Summer is the perfect time to experiment with all the beautiful fruits and flavors to make ice pops. In our family everyone loves them — it’s not just a kid thing. The key is to get yourself a good set or two of non-plastic molds for freezing. You don’t need BPA or other chemicals added to your deliciousness! Some of our favorite molds are the Zoku round pop molds or “fish” shaped molds.

I love raw desserts, especially in the summer when baking at the oven doesn’t seem as enjoyable. A dessert is still a dessert and you don’t want to eat a ton. But if you want to eat healthy, and still be able to enjoy truly delicious and decadent whole raw plant based foods here is another one of my favorite dessert creations. If you haven’t worked with buckwheat, you are in for a pleasant experience.

I love raw vegan cakes for special occasions and holidays, if you haven’t already surmised that from previous posts! One of the reasons I think they are so great is because they are the perfect way to show family and friends that healthy, whole, plant based foods (what our grandparents used to call fruits and vegetables) can be delicious and satisfying!

INGREDIENTS: 2 Cups Coarse Dry Almond Flour ** (see note below), 2 TBSP Date Paste, 1 TBSP Lemon Rind, 1 tsp. ground culinary lavender (I use a mini coffee grinder), 1/3 Cup Coconut Sugar, 1/2 teaspoon salt, 1 TBSP Vanilla, 1/2 Cup Cacao Nibs (can be replaced with coconut, or left out. Not essential to the recipe).

If you’re looking for something healthy, moist and flavorful, with a unique twist, this might be the perfect recipe for you! This recipe relies on avocado for its fat, which provides you with a super dose of anti-inflammatory phytosterols and polyhydroxylated fatty alcohols. We had a lot of ripe avocados today from a couple of our trees, and I wanted to come up with a few different ideas to use the avocados,

When you are trying to eat healthier, it can really help to have easy and quick delicious recipes that can replace unhealthy standards. The combination of pear, banana and vanilla with a hint of lemon really makes this pudding stand out as one of our go-to’s. The key to a successful transition to a high raw life is to keep lots of fruit on hand, both fresh and frozen, while keeping the processed food out of the house!

A perfect Saturday morning breakfast for the family! Fresh, raw coconut yogurt parfaits. Raw coconut yogurt is so easy to make, with barely any preparation. It is LOADED with probiotics, creamy and delicious, and can be a base for so many different sauces and dressings, and is of course, amazing alone!

Who doesn’t love donut holes for breakfast? Usually, breakfast at our house is a huge green juice, which is the single most powerful way to get your blood alkalized, get your body energized, and give yourself a huge dose of nutrition before any solids are introduced. But, once in a while we have a smoothie, a bowl of chia cereal, a bowl of oatmeal, or maybe my warm orange polenta breakfast bowl.

I get asked about this recipe all the time, it is definitely a huge hit among muffin lovers! The great thing about these muffins is that they are low fat, gluten free, soy free and of course, VEGAN! The bananas in this need to be super ripe for the best flavor, and also because that is when bananas are at their healthiest. At only 1/4 cup of maple syrup total, (4 Tablespoons = 1/4 cup, and 3 teaspoons = 1 Tablespoon), each muffin only has 1 tsp. of maple syrup.

This is another super easy superfood pudding you can make with just a few simple ingredients you probably already have in your home. Keeping nuts and seeds in your freezer at all times is a great way to guarantee that you can whip up a fast nut milk, a pudding, a nut and seed bar or a snack, in a pinch. Plus, the freezer keeps all of your nuts and seeds from becoming rancid which can happen quickly especially in warm weather.

If you are looking for a perfect dessert to bring to a New Year’s Celebration, and to ring in 2015 in decadent (but healthy) style, this is the perfect cake for you. It is ridiculously easy, very few ingredients, and will impress pretty much anyone with a tastebud in their mouth. If you are looking for a perfect dessert to kick off your New Year’s Cleanse, try THIS instead.

Fall always has been, and probably always will be, my favorite season. I think it's because I have always loved pumpkin picking at the pumpkin patch as a kid with my family. That was kind of the signal that the "holiday" season was upon us and that Halloween, Thanksgiving and of course my favorite,

One of my favorite ways to celebrate raw plant based foods is to create unique and delicious desserts that I can share with family and friends. The problem is that the majority of raw food desserts are filled with fat. They are usually predominantly nut based, and many have oil as well, which leads to the average piece of raw cheesecake having around 60 fat grams or more.