Fabulous Vegan Recipes

Maybe I should make this a dessert blog. I love pulling out my food processor or hand mixing desserts in my favorite glass blue bowl and then having a sweet treat for any time of day. My desserts are usually healthy enough to eat for breakfast or for before a workout. I try to add as little sweetener as possible or I use fruit like dates or bananas to sweeten a dessert. These are my latest creations:

I woke up the other day wanting to eat raw; I think I do this when I overindulge or have too much sugar. This cheesecake is an ode to nice cream, the ice cream I make from frozen bananas. The crust is a mix of fruit and nuts and is sweet and filling. This is such an awesome, lower in fat cheesecake you can whip up in case you have a crazy insane sweet tooth like me and don't want to snack on crap or high calorie sweets like baked goods. The cheese in it is simply the nice cream, no nuts, so it's totally cool, refreshing and chocolatey delish.

It's late, I'm super tired but I've had no time to blog this week and now seems like the right time. Last night I made this pie at the last minute and it turned out wonderful. I usually need dates or another dried fruit to be successful at making raw crusts but I had no dried fruit whatsoever and this still turned out beautifully. This pie is not technically raw but it's no bake and takes mere minutes to make. Refrigerate overnight and there you have it. It's perfect for breakfast, actually. With some green tea and a little reflection on how beautiful life is.

This pie is epic!! And it took me all of 10 minutes to make. I did a little bit of preparation the night before but I pretty much woke up, put the ingredients in my Cuisinart and here it is....the best looking and tasting key lime pie I've ever had (if I may say so myself!). Made with whole, natural ingredients and no added sugar, this pie will impress anyone at your table. The only sweetener is from fruit (dates) and I made the crust nut-free to cut down on fat.

My mom bought me a cuisinart food processor that is much bigger than my old one. I'm in the process of perfecting my gelato recipe and I decided to make a chocolate pie while I was thinking about raw desserts. I used pecans for the crust and I never realized how oily they can be. These were raw pieces of pecans that I purchased yesterday. But the crust is insanely yum so let me just say if raw desserts tempt you to splurge more than you should, place the pie immediately in the freezer after making it. It's got an oooy gooy crust and a chocolate peanut butter bomb taste for the filling. Break this one out for your next party so you can impress the non vegans. I've made this pie before so I wanted to try a different crust but the filling is my chocolate avocado pudding filling that you just can't go wrong with. This recipe requires no bananas unless you want them.

I'm flashing back to two winters ago when I made this banana coconut cream pie because my whole life is all about coconut! I love coconut; I just bought coconut cream and coconut sugar to make my strawberry gelato. And banana coconut cream pie is sooooo a summer dessert that I just need to share this again. I made this pie with canned coconut cream that I bought at Trader joe's because I've never had success refrigerating and using coconut milk; it's always too runny. If you use coconut milk for creamy recipes, use it, you don't HAVE to use canned coconut cream. If you use coconut milk, use BPA free, canned full fat coconut milk. The filling for this pie is two ingredients (bananas and coconut cream) so it's a great I need to bring a dessert to this party but have no time to make anything recipe.

So, I ran out of cocoa powder and have not had cacao powder in a while (I buy Navitas Naturals brand) and I can't wait to run out and get some more. So whenever I'm missing chocolate, I obsess over it. I was flashing back to my chocolate mousse pie that I made at Christmas and wishing I had a piece. This is a super healthy, whole ingredient pie that is sweet and great for taking to a special occasion...or who are we kidding, just making for yourself at home!

It's Thanksgiving week and all week I'm going to feature thanksgiving seasonal recipes. Are you already planning your dinner and buying all of your recipe ingredients? Friday I will recap what I had for thanksgiving dinner to show you that vegans can have a fabulous dinner even though we don't eat meat, dairy or eggs.

Nothing says summer like plenty of fruit and a super sweet and vegan banana pudding. I made this with chia seeds and coconut cream. It is high in fat so I would only eat a small serving at once especially if you're doing high carb low fat. But if you need a sweet pick-me-up, this would be perfect.

Bananas, coconut cream, my delish raw crust...how can I combine these into something grand? Banana cream pie :) It's totally a summer dessert but in the midst of the impending snow, I just had to make it. Plus I needed another excuse to buy Trader Joe's coconut cream :)