4 Ingredient Superfood Truffles

4 Ingredient Superfood Truffles

4 Ingredient Superfood Truffles

What could be easier and more satisfying than making your own sweet indulgences? To me, these truffles are like HIIT for the dessert world. Super healthy and effective, yet short and sweet, and while Tabata isn’t nearly as easy as these babies, it takes the same amount of time for the same amazing rewards.

4 Ingredient Superfood Truffles

It’s actually shocking how effective a short Tabata workout done three times a week can be. Why spend hours in the gym when you can get er’ done and feel that great endorphin high in your own home! I’m sold. In the same regard, why slave away for hours making delicate patisseries when you can throw together a few ingredients and have scrumptious 4 ingredient superfood truffles in mere minutes.

4 Ingredient Superfood Truffles

They were gobbled up just as fast. I brought them to my lovely friends blessing way, which is like a baby shower but better. She’s bursting with life and baby could arrive any day now. Mommas need raw cacao to fuel those last days, it’s a fact. You can coat these truffles with whatever superfoods or seeds you may have lying around- I used hemp seeds, raw cacao and bee pollen but other options would include sesame seeds, chia seeds, sunflower seeds, cacao nibs, goji berries, matcha, or other crushed nuts.

And speaking of mommas, my mom and grandma left yesterday, waaaaah. I wish they lived closer, I miss them already. It was so nice to reconnect in person. It’s hard not having family close by, a big sacrifice for living in such a beautiful place. Maybe some day the mountains will call them over for good.

 

4 Ingredient Superfood Truffles

Yield: 16

Ingredients

  • 3/4 C date paste (soaked in warm water for a few minutes)
  • 1 C brazil nuts (raw, unsalted)
  • 3 Tbs cacao powder + extra for rolling
  • your favourite superfoods for rolling

Instructions

  1. In a blender or food processor combine dates, brazil nuts, and cacao powder until smooth. Set mixture in the fridge or freezer for a few minutes until workable.
  2. Roll into balls and coat in your favourite superfoods.
  3. Store in the fridge. Makes about 16 truffles.
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4 Ingredient Superfood Truffles

Roasted Rhubarb + Vanilla Cream Raw Pie

Roasted Rhubarb + Vanilla Cream Raw Pie

Roasted Rhubarb + Vanilla Cream Raw Pie

Hello lovelies, it’s been awhile and I’m all up in a spring tizzy. My how time flies as the days get longer, along with the to-do list. My mom and grandma are visiting right now, gigi is meeting her great grandson for the first time!

Roasted Rhubarb + Vanilla Cream Raw Pie

As a lovely surprise I made them this decadent raw pie, oddly reminiscent of a pink creamsicle. The rhubarb in our garden is off the hook, it’s the gift that keeps on giving. The more you pull, the more springs up. I find myself searching for new ways to use rhubarb, aside from pie there are few ideas out there. Any ideas?

Roasted Rhubarb + Vanilla Cream Raw Pie

The new moon just passed so we took the opportunity to plant seeds in the garden. In biodynamic gardening, planting and harvesting is planned according to the lunar cycles. Which makes good sense, as the moon affects the ebb and flow of all H2O containing life. As the moon grows so do the plants, hopefully, fingers crossed, it’s the first year I’ve had a garden in awhile.

 

More about this pie. Roasted rhubarb is the way to do rhubarb, this roasted rhubarb + vanilla cream raw pie is healthy and light yet super satisfying. You’re going to love it, even if you hate rhubarb. I tricked my mom, who claims she hates rhubarb, but when I gave her a slice she unknowingly bit into it and thought it was oh so delicious. This brings to light a lot of misconceptions about rhubarb. Many folks think it’s too sour or stringy or bitter. I beg to differ, especially when roasted as it caramelizes the natural sugars. Do give this pie a chance, I wouldn’t lead you astray.

Roasted Rhubarb + Vanilla Cream Raw Pie

 

Roasted Rhubard + Vanilla Cream Raw Pie

Ingredients

  • 1 C raw almonds (soaked for 6-8 hrs)
  • 3/4 C raisins or dates (soaked for at least 30 mins)
  • 1/2 C + 1/2 C + 3 Tbs coconut oil
  • 2 C raw cashews (soaked 4-8 hrs)
  • 1 C coconut milk
  • 3/4 tsp vanilla extract or 1 vanilla bean, scraped
  • 1/3 C raw honey or maple syrup
  • pinch sea salt
  • 4 large rhubarb stalks
  • 1/3 C raw honey or coconut sugar

Instructions

  1. Preheat oven to 400F and roast rhubarb on a baking sheet for 20 minutes.
  2. Using a food processor or high powered blender, combine raw almonds, rainsins or dates and 1/2 C coconut oil until smooth. Press this crust into the bottom of a 12 inch springform pan. Set in the freezer while making the filling.
  3. Clean out the blender or food processor. Add the drained cashews, 1/2 C coconut oil, coconut milk, honey or maple syrup and vanilla and blend on high until super smooth and creamy. Pour over the set crust and place back in the freezer while making the topping.
  4. Clean out the blender or food processor and add rhubarb, 3 Tbs coconut oil and honey or coconut sugar. Pour topping evenly over the vanilla cream and allow to set in the fridge or freezer for at least 2 hours before serving.
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Roasted Rhubarb + Vanilla Cream Raw Pie

Superfood Sunshine Chocolates

Superfood Sunshine Chocolates

superfood sunshine chocolates

It’s spring, the bees are out, the sun is shining and it’s time for a celebration!

What better way to celebrate the suns return than with bright yellow nutrient dense raw chocolate, heck yes.

These little gems are a cinch to make and packed with the ample benefits of bee pollen, a truly amazing superfood. Some nutritionists say we could live on bee pollen alone as it’s such a perfect food. Bees are amazing insects, their specialized hairs attract pollen easily with a sort of static electricity. To make one pound of honey bees must visit around 2 million flowers!

superfood sunshine chocolates

In the spring I usually get seasonal allergies which bee pollen, local honey, and wildcrafted nettles effectively eliminate. Bee pollen is one of the easiest foods to digest and assimilate. Not too mention its got a subtle chewiness that adds a lovely texture to these superfood sunshine chocolates. Raw cacao is loaded with amazing benefits as well as talk about more in detail in this post. It’s certainly no secret how much we relish in our raw chocolate around here!

superfood sunshine chocolates

Superfood Sunshine Chocolates
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Serves: 12
 
Ingredients
  • ¾ C raw cacao butter
  • 3 Tbs cacao powder
  • 3 Tbs coconut butter
  • 1 Tbs coconut oil
  • 2 Tbs raw honey or maple syrup
  • ¼ tsp turmeric
  • 2 Tbs bee pollen
  • pinch of sea salt
Instructions
  1. Melt the cacao butter in a boil over a double boiler until liquid, add cacao powder and 1 Tbs of honey or maple syrup and stir until smooth.
  2. Pour this chocolate mixture into your choice of moulds, I used a mini muffin tin. Pop in the freezer to set while you make the sunshine layer.
  3. Warm up your coconut butter and coconut oil on the double boiler until smooth and creamy, mix in turmeric, bee pollen and sea salt.
  4. Remove chocolate from freezer and top each with a dollop of sunshine mixture until evenly distributed. Pop back in the freezer for a few minutes to set. When the chocolates are set you should be able to easily pop them out of the mould.
  5. This recipe makes about 12 sunshine chocolate!

 

superfood sunshine chocolates

Raw Black and White Hemp Chocolate

Raw Black and White Hemp Chocolate

raw black and white hemp chocolate

Hemp hearts and raw chocolate, is there any better combination on the planet? Not likely. Especially when you combine the nutritional profiles of these two superfoods, shazam! Super energy filled nutrient dense healthy fat fuel.

Where there’s chocolate, there are smiles, there is love and joy and sharing (sometimes) so why not make the healthiest chocolate possible?

Hemp hearts are a nutritional powerhouse, they’re the meat inside the seed and have basically no phytates which is the main enzyme inhibitor inherent in nuts and seeds. They have a balanced ratio of omega-3 to omega-6 and are high in protein. These easy to digest little seeds pack a mega nutritional punch. I love sprinkling them all over salads and making hemp butter with them but their addition to chocolate is reminiscent of those crunchy bars that snap crackle and pop when you eat them.

raw black and white hemp chocolate

I know in certain states hemp is akin to cocaine and completely illegal. Funny enough as my super medical cannabis advocate man would say ” we wouldn’t be here if it wasn’t for hemp” which to a certain extent is true. The boats that European explorers sailed to America with the oakum (caulking) made from hemp. A lot of things used to be made from hemp, including the worlds longest standing bridge in France. New technologies are utilizing the strength of hemp to make sustainable eco-friendly building materials that could change the way we build from petroleum based to hemp based.

If you can’t get hemp hearts, you could certainly substitute them for bee pollen, chopped nuts or seeds or sesame seeds. If you can get hemp hearts, eat up, they are one of the most nutritious foods out there.

Raw chocolate has many advantages to conventional heat processed chocolate. As with all raw foods, the enzymes and vitamins are left intact. Raw cacao is high in antioxidants and its main alkaloid theobromine has been used medicinally to treat heart problems as a vasodilator. Why are antioxidants so incredibly important? Because they fight against cell scavenging evil free radicals on a mission to give us cancer and cause inflammation. In a world riddled with nasty pollutants, we’re exposed to free radicals constantly, in various forms. The more high antioxidant foods we consume, the more protection we’ll have against those evil bastards. Raw cacao is one of the richest food sources of antioxidants on the planet. Not too mention raw chocolate is basically the sexiest food ever. Cacao has phenylethylamine (PEA) the same hormone that is released in the brain when we fall in loooooove. Highest concentrations of PEA are present in raw chocolate, along with tryptophan the precursor to serotonin in the brain. Last but not lease, raw cacao is particularly rich in magnesium, a mineral that most of us are lacking (over 80% of people are deficient). Magnesium helps relax the muscles and nervous system, unlike its constrictive calcium counterpart. The two need to be in balance to be effective, yet most of us are consuming far too much elemental calcium and far too little magnesium.

raw black and white hemp chocolate

So have I convinced you yet to try this addictively delicious raw black and white hemp chocolate? Here’s the recipe, and don’t worry it makes enough to share! Oh and you can be haphazard like me and make a bark style chocolate or you can use proper moulds but both yield the same amazing taste.

Raw Black and White Hemp Chocolate
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Ingredients
  • ½ C coconut butter
  • 3 Tbs raw honey or maple syrup
  • ¼ tsp himalayan salt
  • ½ C raw cacao butter
  • 3 Tbs raw cacao powder
  • 4 Tbs raw hemp hearts
Instructions
  1. In a double boiler melt coconut butter and transfer to a bowl. Seperately melt cacao butter.
  2. Mix coconut butter, honey,salt + 4 Tbs of cacao butter and cacao powder in a large bowl until thoroughly combined.
  3. In your preferred tray or chocolate mould sprinkle half the hemp seeds and pour the chocolate mixture over them, transfer to the freezer to set for about 20 mins.
  4. Remove from freezer and top with the rest of the cacao butter and hemp seeds, put back in the freezer to set again and enjoy!
  5. This recipe is equivalent to about 4 chocolate bars

 

 

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Blood Orange and Fennel Salad with Fresh Ginger Vinaigrette

Blood Orange and Fennel Salad with Fresh Ginger Vinaigrette

Blood orange and fennel salad with fresh ginger vinaigrette

This salad is perfect for a spring detox, I don’t know about you but I always feel like cleansing come this time of year.

And not just the body, but everything- the cobwebs and dust bunnies nesting in all corners of the house. The more intensely tangled cobwebs of the mind are trickier to clean out.

This week I opted out of social media, yep, a whole week without crackbook, I wish that wasn’t such a grand accomplishment. It was necessary, the reset, the relenquishment of my attachment to distraction. Multitasking is the absolute best way to accomplish nothing. I always learn this the hard way, for some reason the drive to multitask is hard wired in my brain. Along with the rise of childhood ADD/ADHD there’s also been a significant increase in adult ADD. I blame the endless distractions, the little red notifications that release happy hormones in our brains, the glorification of busy, the emphasis on multitasking supposedly being the key to efficiency. But I also blame myself, because I know better, yet sometimes I still ignore that little voice.

Lesson of the week: just let it go and focus. Focus is the path to success, all those distractions, all the wayward worrisome thoughts, they’re useless.

Blood orange and fennel salad with fresh ginger vinaigrette

A note on this recipe, it’s incredibly simple and fresh. The ginger gives a spicy warming feel to the fresh lingering taste of anise from the fennel. Fennel haters aka J actually greatly enjoyed this pairing. The burst of sweet citrus really goes a long way in bringing everything together. Don’t skip the red onion either, it really adds a necessary intensity.

 

Blood Orange and Fennel Salad with Fresh Ginger Vinaigrette
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Serves: 4
 
Ingredients
  • 1 large fennel bulb, remove fronds and set aside for garnish, slice finely using a mandolin
  • 1 blood orange, cut into small segments
  • ½ cucumber, finely sliced
  • ½ a small red onion, finely sliced
  • 2 Tbs extra virgin olive oil
  • 1 Tbs apple cider vinegar
  • 1 inch piece of peeled ginger, grated
  • ½ tsp sea salt
Instructions
  1. Place fennel, oranges, cucumber and red onion in a large bowl.
  2. In a small bowl combine olive oil, vinegar, ginger and salt, pour over veggies and gently toss until covered.
  3. Serve immediately, makes 2 light meals or 4 sides

 

Blood orange and fennel salad with fresh ginger vinaigrette

Matcha Cashew Coconut Energy Balls

Matcha Cashew Coconut Energy Balls

Matcha Cashew Coconut Energy Balls

Green food is good food. It’s a rule I stick to, and trust me I don’t stick to many rules.

Matcha is a delightfully antioxidant rich green tea powder, it has an earthy taste that is akin to pure freshness and it isn’t overpowering. There’s something about matcha, it tastes like youth, it tastes clean and it transports you to a far off land, unless you live in Japan, then it’s probably more nostalgic.

You may have seen fancy matcha lattes at your local cafe, the craze is catching on- even my mom drinks matcha. She mixes hers with cacao powder though and I just can’t get on board, sorry Ma. But matcha paired alongside creamy cashews and delicate coconut, shazzam that is a flavour combo my friends. These little treats should grace your St.Patties day table, or just any days table. They’re the perfect little mid day boost alongside a nice cuppa tea.

Matcha Cashew Coconut Energy Balls

I drank it when I was pregnant as I was trying to limit my caffeine consumption. Matcha has some caffeine but its energizing component lies mostly in its abundance of L-theanine, an amino acid that helps increase focus. Buddhist monks drink matcha to help with meditation.

Now that I am a sleep deprived mama I’ve switched back to coffee and matcha has been allocated to the treat category. It gives a nice energy boost to things like these matcha cashew coconut energy balls and my matcha cupcakes.

Matcha Cashew Coconut Energy Balls

Ok so lately I’ve been listening to Esther and Jerry Hicks and boy are they trippers. Law of attraction is the name of the game and I swear if they taught this stuff in school the world would change. Again and again my lesson is gratitude, when I embody gratitude everything in my life unfolds so perfectly. It’s so easy to take simple things for granted, hot water and warm socks, strong legs to hike up mountains and an garden to grow food. I’m really grateful to have this space and to be able to share my small little world with yours. Even if just for a moment in time it’s pretty cool. Glad I’m not the only one who loves good food 😉

 

Matcha Cashew Coconut Energy Balls
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Serves: 12
 
Ingredients
  • 1 C raw cashews, soaked 6-8 hrs.
  • ¾ C date paste or pitted dates, softened in warm water for a few minutes
  • 3 Tbs coconut oil
  • 1 C shredded unsweetened coconut ¼ C reserved for rolling
  • 1 Tbs matcha tea powder
Instructions
  1. Add all ingredients to a high powered blender or food processor and blend until fully incorporated.
  2. Roll into Tbs sized balls and coat with extra coconut.
  3. Allow at least 1 hour to set in the fridge before indulging.

 

matcha cashew coconut energy balls