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No-Bake Strawberries ‘N’ Cream Tarts

Simple No-Bake Strawberries ‘N’ Cream Tarts made with 5-ingredients complete with a date nut crust, coconut cream filling, and fresh berries.

Happy Memorial Day weekend, friends!

I’m so excited to spend this weekend in town with friends and family, and maybe checking out the pool.

You’ve probably seen dozens of colorful fruity creations all over social media lately, looking so fancy and fresh.

Tarts are supposed to be fancy, right?

What if I told you tarts could be both fancy and incredibly easy to make?

These No-Bake Strawberries ‘N’ Cream Tarts come together in less than 30 minutes without turning on your oven.

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Blood Orange Chocolate Chip Chickpea Cookies

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Chocolate chip cookies made with chickpeas and naturally sweetened with maple syrup and blood orange. Perfect for a healthy snack or dessert!

Who else is loving citrus this spring?

I was beyond excited when I started seeing the dark rind of blood oranges appear in the citrus barrels at the grocery store. I love the addition of blood orange to my meals for both flavor and coloring, so why not add it to dessert, too?

Have you tried the pairing of chocolate and citrus before?

The mixture of tangy fruit and sweet chocolate is pretty perfect.

If you haven’t, allow these Blood Orange Chocolate Chickpea Cookies to be the sweetest of introductions for you.

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Triple Berry Banana Muffins

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Oatmeal, berry, and banana muffins naturally sweetened and packed with protein and fiber. Perfect to meal prep for snacks and breakfast.

I used to have a blog called The Vegan Muffin Woman where I only created and shared muffins and cupcake photos and recipes.

Basically anything made in a muffin tin was fair game.

Sometimes when I make muffins now I remember TVMW and I have to laugh.

I remember the struggle to get excited about the same shape every post.

These Triple Berry Banana Muffins, though, I wouldn’t mind seeing an a weekly basis.

Did you ever eat the Entenmann’s Little Bites Muffins?

Those mini muffin packs were one of my favorite snacks, and blueberry was by far the best flavor.

I remember ripping open a packet and being overwhelmed by that sugary sweet blueberry bakery smell.

MMM.

Well, these Triple Berry Banana Muffins are even better than that because they smell amazing *and* they’re amazing for you.

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Strawberry Quinoa Salad with Zesty Lime Tahini

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Fresh and light 1-bowl quinoa salad celebrating strawberry season and spring vegetables with a zippy oil-free lime tahini dressing.

Did I ever tell you about that time I went strawberry picking?

I showed up at the farm with my sunhat and gardening gloves, ready for the romance of picking beautiful red fruit from the ground while seated daintily in the shade.

Well, let me tell you, strawberry picking is not that picturesque.

I stood hunched over under the beating sun, squinting through the shrubbery for flashes of red berry, sweat collecting in the rim of my sunhat, my basket of berries only a quarter full.

Every berry into the bucket was a success, and every berry chucked onto the ground…was probably overripe and buggy.

But friends, the good ones were SO GOOD.

It’s strawberry season again and I know just what to do with them.

Something like…toasted quinoa tossed with sweet strawberries, peppery radishes, crunchy snap peas, tender peas, and fresh herbs, tied together with a bright lime tahini dressing.

These days I mostly purchase my strawberries from the store, but that doesn’t mean I’m not willing to work for my berries.

This Strawberry Herb Quinoa Salad, however, hardly requires much work at all; just 1-bowl and less than 30 minutes.

That way you can spend more time outside, enjoying the warmer weather, or, picking more berries.

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Vegan Peanut Butter Chocolate “Kiss” Cookies

By Flora & Vino 12 Comments

4-Ingredient Peanut Butter Chocolate “Kiss” Cookies that are perfect for any sweet occasion! Easy enough to whip up in one bowl in less than 30 minutes.

I’ve been feeling nostalgic lately and everyone knows that the best way to cure that is with a big batch of cookies.

Peanut Butter and Chocolate.

I wish I could say that I came up with the combo.

What I did come up with, however, was a way to pair them together that is oil free, gluten free, and refined sugar free.

My Vegan Peanut Butter Chocolate “Kiss” Cookies require only 4 ingredients, 1 bowl, and a 10 minute wait!

The Peanut Butter Kiss Cookie is probably the first cookie I successfully made solo in my parents’ kitchen.

I carefully mixed up the peanut butter packaged dough, watched intently as it baked, and frantically pressed Hershey Kisses into their golden tops.

I wanted to put this copy-cat recipe on the blog because it’s one I pull out when I need a crowd pleaser that’s both plant-based and super delicious.

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White Bean Blondies

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6-ingredient blondies made with white beans and dark chocolate chunks. Oil-free, gluten-free, naturally sweetened, and packed with protein.

Everyone, send help, I can’t stop putting beans in my desserts.

If you haven’t braved making a black bean brownie yet, perhaps these White Bean Blondie will tempt you towards the dark side.

I love my Black Bean Blender Brownies so much that I decided to lighten them up for spring in the form of a White Bean Blondie.

These too, are blender brownies, so throw everything in and blend, baby, blend.

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Golden Beet Protein Pancakes with Easy Raspberry Compote

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Fuel with these golden beet protein pancakes made with sweet golden beet and protein powder paired with an easy sugar-free raspberry compote.

These Golden Beet Pancakes with Easy Raspberry Compote weren’t planned.

I was in the process of making regular protein pancakes and that gorgeous golden beet (see photo below) in my produce drawer caught my eye.

And then a cordial conversation with said beet ensued and it went something like this.

“Hello, gorgeous.

You’re stunning.

But I think you’d be even prettier blended in a protein pancake and then smothered in red raspberry sauce.

Say yes?”

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I took that as a yes and got to protein pancake-making.

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Double Chocolate Zucchini Muffins

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Satisfy your chocolate cravings with these Double Chocolate Zucchini Muffins. You won’t believe they’re packed with fruits and veg!

If you’ve been hanging with me for a while, you know that muffins hold a special place in my kitchen.

(Read about me for my back story on my obsessions with all things muffin!)

Needless to say, I’m really excited to share these Double Chocolate Zucchini Muffins!

They’re kind of the superhero of muffins because they have special powers.

They take ordinary greens and transform them into mouth watering bites of chocolate.

Pretty cool, right?

I’m going through a serious “hidden greens” phase right now and these muffins are my latest experiment in their disappearing act.

They not only have one, but TWO greens hiding under their oatmeal exterior.

In the last phases of mixing, I remembered some extra spinach in the fridge and on impulse threw it in the blender with the zucchini to grate.

Double chocolate, double green.

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Glowing Green Protein Pancakes

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Protein pancakes packed with all of your favorite greens! Gluten-free, grain-free, refined sugar free, tons of fun to make and even more fun to eat.

When I like something, I want it in all the colors.

The Gap had an incredibly soft line of basic t-shirts a few years ago and I’m fairly certain I own one in every color.

And there were a lot of colors, guys.

I remember standing there in the store, squinting, trying to decide between magenta and turquoise before I threw them all crumpled on the cashier register.

Shop the rainbow?

Of course, this applies to my breakfasts too.

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Peanut Butter & Jelly Protein Pancake Pizza

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Giant peanut butter protein pancake that is grain-free and packed with protein. Top with peanut butter and berry compote and slice like pizza!

Pancakes for breakfast might be a staple in your kitchen on weekend mornings.

And maybe pizza on Friday nights, like we did while I was growing up.

And don’t forget about the classic smashed PB&J in your brown bag lunch…

So how’s about we smash all of those together for a fun breakfast that you can enjoy any day of the week?

Ditch the silverware for breakfast tomorrow, because you don’t need any to devour this Peanut Butter & Jelly Protein Pancake Pizza!
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