Category Archives: Snacks

Hazelnut Cream Filled Cookies – Eggless

Cacao Hazelnut Cream Filled Cookies

They are so soft, puffy, creamy and amazing! The kind of cookie that almost melts in your mouth! Almost 😉 Imagine a sugar cookie… the perfect sugar cookie… but filled with cream! That’s exactly what our hazelnut cream filled cookies are!

Prepare your cream, we used a Cacao Hazelnut Cream

Pre-heat the oven to 190° Celsius (375° F)

In one large mixing bowl add and whisk: Continue reading Hazelnut Cream Filled Cookies – Eggless

French Onion Dip – Vegan

french onion dip

This gluten free vegan French onion dip is one of our favorite recipes. It’s very simple and quick to make. If you have a high powered blender (similar to the Vitamix we use) this recipe takes about 5 minutes to make.  Add these ingredients in the following order into the blender: Continue reading French Onion Dip – Vegan

Smooth Cheddar Dip and Spread Recipe

Smooth Cheddar Dip and Spread

Total time from start to finish: 5 minutes Continue reading Smooth Cheddar Dip and Spread Recipe

Μελιτζανοσαλάτα – Eggplant Spread or Dip

vegan Μελιτζανοσαλάτα – Eggplant Spread or Dip

This is one of the delicacies I missed so I decided to create my own Μελιτζανοσαλάτα (eggplant spread). The traditional recipe calls for wine vinegar which Jake dislikes deeply, so I used apple cider vinegar and it worked! This spread is savory, give it a try! Continue reading Μελιτζανοσαλάτα – Eggplant Spread or Dip

Cheese Pockets – Vegan and Gluten Free

Vegan Cheese Pockets
Let the cheese wars begin!

In order to try out our improved dough recipe, we made cheese pockets because we missed them so much!! Continue reading Cheese Pockets – Vegan and Gluten Free

Afterburner Dip

Afterburner Dip

This afterburner dip is delicious! It has just the right amount of spice (but you do not notice it until after eating it!). You will need a high powered blender to make this one, here is how it’s done…  Continue reading Afterburner Dip

Tofu Ricotta Cheese – Vegan

tofu ricotta cheese

This vegan tofu Ricotta cheese is delicious! It can be used as a dip, spread or for cooking! We most recently used it in our Stuffed Eggplant recipe! This recipe works best using a high powered blender with a tamper to push the ingredients down into the blades.

Raw Spinach Vegan Cheese Dip

Raw Spinach Vegan Cheese Dip - gluten free

This is another very simple vegan cheese recipe! We absolutely love this dip, especially with organic corn chips! It is a great way to increase your raw spinach intake as well! In a powerful blender (we used a Vitamix; for more information in North America click here or in Europe click here) add:

  • 1/4 cup water
  • 1 teaspoon sea salt
  • 6 Tablespoons of nutritional yeast
  • 1/4 cup raw almonds
  • 3/4 cup raw cashews
  • 1/4 to 1/2 leaf of fresh spinach (add more if you really love spinach)

Blend until smooth or almost completely smooth. Enjoy this raw spinach vegan cheese as a spread or dip with your favorite chips, crackers or vegetables!

 

Chocolate Cream Cake! Vegan and Gluten Free

Chocolate Cream Cake
DOH!

Yep it was good!

It has an amazing chocolate cream on top of the cake!

Oozing with cacao chocolate

Ingredients for the chocolate cream cake bottom (this is a relatively dry cake, and serves the purpose of being dry enough for the luscious cream that will cover it to create balance!):

dry ingredients of the cake: Continue reading Chocolate Cream Cake! Vegan and Gluten Free

Poker Night and the Vegetarian Snacks

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Tonight we invited some friends over for some poker and snacks. Our guests were all meat eaters who consider us lame. So, you understand why I wanted to impress them with cool snacks that do not remind them of their Grandma. Everything we made was gone within the first hour!

Snacks that are gluten-free, vegan and cool? How is that possible?

Why not popcorn and rice cakes with a twist?

Continue reading Poker Night and the Vegetarian Snacks