Category: Sweet Recipes
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Chewy Peanut Butter Cookies {grain-free, dairy-free}
Chewy, not too sweet, a touch of salt, and no refined flours or sugars – these are my favourite peanut butter cookies to date.
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Apple Crumble {grain-free}
Cooler days and longer evenings inevitably seem to lead to cravings for warm, comforting desserts, such as an apple crumble, with tender apples and a crisp, buttery topping. This one is grain-free, using only almond flour and walnuts for the topping base.
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Coconut Lime Cookies {grain-free}
After supper, we don’t usually have dessert, but we do like to have a little treat with a cup of peppermint tea. However, it’s difficult to find something that isn’t filled with sugar and other carbohydrates, and therefore likely to keep us counting sheep all night. As I was trying to come up with an
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Fall Pear Tart
A few tiny tomatoes still clinging to the stems and some swiss chard are all that remain of our small garden. We will miss the tomatoes especially, but we do have some fall fruits to look forward to, such as butternut squash, apples and pears.
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Spring Violet Fairy Cakes {dairy-free}
In celebration of this 1st Day of May, also known as May Day, the midway point between the Spring Equinox and the Summer Solstice, I foraged some little wild violets that were growing in our backyard to make the icing for these little fairy cakes. The violets have a lovely sweet/piquant fragrance, and they lend
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Lemon Budino {gluten-free, dairy-free}
The word “budino” was unknown to me until a couple of years ago when I visited a restaurant in Portland, Oregon and saw “Meyer Lemon Budino” on their dessert menu. I ordered it out of curiosity (and love of lemon desserts) and was very happy to discover that it was a light custard with a
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Coconut Cake with Chocolate Ganache {gluten-free, dairy-free}
This recipe almost seems like magic, the way that the shredded coconut combines with a few other ingredients to create a rich, flavourful cake with a moist crumb. An advantage of this cake is that it doesn’t use any flour, which seems to be in very short supply these days…most people seem to be leaving
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Double Chocolate Muffins {vegan, gluten-free}
These muffins taste very decadently of rich, dark chocolate, yet they are surprisingly healthy. I first came across the original recipe, created by Thomas, on his interesting food blog called “Full of Plants”. His recipe is actually quite healthy as it is, but I wanted to try to eliminate any added sugars, preferring that any
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Dairy-Free Chocolate Chip Muffins
What seems like a very long time ago now, I used to buy a breakfast sandwich and chocolate chip muffin to go with my latte, on my way to my job as a stock broker’s assistant. Since I had to start work at 6:30am some days, I didn’t want to take any extra time away