Raw carrot cake

Ingredients:

For the Crust:

• 2 cups ground raw almonds
• 1 coffee spoon salt
• 1/2 cup chopped dates
• 1/3 cup agave syrup
• 1/2 cup raw sunflower seeds

For the Filling:

• 500g chopped carrots
• 1 pineapple
• 1/2 cup  ground raw cashews

For the Frosting:

• 1  cup ground raw macadamia nuts
• 2 cups finely chopped dates
• 1/4 cup agave syrup
• 1/4 cup fresh lemon juice

Preparation:

For the crust. Blend the almonds, salt, dates, and agave syrup until creamy. Mix in the sunflower seeds and press into the prepared pan. Place the pan in the freezer for at least 30 minutes before adding the filling.
For the filling. Blend the carrots, pineapple and cashews. Spread the mixture on top of the crust layer and place in the refrigerator for 15 minutes.
For the frosting. Blend the ground macadamia nuts, dates, lemon juice and agave syrup until creamy. Spread over the filling and chill in the refrigerator for 30 minutes before serving. Yummmmy

Stressed?!? Read it in reverse :)

Just a quick dessert or breakfast....

You need a banana, 4 table spoons of cacao, 2 table spoons of agave, coconut flour and an avocado.
Everything goes in the blender and voila!
How cool is that?

Afternoon sweets

No doubt everybody will try this recipe at home because it is one of the easiest!  You just need a few things to make them.

What you need is:

-      200 grams of raw, soaked nuts

-      300 grams of dry dates and apricots

-      2 tablespoons of cacao

-      A pinch of cinnamon and ginger

Everything goes in the blender.

Then you shape the mixture into small balls and roll them up in coconut flour!

 

Ice cream

Summer is almost gone… but let’s enjoy the last warm days with a ball of ice cream.

This post is for ice cream lovers but the ones who at least sometimes search for alternative, healthy ways.

You can find this recipe in every blog of healthy living so mine will not be an exception. J

There are many variations to make fruity ice cream depending on the fruits you like.

You can make it with:

·       banana only

·       banana and strawberry

·       banana and blueberry

·       banana and cranberry

·       blueberry only

·       strawberry only

·       mango

The variations are so many really, just use fruits that are not so watery like watermelon, apple etc. Choose your favourite ones, better yet – seasonal ones.

Making ice cream turns to be the easiest thing because you just freeze the fruit for few hours and blend it.

Don’t forget to peel the bananas before you freeze them!

It will take 5-10 minutes in the blender depends on how powerful is your blender.

Optional: You can add 1-2 table spoons of honey/agave and/or 1 coffee cup with soya milk, raisins etc.

That’s it!

Voila!

Chocolate, my favourite temptation

I lost a lot of weight last two years and people ask me why and how.

I was the same weight when I was 16 years old . And not because I am under stress or I am on a strict diet, exactly the opposite.

I am happier than ever with my new job, personal and social life, and healthy living.

I guess that is the secret. Eating not only healthy but being happy and having an active lifestyle is also important. Actually I eat a lot.

So here is my recipe for my homemade chocolate. I make a lot of sweet, sensational desserts at home. I have a few versions of healthy chocolate but the other recipes I will post later.

So what you have to do is to buy:

Coconut oil or cacao oil (They have it in every organic food shop.)

Agave syrup or honey

Cacao powder

Optional: You can add a pinch of cinnamon and ginger.

 Only these 3 things are needed for the homemade chocolate!

It will be a bit difficult to give you the proportions, just because your taste may vary. Do you prefer it bitter or sweeter?

But let’s say for every cup of coconut or cacao oil you need at least one cup of cacao powder and 2/3 cup of any kind of sweetener you use.

So melt the oil over a hot water bath and add the cacao and agave while stirring.

Taste it to see if you need more cacao or honey.

You can put the mixture in an ice cube tray to have chocolate candy or in a flat tray to have it as a bar.

Give it an hour and it will be ready to eat.

Bon apetite!

Cashewchino J

I already posted in my blog for coffee addicts healthy version of coffee with soya milk.

Now I will tell my newest passion - cashewchino.

Again like everything I do, it is very easy and very delicious J

What you need:

A cup of coffee (a regular one or a healthy version (rye, barley etc))

30 grams of raw cashew nuts

1 coffee spoon of ginger powder

1 coffee spoon of cinnamon

5 dates

Put in the blender cashew nuts and the dates.

Then add them in the hot coffee and then put the ginger and the cinnamon.

Try it, it is your afternoon coffee with your dessert at the same time J

Raw, vegan birthday cake

Hello everybody,

It has been a while since I posted anything on my blog but the summer has been too tempting to stay in front of the computer. The fall is here so I am back on track with new recipes and new ideas for healthy living which I have experimented with during the summer.

I know this recipe from a friend of mine - Desi, who brought it from India.

Thank you Desi J

It is so easy to make and so much more delicious from the cakes you buy from the shops.

Since I tried it I have always made it for special occasions and for me…

Everybody asks every time for the recipe J

I make a big one for birthdays or other occasions and I use half of the portions to have it for me at home.

So here is what you need:

For the base:

300 gr nuts (it could be any kind single or mixed – almonds, walnuts, cashews etc.)

400 gr dry fruits (it is better to use dry apricot and dates, or only dates)

2-3 tea spoons of cinnamon

A bit of rum or cognac, if you want to

For the cream:

2 soft avocados

½ tea cup of Cacao

½ tea cup of honey or agave

And 2 bananas to put between the two layers and different fruits to put on the top for decoration:

Put the nuts in the blender and mix them well.

Soak the dry fruits for half an hour and cut them in small pieces or …again in the blender

Then mix the dry fruits and the nuts and knead them as if it were dough. You can add a little rum or cognac if you want to.

Now you have a mixture like dough and you can split it in 2 for the two bases you need.

Put the first base in the cake tray and push it well to cover the bottom well.

Cut the bananas in circles and cover the first base. Then put the second layer of the “dough” on top and do the same as with the first layer of the cake.

It is time for the cream.

Mash the two soft avocados very well, I do it with a fork or put it in the blender.

Then add the cacao and the honey or agave.

How much honey or agave you will put it really depends on your taste.

Some people prefer it more like a dark chocolate – so you put more cacao and taste; some people prefer it more like a “milk chocolate’’ so you put less cacao and more agave.

At the end, decorate with season fruits….raspberries, strawberries, bananas….

Enjoy! You will impress everyone with this recipe and no one will ever believe how healthy it is. J

Vegan baked cookies

These are definitely one of my favourite cookies. I make them very often. They are very easy and quick to prepare.

The final result is just amazing. And what’s best, they are vegan.

The necessary products:

250 g honey or agave syrup

200 g tahini (pure)

200 g oatmeal

100 g walnuts

1 teaspoon vanilla extract

1 teaspoon cinnamon powder

50 g raisins

50 ml rum (optional, for the raisins)

Preparation:

Optionally, soak the raisins in rum for 30 minutes.
In a bowl, mix well the tahini with the honey (or agave), the vanilla and the cinnamon. Then add the other products: drained of rum raisins, the walnuts and the oatmeal. Followed by the addition of each product, the mixture is stirred well.

From the resulting dough, with wet hands, form your cookies – big or small, it doesn’t matter. The cookies are arranged in a tray covered with baker’s paper. Bake in a preheated oven at 180° C for about 15 minutes, or until their edges start browning slightly. Once removed from the oven, leave them in the tray - many will be too soft to lift. Wait at least 15-20 min until they have cooled down completely.

Enjoy!

Sweets