November 17, 2007: Leftover Makeover - Dessert Pesto Ii

chocolate clusters were transformed into a sweet spread as well as the leftover ingredients from my ginger-cashew clusters received the same treatment. This fourth dimension I blended the cashews, glace ginger as well as chocolate amongst Tofutti Better Than Cream Cheese to shine it out.

The 'pesto' was a success equal to my commencement endeavour as well as I constitute approximately fifty-fifty ameliorate biscuits to squad it with! These are Arnott's Lattice biscuits, pastry squares that are similar sweetness glazed SAOs. I haven't had them inward years, though I create think approximately incredible passionfruit vanilla slices made amongst them when I was growing up.

January 24, 2008: Leftover Makeover - Bubble Slice

baking disaster on Midweek night, I called for my Mum. But it wasn't quite the desperate in addition to childish plea yous mightiness intend - I simply wanted the no-bake spell recipe that I thence enjoyed every bit a kid. I figured it'd relieve my sore ego, fill upward the snacking void left yesteryear the muffins, in addition to purpose upward to a greater extent than or less of the rice bubbles I recently bought.

What I've made hither exclusively bears a passing resemblance to my Mum's version, which itself bore exclusively a passing resemblance to the master copy recipe that she emailed to me. It began every bit to a greater extent than or less variety of muesli bar slice, alongside toasted muesli in addition to seeds. I intend the toasted muesli may direct maintain been phased out of Mum's, in addition to I don't always retrieve encountering seeds. For my texture-intolerant brother, at that spot was the bare-basics version: simply rice bubbles saltation together alongside the molten butter/peanut butter/honey/sugar mixture. I liked dried apricots inwards mine, in addition to for an occasional after-dinner treat, it would survive spread alongside a meridian layer of black cooking chocolate.

My updated version retains the dried apricots in addition to select almonds into the mix. The binding mixture is hardly the materials of nutritionists' repast plans, thence I buckled completely in addition to set to a greater extent than or less chocolate chips in. Those things are designed to concord their shape when chucked into a 200 marker oven but funnily plenty melt all over the house here, thence rather than than having golden bubbles alongside fruit, nut in addition to chocolate dots, it's a to a greater extent than uniform caramel colour.

Rather than beingness a well for yous afternoon option to the vending machine, I intend of these every bit a slightly less guilt-inducing agency of satisfying a genuine chocolate craving. The rice bubbles add together to a greater extent than or less bulk, the dried fruit in addition to beloved extend the sweetness, in addition to the peanut butter in addition to nuts select to a greater extent than or less richness thence that exclusively a pocket-size sum of chocolate is required. You could too brand these vegan yesteryear replacing the butter alongside Nuttlelex, in addition to the beloved alongside to a greater extent than or less other sweetener - maple syrup, rice syrup, golden syrup... mayhap I ask to sense of savour the golden syrup version for myself! There are nevertheless a few to a greater extent than rice bubbles left...

Last infinitesimal edit: Heidi of 101 Cookbooks simply posted a power bar recipe alongside a similar style. I would never direct maintain idea to add together java to this but forthwith I can't await to drive it!


Bubble slice

3/4 loving cup almonds, chopped
three cups rice bubbles
1/2 loving cup dessicated coconut
1/4 loving cup sesame seeds
1/2 loving cup dried apricots, diced
1/2 loving cup black chocolate chips
125g butter
iv tablespoons honey
iv tablespoons peanut butter
1/2 loving cup brownish sugar

Grease a medium-large tray. In a large bowl, stir together the starting fourth dimension 6 ingredients.

Melt the remaining ingredients inwards a saucepan over medium heat, select to the boil in addition to and thence simmer for v minutes.

Pour the sweetness butter mixture over the dry out ingredients in addition to stir to combine. Press the mixture into the tray in addition to refrigerate for at to the lowest degree an hour. Slice into squares in addition to serve.

March 5, 2009: Golden Bars For Golden Plains

last year's too for the nearly purpose nosotros happily gulped downward roti wraps, vegie burgers smothered inwards hot sauce, mango juice, too nutella-berry crepes. But come upward breakfast time, whether it occurred at 8am or 1pm, a chunky habitation made muesli bar was worth its weight inwards gold.

The muesli bars that nosotros ate were concocted a duo of days early, too based on Heidi Swanson's recipe for bubble slice I've eaten (and adapted) thus many times, they're genuinely quite a dissimilar proposition. The rolled oats brand them to a greater extent than chewy too filling, too though I would never accept recognised the java inwards a blind sense of savor test, it adds a terrific too unique depth of flavour. What this recipe does accept inwards mutual alongside my bubble spell is flexibility of ingredients: there's a whole host of sweeteners, cereals, nuts too seeds that you lot could attempt substituting. My ain selection of ingredients meant that I could ready these solely from ingredients already inwards our pantry!

As I stirred together the mixture I worried that it mightiness non gibe together (tip: press it into the baking tray using a fork, non a spoon!) too I stuffed it into the refrigerator overnight. This proved to live unnecessary, too genuinely made cutting it into squares much to a greater extent than difficult. Unless you're inwards a really warm place, you lot tin strength out in all probability continue this away from the refrigerator altogether.

Golden bars for Golden Plains
(based on the Big Sur ability bars at 101 Cookbooks)

1/2 loving cup pecans, chopped
3/4 loving cup almonds, chopped
3/4 loving cup macadamias, chopped
2/3 loving cup dessicated coconut
1 1/4 cups rolled oats
1 1/2 cups rice bubbles
1 loving cup rice malt syrup
1/4 loving cup brownish sugar
1/2 teaspoon salt
two tablespoons soil java beans
1 teaspoon vanilla extract

Preheat the oven to 180°C. While you're waiting, chop upward the nuts, too then bake them for 5-10 minutes, stirring 1 time or twice. When they only start to colour, add together the kokosnoot too bake for a farther five minutes, stirring 1 time again along the way. Take it out to cool when everything's golden. Transfer the toasted nuts to a bowl too stir inwards the rolled oats too rice bubbles.

In a pocket-size saucepan over medium heat, stir together the rice malt syrup, sugar, salt, java too vanilla. Bring the mixture to the boil, all the same stirring, too permit it to thicken a lilliputian earlier taking it off the heat. Pour it over the cereal/nut mixture too combine everything thoroughly.

Lightly grease a baking tray too pour the mixture into it; I constitute the dorsum of a fork nearly useful for smoothing over the top. Allow the mixture to cool to room temperature (don't refrigerate it!) earlier slicing it into chunks.

May 19, 2007: Dessert Pesto

Here's my novel project design on a stay-inside Sabbatum afternoon - dessert pesto. This is non much to a greater extent than than a blended version of the chocolate clusters I late made, alongside a fleck of cream cheese to bind it together inwards a spreadable consistency. It's non quite every bit chocolatey every bit it looks: the blended dried cherries too added a rich night taste, texture together with colour. I spread it on patently dry out (but slightly sweet) biscuits together with was inwards afternoon tea heaven. It was actually only an experimental crusade at using upwards my final small-scale portions of pistachios together with dried cherries, but I tin move run into myself pushing this sentiment farther alongside other fruit together with nut combinations: dried apricot together with almond, maybe, or dried apple tree together with cashew alongside white chocolate...?

Dessert pesto

Throw virtually ii dessertspoon-fulls of dried cherries inwards a blender together with pulse until mushy. Add an equal book of pistachios together with pulse briefly to pause them upwards a bit. Next add together virtually 20g of dark cooking chocolate together with pulse again. Finally, add together one dessertspoon-full of cream cheese together with pulse until only combined. Transfer to a small-scale serving dish together with relish alongside patently biscuits.

May 24, 2010: Peanut Butter In Addition To Chocolate Squares

Lisa's peanut butter chocolate squares were what Michael needed.  Between you lot as well as me, they were what I needed every bit good - we've had some rice bubbles hanging unopen to inward the closet for e'er as well as I figured they'd construct an fantabulous (if rather different) substitute for the graham crackers inward the master recipe.  (As an aside, I've never eaten a graham cracker.  Can anyone enjoin me what they're like?)

While non quite every bit practiced every bit double choc-coated peanut butter bliss balls, this piece requires alone a fraction of the effort.  It's i of those terrific melt-mix-chill recipes that you lot tin arrive at inward fifteen minutes, fifty-fifty amongst the 2 layers.  Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 chocolate-peanut butter laid upwardly inward this Reese's-scarce soil has all of a precipitous top away scarily accessible.

My i tip is to proceed the piece cool, every bit it has a vogue for melting goo-iness.  At the minute it's fine inward the fridge, but inward summertime I'd survive tempted to assay out it right away from the freezer!

Peanut butter as well as chocolate squares
(based on a recipe at Lisa's Kitchen)

base
2 cups rice bubbles (note that Kellogg's construct are non gluten-free!)
1 loving cup icing sugar
1/2 loving cup margarine
1 loving cup peanut butter

topping
1 loving cup nighttime chocolate
3/4 loving cup peanut butter

Line a 22cm foursquare baking tin amongst newspaper as well as lightly grease it.  In a medium-sized bowl, stir together the rice bubbles as well as icing sugar.  Over low-medium heat, melt the margarine as well as peanut butter inward a pocket-sized saucepan.  Pour the melted mix over the rice bubbles as well as stir everything together thoroughly.  Press it into the baking tin, using the dorsum of a spoon to shine the surface.  Pop it inward the refrigerator piece you lot prep the 2nd layer.   

For the topping, gently melt the chocolate as well as peanut inward a pocket-sized saucepan (just role the same one!).  When they're shine as well as well-mixed, think the piece from the refrigerator as well as pour the chocolate over, gently spreading it evenly across the slice.  Return the piece to the refrigerator for at to the lowest degree an hr to set, earlier cutting it into squares.

August 28, 2010: Espresso & Oat Truffles

On the weekend Michael too I helped a friend deed house.  She's an almost-neighbour that nosotros swap cat-sitting favours too proceed spare keys with; we're lamentable that she's moving farther away from us but rattling happy that she's constitute a gorgeous identify too terrific gardening infinite to telephone telephone her ain out inward the country.  Not everything went to excogitation but nosotros got the labor done too the picnic luncheon I prepared the nighttime earlier became a celebratory dinner, eaten on the flooring inward Jos' grand novel living expanse too washed downward amongst champagne.  We started amongst silverbeet calzone too thence moved on to cheese, fruit too these espresso too oat truffles.

The truffle recipe is from Green Kitchen Stories too seems to survive inspired past times a Danish Christmas sweetness that I'm unfamiliar with.  I'm only bully for novel no-bake treats that brand role of the ingredients that are typically inward my pantry. (And I've only decided, whilst perusing other such recipes inward our archives, that they deserve their ain label.)  These ones instruct their mass from oats too coconut, sweetness from dates too a shine truffle texture from kokosnoot oil.  Everything gets blended upwardly inward the nutrient processor too thence rolled into balls - it couldn't survive simpler.  I constitute the mixture also sloppy ane time processed thence I added a lilliputian extra kokosnoot too oats to the master copy quantity too gave it a lilliputian fourth dimension inward the refrigerator to permit the kokosnoot fossil oil to trouble solid up.

I would convey preferred these to survive a lilliputian sweeter but Michael loved them only equally they are.  Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 calendar week afterward we're both thoroughly enjoying a 2nd batch that substitutes rice bubbles for the oats, has a smidge of agave nectar for sweetness, too is much stronger on the java aroma.  They're definitely a worthy add-on to the no-bake treat rotation - elementary to prepare, using mutual pantry ingredients too amenable to substitutions for gustatory modality too convenience.

Espresso & oat truffles
(based on a recipe at Green Kitchen Stories)

fifteen fresh dates (or soak dried dates inward H2O for one-half an hr too drain)
v tablespoons rolled oats
three tablespoons dessicated coconut
ii tablespoons kokosnoot oil
ii tablespoons cocoa
1/2 teaspoon vanilla
1/2 teaspoon cardamom
1 shot espresso, cooled
extra dessicated kokosnoot and/or rolled oats for rolling

Use a nutrient processor to mix together the outset viii ingredients. Taste the mixture too conform the season to your liking.

If the mixture is also mushy to survive rolled, refrigerate it for 15-30 minutes thence that the kokosnoot fossil oil solidifies. When the mixture is ready, curl it into balls too coat them inward kokosnoot or oats. Refrigerate the balls farther earlier eating.

December 24-25, 2010: Night As Well As White Chocolate Tiles

pizza in addition to icecream) thence I went low-key when planning dessert for our lunchtime picnic.  After flicking through a few cookbooks I establish the perfect things inward the dessert-focused Tempted.  This mass was a Christmas gift from Michael's blood brother Matt a few years ago, which made it fifty-fifty to a greater extent than perfect. 

I've played roughly amongst the basic fruit-and-nut-chocolate sentiment many times earlier but these recipes, for rum in addition to raisin bagatelles in addition to white chocolate bark, used combinations I wouldn't convey sentiment of myself.  Even better, they made role of white chocolate, raisins, currants in addition to shredded kokosnoot left over from our Xmas party dishes.

I was especially pleased to role upward the white chocolate, as Michael in addition to I don't much taste eating it on its own.  We did non facial expression the white chocolate bark to live on our favourite of the twenty-four threescore minutes menses but it was the picnic's prom queen.  It's sweet, sure, but the apricots were tangy in addition to the roastedness of the macadamias added a piffling depth.

Rum in addition to raisin is an onetime favourite combination of Michael's yet non i I'm fond of.  But at that spot nosotros were amongst raisins in addition to fifty-fifty white rum inward the household thence I soaked those raisins, melted some nighttime chocolate, in addition to stirred through some shredded kokosnoot in addition to pino nuts as directed.  Yes, pino nuts!  I was intrigued and, sadly, disappointed.  All the pino nuts roughly seemed a piffling stale in addition to at that spot were also many of them here.  If I were to brand this i time to a greater extent than (and I'm pretty certain Michael would similar me to), I'd double the rum in addition to raisins in addition to halve the quantity of pino nuts.  I yet believe they've got a 'lil something to contribute.

The rum in addition to raisin bagatelles were supposed to live on shaped into haphazard piffling balls but they pretty ugly to boot, in addition to I decided to mimic the commencement recipe in addition to shape an every bit ugly but much less fiddly canvass of chocolate to interruption into tiles.  It mightiness live on prettier, on reflection, if one-half of the pino nuts and/or kokosnoot were reserved for sprinkling on top.  No i was also fussed on Christmas day, though - nosotros had a rattling pleasant dyad of hours lazing in addition to grazing inward a nearby park, prioritising relaxation over presentation.


White chocolate bark
(a half-quantity of a recipe inward Tempted: 150 Very Wicked Desserts)

75g macadamia nuts, chopped
125g white chocolate
60g dried apricots, finely chopped
25g currants

Preheat an oven to 180°C.  Line a tray amongst baking newspaper in addition to spread the macadamias over it.  Roast the nuts until lightly browned, simply 5-6 minutes, in addition to orbit them a dyad of interim shakes for fifty-fifty cooking.  Set the nuts aside to cool, reserve the tray in addition to newspaper for the chocolate.

Gently melt the chocolate inward a saucepan, thence stir inward two-thirds of the macadamias, apricots in addition to currants.  Pour the mixture onto the lined tray, spreading it to less than 1cm thickness.  Sprinkle over the remaining macadamias, apricots in addition to currants, gently pressing them into the chocolate.  Refrigerate the chocolate until set, thence interruption it into chunks to serve.



Rum in addition to raisin tiles
(adapted from a recipe inward Tempted: 150 Very Wicked Desserts)

100g raisins (next fourth dimension I'd double this)
1 tablespoon white rum (next fourth dimension I'd double this)
50g shredded coconut
100g pino nuts (next fourth dimension I'd halve this)
400g nighttime chocolate

Stir the rum through the raisins inward a small-scale bowl in addition to operate out them to soak for at to the lowest degree an hour.

Preheat an oven to 150°C.  Line a baking tray amongst paper.  Spread the kokosnoot over the tray in addition to gently toast it until golden, 5-10 minutes, giving the kokosnoot a dyad of interim shakes for fifty-fifty cooking.  Set the kokosnoot aside in addition to role the same method to gently toast the pino nuts.

Gently melt the chocolate inward a saucepan.  Drain the raisins in addition to stir them into the chocolate; stir inward the kokosnoot in addition to pino nuts.  (Alternatively, reserve one-half of the kokosnoot in addition to pino nuts for a prettier presentation.)  Pour the mixture onto the lined tray, spreading it to less than 1cm thickness.  If you lot convey reserved kokosnoot in addition to pino nuts, sprinkle them over the chocolate sheet, gently pressing them into the chocolate.  Refrigerate the chocolate until set, thence interruption it into chunks to serve.

January 2, 2011: Half-Baked Choc-Chip Cookies

first campaign at tortillas was fraught but ultimately successful.  Thanks to unopen to twitter tips as well as encouragement I felt game to invite v friends over for a dejeuner of soft tacos.  This fourth dimension I tried using a tortilla press, on loan from tortilla veteran cashew crack.

For dessert I'd been planning simply to offering fresh pineapple as well as kokosnoot H2O ice cream.  Michael was non impressed yesteryear the local pineapple stocks that morning time therefore nosotros gave them a girlfriend as well as almost cancelled dessert.  But what amongst me ever having a few recipe ideas stashed inward the dorsum of my mind, I sorted out a quick as well as slowly option earlier Michael had fifty-fifty returned from the shops.  We tried the master entirely-raw version of these cookies at a Tex Mex-themed potluck a brace of years ago.  photographed the recipe, which I went on to bookmark for time to come use.  

On this twenty-four hours I made a few substitutions to ensure these cookies were vegan, gluten-free, as well as used only ingredients I had inward my pantry.  This rendered them less raw but no less tasty.  I used to a greater extent than peanut butter as well as tahini than was sensible (perhaps I misread teaspoon for tablespoon?) therefore the mixture was a combat sloppy.  Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 half-hour inward the refrigerator earlier rolling, as well as and then to a greater extent than refrigerator storage later on sorted that out.  As a number they were immensely rich, amongst a fudgy texture as well as pleasing compaction from the cocoa nibs.

Half-baked choc-chip cookies
(adapted from a recipe shared yesteryear a variety stranger, photographed here)

1 loving cup macadamias
1 1/2 cups shredded kokosnoot
1/2 loving cup buckwheat flour
12 dates
1/2 teaspoon body of body of water salt
iii 1/2 tablespoons agave nectar
1 1/2 tablespoons tahini
two tablespoons peanut butter
1/3 loving cup cocoa nibs

In a nutrient processor, grind the macadamias, kokosnoot as well as buckwheat flour to a coarse powder. Add the dates as well as procedure in 1 trial to a greater extent than until they're evenly distributed throughout the mixture.  Next inward goes the salt, agave, tahini as well as peanut butter for to a greater extent than processing; y'all should straightaway accept a really moist dough.  Add the cocoa nibs as well as procedure really briefly, simply plenty to mix the nibs through.

Transfer the mixture to a bowl as well as refrigerate it for at to the lowest degree one-half an hr to draw of piece of job solid up.  Take near 2-3 teaspoons of dough at a fourth dimension as well as ringlet it into a ball, placing the balls on a tray.  Store the balls inward the refrigerator until serving time.

Apricot Delight

October 9-13, 2011

macadamia-date balls - she's non 1 for sugary desserts, though she loves fresh fruit, together with they seemed to striking the spot rather well. I knew simply what to convey this time: the apricot please I get-go saw on Green Gourmet Giraffe, which I afterwards had the luck to gustatory modality when Mel brought it to the VegMel Picnic.

While the apricot please usually institute inwards supermarkets is sum of sugar, glucose syrup together with oil, these sweet-and-slightly-sour squares incorporate goose egg to a greater extent than than dried apricots, dessicated coconut, water, together with a picayune dear (easily omitted or replaced amongst around other sweetening syrup for vegans). It's no less delightful inwards its simplicity together with wholesomeness! 

Apricot delight
(as seen on Green Gourmet Giraffe,
where it's credited to the Australian Women's Weekly)

250g dried apricots, chopped
3/4 loving cup boiling water
2 tablespoons dear (or choice sweetener)
1 1/2 cups dessicated coconut, addition extra for coating

Place one-half the apricots together with all of the boiling H2O inwards a modest saucepan. Soak the apricots for close an hour. Bring the mixture to the boil together with gently simmer them, uncovered, for close 10 minutes. I topped mine upward amongst around other tablespoon or 2 of H2O every bit they looked similar they were drying out. Allow the mixture to cool a little.

Transfer these soaked apricots to a nutrient processor, add together the dear together with purée them thoroughly. Plonk them into a bowl together with stir through the remaining apricots together with the coconut. The mixture volition shape a reasonably thick dough.

Line a modest tray amongst baking newspaper together with spoon inwards the dough, flattening it across the base. Place a 2nd acre of baking newspaper on the tiptop surface of the slice, together with thence refrigerate it overnight.

When the acre is set, take away the baking newspaper together with cutting the acre into modest squares. Roll each foursquare inwards the extra kokosnoot to coat the sides, together with thence serve or shop every bit you lot wish.

Gingernut Hedgehog

May 23-24, 2015

Last weekend nosotros joined inwards on a large political party for a picayune girl's birthday. Much of the nutrient was expertly catered past times the Las Vegan crew, too about other invitee prepared a cake decorated alongside fairies too fondant mushrooms. I brought along a tray of hedgehog slice, a fairly mutual process from my ain childhood.

I don't accept a identify unit of measurement recipe, but I knew Vegan About Town posted i that I could depict from too adjust to suit my pantry. The whole hedgehog bargain was actually but a plot to piece of employment upwards ii packets of LEDA gingernuts, too it served to smooth off about walnuts, cashews too dried cherries too. Best of all, it's an oven-free melt'n'mix method easily accomplished inwards twenty minutes.

The field has a non bad fudgy texture too a much darker chocolate base of operations than the non-vegan versions I've known before. On reflection, it was belike also rich too bittersweet for the kids. In fact the picayune tackers barely took an involvement inwards the savoury pick or the birthday cake i time the candles were off either - they seemed to accept eyes exclusively for the bowl of Skittles! That but left us greedy grown-ups to graze on political party pies, stuffed potatoes too pastry pinwheels all afternoon.

Gingernut hedgehog
(adapted from a recipe at Vegan About Town)

300g gingernuts
3/4 loving cup walnuts
3/4 loving cup raw cashews
3/4 loving cup dried cherries
300g margarine
300g nighttime chocolate
iii tablespoons cocoa
3/4 loving cup raw sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla
120g tub apple tree puree
2 teaspoons maple syrup

Line a large baking tray alongside paper.

Crush the gingernuts lightly, too thus that they're a mix of large chunks too powdery crumbs, too identify them inwards a large mixing bowl. Roughly chop the nuts too add together them to the bowl. Stir inwards the dried cherries.

In a medium-sized saucepan over depression heat, melt the margarine. Add the chocolate too stir occasionally every bit it melts, ensuring that it doesn't burn. When the chocolate is completely melted, whisk inwards the cocoa, sugar, vanilla, apple tree puree too maple syrup. 

Take the saucepan off the oestrus too pour the chocolate mixture into the bowl; stir it all together alongside a wooden spoon until good combined. Pour the field mixture into the baking tray too spread it out every bit evenly every bit y'all can. Refrigerate the field for at to the lowest degree a few hours earlier slicing too serving.

Cocoa Crackles

August 9, 2015

We were invited to celebrate the showtime birthday of our youngest friend terminal weekend. Her political party had a rainbow theme, in addition to the savoury nutrient was provided past times the wonderful Las Vegan Catering (I ate so much pizza). H5N1 calendar week ahead I asked how I could help, in addition to I was enlisted to brand chocolate crackles.

Chocolate crackles are ever vegan in addition to rattling most gluten-free, but these ones convey the 2015 treatment. There's kokosnoot crude oil instead of copha, of course, in addition to kokosnoot saccharide instead of regular icing. I fifty-fifty had gluten-free brownish rice puffs on manus instead of Kellogg's bubbles. This version appeals to 2015 me much to a greater extent than than the master copy recipe - although it's a picayune crumbly, it's got a stronger cocoa flavor in addition to none of the greasiness of copha.

The political party wasn't solely novel historic catamenia mama mania - in that place was enough of lurid colouring inwards the vegan-friendly Skittles in addition to the spectacular six-layered rainbow cake prepared past times a pro.

Cocoa crackles
(slightly adapted from a recipe at Natural New Age Mum)

125g kokosnoot oil
1/2 loving cup kokosnoot sugar
three tablespoons cocoa
pinch of common salt
1/2 loving cup dessicated coconut
ii cups brownish rice puffs

Melt the kokosnoot crude oil inwards a medium-large saucepan. Add the sugar, cocoa in addition to salt, stirring until smooth. Stir inwards the dessicated kokosnoot in addition to and then the rice puffs, until everything is good mixed.

Line a muffin pan alongside a dozen papers in addition to spoon the crackle mixture out every bit betwixt them. Refrigerate the crackles for an hr or to a greater extent than earlier serving.

Tahini Rice Puff Squares

August 15, 2015

Hot on the heels of that cocoa crackles recipe, I've got some other melt-and-mix rice bubble process to share. I stirred this i upward inwards fifteen minutes to get got along to a crafternoon, where I helped decorate my friend's exciting novel recycling venture.

This spell comes from the indolent cook. I replaced the master dear amongst barley malt syrup for vegan-friendly convenience to proficient effect. I toasted the rice puffs too walnuts inwards a pan equally directed, but somehow that dulled their fresh crunch, too I wouldn't repeat it.

The slice's nighttime too glossy complete suggests that this is volition move an intensely sweetness too chocolatey experience, but genuinely the flavor is dominated past times tahini. It could move a fleeting disappointment, but ultimately it's a nutty, fudgy delight.

Tahini rice puff squares
(slightly adapted from a recipe at the indolent cook)

3 cups chocolate-brown rice puffs
1/4 loving cup walnuts, chopped 
1/2 loving cup tahini
1/4 loving cup barley malt syrup
1/4 loving cup cocoa 
1/4 teaspoon salt

Line a pocket-sized baking tray amongst paper.

Place the rice puffs too walnuts inwards a medium-large saucepan too develop them over medium heat. Toss them roughly oft until they starting fourth dimension smelling toasty too good. Transfer the puffs too nuts into the baking tray to rest.

Combine the remaining ingredients inwards the saucepan too provide the pan to medium heat. Stir the mixture regularly to thoroughly combine the ingredients too forestall burning. When the mixture is smooth, add together the puffs too nuts dorsum inwards too stir thoroughly to combine. Pour the mixture into the tray too polish it out evenly. I sprayed the dorsum of a spoon amongst a trivial crude oil too used that to press downwards the sticky, clumpy mixture.

Cover the spell too refrigerate it for at to the lowest degree an hr earlier cutting it into squares too serving.

Creamy Cashew-Coconut Slice

January 5, 2014

Since Michael was making a rich salad for this potluck, I figured I should choose to a greater extent than or less dessert. I (correctly) guessed that we'd all hold upwards pretty total in addition to non asset out for a multi-layered chocolate extravaganza, so I referred dorsum to a raw 'cheesecake' while recipe that I bookmarked on It Ain't Meat, Babe iii years ago.

It's cipher y'all haven't seen earlier - dates, kokosnoot in addition to macadamias for a fudgy base, so sweetened cashews in addition to lime juice for the 'cheesecake' topping. It's at the less strict halt of raw cuisine - there's agave nectar, dessicated coconut, melted kokosnoot crude oil in addition to vanilla involved - but too large quantities of soaked in addition to blended nuts, the cornerstone of raw desserts.

The base of operations didn't quite encounter my expectations. I did my ol' swap-soaked-dried-dates-for-fresh-ones play a joke on in addition to at that spot was barely plenty hither to actually bind together the dried kokosnoot in addition to macadamias. It was crumbly in addition to missing the caramel coloring in addition to season I was anticipating.

I was much to a greater extent than pleased alongside the 'cheesecake' top. Though my limes were comically dry out in addition to useless in addition to the topping so lacked a chip of bite, the vanilla enhanced the season in addition to the kokosnoot crude oil did wonders for the texture, creating a dense in addition to buttery texture that reminded me of white chocolate.

This while stores but equally good inwards the freezer equally it does inwards the fridge. Either way, I'd recommend serving it equally nosotros did above, alongside a large bowl of cherries in addition to strawberries for a refreshing halt to an extended meal.

Creamy cashew-coconut slice
(slightly adapted from It Ain't Meat, Babe,
who cites Vegetarian Times)

1 1/2 cups raw macadamias
1 1/2 cups raw cashews
1/2 loving cup dried dates
1/4 loving cup dessicated coconut
vi tablespoons kokosnoot oil, gently melted
1/4 loving cup agave nectar
juice in addition to zest of 1 lime
1/2 teaspoon vanilla

In iii split upwards bowls, soak the macadamias, cashews in addition to dates overnight.

Line a 22cm foursquare tray alongside baking paper. Drain the macadamias in addition to house them inwards a nutrient processing, whizzing them until they resemble crumbs. Drain the dates, adding them in addition to the dessicated kokosnoot in addition to blend farther until they're good mixed in addition to the dates firstly binding the crumbs together. Tip the mixture out into the baking tray in addition to role the dorsum of a spoon to press in addition to smoothen it out into an fifty-fifty layer.

Clean out the nutrient processor to role for the instant layer. Darin the cashews in addition to drib them in, blending them equally finely equally y'all can. Add the remaining ingredients in addition to blend rattling thoroughly, to obtain equally smoothen a mixture equally y'all can. Pour it over the base of operations layer, eve it out alongside the dorsum of a spoon. 

Freeze the while for at to the lowest degree a brace of hours, so shop it inwards the fridge. Slice it into squares to serve.

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While this recipe is non truly, 100% raw it is definitely inwards the spirit of so many raw recipes, so I'm contributing it to Catherine's Jan round-up, I Am Vegetarian - Hear Me Raw!.

November 7, 2007: Ginger Chocolate Clusters

crunchy chewy chocolate clusters I cobbled together as well as and thence I laid upward nearly creating a novel flavor combination: night chocolate amongst cashews, glace ginger, shredded coconut, a pocket-size slosh of Cointreau as well as a pinch of salt. (Thanks to Mary/Beppo for the Cointreau idea!)

These were at to the lowest degree every 2d addictive every 2d the cherry-pistachio version. I in all likelihood added a niggling also much salt, as well as this ramped upward my compulsion to consume cluster later cluster later cluster. Michael shared this compulsion, though I'm non certain that had anything to produce amongst the common salt quotient.

If you'd similar to rate yourself at run a peril of a chocolate frenzy, but follow the crude oil quantities I used previously as well as seek your ain crunchy-chewy combination.

May 19, 2007: Dessert Pesto

Here's my novel project design on a stay-inside Sabbatum afternoon - dessert pesto. This is non much to a greater extent than than a blended version of the chocolate clusters I late made, alongside a fleck of cream cheese to bind it together inwards a spreadable consistency. It's non quite every bit chocolatey every bit it looks: the blended dried cherries too added a rich night taste, texture together with colour. I spread it on patently dry out (but slightly sweet) biscuits together with was inwards afternoon tea heaven. It was actually only an experimental crusade at using upwards my final small-scale portions of pistachios together with dried cherries, but I tin move run into myself pushing this sentiment farther alongside other fruit together with nut combinations: dried apricot together with almond, maybe, or dried apple tree together with cashew alongside white chocolate...?

Dessert pesto

Throw virtually ii dessertspoon-fulls of dried cherries inwards a blender together with pulse until mushy. Add an equal book of pistachios together with pulse briefly to pause them upwards a bit. Next add together virtually 20g of dark cooking chocolate together with pulse again. Finally, add together one dessertspoon-full of cream cheese together with pulse until only combined. Transfer to a small-scale serving dish together with relish alongside patently biscuits.

May 19, 2007: Dessert Pesto

Here's my novel project design on a stay-inside Sabbatum afternoon - dessert pesto. This is non much to a greater extent than than a blended version of the chocolate clusters I late made, alongside a fleck of cream cheese to bind it together inwards a spreadable consistency. It's non quite every bit chocolatey every bit it looks: the blended dried cherries too added a rich night taste, texture together with colour. I spread it on patently dry out (but slightly sweet) biscuits together with was inwards afternoon tea heaven. It was actually only an experimental crusade at using upwards my final small-scale portions of pistachios together with dried cherries, but I tin move run into myself pushing this sentiment farther alongside other fruit together with nut combinations: dried apricot together with almond, maybe, or dried apple tree together with cashew alongside white chocolate...?

Dessert pesto

Throw virtually ii dessertspoon-fulls of dried cherries inwards a blender together with pulse until mushy. Add an equal book of pistachios together with pulse briefly to pause them upwards a bit. Next add together virtually 20g of dark cooking chocolate together with pulse again. Finally, add together one dessertspoon-full of cream cheese together with pulse until only combined. Transfer to a small-scale serving dish together with relish alongside patently biscuits.