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Vegan & Gluten-Free Red Velvet Cake with 2-Ingredient Chocolate Frosting

Red velvet cake sweetened with coconut sugar and red with raw beets. Finish it with a 2-ingredient chocolate frosting.

Whenever friends tell me their favorite cake flavor is red velvet, I’m equal parts skeptical and intrigued.

Because what flavor is that, exactly, please?

Mildly chocolate and very red?

In our last neighborhood we had a cupcake shop down the street that sold vegan red velvet cupcakes and after sinking my teeth into the ruby red fluff, I understood what all of the fuss was about.

I set out to recreate the flavors in my kitchen with all natural ingredients that tell it like it is.

Because we want to eat our cake and know what’s in our cake too, yes?

This delicious Vegan & Gluten-Free Red Velvet Cake with 2-Ingredient Chocolate Frosting doesn’t leave any mystery.

It’s made with vegan and gluten-free with whole foods ingredients and a decadent chocolate frosting.

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Red Velvet Overnight Oats with Raspberry Beet Purée

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Red velvet overnight oats with dark chocolate and a bright raspberry beet purée. Perfect for a healthy grab and go breakfast for the week.

Happy Monday, buds!

It was one of those weekends here where I felt like I blinked and missed it.

Most notably, I finally saw Aquaman (loved it!) and probably set a world record for errands run in a Saturday.

How was your weekend?

Can I interest you in a red velvet-inspired breakfast make your busy week and little less busy and lot tastier?

These Red Velvet Overnight Oats with Raspberry Beet Purée taste like the chocolate cake with simple ingredients that you mix together the night before.

Grab a mason jar and let’s mix things up.

If you’ve been following me for a while, you might have seen these Red Velvet Overnight Oats with Raspberry Beet Purée pop up on my Instagram feed circa 2018.

I shared them last year on Valentine’s Day along with simple recipe, but that one day of love just wasn’t enough for these lovely oats.

They’re thick, chocolate-y, lightly sweet, and packed with protein and texture.

I think you’ll support my decision to share the recipe on the blog so it can have a forever home here.

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Everyday Carrot Lentil Soup

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Easy carrot lentil soup teeming with vegetables and fresh green onion. Perfect for an every day fall, winter, or spring one-pot soup.

Recently on Instagram, I asked what one food you could eat for a week and not get sick of.

The most common answer…was soup!

Soup people, you’re my people.

I’ve always been a soup lover, way back to childhood when my parents gave us big bowls of lentil soup on busy weekend days packed with activities.

I imagined my spoon to be a tiny raft, corralling tender lentils and the occasional carrot and celery chunk to their delicious demise.

Recently, I recreated my favorite with lots of leftover vegetables in my fridge.

This Everyday Carrot Lentil Soup is flavorful and filling, with an easy recipe you can make in 30 minutes in one pot.

Grab a bowl and a spoon and let’s get to herding legumes and veg.

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Chocolate Coconut Covered Strawberries

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Easy vegan chocolate covered strawberries with a crunchy chocolate coconut exterior. Perfect for a healthy Valentine’s Day treat!

When I was in high school I thought I was way too cool for Valentine’s Day.

“Valentine’s Day is a holiday invented by greeting card companies to make people feel like crap,” I used to tell myself, to quote Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (one of my favorite movies of all time– have you seen it?)

I told myself I could be cool like Clementine.

I didn’t need anyone to shower me with roses and candy and sweet nothings.

My friends and I wore black while everyone else wore pink and I pretended not to feel pangs when the roses delivered in class by “cupid” weren’t for me.

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Pizza Stuffed Portobello Mushrooms & Pinot Noir

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Portobello mushrooms with veggie lovers toppings, herbed nut cheese, and pine nuts. Perfect as a plant-based appetizer or entree with a glass of red!

I’m always *that* person that orders wine wherever we go, no matter the occasion.

Saint Patrick’s Day and everyone’s drinking green beer? Cool, I’d like a glass of red please.

Night out on the town and everyone’s got those cute cocktail umbrellas? Nah, I’ll have wine.

A little bubbly in fluted glasses to celebrate? Cheers! With wine!

So you bet I’ll be that person dinking wine on Super Bowl Sunday.

If you didn’t have plans, I made you some and they only involve football if you want it to.

This Pizza Stuffed Portobello Mushrooms & Pinot Noir is my new favorite plant & wine pairing for game day, date night, or any day.

Pour a glass of Pinot and let the portobello pizza party begin!

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Peanut Butter & Jelly Crisscross Cookies

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Easy peanut butter and jelly cookies with a hearty oat flour base. Naturally sweetened with berries and jam. Perfect for a healthy breakfast, snack, or dessert.

Are you surviving the Polar Vortex?

It’s been too cold here to do much of anything, and Harper and I are feeling a little stir-crazy.

The kind of crazy that makes you bake all day and then jump around to an intense dance workout at 7 PM because…cold.

Aside from getting back into cardio (it’s been a while!), I made three batches of Peanut Butter and Jelly Crisscross Cookies.

These easy oil-free, gluten-free, and no sugar added cookies really hit the spot for a quick nutritious snack.

You can have them on the table in 10 minutes with just 6 ingredients!

This messy marrying of peanut butter and jelly in quick cookie form is one you don’t want to be without when the temps drop.

So let’s drop it like it’s (not) HOT.

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Chocolate SunButter Rice Crispy Treats

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Chocolate SunButter Rice Crispy Treats naturally sweetened and nut-free! Enjoy as is for a snack or dessert or add a creamy 2-ingredient frosting.

Did you know that National Peanut Butter Day was this past week?

I had way too much fun scrolling through desserts dripping with PB and entrees drizzles with peanut sauce on social while casually wiping away the drool.

Which is all good and fine for all of you nutty folk, myself included.

But after giving peanut butter all of the lovin’, I thought we should give seeds a bit of attention…you know, in case they felt left out.

These Chocolate SunButter Rice Crispy Treats (Nut Free) require only 5 ingredients to make!

They’re kid-friendly, delicious, nutritious, with a super seed twist on your childhood classic.

NO NUTS ALLOWED.

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1-Pot Vegetable Minestrone

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Easy 1-pot vegetable minestrone with a delicious tomato-based oil-free broth. Perfect for meal prep, family style soup, and every day eating.

Friends, it’s been a week and it’s not even Friday.

I know you know what I mean.

A few weeks ago some pixels decided to party on my MacBook pro screen and they’ve been dancing up and down in vertical lines on the right side of my screen ever since.

I decided to let them do their thing, rock on, since I could still see the food photos on the left.

Annoying, but manageable.

Fast forward to last night, when, to add add insult to injury, I managed to actually crack the screen.

It went something like this– the laptop in the living room with Lauren.

I fell asleep on the couch, laptop open and sprawled across my lap, and sat up to watch said laptop crash into the hardwood floor at a dizzying 45 degree angle.

When it rains, it pours, right?

If only it was raining 1-Pot Vegetable Minestrone Soup.

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Vegan Banana Chocolate Chunk Bread

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Vegan Banana Chocolate Chunk Bread made in 1-bowl. Naturally sweetened with bananas and coconut sugar.

I was sitting in 10th grade Psychology class when my friend, Dan, pulled out a loaf of banana bread from a large Ziplock bag.

“Want this?” he said, offering the crumbled loaf to me.

“I realized afterwards that I forgot to add sugar,” he said sheepishly.

I grabbed a big chunk from inside and chewed.

Banana walnut, yum.

It was a little (okay, a lot) bland, but I liked how you could clearly taste the bananas and nuts.

The bell rang.

He shrugged, “You can have it if you want.”

So I tucked the ziplock bag of sugar-free banana bread into my backpack and strolled out into the locker bay.

For the remainder of the day I enjoyed pieces of bland banana bread, the subtle sweetness growing on me, and by dismissal time I was pretty sure I needed the recipe.

I didn’t quite feel right continuing into 2019 without a banana bread recipe on the blog.

Before we continue, no, this isn’t a remake of my friend Dan’s sugar-free banana bread fail.

But if we were doing one of those word association games I’d probably tell you this story if prompted, “BANANA BREAD.”

What I do have for you, though, is a delicious banana bread recipe that’s also oil free and refined sugar free, which is pretty cool.

This weekend we cleaned the oven for the first time since moving in (two years ago).

Obviously by we I mean it was Dan who wiped it down and it was me who watched in disgust as the paper towel came out black again and again.

I vowed to never let it get that bad again, and then I set out to start breaking it in again.

This Vegan Banana Chocolate Chunk Bread was the first thing I baked in our freshly spruced furnace.

So here’s how to dirty up your oven in the best possible way.

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Vegan Broccoli Rice Breakfast Quiche

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Vegan Broccoli Rice Breakfast Quiche with tofu, broccoli, and tomato. Perfect for a protein-packed weekend breakfast, brunch, or brinner.

Sometimes I write my blog posts backwards, starting at the recipe bottom and working my way up to the tippy top.

Lately I’ve been having trouble getting from point A to point B, so maybe we can take it B to A for a change.

Anyone else have a weird week?

Dan was in Puerto Rico for a work retreat and every picture he sent me of palm-tree studded beaches and bright blue skies and water made my heart ache.

It’s only January and I’m already ready for my vacation!

Before you book yours, I’m offering you a vacation from your usual breakfast.

This Vegan Broccoli Rice Breakfast Quiche has less than 10 ingredients for a compact nutritious start to your day!

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