A delicious and nutritious treat with a fudgey, cookie dough-like texture. These are packed with wholesome ingredients like oats, chickpeas, peanut butter and banana. They are vegan too.
Category: Desserts & treats
Banana ice cream with Tahini (or peanut butter) & dates
This is the most delicious combination of ingredients for banana ice cream (‘nice’ cream). Sweet, creamy, and nutty.
Carrot & coconut cupcakes with lemon yoghurt frosting
These light and fluffy cupcakes are a crowd-pleasing winner, perfect for a tea time treat or a dessert. Thanks to the addition of applesauce, they need only a small amount of oil and sugar (or sweetener). Finished off with a lemony yoghurt & cottage cheese frosting.
Moist & decadent beetroot chocolate squares (secretly healthy)
These incredibly moist chocolate squares are so indulgent that you can serve them to guests without even admitting that they are packed with wholesome ingredients. A super tasty and sneaky way to eat more veggies!
Tiramisu with Ricotta cheese
This lighter version of Tiramisu hits all the right notes, with much less fat and sugar than traditional recipes. Ricotta cheese is a fantastic low-fat substitute for traditionally used Marscapone, but still has a creamy rich mouth feel. A perfect dessert for a special occasion.
Oat pancakes with blueberries
A healthy breakfast so delicious that it can pass for a dessert! Packed with fiber and fruity goodness, these pancakes are moist, spongy, sweet and super satisfying.
Buckwheat flour pancakes
Beautiful buckwheat flour pancakes
Perfect pancakes made with nutty buckwheat flour, a whole-grain and gluten-free alternative to wheat.
Ingredients
- 1 cup sifted buckwheat flour you can make this by grinding buckwheat in your Nutribullet
- 2 large free-range eggs
- 300 ml low-fat milk
- pinch of salt
- olive or canola oil spray
Instructions
- Whisk all the ingredients together in a large bowl
- Heat a non-stick pan on medium – high heat and spray with olive / canola oil spray
- Using a soup ladle, pour batter into the pan and swirl to reach the edges of the pan
- Flip your pancake once the edges start to lift and cook for another 30 seconds on the other side, until browned to your liking
- Serve with fresh fruit and Greek yoghurt for a delicious breakfast or dessert, or serve with your favourite savoury pancake stuffing!
Spiced coconut and parsnip cake with cashew yogurt frosting
A moist cake with grated parsnips, spices and buckwheat flower. Buckwheat flour has a deliciously nutty taste, and has a beautiful texture in baked goods despite being gluten free. As buckwheat is a whole-grain, it is a smart alternative to refined wheat flour.
Moist and delicious wholesome carrot cake with coconut flour
This carrot cake is high in fiber, low in fat and lower in carbohydrates. It is also wheat and gluten free. Best of all, its moist, delicious, and everything a carrot cake should be.
Moist and delicious wholesome carrot cake
Packed with fiber from carrots and apples, a sneaky way to up your fruit and veg intake!
Ingredients
- 1/4 cup coconut flour sifted
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 1 tsp ground cinnamon
- 1/2 tsp bicarbonate of soda
- 2 medium carrots finely grated
- 1/2 cup applesauce
- 2 tbsp canola or olive oil
- 3 large eggs
- 1/4 cup dates chopped
- 1/4 cup xylitol or sugar
Cream cheese topping
- 1/2 cup low-fat or fat-free plain cottage cheese smooth
- 2 tsp xylitol, sugar or honey
- 1/4 cup chopped nuts (I used almonds, but pistachios or walnuts would be great)
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 180 C
- Combine all the ingredients, except for the topping ingredients, in a large mixing bowl
- Spray a small bread pan or cake tin with non-stick cooking spray, and pour the mixture into the prepared pan
- Bake for approximately 40 minutes, until the edges begin to brown. The cake will be very moist, even when cooked. It will set more as it cools
- Combine the cottage cheese and xylitol / sugar / honey well with an electric beater or a whisk
- Once the cake is cooked and slightly cooled, spread the cottage cheese on top of the cake and sprinkle the nuts over the top. Enjoy!
Notes
Nutritional information was calculated using low-fat cottage cheese, xylitol, and almonds. Each slice (1/6 of the recipe) provides roughly 180 calories, 10g of fat (<3g saturated fat), 16.9g carbohydrate, 8g sugar, 3.5g fiber, and 7.4g protein.