Sweets & Treats

Blueberry Banana Breakfast Bread

1-bowl Blueberry Banana Breakfast Bread made with gluten-free oats, banana, almond butter, and lots of blueberries. Perfect for breakfast or snack!

Longest short week ever, am I right?

This week I went to an outside the studio yoga event that involved meant meeting lots of new yogis.

When was the last time you did something outside of your comfort zone?

Being an adult means you get to make all (or most) of your own decisions, so it’s really easy (for me) to decide to keep things cozy and predictable.

Especially working from home, I find that it even more imperative that I, you know, leave the house every once in while.

It was so fun connecting with like-minded yogis and I was proud of myself for taking a step into the unknown.

So, now the rest of our week and weekend decisions should be easy.

Like…do I want to bake this Blueberry Banana Breakfast Bread now or later?

…always now!

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Super Fudgy Vegan Brownies

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Super fudgy vegan brownies made with almond flour and chocolate chunks. Gluten-free, grain-free, and naturally sweetened.

Do you still have cable?

To be honest, I’m not a huge TV-watcher.

And by that I mean, when I turn on the TV, I usually turn it on with the intention to watch a recorded episode of Grey’s Anatomy or a romcom on Netflix.

So when Dan asked me if I wanted to cancel cable, I shrugged and said, “Sure, why not.”

(He’s gone down a recent rabbit hole of YouTube TV– did you know that was a thing?)

So today is our first cable-less evening– no big deal– until I realized that the our HBO subscription was a gift through our newly canceled cable contract.

And the only thing I really care about watching on television right now is HBO’s new Gentleman Jack.

But it’s OK because I signed up for a free trial that I will absolutely forget to cancel before the billing begins next month.

So I’m all set up to watch the latest episode on my laptop with a brownie square that I’m sharing with you today.

These Super Fudgy Vegan Brownies are made in just 1-bowl with a 15 minutes bake time!

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Chocolate Avocado SunButter Pudding

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5-ingredient chocolate avocado pudding with sunflower seed butter sweetened with maple syrup. Decadent yet nutritious, it’s packed with healthy fats!

I’m going to ask you to reach into lunch boxes of lunches past.

Are you there?

What’s for dessert?

Did you ever eat those little snack pack pudding cups in your elementary school (or grown up) lunches?

My mom used to get them sometimes and I savored each sweet spoonful.

The vanilla was good, too, but decidedly less exciting than the chocolate.

Yes, there’s something about chocolate pudding in particular that’s hard to beat.

This Chocolate Avocado SunButter Pudding is the best way to recreate that pudding nostalgia with just 5 whole food ingredients and a blender.

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Edible Vegan Cookie Dough

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Edible vegan, gluten-free, and refined sugar-free cookie dough made with just four ingredients. Scoop into balls or enjoy by the spoonful!

Does it ever happen to you that you’re craving cookies but what you really want is the cookie dough?

Luckily, one of my favorite parts of plant-based vegan baking is that all of the cookie dough is edible.

It certainly makes recipe testing easier because I can actually taste the dough before tasting the end goal.

If we ever make it to the baked cookie finale.

So…what if we just went ahead and created a cookie-dough recipe just for eating?

This Edible Vegan Cookie Dough is made in 1-bowl with just 4 ingredients that are vegan, oil-free, gluten-free, and refined-sugar-free.

You don’t need to turn on the oven, and you don’t need to do any cookie-shaping.

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Avocado Mint Cacao Chip Ice Cream Sandwiches

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Five ingredient creamy ice cream made with avocados, mint, maple syrup, coconut milk, and cacao nibs. Smash between two chocolate snack cookies for dessert!

So, is it summer yet?

I ordered a swim suit this past week in anticipation of sunny summer activities.

The swimsuit was a ruffled two-piecer that didn’t fit quite right out of the cardboard box but looked super cute on the model online.

I’m trying to rock the whole high-waisted swimsuit thing but this one looked more like a wrinkled tutu than a bikini bottom.

I guess you could call it a mint green.

It’s also called a return!

You know what else is mint and green?

These Avocado Mint Cacao Chip Ice Cream Sandwiches that is sure to fit into your summer lovin’ and livin’!

It’s made no-churn with just 5 simple ingredients including avocado, coconut milk, and cacao nibs.

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Oatmeal Tahini Chocolate Chip Scones

By Flora & Vino 20 Comments

Easy oil-free, gluten-free, and refined-sugar-free scones with tahini, oatmeal, and chocolate chips. Perfect with a warm beverage in the morning or evening!

To get through tedious homework in elementary school I used positive conditioning in the form of candy.

I opened a bag of bag of plain or peanut M&Ms next to my textbook and wide rule paper.

For every time I finished a math problem, I popped an M&M or two (or three) in my mouth.

On to the next question.

Solve, savor, swallow, repeat.

Kind of what I did while testing these Oatmeal Tahini Chocolate Chip scones, except instead of M&Ms I popped chocolate chunks.

What, did you think I was going to say an entire scone?!

Friends, this is my first ever scone recipe on the blog!

And because art imitates life, it’s also my first in real life.

Why the first?

Well, I spent most of my adult life baffled by scones.

Maybe it’s because I’ve never been across the pond to England, or maybe it’s because triangles in geometry were never my favorite shape.

Regardless, these triangles of oat-y goodness are now my new favorite dainty treat.

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Matcha Dusted Raw Brownies

By Flora & Vino 6 Comments

Raw brownies made from dates, nuts, and seeds that are also gluten, grain, and refined sugar-free. Finish them with a matcha dusting for a snack or dessert.

Guys.

Over the weekend I went to my first ever goat yoga class with my sister.

Yes friends.

We did a glorious yoga flow amidst the cutest goats I’ve ever seen in a field of green.

Nothing crazy happened, but I did get my feet licked in downward dog.

We were advised to put away anything we didn’t want to get chewed away, so I tucked all of my raw bars and valuable into my purse and zipped it shut.

We did vinyasa and a series of forward folds and twists while the goats chowed happily on hay around us.

Every now and then one of them would let out a loud SNORT, a funny startling noise that I honestly didn’t know that goats made.

The kind of noise that I might make if you told me you weren’t drooling over these Matcha Dusted Brownies made with 5 ingredients and no oven mitts.

PSH.

Aside from goat yoga, raw brownies have been on my bucket list for a while.

I’ve wanted to share a raw brownie recipe but it seems like every time I think of it the weather cold out and baked brownies sound better.

But now it’s getting warmer out and I’m all about some no bake treats.

These Matcha Dusted Raw Brownies are oil-free, gluten-free, vegan, and grain-free with an energizing matcha finish.

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Vegan Toasted Coconut Samoas

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Vegan Toasted Coconut Samoas made with 7 ingredients and no bake time. Vegan, gluten and grain free, and naturally sweetened with dates.

I was a proud Girl Scout in Elementary School.

Okay, okay, I was actually a Brownie.

But I was a part of the tribe long enough to do my fair share of girl scout cookie rounds and cookie eating.

I went door to door in my chocolate-colored brownie uniform, selling cookies to good natured neighbors.

I’m pretty sure my current neighbors would love me if I went door to door with my latest creation.

These Vegan Toasted Coconut Samoas are made with just 7 ingredients with toasted coconut and chocolate drizzle.

Girl scout cookie season is almost over, but my copy-cat cookie variation is just heating up.

Girl, let’s get scouting.

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Peanut Butter Dark Chocolate Eggs

By Flora & Vino 9 Comments

Easy chocolate peanut butter eggs with just 4-ingredients! Perfect for an Easter treat or anytime healthy candy substitute.

Happy Friday!

How was your week?

I feel like it’s that time of the year when all of us humans start to slowly come out of hibernation.

So, my calendar this weekend is full– want to hear?

We’ve got a baseball game this evening, followed by bookclub brunch tomorrow, and a hair highlight on Sunday.

That might not seem like a lot to you, but to an introvert, well, that’s a whole lot of socialization.

My one rule is to never plan TWO events in one day, because in my experience that never ends well for my energy levels.

My other rule is always tackle the weekend with a clean treat, preferably a plant-based peanut butter and chocolate coated candy.

You ready?

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Healthy Magic Cookie Bars

By Flora & Vino 15 Comments

Healthy magic cookie bars with chocolate, pecans, and coconut. These copy-cat bars are vegan, gluten-free, and naturally sweet with dates and maple syrup.

Happy Saturday!

I’m back home today after a quick trip this week to California.

And by quick I mean flying in for dinner and back the next day.

This year, I vowed to say yes to all the opportunities to travel, and so far I’ve kept that intention fulfilled.

I’ve got admit, though, that my eyelids are heavy as I’m writing this.

Traveling can be exhausting, so it’s always nice to come home to something sweet, like these Healthy Magic Cookie Bars waiting for me in my fridge.

You only need 7 ingredients to make these energizing bars that are equal parts sweet and nutritious.

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