Sweets & Treats

Cherry Berry Spritzers

Refreshing 4-ingredient cherry berry spritzers naturally sweetened with dates and ready to sip in 10 minutes. The perfect sweet drink for summer!

I’m in total berry mode right now, so don’t mind me while I throw berries into quite literally everything.

This time of year the nights seem longer and calmer, and I love to enjoy them outdoors, with some good food and drink, of course.

These Cherry Berry Spritzers are the perfect excuse to use up all of those fresh or frozen berries left in your fridge to make a cool beverage without any added sugars.

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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

By Flora & Vino 3 Comments

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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Double Chocolate Zucchini Muffins

By Flora & Vino 10 Comments

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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Maple Sesame Tahini Cookies

By Flora & Vino 15 Comments

1-bowl 4-ingredient Maple Sesame Tahini Cookies. Enjoy the pairing of tahini and maple for an oil free, gluten free, satisfyingly sweet dessert.

It’s been a long week, and long weeks require easy cookies.

Something you can whip up one handed, absentminded, and dog-tired.

These Maple Sesame Tahini Cookies are super simple, requiring only four ingredients and one bowl.

And they stick with you long after you enjoy them.

Literally.

Days later and I’m still finding sesame seeds in my kitchen, a happy reminder to grab a cookie after sweeping the floor.

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Quinoa Carrot Cake Breakfast Cookies

By Flora & Vino 2 Comments

Quinoa carrot cake cookies perfect for busy weekday mornings. Oil-free, gluten-free, refined sugar-free, and high in protein to keep you fueled for hours.

Imagine cookies for breakfast. Are you with me?

Now imagine carrot cake for breakfast. Yes?

Picture those two spectacular scenes smushed together plus all of the health benefits of eating a bowl of oatmeal and then some.

These Toasted Quinoa Carrot Cake Breakfast Cookies make all of those imaginings a reality next to your cup of coffee.

Fun fact: My first ever birthday cake was a carrot cake.

I remember seeing it in pictures, a yellow cake with the face of Big Bird smiling up at us under frosted yellow feathers.

Maybe just despite this, at an early age, I decided that I didn’t like carrot cake.

I cringed whenever someone selected it for their birthday.

It was too carroty, too nutty, too something.

Too much carrot and not enough cake.

I had a thing about texture in foods as a kid.

I didn’t do orange juice with pulp and I certainly didn’t do nuts in my breakfast cookies.

Apparently my younger self didn’t appreciate the beauty of sneaking vegetables in desserts (and everything).

My how times have changed, because I absolutely love the texture of these cookies.

They’ve got a little bit of everything.

They’re packed with creamy almond butter, nutty flax seed, hearty oatmeal, sweet raisins, crunchy walnuts, shredded carrots, and even a bit of banana and applesauce.

I didn’t want you to miss out on anything first thing in the morning, so I packed in all of the goods.

They’re full of fiber, protein, complex carbs, and healthy fats that will give you tons of energy for the day ahead!

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4-Ingredient “Superseed” Chocolate Truffles

By Flora & Vino 3 Comments

4-Ingredient “Superseed” Chocolate Truffles made with coconut flour, nut or seed butter, and pure maple syrup. The perfect dessert!

Love is in the air.

And when I say in the air I actually mean in my kitchen.

There’s a mound of freshly made chocolate truffles sitting neatly on a plate just within my reach.

They were a huge hit last weekend when I experimented with them for my dad’s birthday, so I knew I had to make them again for Valentine’s Day.

If life is like a box of chocolates, I really hope it’s like these 4-Ingredient “Superseed” Chocolate Truffles!

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