Chocolate Cherry Nice Cream is a deliciously refreshing cold treat for a hot summer’s day. Full of fruit, it’s perfect for breakfast, dessert, or just a snack! The first time I had banana-based ice cream was probably about 15 years ago. I hadn’t been vegan very long. I had already been vegetarian for many years,…
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Vegan Chocolate-Peanut Butter Truffle Mini Tarts
Satisfy your sweet tooth with these easy-to-make Vegan Chocolate-Peanut Butter Truffle Mini Tarts. As I mentioned a few weeks ago, I’ve been taking Fran Costigan’s Essential Vegan Desserts course with Rouxbe. The course’s final assignment is to throw a dessert party and make five different types of bite-sized vegan treats. I decided to have a…
Avocado Chocolate Mousse
This healthy Chocolate Mousse will satisfy any chocolate craving. The rich chocolaty flavor and creamy texture will disguise this treat’s secret ingredient – avocado. Avocado Chocolate Mousse is the perfect treat to share with your sweetie this Valentine’s Day. Chocolate has a long history of being used as an aphrodisiac. It’s said that Aztec emperor Montezuma…
Vegan Chocolate-Almond Date Truffles
Your sweetie will swoon over these Vegan Chocolate-Almond Date Truffles this Valentine’s Day. They’re super easy to make, and they’re healthy, too! For the past few months, I’ve been taking Fran Costigan’s Essential Vegan Desserts course with Rouxbe. I did Rouxbe’s Plant-Based professional course a two years ago, and I absolutely loved it. Eager to…
Vegan Chocolate Shake from 40 Days of Green Smoothies
Start your day with a healthy vegan Chocolate Shake! Most people make resolutions in the new year, but I prefer to make goals. One of my goals this year is to get back to my morning green smoothie habit. I had been drinking green smoothies for breakfast for quite a while, but somehow I fell of…
Vegan Chocolate Crackles
My dad was in the Air Force when I was young, and I grew up in various parts of the world. We lived in England for a few years when I was pretty small, in a little beach village on the North Sea, not too far from the base where he was stationed. We lived…
10 Health Benefits of Chocolate
Chocolate is my favorite food. There’s nothing quite like it – it’s rich, decadent, and delicious. Chocolate actually comes from beans (the seeds of the theobroma cacao tree to be exact), and as with most plant-based foods, it’s highly nutritious. Not all chocolate is created equal though. When buying chocolate, skip those that contain milk, lots…
Family Favorites Desserts: Chocolate Cream Pie
When Angela from Canned Time asked me to participate in the Family Favorites Desserts series, I immediately jumped at the opportunity. Each month, Canned Time is featuring a different blogger who has veganized a favorite dessert from her childhood. NuNaturals is the unofficial sponsor of the series, so their stevia products are used in all of the recipes. It sounded…
Double Chocolate Berry Good Cookies from Crave Eat Heal
I’ve been anxiously awaiting the release of Annie Oliverio’s cookbook Crave Eat Heal for about a year now. We’ve never met in person, but Annie has become a friend though the vegan blogging community, and she was kind enough to include one of my recipes in the book. I was also a recipe test for…
10 Recipes for a Vegan Valentine’s Day
When people think of food with aphrodisiac effects, they often think of oysters, but the truth is that most aphrodisiac-like foods can be found in the plant kingdom, and the list is long: hot peppers, asparagus, bananas, avocado, arugula, beets, pumpkin seeds, berries, ginger, garlic, walnuts, sweet basil, almonds, cinnamon, pomegranates, pine nuts, artichokes, cherries,…
