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Today I thought I would share some of my Naked Violet Coconut Bars too - Is it a fudge, is it a 'Bounty' bar, is it a cake....it indeed is a sweet treat.  These are just a variation of my  Coconut  Ladoos  aka Bliss Balls  from last month generously coated in edible violet crystals.     As Dr Oetker have confirmed that the violet crystals are suitable for vegans. I also want to share something amazing whilst we were gardening today.  A swarm of bees elegantly, yet loudly buzzed over us on their way somewhere, it was a little thrilling, exciting and a little magical.  It is with this reason, that I am sharing this picture once again on my blog.  D my husband took a while back.  It a fuzzy bee bumbling and buzzing in our garden around a purple  allium .   Naked Violet Coconut Bars You will need some silicon moulds Makes Lots  Ingredients 4 tablespoons violet crystals 180grams dessicated coconut 125...

This is  not a cake 'cake' with a sponge, and its not a cheesecake though on first glance that is how it appears. This is a Butternut, Mango and Orange Marigold Layer Cake,  which I have also pretentiously dubbed as Sunrise Cake. The bottom is an almond crust, the middle Mango and butternut Squash filling is infused with Mango sweetness and then the topping finished off with a zingy zesty orange  jelly made with  agar agar  and then finished off with a light scattering of dried marigold flower petals - all depicting colours of the Sunrise.  I was impressed with myself, though I have to admit the rice paper butterflies actually look a little out of place, here or maybe dare I say it tacky - I did like the scattering of the dried marigold petals. This is not a very sweet cake, needs a squirt of (soya) cream to cut the richness of the butternut mango filling and the sharp twang from the orange topping.  Its also a very big cake, you can slice i...

Like the   vegan and vegetarian meatballs , I am having a thing about fudge at the moment. In recent days, I have made beetroot fudge, chocolate fudge and now these vegan tiger orange coloured Sweet Potato Fudge Bites with Cacao Nibs.   This recipe comes from Kari's blog Bite Sized Thoughts .  I have a number of recipes bookmarked from Kari, one of which is this  Sweet Potato Fudge  bookmarked since I saw it and one she showcased when she was doing a bit of fundraising. I had good intentions of following her recipe for this Sweet Potato Fudge to the gram, but as the weight of my baked sweet potatoes were a little more, I decided to increase some of the ingredients a little. I also replaced the lacuma powder with maca powder as that is what I had in my cupboards.  I picked up the maca powder when it was on offer along with some cacao nibs a year or so ago and have been looking for ways to use both.  So even with my little tinkering, ful...

I have a number of food bloggers recipes bookmarked , as well as those from cookbooks. I have been making an attempt to cook them, not just drool over them and admire them. Today's bookmarked recipe comes from I am hosting MLLA this month, so please join in if you can .   I have a thing for fudge at the moment, vegetarian fudge , vegan fudge and raw fudg e.  I only made one change to Lisa's No Bake Cocoa and Peanut Butter recipe.  I substituted the coconut butter for edible cocoa butter as I did not have any coconut butter at the time since then I have found some coconut butter and keep it for for future recipe experiments.   The Cocoa and Peanut Butter Fudge flavour  somewhat reminded me a  little of my raw chocolate  that I made a few years ago, but unlike those these were not an acquired taste and quite enjoyable.  These  were much better in both flavour and consistency was a little fudgy and a little truffle like.  Sayi...

Last month I mentioned that I have a thing for fudge at the moment.  I have made  vegetarian fudge ,  vegan fudge  and even  raw fudg e.  Well here are some more that I have dubbed as Quadruple Coconut Fudge as its made with coconut flour, coconut blossom syrup, coconut oil and dessicated coconut.  For a long while, I have been dilly dallying what to do with my stash of coconut flour...  By the way, Is coconut flour the same as coconut milk powder ????? I cannot seem to get a definitive answer on this question on any of the website, or maybe I am just not cooking in the right places. Anyway, this recipe for Coconut Flour Fudge is much of an on-going experiment with coconut flour being treated a little like milk powder for Indian style Burfi's .  This Coconut Flour and coconut Blossom Syrup Fudge is good for up to 3 weeks as long as its kept in the fridge. I preferred this a few days later when the texture changed.  It firmed up ev...