You may need to hit the grocery store at some point today, but I’ve pulled together some last minute gluten-free and dairy-free recipes to help make your Valentine’s evening a special one—even if it’s last minute. Make this day one to celebrate love for you and for your family (the ones you make and the one you’re born with). I’ve included substitutions for you in case you can’t locate certain ingredients. Happy Valentine’s Day loves!
Raspberry Cardamom Cream Pudding
In case you missed it yesterday, this recipe is decadent, rich, packed with nutrients and super easy to make. If you cannot find raspberries, use strawberries, blueberries or sliced banana. Pomegranate seeds would be a nice tart addition and you can prepare the pudding without any berries or fruit at all. Don’t have cardamom? Use cinnamon, or cocoa powder and top with shaved dark chocolate.
Dairy-Free Mexican Un-Fried Ice Cream
This recipe is fun and most of the ingredients do not need to be prepared from scratch. All you need is a nice dairy-free, soy-free ice cream and some chocolate tortilla chips. If you can’t find chocolate ones, you can find sweet potato tortilla chips, plain blue corn, and always corn. It’s the salty/sweet combo you want here. So if you can’t find chocolate tortilla chips, just use any of the subs I recommend. Leave out the berries and try a sliced banana in the center since banana and salty corn taste great together. You can even leave out adding anything to the center. Just roll up the ice cream with crushed chips.
Toasted Pumpkin Seed Lace Cookies
This is one of those recipes that I always default to when I need to bring a treat somewhere and I don’t have a lot of time or special ingredients around the house. It requires very little ingredients for a decent batch of cookies. If you don’t have pumpkin seeds, use toasted sunflower seeds, almonds, walnuts and/or pecans. You can use any brand of almond meal/flour with this recipe and if you don’t have brown rice flour, you can use gluten-free all-purpose or sorghum (in equal replacement amounts for brown rice flour) instead. Don’t have sucanat? Use brown sugar. Don’t have maple syrup? Use agave or brown rice syrup.
Raw Cacao Pudding
Creamy, rich, decadent and ready in 5-10 minutes. This recipe can be adjusted to include cayenne and cinnamon for a Mexican-style pudding, or you can fold in fresh berries or banana. Add toasted coconut and/or sunflower seeds or nuts for crunch. No raw cacao in the house or at the store? Cocoa powder works just fine. And while I highly recommend it for depth of flavor, you can leave out the Nama Shoyu, or replace it with soy-free coconut aminos.
Dairy-Free, Gluten-Free Chocolate Lava Cakes
I tend to make this recipe quite a bit for guests since it is easy to prepare and always “wows” the crowd. If you don’t have brown rice flour, use sorghum, garbanzo, garbanzo/fava or all purpose gluten-free flour. If you don’t have time to make the Peppermint Chocolate Chunk Ice Cream to top it with (which I highly recommend), go ahead and buy some soy-free, dairy-free mint ice cream. Or vanilla bean. Or any kind that would go well with chocolate cake. Buy a few ramekins of you don’t have them yet, they make recipes fun.
Ok YU. That should have you covered for tonight. Have fun and share what you come up with!
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One Comment to “Valentine’s Day Treats Roundup: Last Minute, Easy Recipes You Can Make Tonight”
I’ve made the lace cookies before, but this time I did them with my favorites—toasted sunflower seeds. I served them with some Coconut Bliss Ice Cream that I had in the freezer. Yum!
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