Category: Dessert

Healthy Peanut Butter Brownies

Peanut Butter Plant Based Brownies Peanut Butter Protein Brownies are a fantastic dessert that you can feel good about. Flavoured with peanut butter, cocoa powder, and sweetened with maple syrup, these sweet treats are packed with a secret ingredient… Quinoa! To make these brownies gluten free and rich in protein, I blended quinoa into flour […]

Coconut Mango Squares

I recently made the decision to eat more whole foods, and cut out processed sugar from my diet, but I will always have a soft spot for sweets and desserts, so I tried a new recipe for these Coconut Mango Squares. These are refined sugar free, lightly sweetened with mangos and dates, and made with […]

Chocolate Espresso Vegan Cheesecake

Chocolate Espresso Vegan Cheesecake Dessert Recipe  Chocolate Espresso Vegan Cheesecake is a baked cheesecake-style vegan dessert made with cashews. This vegan cheesecake is baked like a traditional style cheesecake – with an added hint of espresso flavor – and topped with chocolate ganache. I have been on a bit of a coffee chocolate baking kick […]

Espresso Brownie Cookie Bars

Vegan Chocolate Chip Cookie Brownies and Espresso Frosting Recipe I had the hardest time coming up with a name for these desserts. They are made with a cookie dough crust, espresso fudge brownie middle, and espresso vegan buttercream-style frosting. Calling them Espresso Fudge Cookie Dough Brownie Bars seemed a bit much, so I had to […]

Chocolate Espresso Vegan Macarons

  Chocolate Espresso Vegan Macarons Recipe Chocolate, Coffee, and Macarons. These are three of my favourite things, so it only made sense that I would come up with a batch of these Chocolate Espresso Macarons at some point. These delicious little desserts are perfect for afternoon tea, or just for a fancy little dessert to […]

Almond Vegan Macarons with Chocolate Date Filling

Almond Vegan Aquafaba Macarons and Chocolate Date Filling Recipe Vegan Macarons may sound like an oxymoron or an impossibility, given that traditional macarons are made with egg-whites, sugar and almond flour, and then most often filled with dairy-based buttercream or ganache. Vegan Macarons on the other hand, are made with aquafaba – the liquid from […]

Vegan Scottish Shortbread Recipe

Vegan Scottish Shortbread Recipe Traditional Scottish Shortbread is made with Flour, Butter, and Sugar, in a 3:2:1 Ratio (for example: 3/4 Cup Flour, 1/2 Cup Butter, 1/4 Cup Sugar).  I have tried substituting the butter for vegan butter in a 1:1 ratio, but they did not turn out as I had hoped. I had to […]

Strawberry Vanilla Cake

Vegan Strawberry Vanilla Cake Recipe Since making my Three Layer Lemon Berry Cake last week, I have been dreaming about making another vegan cake, as I wanted to try switching up the flavors a bit and make a three layer vanilla strawberry cake. It just so happened that an opportunity came about this week giving […]