Mint Chocolate with Crunchy Choc Chips

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My new creations Crunchy Mint Chocolate!
I love the flavour of mint match matchers, becoming Vegan meant I had to lay them to rest.
I thought I’d create my own Raw Vegan version ๐Ÿ™‚
They are delicious.
Follow my basic chocolate recipe
then add
1 teaspoon natural peppermint flavouring
Half cup cacao nibs
Fresh mint leave to garnish and add lovely fresh mint flavour.
Place in fridge for 1 hour and Enjoy ๐Ÿ™‚

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Cadburys STARBAR

remember these?
Sticky, chocolatey, caramel, crunchy peanut middle!!

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Here is an original STARBAR cut in half

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Did you think becoming Vegan/Raw that yummy things like this were a thing of the past ???
Think again as I have created a Raw Vegan Version of STARBAR an old favourite of mine
What do you think?

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I created a milky chocolate, caramel sauce and crunchy peanut middle.
HappyDays ๐Ÿ™‚
Recipe to follow……

Raw Choc Chip Banana Cookie with Cashew Cream

If you are feeling rather naughty these are for you ๐Ÿ™‚ they are chocolatey, gooey, sweet cookies filled with cream. You can even freeze them for a few hours to create an ice cream sandwich.
Chocolate banana cookies
Ingredients:
1 cup ground almonds
1/2 cup flax meal
2 bananas
2 desert spoons coconut sugar
2 heaped desert spoons cocoa powder
4 dates
1/4 cup cacao nibs
1 level desert spoon maca (optional and personally I would not use if making for young children sensitive to stimulants)
1 spoon lucuma powder (optional)
1/2 cup water
1 desert spoon melted cocoa butter
2 desert spoons melted coconut oil
Directions:
place everything in blender and blend until resembles batter mix.
Try not to eat it all now ๐Ÿ™‚
Spread on non stick dehydrator trays and dehydrate 115 for 10 hours.
You can cook on low heat in oven for around 1.5 hr, will not be raw yet still delicious and better than processed yukky stuff!
Cashew Cream
Ingredients:
1 & 1/2 cup cashews ground into a flour with coffee mill then soaked in 1/4 cup water until soft
2 tsp Vanilla essence
Agave nectar syrup or Honey to taste
Directions:
Grind cashews into a flour with coffee mill then soak in 1/4 cup water until soft
Drain excess water from cashews then blend until desired consistency adding water if requires
Add Vanilla essence
add agave or honey to taste
Place in piping bag and decorate cookies.
Enjoy ๐Ÿ™‚

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Carrot and Walnut Cake with Orange Cashew Nut Cream

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Recipe:
Carrot and walnut cake
3 carrots use juicing pulp or grate
1 apple grated
4 apricots
8 dates
Juice of half lemon
Half cup walnuts made into flour with coffee mill or crush with rolling pin
1/4 cup flax meal
3 desert spoons psyllium husks
1 tbsp ginger powder
1tsp cinnamon
2 desert spoons coconut oil
2 desert spoons coconut sugar
1 cup pure water
Put all ingredients into food processor until resembles cake mix
Leave for 10 mins to absorb water
Spread on dehydrator tray. Dehydrate for 10 hours.
Enjoy on there own or with cashew nut cream.
Enjoy ๐Ÿ™‚
Orange Cashew Cream
1 & 1/2 cup cashews ground into a flour with coffee mill then soaked in 1/4 cup water until soft
Juice and Zest of one Orange
Agave nectar syrup or Honey to taste
Drain excess water from cashews then blend until smooth
Add Orange Juice and half of Zest
Then add agave or honey
To really make pretty add cream to piping bag then pipe on.
Use rest of zest to decorate
Enjoy ๐Ÿ™‚

Raw Parsnip and Pumpkin seed crackers

If you want to use up left over vegetables from the week these are for you! I made a juice from various vegetables I had over.
I decided to make crackers, bread and cakes with the pulps.
Here is the parsnip pulp made into crackers.
Recipe will follow shortly.
They are in dehydrator now ๐Ÿ™‚

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Cherry & Almond Raw Flapjack

I decided to make an old favourite of mine Cherry & Almond Flapjack.
I didn’t get as far as dehydrating it as it tastes great just as it is.
This is quick, nutritious with cashew nuts and oats to fill you up. These are perfect as a breakfast or snack bar. Would also be good before or after exercise.
Equipment:
Food processor
Coffee/Grinder mill
Ingredients:
1 cup cashews (ground into powder)
1 cup oats (ground into flour)
7 dates (mixed to a paste in coffee mill)
2 tbsp agave or honey
1 cup cherries seeded and halved
1 cup blueberries
1 tsp almond essence
Pinch salt
Mix all ingredients in food processor
until your required consistency (add more oat flour if need be)
Eat straight away or freeze for 2 hours for a firmer bar removing halfway through to cut into bars.
Keeps in fridge for 2 days.
Enjoy ๐Ÿ™‚
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