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Date Cake
This is a no-bake date cake that has bits of dark chocolate and
flavorful groundnuts.
Preparation Time: 1 hour
Cooking Time: No Cooking Required
Serves: 4
Ingredients:
1 cup date paste
½ cup dark chocolate, finely chopped
1 cup groundnuts
½ cup honey
½ tsp sea salt
1 tsp cinnamon powder
Instructions:
In a large mixing bowl, combine the groundnuts and date paste.
Add the dark chocolate, sea salt, cinnamon, honey, and mix well.
Add to a serving dish. Add the dish in the refrigerator for 1 hour.
Serve.
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Date Coconut Balls
Coconut date balls taste great and need no cooking time.
Isnt it remarkable?
Preparation Time: 10 minutes
Cooking Time: No Cooking Required
Serves: 12 balls
Ingredients:
1½ cups date paste
½ cup desiccated coconut
4 tbsp honey
1 pinch sea salt
1 pinch cinnamon
½ cup shredded coconut
4 tbsp groundnuts
Instructions:
In a mixing bowl, combine the date paste with the honey,
groundnuts, sea salt, cinnamon, and shredded coconut.
Mix well and make little balls.
Roll them on the desiccated coconut.
Let them set for 1 hour and then serve.
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Vanilla Custard Slice
This is really a vegan dessert! The texture is soft and the light
vanilla flavors soothes the senses.
Preparation Time: 4 hours
Cooking Time: 50 minutes
Serves: 4
Ingredients:
2-sheet vegan puff pastry
4 cups soy milk
1 tsp vanilla extract
1 1/3 cup corn flour
1 pinch turmeric
1/3 cup granulated sugar
½ cup almond butter
Instructions:
Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F.
Grease to baking trays using butter.
Place the puff pastry and bake them for 15 minutes.
Take out of the oven.
In another cake pan, add wax paper.
In a saucepan, add the soy milk, vanilla, and simmer for 10 minutes.
Take off the heat and let it cool down.
In another saucepan, combine the sugar and the corn flour.
Add the soy milk mixture gradually and keep stirring.
Cook for 10 minutes. Add the turmeric and butter, mix well.
Take off the heat.
Place one puff pastry on your prepared cake pan.
Add the milk mixture. Top with the other puff pastry.
Place in the fridge until served.
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Cinnamon Rice Pudding
This rice pudding is filled with flavors of molasses
and cinnamon, and it tastes amazing.
Preparation Time: 10 minutes
Cooking Time: 30 minutes
Serves: 4
Ingredients:
1/2 cup rice
4 cups coconut milk
1/2 cup shredded coconut
1 pinch salt
1 tsp cinnamon powder
1/2 cup molasses
Instructions:
In a large saucepan, add the rice with coconut milk.
Cook on medium high heat for 15 minutes.
Simmer for 5 minutes.
Add the shredded coconut, salt, sugar, cinnamon, and
molasses. Stir well.
Cook for 10 minutes. Serve cold.
All the above from "Vegan Desserts"
Mmmmm Dates!
wendyb-NC
(4,578 posts)Thank you, for sharing those recipes. I am bookmarking for future reference.
justaprogressive
(6,227 posts)eppur_se_muova
(40,802 posts)Recently, I tried adding dates to an oatmeal pudding. They really helped sweeten it, so that the lack of blueberries was hardly noticeable. All the other fruits were dried -- raisins, prunes, cherries -- and it turned out firm and chewy, almost like a desert bar rather than a pudding -- but it was delicious !
Trueblue Texan
(4,134 posts)...to maple syrup, they will be vegan. Some vegans are very strict, some not so strict. But technically speaking, honey is not considered a vegan product.
justaprogressive
(6,227 posts)Date syrup, molasses, butterscotch syrup, golden syrup and agave nectar.
buzzycrumbhunger
(1,578 posts)Those custard slices might be a good place to use up that jar of chocolate sunflower butter instead of almond butter as I bought it on a whim and no one really cares for it in a sandwich
jfz9580m
(16,492 posts)The vanilla custard slice looks awesome
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Thats the first time I have seen turmeric in a dessert of that sort (cardamom, saffron, cinnamon yes, but not turmeric).
Fun fact about turmeric I found out a few years ago: its apparently potent enough that patients on chemotherapy are sometimes advised to not eat it. Not sure they understand the mechanism.
Love the vegan desserts
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( As an aside, was trying to remember why I had picked DU out of the various sites back in 2006 to join and it was because of Elad! I figured a site where 1/3rd of the admin was vegan would be a good fit, though I cant think of the last time I saw a post by Elad
. Never regretted it..)
justaprogressive
(6,227 posts)I try to keep vegan (strict and otherwise) people/recipes in mind for my posts...
jfz9580m
(16,492 posts)Thats very sweet of you justaprogessive..
I read all recipes anyway, just automatically swopping out various (much maligned meat substitutes ;-/) automatically
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I like your series..especially the chocolate ones. lol..I dont really cook much. I just like reading recipes..