Difficulty: Easy-Medium Serves 8-10 My brother is on the most gnarly health kick of all time and for his birthday he requested a healthy carrot cake. Let’s be honest here – this cake is much healthier than other cakes but at the end of the day, a cake is a cake, and cake isn’t all [...]
Tags: cake, carrot, dessert, gluten free, healthy
Difficulty: Easy-Medium Serves 2 I got my hands on a bunch of figs and needed to use ‘em up, and quick! Some fig flavoured Spun Fairy Floss was also lying around and I figured that it would be a crime to not put the two together. This layered dessert is perfect for Autumn… or [...]
Tags: agave, buckinis, dessert, figs, gluten free, roasted, vegan, vegetarian
Difficulty: Easy-Medium Makes 12 I once made a premo batch of Anzac cookies with one of my friends but because I am an idiot, I didn’t write down the recipe. My redemption comes in the form of these Anzac cupcakes; they have all the basic elements of the cookie but they’re a cake, does [...]
Tags: ANZAC, coconut, cupcakes, dessert, oats, sweet, vegan, vegetarian
Difficulty: Medium Serves 8-10 I know I’ve been holding out on you guys lately in terms of sweet treats, so I decided to throw my diet caution to the wind and make something bitchin’. You don’t need to bake this tart which is awesome, especially on a hot day when using the oven heats up [...]
Tags: chocolate, dark chocolate, dessert, hazelnut, impressive, no bake, tart, toffee, treat, vegan, vegetarian
Difficulty: Easy Makes 36 Rum balls are a traditional Christmas favourite but I thought I would flip the script on this treat and make them a little different. Adding cherry to this incredibly easy recipe means that you can whip them up in a jiffy and use them as snacks to please unexpected guests over [...]
Tags: cherry, Christmas, coconut, dessert, festive, rum, rum balls, treat, vegan
Difficulty: Easy Serves 8-10 Ingredients 18 Digestive biscuits 1/3 cup Nuttelex, melted 1 375 gram jar morello cherries (check for seeds) 1/3 cup caster sugar 3 teaspoons agar agar 1 tub Tofutti Better than Cream Cheese 1 carton Soyatoo Topping Cream 1/3 cup icing sugar 1/4 cup sliced almonds, lightly toasted Method Grease a springform [...]
Tags: almonds, cheesecake, cherry, Christmas, dessert, festive, sweet
Difficulty: Easy Serves 8-10 Fact: gingerbread is delicious and so is ice cream. That’s why I decided to combine the two to make one heck of a festive frozen dessert! You’re going to need a few special vegan ingredients to whip this up but what you’ll spend on ingredients, you’ll save in time. Pop it [...]
Tags: cake, Christmas, dessert, festive, ginger, gingerbread, ice cream, vegan
Difficulty: Medium Makes 12 Oh. My. God. Why have I not made donuts before?! To be honest, it just didn’t strike me as worth it until I started to crave them recently but I’ll be the first to admit I’m an absolute IDIOT for not trying them until now. While they do take some time [...]
Tags: baking, cinnamon, dessert, donut, dough, doughnut, treat, vegan
Difficulty: Easy Makes 9 The other night I was discussing this awesome ice cream sandwich idea with a friend and a complete stranger yelled out “that sounds like the coldest sandwich ever!” I think he was a bit intoxicated and was under the impression that I was going to put ice cream between two pieces [...]
Tags: dessert, ice cream, jam, jelly, pb&j, peanut butter, sandwich, vegan