Paleo vegan chocolate chip cookies made grain-free with almond flour, dairy-free with coconut oil, and refined sugar-free with maple syrup.
Healthy Desserts
Paleo blackberry cobbler made grain-free, refined sugar-free, dairy-free, and vegan. This easy recipe only requires about 45 minutes.
Paleo red white and blue cake made with almond flour, pure maple syrup, and studded with fresh berries. This healthy cake recipe makes the perfect flag cake for celebrating U.S. holidays!
Keto chocolate ice cream made with avocados! This dairy-free vegan recipe does not require an ice cream maker. All you need is a blender to prepare this no-churn chocolate ice cream recipe.
This post is sponsored by The California Avocado Comission.
If you’ve been around The Roasted Root for a few years, you may remember my Dairy-Free Fudgesicles , 4-Ingredient Paleo Avocado Chocolate Mousse. or my Vegan Key Lime Popsicles. What these desserts have in common is they are all made with the same all-start ingredient: Avocados!
While it may seem strange to make a dessert using avocados, I pinky promise you, avocados make an incredibly mouth-watering creamy chilled or frozen treat. In addition to how tasty the result turns out, I love knowing the treat contains healthy fats from the California avocado and is made using cleaner ingredients than store-bought ice cream.
When combined with full-fat coconut milk, cocoa powder, and a liquid sweetener, California avocados make a mean chocolate ice cream!
Can you taste the avocado in this keto chocolate ice cream? Not in the slightest! Because avocados have such subtle flavor, they are easily masked by bolder flavors like cocoa. You can’t tell this ice cream is dairy-free! It turns out so creamy and custardy with a similar consistency to gelato.
For this particular recipe, we’re going the keto route using a sugar-free liquid sweetener to keep the recipe low-carb. There are plenty of options for sweeteners, so be sure to read the notes below!
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Paleo morning glory cookies are made with almond flour, almond butter, grated carrot and apple, raisins, walnuts, and pure maple syrup. These grain-free treats are healthy enough to eat for breakfast! If you’ve been around my blog for a while, you may have run into my Paleo Morning Glory Quick Bread or my Grain-Free Morning …
Paleo Coconut Flour Muffins recipe with 4 flavors! – a grain-free recipe for muffins made with coconut flour and pure maple syrup.
Paleo pecan chocolate chip scones are so simple and easy to make. Perfect for sharing with friends and family, these scones are grain-free, refined sugar-free, and can easily be made vegan and/or keto. I went on a crazy scone bender earlier in the spring, starting with my Paleo Vegan Lemon Poppy Seed Scones, followed closely …
Strawberry Cheesecake Jars are a fun individual-sized portion treat to share with friends and family. Make them ahead of time for entertaining guests or bringing to a potluck.
Looking for a fun, festive, and somewhat healthy dessert to serve guests at your summer BBQs? THIS JUST IN!
These Individual Vegan Strawberry Cheesecake Jars are magnificent for making individual portions of healthier “cheesecake.” They are dairy-free using soaked and pureed cashews as a replacement for cream cheese. They are refined sugar-free, swapping out sugar for pure maple syrup (or honey if you aren’t vegan). The crust is also grain-free, made using nuts and dates.
Essentially what we have here is a silky-smooth, mouth-watering vegan cheesecake recipe that will knock the socks off your guests and fits so many dietary restrictions. No one will guess they aren’t fully leaded cheesecakes!
Energy balls with dried blueberries, dark chocolate, almonds, walnuts, dates, pumpkin seeds, flax seed oil, and more. This easy and nutritious snack recipe is a great low-sugar alternative to packaged snacks.
You may have noticed a theme with my snacks section of this site. Let’s face it – they’re mostly nut-based and they’re mostly balls. The amount of snack recipes I share in comparison to main dishes is pretty dismal by virtue of the fact that I’m not a big snacker.
But when it comes to nuts, seeds, and dried fruit all balled up together in an energy bite? Sign me up.
When I head out of town for a long road trip or go for a long jaunt in the mountains, I’ll often snag some balls in case I have to go more than a few hours between meals. I don’t rely on store-bought snacks, as I find they contain too much sugar and/or contain ingredients I try to avoid.
For this rendition of energy balls, I used all superfood ingredients to generate a ball that is jam packed with healthy fat, antioxidants, minerals, and all sorts of health benefits. PLUS they taste like blueberry chocolatey goodness, which is a major win in my book.
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Almond butter blondies with fresh strawberries make for an amazing paleo-friendly treat! All you need is a few basic pantry ingredients to make these healthy blondies happen.
Who here loves a good dessert bar? I, for one, am obsessed with anything that is square in formation and quenches my sweet tooth. Toss in some chunks of chocolate and/or some fresh fruit, and forgetaboutit…I’m SOLD!
My Chocolate Chip Paleo Blondies is one of my most popular recipes to date. My friend’s 11-year-old daughter makes them regularly to share with the family. They’re just so easy to make, and so incredibly tasty! Based on the family’s undying love for the blondie, I thought I would revisit the concept with a twist – using just almond butter and fresh strawberries.
This recipe couldn’t be any easier. The blondie “base” is just a couple of eggs, a whole lot of almond butter, coconut sugar, and some chopped strawberries for pomp and circumstance.
Tangy, nutty, zesty cranberry orange protein balls made with all whole food ingredients. A healthier grab-and-go snack option.
Grain-free, refined sugar-free, oil-free, dairy-free vegan banana muffins with chocolate chips. This paleo vegan muffin recipe is so easy to prepare and an excellent choice for sharing with loved ones for breakfast, brunch, or snack. Six years ago, I started my own personal tradition of posting a muffin recipe on Mother’s Day with a note …
No-Bake Keto Chocolate Chip Cookie Bars – grain-free refined sugar-free cookie bar recipe for a low-carb dessert. Made with only 5 ingredients!
Paleo Coffee Cake Banana Bread with streusel topping is a healthy grain-free mashup of classic banana bread and coffee cake.
Grain-free, dairy-free paleo vegan lemon poppy seed scones made with almond flour, pure maple syrup, and algae oil! This simple vegan scone recipe is so easy to make and turns out so zesty and flavorful! This recipe also includes a low-carb keto option!
This post is sponsored by Thrive Culinary Algae Oil.
It’s brunch season!
Because Easter and Mother’s Day are approaching, I figured it is high time we whip up a highly brunchable lemon poppy seed scone that is both paleo and vegan. When entertaining others, you’re bound to end up with a guest or twelve who eats dairy-free, egg-free, gluten-free, grain-free or some combination thereof.
It has been ages since I’ve made scones, and recently I’ve been on a lemon poppy seed kick. Did you check out my Vegan Lemon Poppy Seed Pancakes? They’re mouth-wateringly fluffy and moist.
Similarly, these vegan paleo lemon poppy seed scones are incredible crowd pleasers! PLUS, they cover so many dietary restrictions (hello, Pegan! <- paleo/vegan).
These scones are basically a modern marvel. They turn out flaky with a crispy outside yet are still nice and moist on the inside. I find them to be perfectly sweet – not too sweet yet not lacking in sweetness. They are so nice and zesty in all their lemon poppy seed glory – a perfect brunch recipe for sharing with friends and family. I made them for friends I was visiting and they went absolutely berserk over them!