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Crispy Peanut Butter Waffles

· Natalie 17 Comments

Crispy golden Peanut Butter Waffles are easy and egg/grain free! Sweet, salty, with a little cinnamon. Pile on your fave toppings for a delicious breakfast!

Crispy Peanut Butter Waffles (vegan + grain-free)

What started as a mission to attempt a powdered sugar “snow” shot turned into the delicious creation of these vegan, grain-free, perfectly Crispy Peanut Butter Waffles. And I (sort of) got the winter wonderland shot I had envisioned too. A very good morning indeed.

But even if you skip all the sugar and theatrics, the waffles themselves will make your wednesday or weekend morning feel like a treat. Especially if you happen to accidentally on purpose drop a big handful of chocolate chips into the batter (optional, but not NOT recommended).

Crispy Peanut Butter Waffles (vegan + grain-free)

These crispy pb waffles are:

  • Vegan and grain-free (plus easily made paleo if you use almond or sunflower seed butter instead).
  • Made with coconut flour!
  • Not too sweet, we have to leave room for maple to work it’s syrupy magic.
  • Small but stackable.
  • Extra golden and crispy, especially if you make them small like I did. Because smaller = more edges. See what I did there.
  • One bowl. 10 ingredients. We’re talking sooooooo low maintenance here, friends.
Crispy Peanut Butter Waffles (vegan + grain-free)

Pictured above: The part where I ran out of maple syrup for pouring on top but didn’t want to ruin my background styling, so I found the tiniest jar of honey hiding in the back of my pantry (welcome gift from when I moved in two apartments ago) and swapped that in instead. Vegans don’t hate me.

Pictured below: The fluffiest of FLUFFY cake-like insides.

Crispy Peanut Butter Waffles (vegan + grain-free)

Happy peanut butter breakfast-ing to you!

Crispy Peanut Butter Waffles (vegan + grain-free)
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Crispy Peanut Butter Waffles

★★★★ 4 from 1 review
  • Author: Natalie
  • Prep Time: 5 minutes
  • Cook Time: 10 minutes
  • Total Time: 15 minutes
  • Yield: 6 small waffles (as pictured) 1x
  • Category: breakfast
  • Method: baking
  • Cuisine: american
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Crispy golden Peanut Butter Waffles are easy and egg/grain free! Sweet, salty, with a little cinnamon. Pile on your fave toppings for a delicious breakfast!

Ingredients

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Instructions

  1. In a mixing bowl, whisk together the applesauce, peanut butter, milk, maple syrup and vanilla extract.
  2. Add the coconut flour, tapioca starch, baking powder, salt, and cinnamon. Stir to combine.
  3. Preheat the waffle iron to medium-high heat. Spray with coconut oil or non-stick spray.
  4. Scoop in about 1/4 cup of batter per waffle. Close and cook until golden brown. Repeat with remaining batter.
  5. Add toppings of choice and enjoy!

Nutrition

  • Serving Size: 2 waffles
  • Calories: 378
  • Sugar: 14g
  • Sodium: 210mg
  • Fat: 23g
  • Saturated Fat: 5g
  • Carbohydrates: 35g
  • Fiber: 6g
  • Protein: 11g

Keywords: breakfast, brunch, grain free, coconut flour, paleo, egg free, dairy free, easy, healthy

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Matcha Coconut Bars

· Natalie 12 Comments

Matcha green tea and flakey coconut combine inside a snappy dark chocolate shell to create an easy sweet vegan + paleo treat with just 6 ingredients!

Matcha Coconut Bars (vegan + paleo)

Dark Chocolate Matcha Coconut Bars

Inspired by the ever so delicious Matcha Boom Bars from a company called Nanuki that I discovered while visiting Cape Town (that sadly don’t ship to the US *insert sobbing emoji here*), these chocolate covered matcha bars are the perfect not too sweet but still decadent way to eat matcha for dessert.

Matcha and coconut combine to create the gorgeous green inside, and then we hide all of that inside a silky dark chocolate coating. If you’ve never tried matcha with chocolate I highly recommend. And I highly recommend you start with THESE bars.

I can’t claim my homemade version is AS good as Nanuki, but they are pretty damn delish!

Matcha Coconut Bars (vegan + paleo)
Matcha Coconut Bars (vegan + paleo)
Matcha Coconut Bars (vegan + paleo)
Matcha Coconut Bars (vegan + paleo)
Matcha Coconut Bars (vegan + paleo)
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Matcha Coconut Bars

★★★★★ 5 from 1 review
  • Author: Natalie
  • Prep Time: 20 minutes
  • Cook Time: 2 hours (chilling time)
  • Total Time: 2 hours 20 minutes
  • Yield: 8 bars 1x
  • Category: chocolate
  • Method: no bake
  • Cuisine: american
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Matcha green tea and flakey coconut combine inside a snappy dark chocolate shell to create an easy sweet vegan + paleo treat with just 6 ingredients!

Ingredients

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Instructions

  1. In a food processor combine everything except the chocolate. Process until sticky.
  2. Press into a pan lined with wax paper (mine was 8×4″). Freeze for 2 hours until hard.
  3. Cut into 8 bars (or smaller!)
  4. Melt the chocolate chips. Coat each bar in chocolate. Refrigerate until set.
  5. Enjoy!

Nutrition

  • Serving Size: 1 bar
  • Calories: 354
  • Sugar: 17g
  • Sodium: 80mg
  • Fat: 28g
  • Saturated Fat: 24g
  • Carbohydrates: 23g
  • Fiber: 4g
  • Protein: 2g

Keywords: no bake, tea, easy, snack, dessert, chocolate, coconut, healthy, candy, bounty bar, candy

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Vegan Paleo Chocolate Cake

· Natalie 80 Comments

The perfect vegan paleo chocolate layer cake for any occasion – fluffy, fudgy, layered with rich ganache frosting, and made without grains, eggs, or dairy!

Vegan Paleo Chocolate Cake
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This cake was definitely one of those labor of love recipes. And by that I mean it’s been a week of testing, five (six?) trial runs, tiny tweaks for texture of flavor or crumb, so many notes I can’t remember which batch is which, drowning in leftover cake, I WILL GET IT RIGHT sort of situation. There were moments where I was truly chocolate-ed out. Yes, it is possible. Yes I’m shocked too.

Even though I don’t want another bite of chocolate cake until March, it was all worth it to be able to share this fudgy, fluffy, stacked, and frosted Vegan Paleo Chocolate Cake recipe with you.

Vegan Paleo Chocolate Cake

Ingredients

Creating a chocolate cake without eggs, gluten, grains, or dairy that is fluffy and moist was trickier than I expected. You will need:

  • Hu Gems. My favorite dark chocolate for snacking and baking, they melt down to the most luxurious rich chocolate and give this cake it’s moisture and deep chocolatey flavor.
  • Coconut sugar. Or granulated sweetener of choice, but I prefer the flavor and richness of coconut or brown sugar to cane sugar.
  • Almond milk. Or nondairy milk of choice (but not canned coconut).
  • Brewed coffee. This intensifies the chocolate flavor, but you can use water instead.
  • Apple cider vinegar. To help it rise.
  • Cassava flour. One of my favorite flours lately, it’s grain free but bakes to be fluffy and soft almost like wheat.
  • Coconut flour. Just a little bit really helps with texture I found, so the cake isn’t TOO moist.
  • Cocoa powder. Or cacao powder.
  • Vanilla, baking soda, salt. The usuals.
Vegan Paleo Chocolate Cake
Vegan Paleo Chocolate Cake
Vegan Paleo Chocolate Cake

Frosting

The frosting is so simple, made with just two ingredients. Melt coconut cream with our delish little Hu Gems, stir until smooth, then chill so it hardens and thickens (a.k.a. make vegan chocolate ganache). After a couple hours in the freezer when it’s just almost set, remove and whip with a hand mixer. As you incorporate air, the color will get lighter and the texture will become something in between chocolate buttercream and whipped cream.

You may need to double the frosting recipe if you really like to pile it on thick. Or leave the sides bare and just frost the middle and top, the cake is very rich as is!

Vegan Paleo Chocolate Cake
Vegan Paleo Chocolate Cake
Vegan Paleo Chocolate Cake

It’s birthday perfect but any day appropriate – dress it down to one layer, or stack it up and add sprinkles on top for party purposes.

Vegan Paleo Chocolate Cake
Vegan Paleo Chocolate Cake

It also happens to be National Chocolate Cake Day, so cheers (and cut yourself an extra big slice) to that!

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Vegan Paleo Chocolate Cake

★★★★ 3.7 from 7 reviews
  • Author: Natalie
  • Prep Time: 2 hours
  • Cook Time: 35 minutes
  • Total Time: 2 hours 35 minutes
  • Yield: 12 slices 1x
  • Category: cake
  • Method: baking
  • Cuisine: american
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The perfect vegan paleo chocolate layer cake for any occasion – fluffy, fudgy, layered with rich ganache frosting, and made without grains, eggs, or dairy! 

Ingredients

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Cake

Ganache Frosting

Instructions

  1. Melt the Gems.
  2. Stir in the coconut sugar, almond milk, brewed coffee, apple cider vinegar, and vanilla (all at room temp or slightly warmed).
  3. In a separate bowl, whisk the dry ingredients. 
  4. Add wet to dry, and mix to combine.
  5. Divide into 2 greased 6” cake pans.
  6. Bake for 35-40 minutes at 350ºF.
  7. Cool for 10 minutes. Then remove from pans and cool on a cooling rack completely before frosting.
  8. For the frosting, melt the Gems with the coconut cream. Stir until smooth.
  9. Refrigerate for 2-3 hours, then whip with a hand mixer until fluffy and lighter in color.
  10. Cut off the domed top of each cake. Stack with frosting in between, then frost the top and sides.
  11. Slice and eat! Keep leftovers in the fridge, well covered so it doesn’t dry out.

Notes

*Or water, but the coffee make the chocolate flavor richer (doesn’t taste like coffee).

**Or all purpose flour will work too if not paleo/gluten-free

***Refrigerate overnight and scoop out just the thick solid part

Nutrition

  • Serving Size: 1 slice
  • Calories: 465
  • Sugar: 33g
  • Sodium: 344mg
  • Fat: 21g
  • Saturated Fat: 13g
  • Carbohydrates: 68g
  • Fiber: 7g
  • Protein: 5g

Keywords: gluten free, paleo, layer cake, birthday, frosting, healthy, baking, egg free, dairy free

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Golden Milk Donuts

· Natalie 14 Comments

Golden Milk Donuts! Easy, fluffy, turmeric-infused baked donuts with just the right amount of spice and a sweet golden glaze on top. Vegan and gluten-free!

Golden Milk Donuts (vegan + gluten-free)

Even down here in sunny Florida it has been extra chilly this week which means sunshine in dessert form is very much welcomed. Enter: Golden Milk Donuts.

Golden Milk Donuts (vegan + gluten-free)

While we cannot control the weather, we can throw a bunch of good for you ingredients in a bowl with cozy spices and a little sweetness and mix/bake into perfectly fluffy rings of golden goodness. We are talking main characters like applesauce and oat flour and turmeric coconut milk, with cinnamon and ginger and cardamom and vanilla playing delicious supporting roles.

Golden Milk Donuts (vegan + gluten-free)
Golden Milk Donuts (vegan + gluten-free)
Golden Milk Donuts (vegan + gluten-free)

Don’t have a muffin pan? Make them into mini muffins!

Don’t like turmeric? Skip it and add extra cinnamon and ginger.

Want to make them extra wholesome and breakfast-y? Skip the glaze and enjoy their fluffiness topping free.

Want to treat yourself to the ultimate Golden Milk Donut Experience? Dip generously into sweet 3-ingredient golden glaze, sprinkle with coconut, and let them dry until the glaze is a perfect crackly compliment to the fluffy insides. You will not regret it.

Golden Milk Donuts (vegan + gluten-free)
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Golden Milk Donuts

★★★★★ 5 from 1 review
  • Author: Natalie
  • Prep Time: 10 minutes
  • Cook Time: 22 minutes
  • Total Time: 32 minutes
  • Yield: 6 donuts 1x
  • Category: donuts
  • Method: baking
  • Cuisine: american
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Golden Milk Donuts. Easy, fluffy, turmeric-infused baked donuts with just the right amount of spice and a sweet golden glaze on top. Vegan and gluten-free!

Ingredients

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Glaze

Instructions

  1. Preheat the oven to 350ºF.
  2. Whisk together the Native Forest Organic Turmeric Coconut Milk, applesauce, coconut sugar, and vanilla.
  3. Add the remaining ingredients. Mix to combine.
  4. Pipe into a greased donut pan.
  5. Bake for 20-22 minutes at 350ºF. Cool completely.
  6. Whisk together the glaze ingredients, adding milk slowly to create a thick but drizzle-able glaze.
  7. Dip donuts into the glaze, shaking off excess. Sprinkle with shredded coconut and refrigerate until glaze is set.
  8. Eat!

Notes

*Makes for a fluffier texture, more oat flour is okay too though.

Nutrition

  • Serving Size: 1 donut
  • Calories: 266
  • Sugar: 17g
  • Sodium: 123mg
  • Fat: 10g
  • Saturated Fat: 7g
  • Carbohydrates: 39g
  • Fiber: 3g
  • Protein: 5g

Keywords: turmeric, doughnut, oat flour, baked, healthy, dairy free, fluffy, egg free, easy, one bowl, glazed,

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SunButter Latte

· Natalie 12 Comments

Switch up your morning coffee with this ULTRA creamy and frothy SunButter Latte – nut-free, dairy-free, and delicious hot or iced!

SunButter Latte
THIS POST IS SPONSORED BY SUNBUTTER

When I moved into my new apartment a couple months ago my very sweet mom got me an espresso machine as a housewarming gift, and it was a semi life changing moment.

(Maybe) down side: I drink way more coffee and way less matcha now. Probably not the best for my sleep cycles, but I do get more done. So it’s a toss up.

Up sides: It’s better coffee, tastier coffee, stronger coffee, freshly ground coffee. The process is a little more involved than pour over, but I’ve come to really enjoy that part too. And biggest upside of all, it led to the creation of this SunButter Latte.

SunButter Latte
SunButter Latte
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Because when you are out of almond milk but still craving a CREAMY latte, beautiful things are born of digging through the pantry and getting creative. What I discovered was blending water with a tablespoon of SunButter and a shot of espresso makes for a just as creamy (creamier?) latte without any milk, and the flavor is uniquely wonderful too.

SunButter Latte

If you aren’t a fan of SunButter a) reconsider your life choices and b) this recipe is not for you. This recipe is for people who love SunButter and always have a jar or three in the pantry and eat it by the spoonful not infrequently and want to consume it in every form possible.

Because yes, you will taste the not-exactly-nutty-but-uniquely-delicious flavor of SunButter. And yes if you dress it up with a little cinnamon and vanilla it will be your new favorite way to coffee.

SunButter Latte

This is not a fancy beverage. All it requires is:

  • Espresso or freshly brewed coffee
  • Sweetener of choice (I used coconut sugar, but maple syrup or honey would be amazing too!)
  • SunButter (I used the organic kind, but any will work)
  • A pinch of salt
  • Vanilla or cinnamon or other flavorings like that

And then you just blend. For half a minute or so. And are rewarded with the most fluffy, frothy, you deserve it mug of coffee.

SunButter Latte

I usually drink it warm, but iced works too. In case you also live somewhere that has forgotten what winter is.

So try it! And I will be here, sipping my own SunButter Latte, anxiously awaiting your opinion…

SunButter Latte
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SunButter Latte

★★★★★ 5 from 4 reviews
  • Author: Natalie
  • Prep Time: 5 minutes
  • Total Time: 5 minutes
  • Yield: 1 serving 1x
  • Category: beverage
  • Method: blender
  • Cuisine: american
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Switch up your morning coffee with this ULTRA creamy and frothy SunButter Latte – nut-free, dairy-free, and delicious hot or iced!

Ingredients

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  • 1 shot espresso*
  • 1 cup hot water**
  • 1 tbsp Organic SunButter (or any creamy variety)
  • 1 tbsp coconut sugar (or sweetener of choice)
  • Pinch of salt
  • Optional: vanilla or cinnamon

Instructions

  1. Blend all the ingredients for 30-60 seconds until creamy and frothy.
  2. Taste, and adjust the sweetener to your preference.
  3. Pour into a mug (or pour over ice) and enjoy.

Notes

*Or use 1 cup brewed coffee and omit the water.

**Use cold water if serving iced.

Nutrition

  • Serving Size: 1 serving
  • Calories: 159
  • Sugar: 13g
  • Sodium: 166mg
  • Fat: 8g
  • Saturated Fat: 1g
  • Carbohydrates: 15g
  • Fiber: 1g
  • Protein: 3g

Keywords: blender, breakfast, bulletproof, coffee, creamy, frothy, latte, nut-free, sunflower, vitamix

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