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No Bake Fruit Pizza

June 23, 2016August 21, 2016 Melissa King 11 Comments

This is Emily from PrettyPies.com and I am delighted to be guest posting for My Whole Food Life today to share this recipe for No-Bake Fruit Pizza! This fun summertime dessert is perfect for the 4th of July!

Many years ago, long before my whole-foods transformation, I was introduced to a dessert known as fruit pizza. Have you tried it? Basically, it’s a concoction of ultra-processed foods: store-bought refrigerated cookie dough, cool whip, marshmallow fluff or cream cheese plus more refined sugar. A long list of not-so- healthy ingredients. Since I’d much rather have real food, I decided to do a recipe makeover!

Salted Caramel Crispy Cookies

June 21, 2016August 21, 2016 Melissa King 5 Comments

I have a treat for you today! These Salted Caramel Crispy Cookies need to be made asap! All you need is 4 simple ingredients!! My older daughter LOVED them and so did my husband. You all know that I am a big fan of salted caramel anything, especially these cookies.

salted caramel crispy cookies

These cookies need to be kept in the freezer, but they are easy to eat straight from it. Not hard as a rock, but perfect.

These Salted Caramel Crispy Cookies are no bake, gluten free and vegan. The perfect summer dessert! If you need more uses for crispy rice, check out this post too.

No Bake Snickerdoodle Truffles (Vegan)

May 14, 2016February 27, 2018 Melissa King 6 Comments

Put these No Bake Snickerdoodle Truffles on your must make list! When I was shopping at Whole Foods the other day, they were giving out samples of these vegan snickerdoodle truffles.

While they were very delicious, the ingredients were definitely not the healthiest. So when I got home, I set out to make my own version and I think they came out pretty good.

If you love truffles, you must also check out these dark chocolate raspberry truffles, and these pecan caramel truffles.

This healthier truffle recipe contains only 6 simple ingredients and requires no baking! It’s also vegan, gluten free and paleo approved.

I plan on taking them to my neighborhood wine party this weekend and I hope they will be a hit.

Flourless Lemon Poppy Seed Cookies

May 1, 2016November 13, 2016 Melissa King 10 Comments

I love lemons. They can brighten up the flavors in any recipe, both sweet and savory. From ice creams to salads, lemons can definitely shine. Lemon is truly the star in these Flourless Lemon Poppy Seed Cookies. They are bursting with lemony flavors that do not disappoint! I also highly recommend making my lemon blueberry cookies!

It took me 2 tries to get this one right, but I am so glad I did! These healthy cookies are vegan, gluten free AND grain free! I wanted to eat the batter straight from the food processor. Okay, well maybe I did eat some of it haha!

Homemade Ding Dongs

April 17, 2016April 17, 2016 Melissa King 4 Comments

3 words for you. Homemade Ding Dongs. The other day in my Facebook group, a member posted a pic of some store bought Ding Dongs from Whole Foods. She asked if I could make a homemade version and I gladly accepted the challenge! I love the challenge of making copycat recipes. Just try my Gluten Free Samoas or my Grain Free Twix Bars for yourself. Unlike the store bought one, my version is free of refined sugar, gluten, eggs and dairy!

I got a little over-zealous and took the photograph before I added the chocolate coating. I will definitely make sure to add those instructions in the recipe though. I hope you enjoy these Homemade Ding Dongs as much as we did! The recipe is a little involved, but totally worth it.

Chocolate Rice Crispy Squares

April 14, 2016May 25, 2017 Melissa King 14 Comments

Chocolate Rice Crispy Squares. Rice crispy treats are one of those iconic recipes from childhood. Well, I just gave them a major upgrade with these easy Chocolate Rice Crispy Squares.

I love this recipe because it only contains simple ingredients. It also only takes a few minutes to prepare.

If you love chocolate, you may also want to try my fudgy flourless brownies and my chocolate coffee cheesecake.

These delicious chocolate bars are vegan and gluten free. They can easily be made nut free by using sunflower butter in place of the cashew butter.

I used brown rice cereal in this recipe. Only ingredient is brown puffed rice. You should be able to find it at any health food store. I have also seen it at Target on occasion.