No-bake carob cookies

Who'd have thought that something so delicious could be so easy to make! This recipe is a cross between a cookie and a cake, and offers a rich treat, ideal for special occasions.

1 cup oatmeal
1 cup ground almonds (or sunflower seeds)
1 cup desiccated coconut
1 cup carob
6 dessert spoons maple syrup (or date syrup)
Spring water to bind
Extra desiccated coconut to roll with

Bind all ingredients together. Add a little water at a time until mixture is just moist enough to bind it together ( to test consistency take a little amount between fingers and see if it sticks together).

Take small amounts and roll into balls in the extra coconut on a large plate, and then flatten to about 1-cm thickness.

Can be served immediately. Refrigerate any left over. They will keep for days ( if you are lucky!), and will grow even more delicious as the flavours mature and dance together.

With Love
Trinity

After a beautiful summers day it I find it so satifying to forage for wild berries and finish the day off with a wild berry crumble (there are bushes full of blackberries in the surrounding countryside here right now, last week we had wild raspberries). Here's a totally healthy recipe that we came up with. Goes down a treat!
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Trinity

Wild Berry Crumble

Ingredients:

Wild edible berries (i.e. Blackberries)
1 apple

Topping ingredients:

1 cup of oatmeal
1 cup of sunflower seeds (roughly ground, although whole is fine if you don't have a grinder)
1 table spoon of agave syrup (maple syrup, date syrup or honey work just as well)
2 table spoons of coconut oil (almond oil, olive oil etc work fine, although coconut oil seems to give it a "je ne sais quoi")
A capful of almond essence

I use a tea cup, although you could use a mug instead (just add a touch more oil and syrup)

Thoroughly mix topping ingredients together to form a moist yet crumbly consistency.

Find an oven dish about 20 cm in diameter and fill it with about and inch of blackberries (more or less)

Thinly slice an apple and and form a layer over the blackberries.

Add topping and gently press down.

Bake in a hot preheated oven for about 15-20 minutes (I use gas mark 7) or until the topping starts to pleasantly tan.

A delicious variation of the recipe above is to use ground almonds instead of sunflower seeds

If you are looking for a healthy version of 'Hot drinking' chocolate then read on! Our recipe is not only dairy free, free of refined sugar and any 'nasties'... it is thoroughly delicious!

Maya maple vegan chocolate drink

Ingredients:

Mugful of rice milk
1 heaped teaspoon cocoa powder
2 or 3 teaspoons maple syrup

How to make:

Measure a mugful of rice milk (vanilla rice milk if you have it) and bring to the boil in a milk pan.

Meanwhile mix one heaped teaspoon of cocoa powder (preferably fair trade organic) with two teaspoons of maple syrup (adjust the amount to preferred taste), until it turns into a paste.

When the milk has boiled pour it into the mug and quickly stir. Add a little cold milk if necessary.

Enjoy!

Variations:
-substitute half of the milk with water
-add a sprinkle of cinnamon to the initial paste
-use agave syrup or honey instead of maple syrup