Recipe Categories: Healthy Sweets

Festive season is here, and it means it is high time for baking experiments! Eating aromatic cookies, spiced with cinnamon and nutmeg, has become a tradition, and all kids start craving for a sweet treat like they crave for a gingerbread man.

As always, we re-created a traditional recipe for you, but this time with a twist – it is simply much healthier than any cookies you’ve ever known! A delicious chocolate sweet, it is made only used plant-based ingredients, and there is a huge room for experimentation if you want to substitute something.

Try this Christmas recipe and let us know how it came out!

• gluten-free oat flour or oats (you’ll need to make fresh flour from them in a food processor) – 1 cup
• grated coconut – 1 cup
• coconut oil (melted) – 5 tbsp
• flaxseed egg (to make 1 egg mix 1 tbsp of ground flaxseeds with 3 tbsp of water, and let it sit for 15 minutes in a fridge, until it gets a consistency of an egg white) – 3 “eggs” / made with 3 tbsp of flaxseeds
• raw chocolate / cacao – 3 heaped tbsp
• jaggery / sweetener of choice – 1/2 cups

Step 1. In a separate bowl, whisk jaggery together with flaxseed eggs.

Step 2. Mix the rest of the ingredients together, add jaggery with flaxseed eggs and knit the dough, until it rolls into a ball.

Step 3. Roll the dough out to a 0.5 cm thickness, cut desired shapes with a cookie cutter and bake at 180 °C for about 25 minutes.

Your cookies are ready! For additional taste you can also add orange zest, or tiny stars made from fresh orange juice and agar-agar (like in the picture). We hope you’ll enjoy your healthy and delicious festive treat, and so will your family!

Who doesn’t dream about a healthy candy? We’ve got a wonderful recipe for you, which requires only one (!) ingredient, but tastes like a sweet stretchy gummy bear!

In every traditional cuisine you can find recipes of healthy desserts, mostly made purely from fruits, without any additives like sugar. Most of the recipes involve different techniques of boiling fruit juice or drying it, and likely many of these techniques are easily adapted to modern kitchens.

Our version of the delicious and healthy apple gummy roll is extremely easy and only requires a bit of patience! It can also be stored without refrigeration for several months, but truth to be told, it rarely lasts that long, because it simply tastes too good!

So, believe it or not, you only need one ingredient:

• apples (any type) – 2 kg, it is enough to cover two standard baking trays 

Step 1. De-seed apples and cut them in chunks.

Step 2. Without a single drop of water, cook apples in a pot with a thick bottom until they become soft. Depending on your pot or apples it will take 20-40 minutes in total to bring them to the right consistency.

Step 3. Process the apples in a food processor until the mixture becomes very smooth, just like baby food.

Step 4. Spread the apple puree on a parchment paper, lied on a baking tray. Your layer of apple puree should be about 0.5 cm thick.

Step 5. Put the tray into the oven and “bake” it for about 5 hours at 90°C. Your apple puree needs to dry, but it should still remain slightly soft. When the candy is ready, you will be able to easily separate it from the parchment paper. You can then cut in long stripes with kitchen scissors and roll each of the stripes so that it looks just like in the picture!

Store your apple gummy rolls in an air-tight jar and enjoy as a special treat!

Who doesn’t like chocolate and especially a rich chocolate cake? It is hard to believe, but a favourite treat can be done very healthy, as well as ver quickly, if you follow our recipe! A secret “base” ingredient in this dessert is a squash, but trust me, nobody will ever guess that it is inside! It is very important to use the right type of squash (muscat), because it is one of the sweetest pumpkin types available. In fact, muscat squash will be your best companion if you decide to experiment with sweet pumpkin dishes. 

To achieve the right texture of your cake make sure that you steam the squash, instead of boiling it or baking. Apart from that – there are no special secrets, as the recipe is surprisingly easy! Enjoy your cooking process and don’t forget to share the result with the loved ones, as sharing chocolate is the best way to make them happy!

Chocolate mousse:

• muscat squash – 2 cups (ca. 500 gr.)

• raw cocoa powder/chocolate – 3 heaped tbsp

• orange zest – from 1 medium-sized orange (try to use organic orange)

• honey (or liquid sweetener of choice) –

Crust

• 1 cup almond flour

• 1 cups oat flour (you can also take 2 cups of oat flour or 2 cups of almond flour only, depends on your taste preference and availability!)

• 1/2 cup raisins

• 1/2 cups dates

Step 1. Peel the squash, remove seeds and cut in cubes. Steam it until ready (ca. 20 minutes).

Step 2. Let the steamed squash cool down. Then process it in a food processor along with chocolate, orange zest and sweetener of choice. Put in the fridge to set.

Step 3. Prepare the crust: process all ingredients together in the food processor, until it forms a smooth dough.

Step 4. Press the dough into the cake mould. Take the squash mass out of the fridge and spread evenly on the top of the crust.

That is it, your cake is ready! The beautiful thing about this recipe is that you don’t even need to keep it in the fridge overnight, but can start indulging straight away – we promise, it will taste amazing.

It is difficult to find a better sweet treat for a September afternoon than a plum cake! If you are lucky to have a garden and a plum tree yourself, then you know how generous nature is in sharing this yummy fruit. At times there are so many of plums from one single tree that you have no idea what to do with them – so let us give you an idea.

A combination of chewy crust and a delicate plums filling create a delicious dessert, which can be enjoyed warm or cooled, at any time of the day. Our recipes is suggesting you a healthier and easier version of a traditional plum pie – without compromising its taste. Try our plum pie recipe and let us know how you liked it!

Crust:

• whole wheat flour – 1 cup
• grated coconut – 1 cup
• sweetener of choice (jaggery or panela are the best option) – 1/2 cup
• ghee (purified butter) or regular butter -4 big tbsp
• eggs – 2 small
• baking soda – 1/2 tsp (optional)

Filling:

• fresh plums – 8-10 medium-sized
• jaggery or panela – 3 tbsp
• clove – 5 buds
• cinnamon – 1/2 stick 

Step 1. Whisk eggs together with the sweetener of your choice.

Step 2. In a separate bowl, mix whole wheat four, grated coconut and baking soda. Add ghee, whisked eggs and mix together nicely.

Step 3. Knead the dough for couple of minutes, roll it into a bowl and put in the fridge.

Step 4. Prepare your filling. Pit the plums and cut into six peaces each. Mix with grated jaggery in a sauce pan and bring to boil. Keep boiling for 2-3 minutes, until plums become soft, but before they start loosing skin, and put aside.

Step 5. Take the dough out of the fridge and roll into a a desired shape (square or circle, whatever you prefer).

Step 6. Spread the filling on the dough, leaving about 1.5 cm on the sides. Then fold the sides of the dough (like in the picture), so that the filling stays in place.

Step 7. Preheat your oven to 180 C. Bake the pie for 20-25 minutes, until dough is ready

Your delicious plum pie is ready! Enjoy with a cup of coffee or tea on a fresh autumn afternoon.

Raw, no-bake strawberry coconut cake is a perfect dessert for summer! While berries season is in full bloom you should enjoy it as much as possible, and we would like to suggest you yet another way to add them into a delicious home-made dessert. It is made out of very simple and healthy ingredients, with no sugar or colorants added, as natural flavours and colors are just enough. As this dessert tastes wonderfully frozen, it is a great option to satisfy your ice cream craving as well. And the best part, as always – it is very quick and easy to prepare!

Crust:

• oats (or ready oat flour) – 1 cup
• grated coconut – 2 cups
• honey (can be replaced with 1/2 cup dates) – 4-5 tbsp
• coconut oil – 2 tbsp

Filling:

• strawberries – 1 cup
• chia seeds – 2 tbsp
• sweetener of taste – 2 tbsp 

Step 1. Prepare your filling: process strawberries in a blender until it tuns into a thick liquid, mix with chia seeds and set aside for at least 30 mins. When chia seeds expand, it should look like a thick jam. The longer you let it sit, the better!

Step 2. Prepare your crust: process oats and coconut in a blender. Mix with melted coconut oil and honey (or dates syrup). The dough should be a little crumbly, but it should nicely stick together. You can add more honey or 1-2 spoons of liquid if it doesn’t stick together well enough.

Step 3. Split your dough into two parts. Press one part into the mould. Put your ready strawberry-chia jam on top. Cover with with se second part of your dough – as if you were making a sandwich!

Step 4. Put your cake in the freezer and leave there for about two hours to set. Once you take it out – you cake is ready!

Before serving you can leave the cake outside for 10-15 minutes if you like it softer, or you can serve it as a frozen treat, which works just perfectly for summer.