Blueberry-Pecan Muffins. What’s for Dinner Wednesday? Quick post…again, yes, I know right?
LOL What’s for dinner? I’m making this now, so I’m showing an older pic. Forgive me? Thanks. I’m making lasagna for dinner. Dessert I made last night. Spice cupcakes with homemade pumpkin cream cheese frosting. This is easy… A box of spice cake mix (You can use ANY box mix…not just pumpkin) with a can of pumpkin with a splash of apple cider….spice cupcakes, pumpkin style. Frosting…well, dump a brick of cream cheese, about 2tsp pumpkin pie spice, 1 1/4 to 1 1/2 cup powdered sugar, 1 tsp vanilla and 1/4c canned pumpkin into a bowl (I added a dash of cinnamon too) and mix til whipped and creamy.
So what’s on your plate tonight? Raw Vanilla Cake. Well!
I wasn't really planning on that much of a gap between now and my last post, but I've been pretty busy with finishing up school for the year, and couldn't find the time to blog during the past week. Hopefully the fact that I'm posting a cake recipe will make up for that... As I'm sure a few of you have already noticed, I have a bit of an obsession with chocolate.
Chocolate cakes, chocolate cookies, chocolate ice cream, chocolate sauce, chocolate milkshakes... we go through so much raw cacao powder around here, it's not even funny. Every once and a while though, I get a craving for something different - which is why I decided to make a vanilla cake! I'm estimating that about 95% of the raw cakes out there are chocolate, so I thought I needed to balance that out a bit with a recipe for some kind of white cake (so now only like, 94.5% of the cakes are chocolate). 1/2 batch of chocolate ganache. Brigadeiro (Raw Food) Recipe. 5 Ingredient Chewy Chocolate Coconut Cookies. Nothing says thank you quite like a batch of homemade cookies.
Now, if you want your thank you to be really special, go a step further and make the cookies with chocolate chips, cacao powder, or a bit of both. Add chocolate and you’re just about guaranteed to make the recipient jump up and down with excitement. Their eyes will go all beady, and; if you’re lucky, you might even get a hug out of it. I made these chocolate cookies as a thank you to one of my longstanding clients who’s referred me to a bunch of her friends and family. The power of a referral is huge and I’m super appreciative of it.
To thank her, I wanted to create a nut-free, dairy-free, gluten-free, corn-free, egg-free treat that wouldn’t impact her training, would squash her frequent chocolate cravings, and not aggravate her stomach with complicated ingredients. I went to my 5 ingredient chewy vanilla coconut cookies for inspiration. . … and then I made a batch for myself for good measure. print, email or text this recipe heh. How-to: Whipped Coconut Cream from Coconut Milk. Things have been oh-so-creamy around my blog the past few weeks.
Cream pies everywhere. And much chatter of coconut milk and all its glorious attributes and uses. But I was being a tad lazy when it came to my pies.. Why? Well, as you read in my recipes, I was simply giddy about the new product I discovered called "Healthy Top" - a cashew and coconut based whipped topping of sorts. Coconut Cream 101. Chilled can of coconut milk - the top layer of opaque "cream" - this is what you want to whip...