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Banana Nutella Popsicles

July 30, 2014December 14, 2014 Melissa King 10 Comments

I have made you some Banana Nutella Popsicles. Growing up with a German mom, we always had Nutella in the house. I had been known to sneak that jar up to my room and enjoy a few bites form time to time. Sadly, the store bought Nutella is laden with unwanted ingredients. So I created these Banana Nutella Popsicles to hopefully curb that craving. These came out delicious!

Unlike some of my other popsicle recipes, these are free of cococnut milk. In stead, I added bananas for the creamy factor. They go so well with the hazelnuts and chocolate. This recipe makes a small batch of only 3 popsicles, so you may want to double it.

Lemon Blueberry Ice Cream (Vegan, Paleo)

July 24, 2014April 7, 2018 Melissa King 36 Comments

Lemon Blueberry Ice Cream. Omg this healthy ice cream might be my most favorite ice cream yet. It only contains 2 tablespoons of sweetener in the entire recipe!

Can you say that about store bought ice cream. Probably not. All you need is 5 simple ingredients to make this lemon blueberry ice cream! If you like my blueberries and cream popsicles, you will love this!

This blueberry ice cream is vegan, gluten free and paleo approved. Super easy. You can make it up in about 20 minutes. I love having an ice cream maker.

If you haven’t noticed. It’s much cheaper to make your own when organic ice cream at the store goes for about $6 a small carton. Plus, you don’t get any weird additives like carrageenan.

Vegan Nanaimo Bars (Gluten Free)

July 23, 2014May 30, 2017 Melissa King 26 Comments

Vegan Nanaimo Bars. I must be honest. I had never heard of a nanaimo bar, let alone vegan nanaimo bars.There was a discussion about these bars in the healthy living Facebook group I run.

Apparently, the nanaimo bar originates from Nanaimo, British Columbia. It’s a bar that requires no baking.

There are 3 layers to the nanaimo bar. The bottom is a chocolate, wafer-like layer, followed by a creamy layer, and topped off with a chocolate layer.

I thought I would try my hand at a vegan nanaimo bar. I have never tasted a real one, but I improvised based on some non vegan recipes I found online.

My vegan nanaimo bars are also gluten free, grain free and free of refined sugars. In fact, there is very little added sugar at all in my recipe.

These homemade nanaimo bars are very decadent. In fact, just a little piece would satisfy your sweet tooth. There are 2 ways you can do the creamy layer.

I used coconut butter and got a harder layer. If you want a softer middle layer, I suggest going with coconut cream instead of coconut butter. I hope you enjoy this.

Espresso Vanilla Almond Butter

July 20, 2014May 25, 2017 Melissa King 22 Comments

OMG you guys! This espresso vanilla almond butter is the bomb. The idea for this came to me after I heard about this product.

While that almond butter looks and sounds tasty, it does contain agave, which I avoid. So I wanted to try a homemade version of the espresso vanilla almond butter.

Mine came out delicious and it was also very easy to make!

This recipe takes almond butter to the next level. I suppose if you didn’t want to make the almond butter, you could make these into no bake cookies as well.

If you are a lover of all things coffee flavor, you will love this homemade almond butter. You might also like this and this.

Smokey Roasted Brussel Sprouts and Sweet Potatoes

July 14, 2014May 21, 2017 Melissa King 19 Comments

I just love roasted Brussel sprouts. There was once a time I hated them, but this recipe converted me. Ever since then, I have been roasting Brussel sprouts any way I can. This is my latest roasted Brussel sprouts recipe. This time I added sweet potato. Another one of my favorites!

These Smokey Sweet Potato Brussel Sprouts were seriously amazing you guys! When I ate them, I also added some pecans and avocado. So good! I will be making this again for sure. This recipe would be great as a side dish. You could also add your favorite protein to make it a complete meal.

Flourless Cinnamon Pecan Cookies

July 11, 2014December 14, 2014 Melissa King 27 Comments

I have been on a flourless cookie kick lately. These cinnamon pecan cookies are my latest creation. These flourless cinnamon pecan cookies are so good and they have no added sugar! Yep. These delicious cookies are sweetened only with dates! I made a caramel out of the dates and it was so good. The recipe is similar to my flourless salted caramel chocolate chip cookies and my toasted coconut caramel cookies.

If you like the taste of pecan pie, then you will like these little cookies. This recipe makes a small batch so you don’t have to worry about having a lot of extra cookies in the house. These cookies are vegan, gluten free, grain free and paleo friendly.