Basic Chocolate Syrup

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Delicious on my best homemade chocolate ice cream, here’s an easy chocolate syrup which features mineral-rich and tasty maple syrup as well as my new favorite kitchen ingredient, Artisana’s coconut butter.

Best Ice Cream: Chocolate or Vanilla

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Scoopable, creamy, smooth, delicious… the best homemade ice cream ever! You can turn this basic recipe into mint chocolate chip, cookies and cream, or strawberry, just to give you some ideas…

Maple Cookies

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My friend Julieanne shared this yummy maple sugar cookie recipe with me. I tweaked it to use Rapadura and sprouted flour. We love the wonderful maple flavor, along with the nice crunchy outside and chewy center.

Fruit and Nut Christmas Cookies

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My mom made these cookies every year at Christmas time, and we loved them! I called her and asked for the recipe so I could tweak it a little bit to share in the Gallery of Christmas Cookies.

Gallery of Christmas Cookies

Welcome to our Gallery of Christmas Cookies! The recipes featured here embrace GNOWFGLINS. This means we’ve all done our best to use natural, organic, whole food ingredients, and as much as possible, grown locally and in season ingredients. Throughout the coming days, I’ll be grabbing your Christmas cookie (or dessert) recipes off your blogs and adding them to this gallery. I’m looking forward to a spectacular array of nutritious cookie choices!

Kefir Parfait (or Yogurt Parfait) – Rich with Enzymes and Probiotics!

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We view this treat like a salad, and eat it before or after many meals. It is loaded with digestive enzymes and probiotics!

Enzyme-Rich Homemade Larabars

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I’ve long wanted make a homemade Larabar, but I really got inspired this week when reading about foods that are excellent sources of digestive enzymes. The key ingredients in Larabars – dates and nuts – are two of those foods. I use soaked and dehydrated nuts in these homemade Larabars, making them a digestive enzyme-rich food!

Basic Chocolate Frosting – Coconut Cream

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In the past, I’ve used the cream part of coconut milk (not light) to make frosting, and that works pretty well. Except that at room temperature, it gets too soft and doesn’t hold up. The answer: Artisana Coconut Butter. Not the most frugal option, BUT definitely the best. In my opinion, it is worth every penny! This frosting holds up at room temperature, and yet is semi-soft when right out of the refrigerator. It is the perfect balance of creamy, smooth, spreadable, and semi-stiff. I don’t expect I’ll ever make another type of frosting.

Basic Sprouted Muffins

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I’m on a mission, can you tell? … I’d like to have “basic” recipes for most everything a nourishing kitchen can produce. Yesterday, I shared the basic soaked muffin recipe, which we are all enjoying very, very much. Today, I’m sharing the basic recipe for sprouted flour muffins. Using sprouted flour offers great benefits. First, sprouting the grain neutralizes the naturally-present phytic acid, which ensures maximum mineral absorption. Second, if using sprouted flour, you don’t have to soak overnight because the phytic acid is already neutralized. Third, sprouting grains increases the nutrition of the grain – certain B vitamins and vitamin C levels go through the roof. And finally, sprouted grains digest like vegetables. In case you’re wondering if sprouted flour tastes anything like sprouts, think again – these taste just like any other delicious muffin.