Look out! It's another healthy foodie in Dubai blog! Straight-up Bananas is me trying to throw my own healthy twist on well-known recipes, and making up my own not-so-well-known recipes!
That chocolate fondant may look innocent, but inside it’s a molten morsel of naughty chocolate goodness.
In Italy my favorite gelato combo was cinnamon and espresso. So ladies and gentleman I give to you these ridiculously chewy coffee and cinnamon cashew bars with a chocolate crust.
So I’ve been testing and trying different healthy brownie recipes. So far, this is my favorite. It’s so fudgy and decadent and when you bite into it, your whole face gets smothered in oozy peanut butter goodness. Now I know why it’s called foodPORN. It’s so damn sexy.
And you know what the best part of this recipe is? You only 1 dish to make it. I’m a sucker for any dish that requires the least amount of post-chocolate-coitus dishwashing.
Ingredients:
A ½ kg tub of yogurt
¼ cup of skimmed milk
1 tspn of vanilla extract
1 tbspn of flaxseed “eggs”** (could be substituted with 1 large egg)
¼ tspn of sea salt
1 tspn of baking powder
½ cup of honey
½ cup of organic cocoa powder
½ cup of oat flour (finely-milled oats)
¾ cup of melted, runny organic unsweetened peanut butter
1 handful of chocolate chips
1 tspn of melted coconut oil
**Flax seed eggs are a healthy alternative to using eggs when baking. All you have to do is mix 1 tablespoon of milled flaxseeds with 2 ½ tablespoon of water. Stir well and allow to sit for 5 minutes. The mixture will have a runny egg-like consistency to it.
The method to my madness:
- Preheat your oven to 150 C
- With some coconut oil, oil up your baking pan so the brownies don’t stick
- In a blender, mix all the ingredients except for the peanut butter really well
- Although the mixture may feel very runny, don’t worry about it. That’s what will make them super fudgy
- Pour into your baking tray
- Add spoonful dollops of the warmed up peanut butter
- With a knife, swirl through to give the brownies a marbled effect. DO NOT OVER MIX THEM.
- Top with the chocolate chips
- Bake for 20-25 minutes
- Allow to cool completely before serving for maximum gooeyness
This can and WILL be the best thing you’ve had in your mouth all day. I promise. Go straight-up bananas with me and give the recipe a chance. Oh, and add me on Instagram.
These are magic brownies. No. Not that kind.
These are healthy peanut butter and fudge brownies. Sugar free, gluten free, and so fudgy your teeth are glued together.
I’m sure I’ve mentioned a thousand times already how much the mister LOVES Nutella. And after tirelessly scrolling and double tapping my Instagram feed @straightupbananas, I found this beautiful creation from @BestofVegan
So here’s my rendition of this glorious recipe. I promise you, it’s so tasty, healthy, and quick to make that you’ll find yourself making 20 batches in your sleep. (Is that not a thing?)
Ingredients:
Cookie Ingredients:
1 cup of toasted hazelnuts
6-7 dates
1 tsp of vanilla
1 tsp coconut oil
a pinch of sea salt
Chocolate Ingredients:
3 tbspn of organic cocoa powder
3 tbspn of room temperature coconut oil
How to get it done:
First things first. Lightly toast your nuts (hehe..nuts) in a skillet for ten minutes. While the nuts are toasting place the dates in some warm water.
Then, place the toasted nuts between two paper towels and rub while warm to remove the skins.
Drain the dates from the water well and place dates and hazelnuts along with the rest of the cookie ingredients in a good processor and blitz till it forms a coarse dough.
Roll the dough into medium-sized balls and indent the balls with your thumb. Your thumbprint will be filled with all the chocolatey goodness in the world.
Mix your chocolate ingredients together, and dollop chocolate in the holes left from your thumb–if you’ve got some leftover like I did, just drench the cookies in chocolate (Hey! It’s good for you, right?)
Place the cookies in the fridge for an hour or two and them eat them like the pig that you secretly are at home.
Again, I cannot stress enough how easy, healthy, and quick this chocolate fix is. Go straight-up bananas with me and give them a go. PLEASE!
Note to self: never put the peanut butter-stuffed madjool dates after you’ve filled the cup to the brim. 🍺💧
Here you’ve got a thick banana and almond milk smoothie, topped with chocolate shavings, peanut butter stuffed dates, and a date syrup–add some peanuts, and you’ve got a healthy Snickers bowl in and around your mouth. 👄👅💋
Yum!
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New project on the way! My mother absolutely loves peanut butter cups. Cannot wait to try these and get her off the sugary poison she loves to indulge in :(
I give to you my raw vegan rendition of a Snickers bar in the form of a smoothie.
-mix 3 bananas 🍌🍌🍌 with 1 cup of almond milk and a handful of oats in a blender
-top with date syrup, dark organic cocoa, peanut butter-stuffed madjool dates (they sank to the bottom lol)
Tastes so good you’ll be licking your fingers afterwards.