Date Bran and Pecan Muffins

This recipe is healthy enough to eat for breakfast and the muffins are sublime served up with a bit of nut butter or virgin coconut oil.

No-Bake Fruit Squares

These squares are the no-bake version of the double-stuff fruit squares already featured on the blog and a great choice for entertaining, brunch or afternoon snack.

Holiday Frootcake

Richly studded with nuts, roots and fruits – an unexpected combination to add to your baking arsenal.

Peanut Butter Almond Cookies

If you’ve been following the recipes here for a while, then you know that I’m eternally looking for new ways to use the dregs of making my own almond milk.  I use the pulpy meal in veggie-pâté, in macaroons, in veggie-burger, in bread and all manner of baked goods. This is yet another one of…

Maple Tea Cake

catherine yronwode is a woman I admire for her encyclopaedic knowledge, her business acumen, her magical skill and her absolutely fabulous honey cake.  It’s rich, moist, filled with spices and sweetness and if you want the recipe it can be found in the Hoodoo Food cookbook. Now given I can never leave well enough alone,…

Oatmeal Date Cookies (Vegan)

This is basically the recipe for oatmeal and raisin cookies without the raisins and with the cinnamon scaled back a notch.  And then enter lots of dates and coconut because that’s what was staring me in the face when I opened the pantry.  Besides: is there anything better than cookies and herbal tea for breakfast…

Squash-Carob-Spice Cake

Not being able to decide between Jae Steele’s carob spice cake or zucchini chocolate cake, I took it upon myself to make both simultaneously.  There was a fair amount of creative license in the process since when possible, I prefer sourdough cakes in order to make the nutrients from the grains more bio-available (and because…