Naturally Sweet Vegan Treats (from Sweden)
Learning to cook your own food is empowering, as you no longer have to rely on expensive plastic-wrapped ready-meals and takeaways. Master your favourite cuisines at home, using wholesome easy-to-find ingredients you can find in any grocery store.
Naturally Sweet Vegan Treats is a stunning book of desserts that are all naturally sweetened from ‘Miss Marzipan’ of Stockholm! Many are based around seasonal produce, and others inspired by travels in Europe. To avoid palm oil, make your own pastry (keep fresh dough away from children and pets).
Read up on food safety for people and pets. For tinned ingredients, rinse/remove lids (or pop ring-pulls over holes) then step on upper cans to pinch rims together, to stop wildlife getting trapped.
Unless you have food waste bins, just bin pepper and allium scraps (onion, leeks, garlic, shallot, chives), citrus/tomato/rhubarb scraps. To avoid acids harming compost creatures.
Learn to make desserts both free of artificial sweeteners, yet low in natural sugars (sweetened instead with maple syrup, coconut sugar or fresh and dried fruits).
Recipes include:
- Roasted Peach & Banana Pancakes
- Vegan Neapolitan Ice Cream Cake
- Blueberry Cupcakes
- Figgy Energy Bars
- Banana ‘Kladdkaka’
- Lemon Scones
- Pumpkin & Candied Pecan Hand Pies
- Chocolate Cake Batter Waffles
- Chocolate Celebration Cake
- Veggie Patch Brownies
Marisa’s recipes are amongst the best I’ve come across. Easy to follow yet wholesome and absolutely delicious. You can’t go wrong with this book. Kim-Julie Hansen
Marisa’s book is one of the very few that uses only wholesome and nutrient-dense ingredients, and turns them into sweet treats that taste amazing. Julia Lette (naturopath and nutritionist)
Who wrote this book?
Marisa Alvarsson (aka Miss Marzipan) is a chef and photographer, who has been nominated for a Saveur Award. She lives in Sweden.
Link above to her Instagram account to find more recipes for her naturally sweet vegan treats (not in the book) like this oat yoghurt cake and apple strudel.
