Something Sweet!

Today I had the pleasure of waking up to coconut macaroons I left on my dehydrator overnight thanks to Rawmazing's Raw Macaroons Three Ways Recipe. I made the strawberry & cinnamon macadamia variety, but since I didn't have raw macadamia nuts on hand, I used raw walnuts instead. Delicious! You could probably substitute the macadamias with a variety of different nuts and they'd still taste amazing. For the 4th of July I think I'm going to make Stawberry, Vanilla, and Blueberry ones (I wonder how these will taste?).

I also made Heather from Sweetly Raw's Choccie Cupcakes, but I used this Cashew Vanilla Frosting recipe from goneraw.com and added a little beet juice to make it slightly pink. These are super rich, but super good! I can't decide if the cupcake or frosting is my favorite part.

I added chopped walnuts to my cupcake "batter" as well.

Pink frosting! My frosting came out slightly chunky since my food processor is kind of dinky. The vanilla flavor made it feel like white chocolate chips in my mouth though.

For dinner, I went through my fridge to see what I could throw together and I came up with zucchini pasta topped with baby spinach, tomatoes, a sun dried tomato sauce I made with random leftovers that tasted a lot like vodka sauce from my SAD (Standard American Diet) days, and fresh basil. I wrote down the ingredients while I was devouring my pasta because it was SO GOOD! I'll post it tomorrow... because I know I'll probably make this again for lunch or dinner.

I would have never thought preparing raw food would be this entertaining.