These healthy vegan brownies are created with two unusual and wholesome ingredients. Cooked black beans replaces most of the flour and avocado replaces the oil component. What you end up with is a fudgy, delicious, dairy-free, gluten-free, oil-free brownie. There are many ways you can make these healthy vegan brownies your own. You could add…
If you, like me, are frequently tempted by sweets, this healthy vegan chocolate avocado pudding is especially for you. Created with only four ingredients, this pudding couldn’t be easier to prepare or more healthy. Let’s begin with the avocado. With twice as much potassium as a banana, four grams of protein and loaded with nutrients,…
In 2014 I wrote a blog post about sugar and bone char. It is one of my most popular posts. People are often surprised, even shocked, to find out that bone char free sugar is not the norm! Tomorrow is Valentine’s Day and according to the National Retail Federations Valentine’s Day Consumer Spending Survey, an extraordinary $1.7 billion…
I created this vegan ice cream yesterday solely to smother it in Nature’s Charm new vegan coconut caramel sauce. Oh my gosh, I have missed caramel so much since I became vegan but I don’t have to anymore. Nature’s Charm just released a coconut caramel sauce that is dairy, gluten and soy free and made from…
I need to introduce you to my love. It is vegan meringue. Oh my goodness. To be honest, I was very skeptical about using chickpea brine to make vegan meringue, but I got over that quickly. This meringue was light, airy and formed stiff peaks. Not only was the texture great, but it was absolutely…
Before we discuss these delicious, easy scones, I want to mention food labels. Reading food labels can be a tricky business. Sometimes we see words like all-natural on foods and often assume that the foods do not contain any hormones, antibiotics or artificial ingredients. However, that is not true. Not only that, many people think…
Vegan Tres Leches Cake with Strawberries Using Nature’s Charm Vegan Sweetened Condensed and Evaporated Milk Before I became vegan, my birthday cake of choice was always Tres Leches. Up until yesterday, I haven’t had a Tres Leches cake for over 5 years and figured I could live without it. Until last week. That’s when Nature’s Charm…
Raspberry Lime Vegan Sorbet with Dark Chocolate Curls If you think making sorbet requires a lot of hard work and an ice cream machine – think again. This plant-based vegan sorbet is so simple to create and only requires a blender or food processor. Did you know that eating one cup of raspberries is only 64…
Orange Rice Pudding with Shaved Dark Chocolate For me, there is nothing like the combination of orange and dark chocolate. It brings back wonderful memories of the orange sherbert chocolate ice cream bars I ate as a child. As a homage to these orange sherbert bars, I decided to make this creamy orange rice pudding. I…
I do a lot of research on food safety, but even I was utterly confused about cookware safety. Following my research, I peered into my dark cupboards, and started pulling out all my cookware. First, it was shocking how much I had stocked over the years, and more surprising was how much non-stick cookware were…
