprinkle your hands with flour to avoid the dough sticking to your palms while making round cookie balls.
You can decorate cookies with hazelnut pieces, seeds, berries, or chocolate chips.

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TIME: 15 minutes preparing, 15 minutes baking | SERVINGS: 15

Ingredients:

2 eggs
50g cocoa
190g mixed oat and rice flour (you can use only oat flour as well)
1 tsp baking powder
40g melted coconut oil
100g coconut sugar
60g chopped hazelnuts

Ingredients:

Preheat the oven to 180°C degrees and line a baking paper over the pan.
Combine all dry ingredients in a large mixing bowl – flour, cocoa, baking powder.
In a separate bowl add eggs, melted coconut oil, and sugar. I used a hand mixer to combine well, you can also use a spoon as well.
Add the wet ingredients and stir slowly. You can use your hands to better combine, mix until you get a thick dough. If the dough seems too sticky or dry, add a little more flour or coconut oil, plant based milk or water.
Mix chopped hazelnuts into the dough.
Sprinkle your hands with flour to avoid the dough sticking to your palms and make round balls.
Place the cookie balls on the prepared baking pan lined with baking paper.
Take a fork and a glass of water, fold the fork into the water and gently press the balls. You can also do it with the palm of your hand.
Bake the cookies for 12 – 15 minutes at 180C.

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Vegan Crunchy Cookies with Chocolate

This is an easy cookies recipe, these cookies are vegan, oil-free, dairy-free, and healthy, loaded with peanut butter, nuts, and a sprinkle of dark chocolate pieces. Vegan Crunchy Cookies are easy to make, with no complicated steps.

Cookies are a super easy healthy snack that you can bring as a gift to any occasion or grab as a snack whenever you are hungry or want to treat yourself with a tasty dessert.

Are these cookies healthy?

These Vegan Crunchy Cookies are healthy because they consist of nuts and peanut butter, which are high in protein. Cookies are refined sugar and white wheat flour-free, with only high nutritional ingredients.

How to store Vegan Crunchy Cookies?

You can store the cookies in an airtight container, at room temperature, for up to 4 days, but before storing them, let them cool down to keep the crispiness.

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TIME: 10 min preparation, 12-15 minutes baking | SERVINGS: 16 cookies

Ingredients:

80g oat flour (you can use 1/2 oats and other 1/2 muesli)
1 ripe banana
40g coconut sugar
120g nut butter
80g mixed nuts
30g vegan dark chocolate

Instructions:

Preheat the oven to 180°C.
Take a mixing bowl, and mash the banana with a fork.
Blend mixed nuts, but not fully, small nut pieces can remain.
Add all ingredients to the mashed banana and combine well until you get sticky cookie dough.
Cover the pan with a baking sheet.
Take a small piece of the dough and roll it into a ball. Press it down with the palm of your hand or fingers to flatten until you get a form of a cookie.
Bake the cookies for 12-15 minutes.

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Chocolate Covered Rice Cakes

These Chocolate Covered Rice Cakes are one of the easiest sweet snacks that you can ever make. Only 2 main ingredients. Feel free to experiment with toppings and make unique tastes, be creative. You can use nuts, fruits, seeds, fruits, etc. You can top the rice cakes with whatever you want.

Chocolate Covered Rice Cakes are crispy, light, and easy to make sweet snacks in a rushy week.

Topping ideas for rice cakes

Almonds, hazelnuts, cashews, peanuts, walnuts
Mixed seeds or pumpkin, sesame, and chia seeds
Shredded coconut or coconut flakes
Blueberries, raspberries, strawberries, cherries
Banana slices and other fresh fruits
Peanut butter
Goji berries
Dried fruits

How to store Chocolate Covered Rice Cakes?

You can store them in an airtight container in the fridge for up to 1 – 2 weeks, if you used fresh fruits, then check the consistency of them before eating.

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TIME: 10 minutes preparing, 30 minutes to harden in the fridge | SERVINGS: 7

Ingredients:

7 rice cakes
100g vegan dark chocolate
1 – 2 handfuls of seeds, nuts, berries, coconut, and fruits
1 tbsp coconut oil (optional)

Instructions:

Take a plate, place rice cakes on it.
Take another plate, spread over toppings (nuts, seeds, fruits, etc.) for easy access.
Melt the chocolate at a very low temperature, you can add 1 tbsp coconut oil (optional), which will make the chocolate more liquid and will be easier to cover the rice cakes.
Take a spoon and cover the rice cake with chocolate, add toppings.
Place the rice cakes in the fridge or freezer to harden the chocolate.

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HEALTHY HOMEMADE ENERGY BARS

Healthy homemade energy bars are a perfect snack when you are hungry or just craving something delicious or sweet, then this could be your healthy choice. Healthy energy bars are easy and fast to cook, no-bake, sugar-free, and lactose-free.

Choose Healthy Snack – Homemade Energy Bars

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TIME: 10 minutes | SERVINGS: 8

Ingredients:

200g dates
50g dried apricots or plums
200g almonds
150g pumpkin seeds
2 tbsp cocoa
100g sugar-free vegan or regular dark chocolate

Instructions:

Mash or blend almonds that the nut pieces remain. Place them in the bowl.
Blend dates and apricots, then add cocoa and blend all. (You can soak the dates in cold water for 1-2 hours or faster version soak them in hot water for 10 minutes to get them soft and easy to blend).
Add the mixture to almonds, add pumpkin seeds and mix well.
Smooth out the mixture in a parchment square pan. Press the mixture covering the whole pan.
Melt the chocolate – a heat-proof bowl over a pan of simmering water or use the microwave at 10-15 seconds.
Spread over the chocolate.
Put the pan in the freezer for two hours or until firm. Store in the freezer.

Enjoy and make your body a better place. 🙂

Healthy Chocolate Plum Bars

Chocolate Plum Bars are one of my favorite energy bars. I love the combination of plums and chocolate. These bars are sugar-free, vegan, dairy-free and so delicious. Be careful, I couldn’t stop to eat one after another. 🙂

Chocolate Plum Bars are covered with rich and sweet chocolate, loaded with crunchy hazelnuts and super soft plums. The perfect combination of flavors in every bite. These bars are a chocolatey, nutty, sticky, and sweet healthy snack.

Chocolate Plum Energy Bars – Healthy Snack

Healthy Plum Energy Bars are:

Vegan
Naturally sweetened
Refined sugar-free
Sticky and chewy
Sweet and chocolatey
Only 6 main ingredients
Easy to make
Lactose-free

You can also try these bars:

TIME: 10 minutes to prepare, ~ 2 hours to set | SERVINGS: 8

Ingredients:

150g dried plums
50g dates
100g mixed nuts
100g hazelnuts
½ tsp cinnamon
2 tbsp fresh orange juice or other fruit juice
100g dark vegan chocolate

Instructions:

Blend mixed nuts. Nut pieces can remain.
Blend plums, dates, cinnamon, and orange or other fruit juice together until you get a sticky mixture.
Combine both mixtures. I process the mixture by hand to better mix all the ingredients.
Take a rectangular cake pan and spread it with baking paper.
Spread the mixture into an even layer and smooth the surface.
Melt the chocolate at a very low temperature.
Cover the mixture with chocolate.
Put the mixture in the freezer for 2 hours or until firm. Cut in bars.
Store in the freezer or fridge.

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