Made with ample bananas, whole wheat flour, brown sugar & a flax egg, this vegan banana bread recipe is a great way to use up a few ripe peaches that you have on hand! Summertime is my favorite time for peak season produce - especially the fruit. From watermelon and peaches to strawberries and blueberries, I adore summer fruit! Sometimes I feel like my peaches feel not quite ripe enough for forever, and then all of a sudden they're soft and super sweet smelling.. and about a day away from being overripe! These are the perfect instances to bake with peaches. In fact, this recipe was born out of me having a couple of ripe peaches on hand. I realized that on my long list of recipe ideas to test, peach banana bread had been on the list since last summer. A few banana bread experiments ... [Read More]
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The Best Ever Vegan Pumpkin Bread
This crowd-pleasing vegan pumpkin bread is moist & delicious, and makes for a perfect dessert, snack or breakfast. I've been on the pumpkin train for a couple months now, and I have yet to feel like I've gotten my pumpkin fill for the fall. Pumpkin cookies, breads, pancakes, smoothies, muffins... you name it, I'm into it. It was probably the fifth time I've made today's vegan pumpkin bread recipe this season when it dawned on me that I should share the recipe with you all. I actually shared an older version of this vegan pumpkin bread recipe forever ago, but I've modified it over the years. I've nixed a few spices that I didn't even miss when I baked it without them. I also made the recipe a teeny bit easier to whip up - not that it was ever difficult - by whisking ... [Read More]
Peach Crumb Cake {vegan}
Summertime fruit is my jam. Cherries, peaches, watermelon, strawberries... you name it, I'm eating it these days! Recently I was enjoying a big ole bowl of summertime fruit when I started thinking about how peaches would be great incorporated into a crumb cake recipe. So, I did what any foodie recipe creator would do, and I started playing around experimenting with a peach crumb cake. This recipe was inspired by Ashley at Cook Nourish Bliss, whose pumpkin apple crumb cake is a favorite of mine. I've made it countless times, and it's a goodie to bring to fall get togethers and to make for brunch over the holiday season. The crumb topping is to die for! Featuring an almond + whole wheat flour cake base, I opted to make this crumb cake vegan by using coconut oil and a bit of apple sauce ... [Read More]
Healthy Cinnamon Oat Bread {vegan}
No shocker here, but I'm still obsessed with all things cinnamon, so today I have a delicious cinnamony snack/breakfast/dessert recipe to share! Lately cinnamon rolls and breads have been calling me. I ordered a gooey cinnamon roll a month or so ago while working at a coffee shop to satisfy my craving, but it's stuck around. So what did I do my friends? Came up with a healthier version of cinnamon roll bread, of course! This bread is a more nutritious play on the typical white flour, butter, and refined sugar-filled cinnamon swirl breads we all know and love. Instead, we've got an oat + whole wheat flour base. Apple sauce, a flaxseed egg, and coconut oil are added into the mix in place of butter, eggs and vegetable oil. Instead of an excess of sugar, pure maple syrup ... [Read More]
Baked Churro Donuts {vegan + gf}
Let's treat ourselves to dessert for breakfast, shall we? In my first trimester of pregnancy, my normal sweet tooth kind of waned. While I was obsessed with fruit (I'll chat more about my eats in more detail in a first trimester recap soon), besides loading up on nature's candy, I didn't really crave baked good sweets. I was still baking for blog recipes, loved ones, and occasions, but I found myself mostly staying away from sweets simply because they weren't calling to me. It was unusual for my normal sweet tooth! But then when I was 12 weeks along, I had an ultrasound appointment - where I was amazed to see my little one move around a ton and stretch out with her arms behind her head so early in my pregnancy! - and afterwards, I all of a sudden had a craving for donuts strike. So I did ... [Read More]
Chocolate Peanut Butter Banana Protein Oat Cookies {vegan + gf}
These healthy cookies are made with oats, peanut butter, banana, and cocoa powder, sweetened with monk fruit, and include chocolate protein powder for a protein boost. Ideal for breakfast, dessert, or anything in between! Have you guys ever seen photos of people's meal prep for the week that includes 5 containers of the same bland thing for each meal? If you've worked your butt off for a bikini competition and ate that way to get there, good on ya, but that looks like a bit of a nightmare to me. I like food too much, and I like diversity in my eats too much. Sure, I have my favorite smoothies and my go-to dinner recipes, but I certainly don't eat them on the daily. In general, monotonous, robotic living scares the hell out of me. No thank you, I don't want to do the same thing every ... [Read More]