Strawberry and Vanilla swirled cake (vegan, raw, gluten & grain free)
Ingredients for the crust: 1 cup of coconut chips 1/2 cup of sunflower seeds 1/2 cup of cashews 1 Tbl of vanilla 1/2 cup of coconut sugar 1/2 cup of coconut oil 1/4 cup of cacao butter Line a 8” round cake tin with plastic wrap. Place the dried ingredients in a food processor and process until fine. Add the oil and butter and blend until the dough sticks together. Press into the tin and set in the fridge while you make the filling. Ingredients for the filling: 3/4 cup of melt
Tips to plan and have nutritious breakfasts everyday
How many of you feel like they don’t have enough time for breakfast in the morning or that it’s quite hard to whip up a healthy one every day? Well with a bit of planning and thinking ahead, we can treat ourselves to a nutritious meal. Who said meal prep has to be all about lunch and dinners? Here’s a few tips on how plan your breakfast for the week to make sure you have a great start of your day. Over the weekend or on a day off, bake savoury muffins and mini frittatas fille
Red Velvet Raspberry Truffles (vegan, raw, gluten & grain free, nut free)
Ingredients: 1 cup of tigernut flour (but you can use almond, coconut or buckwheat - with coconut you’ll probably need to add more liquid, weather it’s more sweetener, cacao butter or tahini) 1/2 cup of shredded coconut 1/4 cup of vanilla protein 1 Tbl of beetroot powder 2 Tbl of cacao powder 1/4 cup of tahini or nut butter of choice 1/4 cup of melted cacao butter or oil (cacao gives more of a silky and chocolatey taste which I love) 1/4 cup of liquid sweetener (maple, coconu
Do natural sugars and refined sugars affect the body the same way?
Are all sugars the same? Do they affect our body the same way? Should we opt for one over the other or avoid both? All forms of sugars are simple carbohydrates that are broken down for energy but refined sugars and natural sugars are definitely different. Refined sugar contain no nutritional value, it’s essentially empty calories with no protein, fats, vitamins or minerals. When we consume it, as there is no fibre to slow down its absorption, it’s digested rapidly and enters
Carob & cacao mulberries cookie sandwiches with vanilla coconut ice cream (vegan, raw, gluten &a
Ingredients for cookies: 1 cup tiger nut flour 1 desiccated coconut 1/4 cup of carob powder 1/4 cup of cacao powder (or just 1/2 cup of cacao powder) 1/4 teaspoon sea salt 2 tablespoons of lucuma powder 2 teaspoons of cacao mushroom mix (optional) 1 teaspoon of vanilla powder or extract 1 teaspoon of cinnamon 1/4 cup maple/coconut/rice syrup 1/4 cup cacao dusted mulberries chips or cacao nibs Place flour, desiccated coconut, carob and cacao powders, lucuma and sea salt in a f
