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#4 Snacks and Dessert Recipes

Healthy Chocolate Crackles. Seriously? Yep

I saw this recipe on Natural New Age Mum and she uses her thermomix, but I changed the recipe a bit and didn’t use the thermie because I was making these with my two-year-old son and it’s way more fun to get messy with him! (not really, the mess shits me, but it’s all about the joy of creating together right..?)

Anyway, I thought I’d share it because HELL – who doesn’t love chocolate crackles?!

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 Healthy Chocolate Crackles. Seriously? Yep
Healthy chocolate crackles
Servings
Ingredients
  • 3/4 cup coconut oil (in liquid form so melt it if required)
  • 1/4 cup honey I use raw honey
  • 2 tablespoons heapedraw cacao
  • 2 1/2 cups puffed brown rice see below for info
  • 1/2 cup shredded coconut
Servings
Ingredients
  • 3/4 cup coconut oil (in liquid form so melt it if required)
  • 1/4 cup honey I use raw honey
  • 2 tablespoons heapedraw cacao
  • 2 1/2 cups puffed brown rice see below for info
  • 1/2 cup shredded coconut
Healthy chocolate crackles
Instructions
  1. Mix the coconut oil, honey and cacao together in a small bowl.
  2. Add the coconut and puffed rice to a big bowl and pour in the liquid mixture. Stir baby!
  3. Then place them in patty pans (it makes 12) and put them in the freezer until hard. Then they’ll need to stay in the fridge. You have to eat them quickly because the coconut oil turns liquid at room temperature so you’ll look like this with chocolate all over your face:
  4. The brand of brown rice puffs I bought I found at Coles (just as Natural New Age Mum told me I would). Abundant Earth – they look like this:
Recipe Notes

I told my son they were chips and he devoured them plain, as a snack. Winner. Now what else can I use them for….

Enjoy x

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#4 Snacks and Dessert Recipes

Snack Attack Raw Bar (Gluten, Dairy, Egg Free)

I’m cleansing this week. At not in the bathing sense (though I’m doing that too). I am doing the Girls Gone Clean cleanse designed for busy women by Lana Purcell. It’s seven days and I’m on day 5 and I just resisted all the goodies at a kids birthday party. Yay for freaking me! It’s been a super interesting process and many epiphanies have been made, that’s for sure. I’ll no doubt write them down to inspire you (bore you?) with soon.

Anyway, Lana posted this recipe on about day 3 when she knew most of us wanted something a little more. And by god it hit the spot! Great for kids, great for adults – a total winner. It’s also gluten and dairy free.

I made mine in the thermomix but apparently a normal blender will do the job too.

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 Snack Attack Raw Bar (Gluten, Dairy, Egg Free)
Snack Attack Raw Bar
Servings
Ingredients
  • 1/2 cups sunflower seeds
  • 1/4 cup desiccated coconut
  • 1/2 cup pumpkin seeds
  • 1/2 cup almonds
  • 1/2 cup pitted dates
  • 1 tablespoon coconut oil melted
  • 1 tablespoon honey
  • 1 teaspoon cinnamon
  • 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
Servings
Ingredients
  • 1/2 cups sunflower seeds
  • 1/4 cup desiccated coconut
  • 1/2 cup pumpkin seeds
  • 1/2 cup almonds
  • 1/2 cup pitted dates
  • 1 tablespoon coconut oil melted
  • 1 tablespoon honey
  • 1 teaspoon cinnamon
  • 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
Snack Attack Raw Bar
Instructions
  1. Pulse the almonds, dates, sunflower seeds and pumpkin seeds a few times everything until it is mixed and clumping.
  2. Add the remaining ingredients and pulse again until it forms a dough consistency.
  3. Press into a shallow dish lined with baking paper. Spread evenly. Place in the freezer to harden up and then slice into bars.
Recipe Notes

(I had to add a little more coconut oil because it was a bit dry. Also remember to keep it in the fridge where it will stay hard).

Oh dear, so good. You will make batch after batch! Enjoy x

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#4 Snacks and Dessert Recipes

Almond Cookies

Christmas = ultimate excuse!

But if I create healthier options that are just as tasty and feel indulgent, then I’ll certainly eat them instead. So I’m on the look out for alternatives. And I’m also on the lookout for healthy treats for my toddler. Determined to provide a healthier alternative than what I might have made last year, I whipped these up in no time. They’re awesome. They’re healthier than your average cookie because of the almond meal – a great source of protein – and there is a only a small amount of sugar from the honey. My toddler went crazy for them.

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 Almond Cookies
Almond cookies
Servings
Ingredients
  • 3 cups of almond meal/flour
  • 180 g butter softened to room temperature
  • 1/4 cup honey I like raw honey
  • 1 teaspoon cinnamon
  • 1 tablespoon vanilla
  • 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
  • pinch of salt
  • two handfuls blanched or raw almonds roughly chopped
  • white choc-chip buds or dark chocolate
Servings
Ingredients
  • 3 cups of almond meal/flour
  • 180 g butter softened to room temperature
  • 1/4 cup honey I like raw honey
  • 1 teaspoon cinnamon
  • 1 tablespoon vanilla
  • 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
  • pinch of salt
  • two handfuls blanched or raw almonds roughly chopped
  • white choc-chip buds or dark chocolate
Almond cookies
Instructions
  1. Preheat your oven to 160 degrees, slightly higher if it’s not fan forced. Line two baking trays with baking paper.
  2. Add all the ingredients except the final two into a large bowl. Mix well. When it’s come together add the almonds and chocolate (if using – they are not a necessity) and stir.
  3. Make small balls (about a dessert spoon) out of the mixture and place onto the baking tray, leaving a little bit of room between each. Squash them down gently with a fork. Put in the oven for 10-15 minutes.
Recipe Notes

Mine ended up nicely browned on the bottom and slightly brown on top so still chewy – perfect!

Enjoy x

PS – I’m going to try this again with coconut oil when I get home….

PS – this recipe was adapted from Sally Gray’s website http://realhealthykids.com/recipes/almond-surprise-cookies-gaps-friendly-grain-free/

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#4 Snacks and Dessert Recipes

Ice-cream Delish

It’s summer up here in Brisbane. And summer calls for ice-cream. At a friend’s house recently she brought out homemade icy poles – they were mango and banana whizzed up in her Vitamix. Delicious. The kids loved them and so did I. Yesterday I was at a homeware shop and saw some of those icy pole holder thingies – where you pour your mixture into the mould, add the sticks and wham bam you’ve got homemade icy poles. The pack cost me $19.95 and it makes 8 icy poles.

I couldn’t wait to try it out. It’s already paid for itself.

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 Ice-cream delish
Ice-cream delish
Servings
Ingredients
  • 1 banana
  • 6 strawberries
  • 150 ml cream
Servings
Ingredients
  • 1 banana
  • 6 strawberries
  • 150 ml cream
Ice-cream delish
Instructions
  1. Just put it all in the blender and then when it’s a lovely smooth consistency pour it into the moulds and freeze!
Recipe Notes

So easy and so yummy.

Enjoy x

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