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Sweets & Snacks, Gluten Free
Blue Matcha and Chocolate Cupcakes
I have been experimenting with all things blue this week and today is no exception and I have created a recipe for these Blue Matcha and Chocolate Cupcakes. These Blue Matcha and Chocolate Cupcakes cupcakes are: Made with Gluten-Free Flour Make exactly two big cupcakes or three small cupcakes Contain Blue Matcha, a 100% Natural food colouring The icing and decoration The icing for these Blue Matcha and Chocolate Cupcakes is made with butter, icing sugar, cocoa powder, and some more matcha powder. I piped the icing with a star tip and topped with blue matcha petals. What is Blue Matcha? Blue matcha is a speciality blue tea, made from organic Butterfly…
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Sweets & Snacks, Gluten Free, Lifestyle
Blue Spirulina Chocolate Bounty Bars
Time for a chocolate bar reinvention and today it’s these Blue Spirulina Chocolate Bounty Bars. Chocolate and Coconut go together perfectly and Bounty Bars are a perfect example of this union. So there is no need to reinvent the wheel to recreate these chocolate bars – just small tweaks and additions. Blue Spirulina Chocolate Bounty Bars Breaking down the recipe I don’t know about you, but I love making goodies from scratch. It usually tastes way better and you know exactly what goes in it. Take homemade pesto or homemade almond butter for instance. For these Blue Spirulina Chocolate Bounty Bars, I didn’t want to add any extra sugar to the coconut…
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Gluten Free, Dairy Free
Merlot and Chocolate Brownies
Friday is here and what better way to celebrate than with Merlot and Chocolate Brownies that are also gluten free? It’s no secret I am in LOVE with a range of products that I have discovered from Chayah Foods. I have already made a Matcha Blue Smoothie Bowl and Blueberry Moon Milk. There was another product that got my creative juices flowing – their Merlot Flour. Say what? Merlot Wine Flour? This flour is real and is perfect in any recipe to add flavour, colour and even nutrition. Its taste is just like a good Merlot – but in powdered form! It is naturally gluten-free as well as alcohol free, but…
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Dairy Free, Gluten Free
Healthier Peppermint Crisp Tart
Happy Monday! Holiday spirit is officially the air – people are talking life less seriously and I am making a healthier Peppermint Crisp Tart – using gluten free biscuits, a vegan homemade caramel and a coconut whipped cream. The thing that I think we all love about a Peppermint Crisp Tart is the fact that it has that moreish coconut taste from the Tennis Biscuits and that sweetness from the caramel, which is all balanced out by the layers of cream and pops of freshness in our mouths from the Peppermint. Remaking an old favourite I think I have managed to achieve something similar, but slightly healthier – just by swopping…
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Gluten Free
24 Days of Christmas: I Heart Granola Chocolate Tarts
It’s Day 7 of my 24 Days of Christmas, and I am serving up I Heart Granola Chocolate Tarts. These Chocolate Granola Tarts are gluten free – because I Heart Granola is of course a gluten free granola. They can be served with fruit and chocolate as a decadent breakfast, or as a midday snack. I topped mine with raspberries and cherries, but the sky’s the limit – you can use any fruit / chocolate you prefer. If you haven’t heard of I Heart Granola yet – it’s a little passion project my sister and I have together – selling good for you Granola. Check us out here. You can…
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