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| − | These are whole-food vegan recipes for sweets. | + | These are whole-food vegan recipes for sweets & desserts. |
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| + | Outside of raw food options (which are plentiful) there is quite a lack of whole-food vegan sweet recipes to be found online, with most of them using oil and pretty much all of them using refined sugar. While there's nothing innately wrong with oil and sugar in small amounts, in larger amounts they can result in nutritionally poor foods. In the context of a diet otherwise overly rich in nutrients (as is the case with many animal products) this doesn't introduce much nutritional risk (risk is more along the lines of obesity from over-nutrition), but in a plant based diet where protein and many vitamins and minerals may only exceed recommended amounts by smaller margins, replacing a significant number of calories with nutritionally poor sweets when it's not necessary can increase nutritional risk and increase the risk of failure on a vegan diet. | ||
The recipes with the symbol * require a blender. | The recipes with the symbol * require a blender. | ||
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- Peanut butter (or any nut butter) | - Peanut butter (or any nut butter) | ||
| − | - Date sugar | + | - Date sugar (Date sugar is not sugar extracted from dates, but whole dried dates that have been pulverized) |
- 1 tbsp of crushed nuts of choice (optional) | - 1 tbsp of crushed nuts of choice (optional) | ||
Revision as of 15:38, 6 August 2020
These are whole-food vegan recipes for sweets & desserts.
Outside of raw food options (which are plentiful) there is quite a lack of whole-food vegan sweet recipes to be found online, with most of them using oil and pretty much all of them using refined sugar. While there's nothing innately wrong with oil and sugar in small amounts, in larger amounts they can result in nutritionally poor foods. In the context of a diet otherwise overly rich in nutrients (as is the case with many animal products) this doesn't introduce much nutritional risk (risk is more along the lines of obesity from over-nutrition), but in a plant based diet where protein and many vitamins and minerals may only exceed recommended amounts by smaller margins, replacing a significant number of calories with nutritionally poor sweets when it's not necessary can increase nutritional risk and increase the risk of failure on a vegan diet.
The recipes with the symbol * require a blender.
The recipes with the symbol + require date sugar (as it's costly in many places/sometimes unavailable).
Contents
No-bake xberry cake *+
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No-bake oatmeal and nuts cookies *+
Peanut butter sweet toast +
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Difficulty: 0/5
Time: 5 minutes
Servings: 1
INGREDIENTS:
- 1 slice of whole wheat bread
- Peanut butter (or any nut butter)
- Date sugar (Date sugar is not sugar extracted from dates, but whole dried dates that have been pulverized)
- 1 tbsp of crushed nuts of choice (optional)
EQUIPMENT NEEDED TO COOK:
- Oven/toaster
PROCESS:
- Heat the slice of bread in the over or the toaster until crispy to the preferred amount (avoid heating until burnt, as that's carcinogenic)
- Spread the preferred amount of peanut butter (or other nut butter) on the toast, and cover evenly
- Sprinkle a tbsp (or the preferred amount) of date sugar on top of the peanut butter evenly (tapping the spoon while gliding it over the toast is the easier way)
- Sprinkle the crushed nuts of choice on top (optional)
Date syrup dip +
Difficulty: 0/5
Time: 5 minutes
Servings: dip
