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Healthy No Bake Cookie Dough Bites (Vegan)

Melissa King 156 Comments

Healthy No Bake Cookie Dough Bites.  Yes, you read that title right.  Healthy no bake cookie dough bites.  Such a thing does exist!  Who doesn’t love cookie dough?

 

healthy no bake cookie dough bites

 

These are sinfully good even with no refined sugar.  These no bake cookie dough bites may just be the most delicious things I have ever made.  It gets even better.

They only take minutes to make.  You could just be minutes away from popping one of these babies in your mouth.  I am drooling just looking at the picture.

Healthy No Bake Cookie Dough Bites

These would go great with a glass of my Homemade Almond Milk.

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Healthy No Bake Cookie Dough Bites

Healthy No Bake Cookie Dough Bites

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Prep Time 10 min

Ingredients

Instructions

  1. Throw the almonds and oats in the food processor and blend into a fine powder.
  2. Then add dates and continue to blend. 
  3. Lastly, add the water, a little at a time until a paste like dough forms. 
  4. Roll dough into little balls and place on a lined baking sheet. 
  5. Put into the fridge to get the dough to firm up a bit.  Eat and enjoy!

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Healthy No Bake Cookie Dough Bites

Healthy Red Velvet Donuts (Vegan)

Melissa King 33 Comments

Healthy Red Velvet Donuts with no artificial dyes! I have been wanting to try making red velvet donuts for a long time.  So yesterday I took the plunge and they came out great.

 

Healthy Red Velvet Donuts

 

Most red velvet cakes, muffins, and cookies are made with artificial food dyes.  Artificial dyes are a deal breaker for me. Did you know that a traditional red velvet baked good does’t even call for food coloring? It really is all about using the cocoa powder and the vinegar together.

Maybe it was all about my handy prep cooks I had helping me.  I bought Meadow and I matching aprons and she is too stinking cute wearing hers.

 

Meadow1

 

Even Olive wanted to help out.  Well, kind of.

 

Olive

 

She was really just fascinated with the spoon.  It’s funny, you buy your kids all these toys, but really, they want to play with stuff you have lying around your house.

Every parent knows exactly what I am talking about.  Give kids a cardboard box and they will play for hours!

Red Velvet Donuts

Healthy Red Velvet Donuts

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Prep Time 10 min Cook Time 10 min Serves 7 donuts     adjust servings

Ingredients

  • 1 1/2 cup spelt flour
  • 2 T coco powder
  • 1 egg (I used flax)
  • 1/2 tsp salt
  • 1 tsp baking soda
  • 1/3 cup yogurt (I used coconut)
  • 1/3 cup milk (I used hemp)
  • 1/3 cup coconut sugar
  • 1 tsp vanilla extract
  • 1 tsp vinegar
  • 1 T coconut oil
  • 1/4 cup chocolate chips (optional)

Instructions

  1. Preheat oven to 350.
  2. Mix all the wet ingredients in one bowl.
  3. Mix dry ingredients in another bowl.
  4. Add dry to wet.
  5. Spoon batter into greased donut pans and bake for about 10 minutes.
  6. Let cool completely before removing from the pans.

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Recipe Notes

I got about 7 donuts out of my batch so you may want to double it for more. Not a red velvet lover? Try my Banana Chocolate Chip Donuts.

Healthy French Fries (Vegan)

Melissa King 33 Comments

My daughters just love french fries.  What little kid doesn’t like french fries, right?  Time to make her some healthy french fries.

We hadn’t had french fries in quite some since we switched to a whole food diet.  One day, we got a bag of russet potatoes in our co-op basket, so we decided to make a healthy french fry recipe for her.

I think these french fries came out pretty good.  There was no talking when the french fries were being eaten, and there were no leftovers as they were being inhaled.  In our world, that spells success.

 

healthy french fries

Most store bought frozen french fries are laden with saturated fat and too much sodium, but not these.  These are fries you can feel good about giving to your kids.

This recipe would also work well with sweet potatoes.

Healthy French Fries

Healthy French Fries

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Prep Time 10 min Cook Time 1 hr Serves 5 servings     adjust servings

Ingredients

  • 5-6 russet potatoes julienned
  • 1 tsp salt
  • 1 tsp garlic
  • 2 T coconut oil

Instructions

  1. Preheat oven to 400.
  2. Pan fry the potatoes in the oil for about 5 minutes on medium-high heat.
  3. Transfer them onto a greased or lined baking sheet and bake for about an hour. Shake the pan every 15 minutes or so to get them to cook evenly.

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Recipe Notes

Feel free to add extra salt and garlic at the end to suit your taste. We went a little easy on them since we fed them to our daughter. These would go great with my Black Bean Veggie Burgers or my Sweet Potato Veggie Burgers.

Healthier Sugar Cookies

Melissa King 16 Comments

This is the season when the holiday goodies are everywhere.  It’s hard to resist those delicious looking sugar cookies. That is why I created a healthier sugar cookie option.

When I was pregnant with my first daughter, Meadow, I had envisioned the days when I would get to make holiday cookies with her.  Now, at three, she is able to help a bit.  She loved helping me roll out the dough and cut the pieces out.  That is why they may not look perfect.  Sometimes, as a mom, you need to just let that go and let them make their imperfect cookies. 🙂  I knew I was making memories for her.

Healthier Sugar Cookies

Healthier Sugar Cookies

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Prep Time 70 min Cook Time 7 min Serves 18 Cookies     adjust servings

Ingredients

  • 1 cup spelt flour
  • 1/2 cup all purpose gluten free flour
  • 1/2 cup coconut sugar
  • 2 T coconut oil
  • 2 T applesauce
  • 1 tsp baking powder
  • 1/4 tsp salt
  • 2 tsp vanilla
  • 1 egg (I used a flax egg)

Instructions

  1. Preheat oven to 350.
  2. In a medium bowl, mix the flour, baking powder, and salt.
  3. Soften the coconut oil and place it in a large mixing bowl with the sugar and applesauce.
  4. Mix until smooth.
  5. Add in egg and vanilla and mix until smooth.
  6. Slowly add the flour and mix just until everything is combined.
  7. Gather dough up in a ball, wrap and throw into the fridge for at least an hour.
  8. Roll out dough on a floured surface, cut into shapes and place onto a lined baking sheet.
  9. Bake for about 5-7 minutes. Enjoy!

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Healthy Apple Cobbler (Vegan and Gluten Free)

Melissa King 44 Comments

Healthy Apple Cobbler that is vegan AND gluten free.  I just love fruity desserts!  So I made you a healthy vegan apple cobbler.

I think apple cobbler is my favorite and apple pie might be a close second. I have already created a Healthy Apple Pie. So, naturally, I had to create a healthy apple cobbler too.  I hope you enjoy it this apple cobbler much as we did!

I had to stop my husband from eating it all before I had the chance to photograph it. This apple cobbler recipe is so good that you and your friends would never know it was healthy, dairy free, and vegan.

 

Healthy Apple Cobbler (Vegan and Gluten Free)

 

The secret is slow cooking the apple filling in the crock pot, the natural sugars in the apple will come out more.  Another secret: adding a lot of spices like cinnamon and nutmeg will give a dish a sense of being sweeter than it is.

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Healthy Apple Cobbler

Healthy Apple Cobbler!

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Prep Time 4 hr Cook Time 30 min

This apple cobbler recipe is so good that you and your friends would never know it was healthy, dairy free, and vegan.

Ingredients

    For the filling

    For the topping

    Instructions

      For the filling

      1. Place everything in the crock pot and turn on high for the first hour and then turn to low for an additional 3 hours. Your house will smell amazing in the process!
      2. When the apples are done cooking, place them in a glass baking dish and preheat your oven to 350. I used an 8X8 dish.
      3. There will be some extra liquid left, so remove the apple mixture with a slotted spoon .

      For the topping

      1. Place everything in the food processor and mix until the oats start to stick together.
      2. Sprinkle oat mixture over the top of the apples and bake in the oven for about 25 minutes.

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      Recipe Notes

      I saved the leftover liquid from the filling and used it as a topping for pancakes. I actually did the apples the night before and put them in the fridge over night.

       

      Healthy Corn Tortilla Chips (Vegan)

      Melissa King 17 Comments

      My husband loves Mexican food.  This also means he loves tortilla chips. He loves yellow corn tortilla chips, blue corn tortilla chips, and every type of tortilla chip in the middle.

      If you have ever looked at the ingredients in a store-bought bag of tortilla chips, the ingredients are hardly healthy. Most tortilla chips are fried.

      Not these healthy corn tortilla chips!  When we went unprocessed, he said we just had to come up with a healthy corn tortilla chip recipe to satisfy his cravings.  I think this tortilla chip recipe does just that, plus they are simple to make.

      healthy corn tortilla chips

      These tortilla chips go great with our homemade guacamole and our homemade salsa.

       

      Healthy Corn Tortilla Chips

      Healthy Corn Tortilla Chips

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      Prep Time 5 min Cook Time 2 min Serves 50-60 chips     adjust servings

      These simple-to-make chips will delight your table at a backyard barbeque while staying healthy.

      Ingredients

      Instructions

      1. Cut them into little triangles
      2. Brush a bit of oil on them so they don’t burn
      3. Broiled them in the oven at 500 F for a minute per side.

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