Sugar Free Vegan Sorbet Recipes

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Get ready for frosty bliss with these fabulous sugar free vegan sorbet recipes. Prep is quick and easy in most cases and the flavor variety is endless. Sorbets make the most of whatever fruit is in season. In summer, that means plenty of citrus and melons down at your local farmer’s market. You can even satisfy your chocolate cravings with a creamy sorbet, without milk or sugar. So grab your chocolate, fruit, freezer and blender and fall madly in love with your spoon over the sugar free vegan sorbet recipes below.

Blueberry Sorbet (DF, GF, SF, K, V, VG) (Spark People)

Cherry Sorbet (DF, GF, SF, K, V, VG) (Good Food Channel)

Chocolate Sorbet (DF, GF, SF, K, V, VG) (Heal With Food)

Cranberry Sorbet (DF, GF, SF, K, V, VG) (Fat Free Vegan)

Mango Sorbet (DF, GF, SF, K, V, VG) (Sugar Free Mom)

Watermelon Sorbet (DF, GF, SF, K, V, VG) (Easy Sugar Free Recipes)

Need more sugar free vegan recipes? Our Recipe Index is loaded with them.

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Gluten Free Tuesday: Vegan Carrot Salad Recipes

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My dad enjoyed carrot raisin salad. I remember watching Mom preparing her not quite vegan Carrot Salad Recipe: peeling the carrots by hand at the sink; plumping the raisins and draining them; adding in the salad dressing and stirring it all together. Besides snacking on raw carrots and a box of raisins, one of my favorite things as a child was playing waitress and serving his bowl of orange sunshine to him at his orange recliner. Not only was it the 70s, he probably had gotten a good deal on orange Naugahyde. As I was mulling about what recipes you might enjoy today, that memory of Dad came up, thus our menu du jour is Gluten Free Vegan Carrot Salad Recipes.

Carrot Nutrition Facts

According to the USDA Food and Nutrition Service, “there are about 6 to 8 medium carrots in 1 pound. One medium carrot is about ½ cup of chopped carrots. For a 2,000-calorie diet, the daily recommendation is about 2 ½ cups of vegetables. ½ cup of carrots provides more than one day’s worth of vitamin A.” The National Institutes of Health (NIH) states that “vitamin A is involved in immune function, vision, reproduction and cellular communication. Vitamin A also plays a critical role in the normal formation and maintenance of the heart, lungs, kidneys and other organs.” So there you have it. Our bodies heart carrots. Bon appetit!

Vietnamese Noodle Salad w Chickpeas and Rainbow Carrots (DF, GF, SF, K, V, VG) (Vegetarian Times)

Black Bean Quinoa Salad w Carrots & Cilantro (DF, GF, SF, K, V, VG) (One Hundred Dollars a Month)

Beetroot, Carrot and Apple Salad (DF, GF, SF, K, V, VG) (Grown to Cook)

Cumin-Roasted Carrot Avocado Salad (DF, GF, SF, K, V, VG) (Camille Styles)

Fall Detox Salad (DF, GF, SF, K, V, VG) (Oh She Glows)

Raw Kelp Noodle Chili Salad (DF, GF, SF, K, V, VG) (Eating Vibrantly)

Visit our Recipe Index for more mouth-watering Gluten Free Vegan Recipes.

Gluten Free Vegan Bread Recipes

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Going gluten free can wreak havoc with your carb addiction, but these Gluten Free Vegan Bread Recipes will put you back in the saddle in no time. The key is in discovering the wide world of alternate flours and xanthan gum. This revelation will open the door to incredible flavors, textures and kid fun, too.

A big concern is sandwich and side breads for lunch and dinner. Garlic, pumpernickel and rye quickly come to mind. Karina, the Gluten Free Goddess, feels the same way and developed a delicious Ryeless Rye Bread using her Breadman. Imagine, a gluten free cycle on a bread machine, right where you need it. She also includes regular oven instructions, until your bread machine comes in.

For pumpernickel, Responsible Eating And Living/REAL offers a gluten free vegan bread recipe using a home blend of flours, including brown rice, garbanzo and tapioca flours. Megan, the Gluten Free Vegan’s Italian Garlic Breadsticks go well with soup, salad, pasta and all things Italian. I love her readers’ comments and vote for adding olive oil to the plastic bag before adding the dough and snipping a smaller hole. Kid chefs can pipe it onto the sheet and add the garlic and parsley.

Your family needs a healthy breakfast that leaves them full, smiling and on schedule. Keep a big batch of sweet and hearty Buckwheat Banana Nut Muffins from the Detoxinista in the fridge for convenient breakfasts on the go and handy after school snacks. Scroll down the comments at Detoxinista for tips on coconut oil, pre-ground versus home-ground buckwheat groats and add-in variations and results. When it comes to gluten free vegan bread recipes, you can learn a lot from the comments section.

Chocolate cupcakes are a must, for desserts, special occasions, tailgating, holidays, lunch boxes, you name it. And what are cupcakes without a good buttercream frosting and plenty of chocolate? Hollie, Annie and Chelsea, the three sisters at Natural Sweet Recipes, bring it all together for you.

When switching to gluten free vegan bread recipes, which cupcake flavors do you prefer? Which savory breads are your flavor faves?

Ryeless Rye Bread (DF, GF, SF, V, VG)

Gluten Free Goddess

Pumpernickel Bread (DF, GF, V, VG)

Responsible Eating And Living/REAL

Italian Garlic Breadsticks (DF, GF, SF, V, VG)

The Gluten Free Vegan

Buckwheat Banana Nut Muffins (DF, GF, SF, V, VG)

Detoxinista

Chocolate Cupcakes (DF, GF, SF, V, VG)

Natural Sweet Recipes

Chocolate Buttercream Frosting (DF, GF, SF, V, VG)

Natural Sweet Recipes

Be sure to stop by our Recipe Index for more Gluten Free Vegan Bread Recipes. Bon appetit!

Meatless Monday: Vegan Soup Recipes

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Even with Spring well on its way here in Zone 8B, a piping hot bowl of soup still hits the spot on a chilly day. The garlic and onions I just pressed into the soil are already marching around my raised beds with long, tall greens, but won’t be ready for these soups for several more weeks. Also, my seed potatoes have not yet leafed, nor have I started my bean and tomato seeds in the greenhouse. But I’m more than in the mood for these hearty Meatless Monday vegan soup recipes.

Bean and Tomato Soup (DF, GF, SF, K, V, VG) (BDunner/SparkPeople)
Broccoli Soup (DF, GF, SF, K, V, VG) (Nakkeya/All Recipes)
French Onion Soup (DF, GF, SF, K, V, VG) (Go Dairy Free)
Kale and Roasted Vegetable Soup (DF, GF, SF, K, V, VG) (Simply Recipes/Yummly)
Lentil Dal Soup (DF, GF, SF, K, V, VG) (Vegan Soup Recipes)

Remember to visit our Recipe Index for more Meatless Monday vegan soup recipes. Bon appetit!

Sugar Free Vegan Soup Recipes

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“Only the pure in heart can make a good soup,” said Beethoven. Whether you’re pure of heart, naughty but nice or what teachers politely call a rascal, there are times in life when you just need some good sugar free vegan soup recipes. Be it weather, a rough day, medical issues or simply a desire, soup has been a global go-to cure for centuries.

This course of a thousand flavors can be your best friend when you’re trying to drop a few extra pounds. According to Eating Well, two recent studies have shown that diners who start with soup tend to conserve calories, thanks to the water content.

The great comedian Milton Berle liked to joke about his wife, “She loves to make soup--especially cream of yesterday. “ Contrary to Mrs. Berle, you’ll want to include these sugar free vegan soups in your menu every day. With outstanding nutritional content, soup-erior flavor profiles and simple preparation, they’re just that good.

Quick and Easy Tortilla Soup (DF, SF, K, V, VG) (The Sugar Free Vegan)
Roasted Red Pepper and Squash Soup (DF, SF, K, V, VG) (Diet, Dessert and Dogs)
Rosemary Ginger Potato Leek Soup (DF, GF, SF, K, V, VG) (Gluten, Dairy, Sugar Free)
White Bean and Kale Soup (DF, GF, SF, K, V, VG) (Simply Sugar and Gluten Free)
Quick Chili (DF, SF, K, V, VG) (Choose Veg)

Remember to visit our Recipe Index for more sugar free soup recipes. Bon appetit!

Vegan Kosher for Passover Soup Recipes for Seder

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The green lifestyle and health concerns have growing numbers of Jews going vegan and/or entertaining more vegan guests at their tables. Interesting culinary challenges are cropping up as a direct result. I surfed the blogosphere for these vegan Kosher for Passover soup recipes to help out my Hebrew readers. I’m spiritual, non-religious and not of Jewish heritage. However, I’m striving to learn more about the Kosher diet in terms of veganism. If I do my job right, my readers can then relax and enjoy the spiritual, mental, emotional and physical pleasures of cooking, serving and eating according to their Kosher vegan beliefs.

A note to my non-Hebrew readers: P is an abbreviation representing “Kosher for Passover.” Kosher is a set of guidelines composed by rabbis thousands of years ago for spiritual and physical purposes. While people of Jewish heritage and faith don’t always keep Kosher throughout the year, many adhere to stricter guidelines during Passover, which occurs more than once a year. There’s also the increased complexity of living by a calendar loaded with cycles of holidays, feasts and fasts that differs significantly from the largely Christian calendar primarily used in developed Western countries.

General Kosher and Passover rules also vary between Sephardic and Ashkenazi Jews, who have different geological lineages and traditions. So keeping Kosher isn’t always the easiest lifestyle, but it’s worth learning a little about if you have Kosher friends or family. For them, it’s rewarding to continue traditions that have been handed down for a remarkable period of time, and some of the rules even make good health sense.

Kosher for Passover soup recipes cannot contain flour. Many vegan and vegetarian allegedly Kosher Passover soup recipes on the web contain these very things. Thus, Kosher home cooks and chefs must read potentially Passover web recipes with caution. The recipes below are free of flour, peanut butter and soy.

Most Ashkenazis are not allowed peanut butter or soy, due to their legume status. However, some Ashkenazi rabbis have accepted the consumption of tofu, which can be used in place of eggs in baked matzo balls. This is necessary, because the egg replacer commonly used by vegans and vegetarians to hold matzo balls together is not Kosher for Passover.

So browse below for your soup course and rest assured you’ll be good to go as you serve these vegan Kosher for Passover soup recipes to your family and friends. 

Vegan Mock Chicken Soup for Passover (DF, GF, SF, K, P, V, VG) (Big Oven)
Potato Soup (DF, GF, SF, K, P, V, VG) (Mrsspeevs/Food.com)
Ghormeh Sabzi (Persian Herb Soup) (DF, GF, SF, K, P, V, VG) (Café Liz)
Bay Leaf Beet Soup (DF, GF, SF, K, P, V, VG) (AllRecipes/Yummly)
Roasted Tomato Basil Soup (DF, GF, SF, K, P, V, VG) (Jennifer McCann/Chow)
Vegan Kosher Resources: Big Oven

Remember to visit our Recipe Index for more Kosher soup recipes. Bon appetit!

Gluten Free Soup Recipes

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Abraham Maslow quipped, “A first-rate soup is more creative than a second-rate painting.” This collection of five gluten free soup recipes is absolutely first-rate. Start your family and guests off with a culinary masterpiece of tomato, potato, okra, black bean or celery. When you sip a cup or bowl of soup, you’re actually taking a trip around the world in a spoon. The term “soup” originally hails from Sanskrit, one of the many languages of India. In that tongue, it translates to “good nutrition."

Nutrition is exactly what you’ll get with these hearty soups. Tomatoes and potatoes both carry a whopping 60% Recommended DailyAllowance of Vitamin D. Hippocrates wasn’t kidding around when he said, “Let thy food be thy medicine.” In the ancient Indian healing system of Ayurveda, garlic and onions are both recommended for heart disease and high blood pressure, among many other ailments. So invite your family and friends to join you in a bowl of soup. It’s big enough for everyone. 

Quick and Easy Tomato Basil Soup (Cold ala Gazpacho) (About.com) (DF, GF, SF, K, V, VG)

African Peanut Potato Stew (Fat Free Vegan) (DF, GF, SF, K, V, VG) 

Gumbo (Simply Gluten-Free) (DF, GF, SF, K, V, VG) 

Black Bean and Vegetable Kamikaze Cook Soup (Spark People) (DF, GF, SF, K, V, VG)  

Curried Cream of Celery Soup (Vegetarian Times) (DF, GF, SF, K, V, VG) 

Remember to visit our Recipe Index for more gluten free soup recipes. Bon appetit!

Dairy Free Soup Recipes

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When winter chills your bones and cold and flu season’s got you sneezin’, dairy free soup recipes are just what the doctor ordered. I found these delicious bowls of dairy free perfection while toodling about the blogosphere. Laurie Colwin once wrote, “To feel safe and warm on a cold wet night, all you really need is soup.”  These soups will warm you right up, especially the spicy Chinese Hot and Sour Soup and Chunky Chipotle Chili. "Is chicken soup good for your health?" "Not if you're the chicken." Well, there’s no chicken in this “Chicken” Noodle Soup or any of the dairy free soups in our Recipe Index. According to SoupHoopla, all but 1% of American homes spend $5 billion a year on soup, altogether. Imagine how much you’ll save making your own at home with these savory, dairy free soup recipes.

“Chicken” Noodle Soup (DF, SF, K, V, VG) (Choose Veg)

“Cream” of Tomato Soup (DF, GF, SF, K, V, VG) (Vegan Family)

Red Lentil and Vegetable Soup (DF, GF, SG, K, V, VG) (Good Housekeeping/Delish)

Chinese Hot and Sour Soup (DF, GF, SF, K, V, VG) (About.com)

Chunky Chipotle Chili (DF, GF, SF, K, V, VG) (Vegan Coach)

Remember to visit our Recipe Index for more dairy free soup recipes. Bon appetit!

Meatless Monday: Vegan Chocolate Recipes for Valentine’s Day

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“All you need is love,” sang the Beatles. Lucy in Peanuts by Charles Schultz added, “but a little chocolate now and then doesn’t hurt.” Whether your chocoholic sweetheart swoons to the tune of cocoa, cake, cupcakes, cookies or candy, you’ll find the perfect Meatless Monday vegan chocolate recipes for Valentine’s Day here. Your love muffin will be pudding in your hands by the time you’re through.

Start them off with a blissful cup of classic Hot Cocoa and a Black and White Muffin. Let the kid chefs loose with Flourless Chocolate Cake and Chocolate Chip Cookies. Turn up the heat with Chocolate Chipotle Cupcakes, an Iron Cupcake Challenge entry. Cool down with Chocolate Mint Cupcakes.

For the big finish, serve up dishes of Chocolate Chia Pudding with homemade Raw Chocolate Orange Truffles alongside. With these Meatless Monday vegan chocolate recipes for Valentine’s Day, you and your loved ones will be in endorphin overload. Perhaps you’ll even discover some new flavor favorites while showing Mother Earth some love. Happy Valentine’s Day and bon appetit!

Hot Cocoa (Calorie Count)

Black and White Muffins (Vegan Family)

Raw Chocolate Orange Truffles (Cocoa Heaven)

Flourless Chocolate Cake (WedMD)

Chocolate Chip Cookies (Oh She Glows)

Chocolate Chipotle Cupcake (Cupquake)

Chocolate Mint Cupcakes (Vegan Cupcake Recipes)

Chocolate Chia Pudding (Food.com)

Chocolate Quotes (Famous Quotes and Quotations)

Visit our Recipe Index for more Vegan Chocolate Recipes for Meatless Monday, Valentine’s Day and any day.

   

Kosher Vegan Chocolate Recipes for Valentine’s Day

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What do Kosher Vegan Valentines eat? Why chocolate, of course, and plenty of it! These Kosher Vegan Chocolate Recipes offer plenty of options for Valentine’s Day and other occasions. With Valentine’s Day just a few days after Shabbat Shekalim (Shabbat before New Month of Adar) and Rosh Chodesh Adar (New Month of Adar) and before the Ta’anit Esther (Fast of Esther), it makes sense to have plenty of Kosher Vegan Chocolate noshes on hand.

If your sweetheart is the traditional type, bribe them with Buckwheat Blintzes, Honey Cake or Chocolate Cheesecake. Taking Hamantaschen to vegan friends? Check out the chocolate version below.

Teaching children to keep Vegan Kosher at the most chocolate-full time of the year? Kid chefs will enjoy preparing Chocolate Chip Challah and Chocolate Chip Cookies.

For a fancier Valentine’s Day menu, whip up a Chocolate Mousse. A decadent batch of Chocolate Truffles will touch the heart of any chocolate-loving Kosher Vegan. These recipes will also add a finishing touch to the celebration of birthdays, weddings and bar and bat mitzvahs.

Hamantaschen (triangle cookies, chocolate option) (ShalomVeg)

Chocolate Cheesecake (Vegan Chef)

Chocolate Chip Challah (Climbin Vegan)

Buckwheat Blintzes (chocolate option) (Smarter Fitter)

Honey Cake (contains cocoa, no honey) (My Jewish Learning)

Chocolate Mousse (Healthy Shabbat)

Chocolate Chip Cookies (Style It Kosher)

Chocolate Truffles (Levana Cooks)

Remember to visit our Recipe Index for more Kosher Vegan flavors. Happy Valentine’s Day and Bon Appetit!

Other Resources:

Jewish Holiday Calendar

Kiddush

Keeping Vegan and Kosher

Hamantasch

Gluten Free Chocolate Recipes

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Got a gluten free chocoholic in the house? Pacify their cravings and make celebrations happier occasions with gluten free chocolate recipes. Also suitable for dairy free, Kosher, vegan and vegetarian diets, some are even sugar free, too!

Keep plenty of Chocolate Chip Biscotti and Chocolate Chip Espresso Muffins in countertop canisters for crazy mornings, coffee breaks and gifts for preachers, teachers and everyone else on your list. Let everyone eat their fill at your next event with German Chocolate Cupcakes. If you know or suspect you'll have a diabetic guest or two, serve up Chilled Double Chocolate Torte or Chocolate Peanut Butter Fudge. You could also substitute agave nectar or stevia in any of the other gluten free chocolate recipes. Bon appetit!

Chilled Double Chocolate Torte (DF, GF, K, SF, V, VG) Oh She Glows
Chocolate Chip Biscotti (DF, GF, K, V, VG) Spark People
Chocolate Chip Espresso Muffins (DF, GF, K, V, VG) Gluten Free Diva
Chocolate Peanut Butter Fudge (DF, GF, K, SF, V, VG) Elana's Pantry
German Chocolate Cupcakes (DF, GF, K, V, VG) Simply Gluten-Free

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Gluten Free Tuesday: Purple Heart Menu

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In honor of our fallen and returning veterans, many with injuries, and the anniversary of the Purple Heart, I've gathered a menu of gluten free recipes along a purple theme. Enjoy sharing the history with your family and friends, along with the yummy goodies.

On this day 230 years ago, the Badge of Military Merit was conceived by then-General George Washington, future founding father and first President of the United States of America. Only three Revolutionary War veterans received the simple cloth commendation. It then languished for 150 years until it was revived, renamed and a redesign commissioned by General Douglas MacArthur, who received the first Purple Heart. Elizabeth Will, an Army specialist in military awards, created the redesign in accordance with orders and archives.

World War II saw civilians being awarded. Posthumous awards were approved in 1962. An Executive Order dated 1984 permitted peacekeepers injured since the Spring of 1973 to be awarded. In 1985 it received a promotion which caused it to outrank the Meritorious Service Medals, up from Good Conduct. It was then approved for those wounded by friendly fire. 1998 saw the disqualification of American civilians wounded while attached to the military.

Due to the government's surplus of World War II-issue Purple Hearts, which was not fully utilized despite the Korean and Vietnam Wars, members of our military sustaining qualifying injuries in Iraq and Afghanistan receive these vintage awards without delay.

For more information, click here. Now, how about some purple gluten free recipes?

Grape Juice Crush (DF, GF, K, V, VG)
Maqui Bread (DF, GF, K, R, SF, V, VG)
Slow Cooker Borscht (aka Beet Soup: DF, GF, K, SF, V, VG) *Kids love it!
Purple Cabbage Salad with Currants, Carrots and Almonds (DF, GF, K, V, VG)
Purple Potatoes with Onions and Mushrooms (DF, GF, K, SF, V, VG)
Ube (Purple Yam) Ice Cream (DF, GF, K, V, VG)

See our Recipe Index for more Gluten Free, Dairy Free, Sugar Free, Kosher, Raw, Vegan and Vegetarian  Recipes for everyday and special occasions. Visit our Articles page for information on food travel and food facts. Bon appetit!

Vegan Kosher for Passover Recipes for Pesach Seder

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"Cmdr. Sam Westock lights candles during 2012 Passover ceremony 

aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln in the Arabian Sea."

According to JewFaq, “Passover is the remembrance of the Exodus, or departure, of Hebrew slaves from Egypt thousands of years ago.  During the 7-8 days of Passover, which is simply English for the Hebrew Pesach, Jewish families deep clean their homes, retell this story of their heritage, enjoy a ceremonial family meal called seder together, and abstain from consuming leavened grain products and related foods.”   When you have to evacuate a foreign country in a hurry, there’s simply no time for bread to rise.  This was the plight of the Hebrew women leaving Egypt in those days.  In contrast, matzoh is a quick and easy, unleavened flatbread of flour and water.  The absence of leavening agents in the diet encourages humility, or deflating self-importance.   

Veganism, or not consuming animal products and byproducts, seems a strategic and natural choice, since it would seem to make the Kosher laws about dairy and meat cookery and consumption a non-issue.  However,  there are special Kosher laws for Passover that still apply to vegans.  The first caution is no “wheat, barley, oats, rye or spelt.  Ashkenazic Orthodox Jews also pass on rice, corn, peanuts, legumes (beans) and other foods.”  Vegans don’t eat honey, an ingredient in charoset, a symbolic dish made with nuts, apples and wine.  But agave nectar is a handy honey substitute, easy to find in major discount grocers.  Vegan wines must be marked with P, which means “Kosher for Passover.”  Despite all these do’s and don’ts, there are still many delicious vegan Passover recipes for Pesach Seder. 

Matzah Brei (P option)

Apple Charoset

Beet Casserole

Classic Baba Ghanoush (Eggplant Dip) with Roasted Vegetables (Sephardic)

Horseradish

Onion Apple Soup

Carciofi  alla Giudia (Italian Crispy Fried Artichokes)

Mock Chopped Liver (Ashkenazi)

More info: Vegan News Guide to Vegan Passover Seder.
Be sure to visit our Recipe Index for more delicious Passover recipes.

Sugar Free Valentine’s Day Recipes

How do you love your valentine?  Here are 15 delicious ways.  Got a chocoholic?  Make their day with a selection of white, milk chocolate and dark chocolate treats.  Pack up some lemon cookies for a sugar free school or work treat.  Let sugar free sweethearts eat cake: cheesecake, Bundt and German chocolate.  Impress a connoisseur with truffles, panna cotta and date nut rolls.  Tempt more traditional tastes with turtle bars, banana pudding or cherry pie.  Surprise a secret admirer with sesame honey candy or cream puffs.  Everyone will fall in love with these sugar free Valentine’s Day recipes.

With Chocolate:

Chocolate Cream Puffs

Chocolate Mint Truffles

Chocolate Peanut Butter Fudge

German Chocolate Cake

Panna Cotta with Coffee Chocolate Sauce and Raspberries

Triple Chocolate Bundt Cake

Turtle Bars

White Chocolate Almond Bark

No Chocolate:

Banana Pudding

Berry Trifle

Cherry Pie

Date Nut Rolls (stuffed, not pinwheels)

Lemon Cookies

Sesame Honey Candy

Strawberry Cheesecake

Gluten Free Valentine’s Day Recipes

Grab your dark chocolate, gluten free Bisquick® and agave nectar!  Here are some exquisite expressions of gluten free love.  For lovers hooked on Dr. Who, the choice is clear.  Like the Tardus, the flavor inside each bite of chocolate cake is bigger than its outer appearance.  Red velvet cake serves up a classic finish on a traditional dinner of gluten free favorites.  Parents and teachers: Summon your school-age sous chefs and put on Willie Wonka for candy making fun.  Should Valentine’s Day be a bit chilly, warm up your cuddlebunny with coffee in their cookies or brandy in their fondue.  Remember the cherries!  For hardcore foodie Valentines, please their palate with almonds and cranberries.  A decadent basket of cinnamon rolls, scones and heart-shaped sugar cookies with sprinkles will positively melt any non-chocoholic.  Touch a health nut’s heart with homemade granola bars and carrot macaroons.  And with strawberries in season, who can resist a seemingly sinful cheesecake or shortcake?  These Gluten Free Valentine’s Day recipes will have sweethearts of all ages feeling warm and fuzzy.  Bon appétit!

With Chocolate:

Carrot Macaroons with Chocolate Drizzles

Chocolate Candy

Chocolate Cherry Fudge Drops

Chocolate Fondue

Chocolate Rice Pudding

Dark Chocolate Almond Cranberry Tart with Pastry Crust

Double Chocolate Mocha Cookies

Easy Flourless Chocolate Cake with Silky Chocolate Glaze

Red Velvet Cake

No Chocolate:

Cherry Scones

Chewy Crunchy Honey Granola Snack Bars

Cinnamon Rolls

Strawberry Cheesecake

Strawberry Shortcake

Sugar Cookies