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PEANUT BUTTER CRANBERRY NO-BAKE COOKIES

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Brace yourselves for this peanut butter-y, tender, smooth, outrageously delicious bliss. It’s a simple no-bake cookie recipe, with only 5 ingredients and requires only 10 minutes to be prepared. It involves peanut butter, oats, cranberries, vanilla and some maple syrup or honey, according to diet type. However, agave nectar or coconut nectar are good alternatives as well.  If dried cranberries are not available, replace with dried cherries or dried sour cherries.

It’s up to you if you wanna leave them round or flatten them and call them cookies. They’re gonna taste just as amazing! 🏆

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PEANUT BUTTER CRANBERRY NO-BAKE COOKIES
 
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Recipe type: Snack, Dessert
Serves: 28
Ingredients
  • 200 g/ ¾ cups smooth peanut butter
  • 3 tbsp maple syrup or honey for non vegan option
  • 170 g/ 1¾ rolled oats
  • 60 g/ ½ cups dried cranberries
  • 1 tsp vanilla extract
Instructions
  1. In a medium bowl, add peanut butter and honey/maple syrup.
  2. If needed, microwave the peanut butter and honey/maple syrup for 20 seconds to make them easier to mix with the other ingredients.
  3. Add vanilla extract to bowl, rolled oats, and dried cranberries. Mix all ingredients until oats are coated. If texture is too dry, add 1-2 tablespoons of water.
  4. Spoon out 1 full teaspoon of cookie batter and form a ball. Leave it as it is or press it with a fork or with a thumb to create cookie form.
  5. Refrigerate or serve at room temperature.
Nutrition Information
Serving size: 1 Calories: 77 Fat: 4 g Saturated fat: 0.7 g Unsaturated fat: 2.9 g Carbohydrates: 8.7 g Sugar: 3.5 g Sodium: 1.8 mg Fiber: 1.2 g Protein: 2.6 g Cholesterol: 0 g

 

 

HONEY WALNUT CREAM CHEESE

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This cream cheese takes like 5 minutes to prepare, it only needs 4 ingredients, and it’s freaking awesome 🙆🏼. Great for a quick breakfast, as a snack, dessert?! Yea, totes. You can spread it on your favorite breads, bagels, cakes, or cupcakes. I usually use organic acacia honey. However, any other good quality honey will do the job 👌🏼. Those 2 minutes spent on toasting the walnuts will be well worth it, so totally toast them. Do it. For real.

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HONEY WALNUT CREAM CHEESE
 
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Recipe type: Breakfast, Snack
Serves: 6-8
Ingredients
  • 200 gr/ ⅞ cup plain cream cheese, any fat %
  • 3 tbsp organic acacia honey, or other good quality honey
  • ½ tsp pure vanilla extract
  • 40 gr/ ⅓ cup walnuts, toasted and chopped
Instructions
  1. Toast walnuts in dry pan for 2 minutes, tossing them frequently. Chop walnuts.
  2. Mix cream cheese with honey, vanilla extract, and chopped walnuts.
  3. Ready to serve on bagels, breads or cakes.
Nutrition Information
Calories: 107 Fat: 4.8 g Saturated fat: 1 g Unsaturated fat: 3.8 g Carbohydrates: 9.25 g Sugar: 8.1 g Fiber: 0.36 g Protein: 2.75 g Cholesterol: 6.3 g

 

PEANUT BUTTER CARROT COOKIES WITH WHITE CHOCOLATE CHIPS

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PEANUT BUTTER CARROT COOKIES WITH WHITE CHOCOLATE CHIPS
 
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Recipe type: Dessert, Snack
Serves: 35
Ingredients
  • 110 g/½ cup butter, at room temperature
  • 110 g/½ cup brown sugar, packed
  • 135 g/ ½ cup peanut butter, smooth or crunchy
  • 120 g/1 ½ cup rolled oats
  • 1 egg
  • 60 g/ ¼ cup milk
  • 50 g/1 cup grated carrots
  • 130 g/1 cup AP flour
  • ½ tsp baking powder
  • ¼ tsp salt
  • 120 g/1 cup good quality white chocolate, roughly chopped or white chocolate chips
Instructions
  1. Preheat oven at 180 degrees C/ 375 degrees F.
  2. Cream together butter, peanut butter and sugar.
  3. Add egg and milk, and stir.
  4. Sift flour, salt and baking soda and stir.
  5. Stir in carrots, rolled oats, and chopped chocolate or chocolate chips.
  6. Drop 1 teaspoon of cookie dough onto baking paper for 35 normal size cookies large cookies or 1 ½ tablespoons of cookie dough for 9 large cookies.
  7. Bake for 15 minutes for normal size cookies or 25-30 minutes for large size cookies.
  8. Cool down cookies before serving.
Nutrition Information
Calories: 74 Fat: 3.9 g Saturated fat: 1.7 g Carbohydrates: 8.3 g Sugar: 3.8 g Sodium: 0.71 g Fiber: 0.60 g Protein: 1.8 g Cholesterol: 6.8 g

 

VEGAN VANILLA RICE PUDDING WITH CARAMELIZED MANGO

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Vegan Vanilla Rice Pudding with Caramelized Mango Recipe DIYBITES

You probably noticed I’m into caramelizing stuff these days. Caramelized food it’s just so darn good 🙆.

This is some really freaking divine dessert, you guys! So you like your desserts cold? This is the one for you. You like your desserts sizzling hot? What do you know?! Just as delightful. There’s caramelized mango involved, vanilla flavored rice pudding, and some citruses joined the party as well.

If almond milk is not available, soy milk and rice milk are good vegan substitutes. Cow milk is also a good substitute as a non-vegan alternative. Peaches, apples, and forest fruits make good substitutes for mangoes. I advise on using a quality non-stick saucepan for the rice pudding to avoid burning the rice and avoid having an anxiety attack from walking away from the saucepan for more than 5 seconds. Rice pudding does that to you sometimes 😯 🏃 .

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VEGAN VANILLA RICE PUDDING WITH CARAMELIZED MANGO
 
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Recipe type: Dessert
Serves: 3
Ingredients
  • For the rice pudding
  • • 400 ml almond milk
  • • 150 ml water
  • • 120 g white round rice, rinsed
  • • 1 vanilla stick
  • • 2 tbsp sugar
  • • 1 tsp lemon zest
  • For the caramelized mango
  • • 1 large semi-ripe mango, cubed
  • • 3 tbsp Muscovado sugar, or other brown sugar
  • • 1 tbsp water
  • • 1 tbsp lemon juice
  • • ½ tsp orange zest
  • • ½ tsp vanilla extract
  • • ¼ tsp fine grain sea salt
  • • 1 tsp lime zest, optional
Instructions
  1. In a medium non-stick saucepan pour the milk, the water, then add vanilla seeds, sugar and lemon zest. Leave on small heat until bubbly, for 3-4 minutes.
  2. Add rice and stir. Leave on small-medium heat stirring occasionally. Cook for 20-25 minutes or until rice had fully softened and absorbed liquid. If necessary, add more milk or water.
  3. Chop mangoes in 2cm/0.8in squares.
  4. In a medium pan or skillet, add 3 tablespoons of muscovado sugar, 1 tablespoons water, 1 tablespoon lemon juice, orange zest, vanilla extract and salt. Place on small heat and stir until bubbly, for 1-2 minutes and add chopped mangoes. Toss mangoes and cook until liquid evaporated, for 2-3 minutes.
  5. Serve rice pudding and caramelized chilled for 1 hour or immediately.
Nutrition Information
Calories: 194 Fat: 1.3 g Saturated fat: 0.1 g Unsaturated fat: 0.93 g Carbohydrates: 45 g Sugar: 1.3 g Sodium: 58 mg Fiber: 1.6 g Protein: 1.93 g Cholesterol: 0.0 g

 

PUFF PASTRY

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Aerial and crisp, puff pastry is the richest pastry; still, it’s the lightest. The recipe uses equal quantities of butter and flour. It’s a bit time consuming; however, it doesn’t require plenty of work, only re-rolling it once every 30 minutes. The lemon juice softens the gluten in the flour and makes the dough more supple but measure it carefully, as too much lemon juice can make the pastry difficult to handle 🍋. Try not to chill the pastry longer than 30 minutes between re-rolling it as the butter will harden and can break the dough. If left for longer than 30 minutes, let the puff pastry rest for 10 minutes at room temperature before re-rolling.

It is essential to work on cold surfaces and chill water and butter before using them. The recipe makes enough for two single–crusts for 1.5 liter pie dishes or fifteen 8.5cm vol-au-vents. Both sweet and savory fillings or topping work great. In the picture above I used caramelized red onion and brown creminis to make a delicious and easy appetizer. 🍴😎

Puff Pastry
 
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Recipe type: Pastry
Serves: 15
Ingredients
  • 225 gr/2 cups white bread flour
  • 225 gr/1 cup chilled butter
  • 1 tbsp lemon juice
  • Pinch of salt
  • 150 ml/2/3 cup chilled water
Instructions
  1. Sift flour and salt into a mixing bowl. Cut or rub 2 tbsp of butter into flour until it resembles fine crumbs.
  2. Place remaining butter between two sheets of plastic wrap and gently beat it up into a 15 cm/6 in flat square using a rolling pin.
  3. Make a well in the middle of dry ingredients. Combine lemon juice with water and add to well. Stir with cold utensil adding more water if necessary. The dough should be soft but not sticky.
  4. Flour rolling pin and roll out a 25 cm/10 in square. Don’t kneat it even if it looks lumpy.
  5. Place butter diagonally in the center of dough and bring each side of the dough in the center of the butter, to enclose it completely.
  6. Roll the dough to a 40 x 50cm/ 16 x 6in rectangle, then fold the lower third if the pastry over the center third and the top third of pastry down over that. Seal edges gently with rolling pin. Brush off any excess flour and wrap the pastry in plastic wrap, then chill for 30 minutes.
  7. Roll out the pastry to the same size again, with sealed edges on top and bottom. Fold and chill as before.
  8. Repeat 5 more times.
  9. Use right away according to recipe directions or wrap tightly in clear film and use in the next 3 days.
Nutrition Information
Calories: 162 Fat: 12 g Saturated fat: 7.6 g Unsaturated fat: 4.4 g Carbohydrates: 11.4 g Fiber: 0.4 g Protein: 1.68 g Cholesterol: 3.1 g