Raw, vegan food and dessert recipes blog
If there’s one thing I love more than chocolate, it’s peanut butter. And if you asked me to choose between the two (although what cruel person could possibly expect you to make a Sophie’s Choice decision like that?!), I’d tell you to get out of here because they’re quite simply a match made in heaven! …
Did you know that the average person who identifies as a woman in the US applies around 168 chemicals to their body every single day? From body lotion to shampoo, tooth paste, make up and shower gel, we’re literally bathing in a cocktail of chemicals, without being aware of the damage this is doing to our health. …
Who doesn’t remember eating Wagon Wheels as a child? With their delicious squishy marshmallow and super-sweet jam, you were the envy of all your classmates if you were lucky enough to find one in your lunch box. I grew up with a mother who is a dietician, so my lunch box was always slightly lacking on the biscuit front, as she preferred to give us weird, embarrassing hot flasks of last nights dinner instead, which seems pretty awesome in hindsight!
Except for Friday’s, because Friday was treat day, and treat day meant biscuits! More specifically, Wagon Wheels!…
The idea for this raw chocolate cake recipe has been swirling around my mind for months and months now, but I was not at all sure whether it was possible to even create a cake that wasn’t too dense or too dry, and that could pass for a chocolate cake in terms of taste and texture. But friends, I think after all this time I may possibly have just cracked the recipe, and just in time to celebrate Nick’s birthday, and the arrival of my brand new camera (a Nikon D7200 if you were wondering!) – hooray!
It’s super chocolatey, rich and crumby like a ‘real’ cake, but also wonderfully moist at the same time, and tastes incredibly rich, a bit like a torte. Because it’s so rich, it tastes best served with lots of fresh raspberries or strawberries, with a generous dollop of whipped vanilla coconut cream (I use Coconut Merchant’s coconut milk) or soy cream. …
One of the things no one warns you about is that once you reach a certain age (for me that was about 20!), your life will feel like somebody just pressed the fast forward button, and the weeks just fly past you before you’ve even had a chance to take a breath.
There is actually a scientific reason for this, and the reason behind it is simple; it’s simply a matter of ‘anticipation and retrospection’**. For most of us, we measure time by events we are looking forward to in the future, and we wait and wait for them to come, and then finally they arrive, only to disappear in the blink of an eye. So the older we get, the more milestones in our lives we have to look back on, and the farther and faster they seem to become distant memories. So now you know why time speeds up, and maybe it’s a lesson to us to just appreciate being in the moment more, and not be constantly waiting for something more exciting to happen. Just be. …
