Ice Cream Sandwich with a Chocolate Chip Mint Filling

I don't know about you, but personally I adore everything with mint in it. These Ice Cream Sandwiches have a Chocolate Chip Mint Filling that I originally created for one of the swirled pies in my eBook 'The Dessert Revolution'. The pie ('Mint Kiss Swirl Pie' on page 27-28) is swirled with a vanilla filling and this mint filling, loaded with gorgeous cacao nibs that gives that chocolate crunch.

The Sandwich cookies does not require a dehydrator, though they need to be a bit freeze to harden. They are based on hemp seeds, pumpkin seeds and shredded coconut. If you like your seeds soaked and sprouted it is fine. Only make sure they are dry before you start making a flour of them. 

Why I love HEMP

• Hemp can grow almost everywhere on this planet. By nature hemp is organic as it doesn't need any fertilizer, chemicals, and pesticide. It adds nutrients to the soil, removes toxins, aerates the soil and prevents soil erosion with it’s long roots. Hemp actually leaves the soil in better condition than before it was planted.

• You can make hemp milk out of hemp seeds.

• The hemp plant can be used for three important and usable products as the seeds, the powder of the seeds (hemp protein powder) and the oil, all is highly nutritious. You can also eat the fresh leaves in a salad. 

• Hemp is very rich in nutrients such as omega fatty acids, amino acids, and minerals. The seed oil contains 80% essential fatty acids (EFAs), linoleic acid (LA, 50-70%), alpha-linolenic acid (ALA, 15–25%) and Gamma-Linolenic_acid (GLA, 1–6%). 

• Both the complete protein and the essential oils contained in hemp seeds are in ideal ratios for human nutrition. 

• 65% of its protein content in hemp is in the form of globulin edestin, so that it can actually be used by the body in its raw state. 

• Hemp seed oil promotes a beautiful skin and hair, nourishing both on a cellular level. As a daily routine, apply hemp oil to your skin and it will be absorbed where the EFA's can go straight to work!

 Also the GLA acid is healing for the gut which also promotes a glowing, healthy skin.

• The oil and the protein powder is perfect for athletes wanting defined muscles. 

• Add a handful of hemp seeds to your smoothie and you will get a creamier, more nutritious and more satisfying smoothie. I find that a couple of teaspoons of orange juice pares very well with hemp. 

The Hemp Sandwich Cookies, nut free
Makes about 8 double cookies.

• 1 cup hulled Hemp seeds
• 1 1/2 cup shredded Coconut
• 0.5 cup Pumpkin seeds
• 2 small pinches of Himalayan salt
• 0.5 teaspoon real Vanilla
• 5 tablespoons of Lucuma
• 1/3 cup Water
• 2 tablespoons melted virgin Coconut oil
• 3 tablespoons Agave nectar
• 2 teaspoons Orange juice

Grind the Hemp seeds, shredded Coconut and Pumpkin seeds into a fine flour using a blender. Transfer to a large bowl. Add the rest of the ingredients and stir by hand until you get a dough. Put the dough on a piece of greaseproof paper and flatten it out. Put another piece of greaseproof paper on top and work the doug out with a rolling pin. Stamp cookies with a cookie cutter and lift the whole paper up, with the dough and place it in the freezer. When the cookies are hard you can carefully peel them off the paper.

Chocolate Chip Mint Cream

The recipe below will give you a lot more mint cream than needed for the cookies. You can use the rest as a mint ice cream, or make half the recipe. 

• 180 g or 1 1/2 cup Cashews

• 1 1/2 cup Water

• 3 tablespoons melted virgin Coconut oil

• 100 g or 6 tablespoons of melted Cacao butter

• 1 pinch of Himalayan salt

• 1/4 teaspoon real Vanilla or liquid Vanilla

• 2 tablespoons Agave nectar

• 1 teaspoon Sunflower lecitin

• 1 cup Mint leaves, tightly packed

• 0.5-1 teaspoon Spirulina powder

• 5-8 drops Mint essence

• Two handfulls of cacao Nibs

Slowly melt the Cacao butter in a water bath or in a dehydrator. Grind the Cashews into a super fine flour in a blender. Add all the ingredients except for the Coconut oil and Nibs and blend until completely fine. Then add the Coconut oil and blend for maximum 15 sec. Finally add the Nibs but don't blend. Make sure to adjust the flavors to your liking. Add a little extra sweetener or mint essence if you like. The filling will taste the best when well chilled. 

Pour the batter into a container with lid that can be stored in your freezer. The batter will at this point look rather loose, but don't worry, it will turn into the creamiest filling after some time in the freezer. You need to freeze the mint filling for about 1.5 hour. Stir it every now and then for an even result. When it is creamy and hard enough to be spread on the cookies it is done. 

Glass Sandwich på Hampa med Choklad & Mintkräm (delvis nötfria)

Sandwich Cookies

Blir ca 8 dubbla cookies

• 2 dl skalad Hampa

• 3 dl riven Cocos

• 1 dl Pumpakärnor (om groddade, se till att de är helt torra innan de mals till mjöl)

• 2 msk smält virgin Cocosolja 

• 2 små nypor Himalayasalt

• 0.5 tsk äkta Vanilj

• 5 msk Lucuma

• 0.75 dl Vatten

• 3-4 msk Agave nektar (använder du honung så ta mer eftersom det är svagare sötma)

• 2 tsk Apelsinjuice

Gör ett mjöl av Hampan, Cocosen och Pumpakärnorna i en blender. Tillsätt resten av ingredienserna till en stor skål och rör för hand tills du har fått en deg. Platta ut degen ovanpå ett smörpapper. Lägg sen smörpapper ovanpå degen och kavla ut med kavel ca 0.5 cm tjockt. Tycker du det blir för kladdigt kan du mala lite mer mjöl och strö över. Stansa kakaor och lyft över hela smörpappret med degen på till frysen där de får ligga och hårdna. Ta sen en osthyvel el. liknande och lossa försiktigt på kakorna. Lägg dem åter i frysen. Fortsätt med mintkrämen!

Chocolate Chip Mintkräm

Detta recept blir nästan en hel normalstor blender-kanna full och det kommer bli smet över efter att du brett på den på kakorna. Antingen kan du använda resten av smeten som glass, eller göra halva receptet nedan. Vill du ha många Sandwich cookies kan du göra dubbla satsen cookies och hela satsen smet nedan. 

• 3 dl Cashewnötter

• 1 nypa Himalayasalt

• 1 krm äkta Vanilj

• 3 dl Vatten

• 2-3 msk Agavenektar

• 1 tsk Solroslecitin

• 3 msk smält virgin Cocosolja

• 100 g eller 6 msk smält Kakaosmör

• 2 stora nävar Kakao Nibs

• 2 dl Myntalöv, tätt packat

• 0.5-1 tsk Spirulinapulver eller krossa ca 4-8 st piller i mortel

• 5-8 droppar Mint essens

Mal Cashewnötterna till ett fint, fint mjöl i en blender. Tillsätt resten av ingredienserna förutom Cocosoljan och Nibsen. Mixa länge och väl tills du har en perfekt smet. Den kommer att se lös ut, men allt ordnar till sig sen i frysen och blir till den krämigaste glassen du kan tänka dig. Tillsätt den smälta Cocosoljan och mixa max 15 sek. Slutligen häller du i Nibsen utan att mixa och häller upp på burk som ställs i frysen. Var noga med att smaka av. Justera mängden sötma och mint tills det smakar perfekt för Dig! Smeten kommer smakmässigt mer till sin rätt som fryst. Låt frysa i ca 1.5 timme. Rör om då och då för att få en jämn frysning. När smeten börjar få en krämig konsistens av det tjockare slaget kan du skeda på eller spritsa på fyllningen mellan kakorna. 

Tips: Spirulinan färgar smeten knallgrön, så vill du ha en ljus mintgrön färg som på bilderna använder du 0.5 tsk Spirulina. Vill du ha en mörkare färg tillsätter du mer. Jag använder Spirulina till "mint färgning" eftersom det är en blågrön alg. Skulle du försöka färga med tex nått annat grönt pulver som hampaprotein, korngräs eller dyl, blir det ett gulaktigt resultat och det kommer inte se ut som mint. 

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Much Love

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The Ultimate Comfort Cookies

Happy wednesday my Friend!

Bright as a button today are we? ...Or maybe not? Either way I got one perfect excuse for you to roll up your sleeves and spend 15 minutes to make these cookies weather you want to celebrate an awesome day or pick your self up from a not so good one. The ultimate celebration cookies or comfort cookies! They are chewy, of a cookie dough consistency and full of heavy chocolate flavors. Who can resist that?! Oh yeah, they are healthy too!

Made of prunes, pumpkin seed flour (that you can easily make), some virgin coconut oil, raw cacao, agave/honey and vanilla - they are easy peasy to make.


Health benefits of Prunes:
[Prunes are dried plums]

• Contains a unique phytochemical (plant chemical) called neochlorogenic and chlorogenic acid. These are antioxidants that are damage-preventing, neutralizing a particularly dangerous oxygen radical. Prunes also prevent oxygen-based damage to fats. Since our cell membranes and brain cells consists of fat you can image the importance of the these antioxidants.

• Prunes are full of beta-carotene (vitamin A). Just a quarter of a cup will give you 17% of the daily need of vitamin A. So this recipe gives you nearly 70% or your daily need for vitamin A. Vitamin A promotes a beautiful, clear skin and healthy complexion. It also helps preventing wrinkles and acne. Beta-carotene has been shown in studies to be helpful to prevent a variety of diseases like atherosclerosis, diabetic heart disease and colon cancer, it is also useful for reducing inflammatory conditions like asthma, osteoarthritis and rheumatoid arthritis.

• Prunes are rich in potassium. The mineral that is needed for bone health and mental stability. The "15 minutes Chocolate Fudge Cookie" recipe gives you 35% of your daily need of potassium.

• Fibre! Prunes contain water soluble fibers, that helps normalize blood sugar = temper and energy, prolonging the feeling of satiety = helps in weight loss. They also prevent constipation = detoxifying. Eating high water-soluble fibre foods like prunes, figs, nuts, flax, fruits, psyllium) helps prevent heart disease and a study involving older women showed a 34% reduction in breast cancer risk for those consuming the most water soluble fruit fibers.

• Friendly bacteria. Prunes provides nutrition for the friendly bacteria in the large intestine that is needed for a healthy colon. Healthy colon means beautiful skin and better immune system.

• Prunes increase the absorption of iron.

15 minutes Chocolate Fudge Cookies
[Swedish further down]

• 1 cup of Prunes (moist)
• 0.5 cup raw Cacao
• 2 tablespoons virgin Coconut oil
• 1 cup Pumpkin seeds (make into a flour)
• 2.5 tablespoons Honey or Agave nectar
• 1/4 teaspoon real Vanilla
• 2 small pinches of Himalayan salt

Grind the Pumpkin seeds into a fine flour in a coffee grinder or blender. Put aside in a bowl. To the bowl add the dry ingredients (Cacao, Salt and Vanilla and stir by hand.) Add the moist Prunes to a food processor and process until you have a "prune-paste". Put the paste in the bowl with the dry ingredients and add the Coconut oil and Honey/Agave to the bowl and start massaging with your hands until you have a dough ball.

Roll small balls of the dough, flatten them into patties and use a fork to make stripes. Eat them as they are or put them in the fridge to eat them cold.

15 minutes Choklad-Fudge Kakor

• 2 dl Katrinplommon (färska och mjuka)

• 1 dl raw Kakaopulver

• 2 msk virgin Cocosolja

• 2 dl Pumpakärnor (mals till fint mjöl)

• 2.5 msk Agavenectar alt. honung

• 1/4 tsk äkta Vanilj 

• 2 små nypor Himalayasalt

Börja med att göra ett fint mjöl av Pumpakärnorna. Häll mjölet i en skål och ställ åt sidan. Tillsätt till skålen resten av de torra ingredienserna (Kakaon, Vanilj och Salt). Rör om noga med en sked så det blandas. Tillsätt Katrinplommonen till matberedaren och processa tills du har en "pasta". Lägg pastan i skålen med de torra ingredienserna och tillsätt Cocosoljan och Agaven / honungen. 

Knåda ihop allt med dina händer och rulla sen till små bollar som du plattar till lätt och drar en gaffel över för att skapa ränder. Ät som de är eller ställ i kylen för att avnjutas kalla. 

Happy 11-11-11 and Chia heart Cookies!

Happy 11-11-11 day to You!

Did you know that you can change your DNA by simply exposing your mind to high vibrant words? If you are familiar to the work of Mr. Masaru Emoto, the japanese scientist who photographs ice crystals  after the water has been exposed to different words, like "love", "gratitude", "peace" and other high frequency words, forms the most beautiful and well structurued ice crystals. Keeping this in mind, and the fact that our body is up to 70% of water.. You quickly realize how easy it is to put the entire you in a different wavelength, when working with words. This fascinates me, and I'm trying to sneak in good vibe words in my daily life (as well as affirmations). Filling up with not only physical nutrition, but also frequency nutrition is equally as important. 

How it's done

• Repeat a sentence with good vibe words to re-progam yourself, like "I am Healthy", "My life is a Miracle", "My Dreams comes True", or what ever you need to fill up with a couple of times every day, you will feel the shift inside. 

• You can also put a glass of water on top of a note with a high frequent word, and this will load the  water with that frequency for you to benefit from while hydrating. 

I made some chia cookies yesterday, just for the sake of playing around with chia gel, this time in orange juice. They became rather "leather like" in the dehydrator. They certainly must be some sort of "Lambas Raw Cookies". Every bite is maximized with nutrition! Dipped in melted raw chocolate and sprinkled with some extra chia seeds. And the combination of orange, cinnamon and apricot goes so well together!

Chia Hearts, makes 10 (nut free).
Swedish further down

• 1/4 cup Pumpkin seeds
• 1/4 cup Orange juice + 2 tablespoons Chia = Chia gel
• 1 tablespoon Mesquite
• 1 pinch Himalayan salt
• 1/4 teaspoon Cinnamon
• 3 dried, soft Apricots
• 2 teaspoons Agave nectar
• 4-5 tablespoons Water

Grind the Pumpkin seeds into a flour. Add the Chia to the Orange juice and stir, let it soak for about 10 minutes. Now add the Pumpkinseed flour and Chia gel with the rest of the ingredients to the food processor and process until you have a rather loose dough.

Spread the dough evenly on a teflex sheet using a spatula, put on a mesh tray and let it dry in the dehydrator for 8 hours. Remove the teflex sheet after about 6 hours. You do this by carefully folding the side of the teflex sheet underneath the dough, and slowly pull it to expose. Or, put another tray on top and flip!

When the dough has become "leather like", use a heart shaped cookie cutter and start stamping the dough!

Melted Chocolate

• 2 tablespoons virgin Coconut oil
• 2 tablespoons raw Cacao powder
• 1 tablespoon Agave nectar

Melt the Coconut oil in a water bath or in the dehydrator. Add the Cacao and Agave, stir by hand. Wait until the chocolate thickens before you dip the hearts. Sprinkle some Chia seeds over the chocolate covered hearts before the chocolate hardens so they stick to the chocolate.

If you like my recipes you will love my ebook The Raw Dessert Revolution! Chek it out here.

Chiahjärtan, blir ca 10 st. Nötfria.

• 1 dl Pumpakärnor

• 1 dl Apelsinjos + 2 msk Chiafrön = Chiagel.

• 1 msk Mesquite

• 1 nypa Himalayasalt

• 1 krm Kanel

• 3 torkade Aprikoser (välj de mjukaste)

• 2 tsk Agave nektar

• 0.5 dl Vatten

Gör ett mjöl av Pumpakärnorna i en elektrisk kaffekvarn. Förbered Chiagelen genom att blötlägga Chiafröna i Apelsinjosen och låt svälla i ca 10 min. Tillsätt nu Pumpakärnmjölet och Chiagelen med resten av ingredienserna till en matberedare och processa tills du får en rätt lös deg. 

Bred degen över en vaxat bakplåtspapper (teflex sheet) med hjälp av en slickepott, och lägg upp upp det på torkbrickan som tillhör torkugnen. Låt torka i 8 timmar. Dra av bakplåtspappret efter 6 timmar, genom att försiktigt vika in ena sidan under degen och dra den underifrån. Torka vidare i ett par timmar. 

Stansa sen ut hjärtan med en kakform. 

Smält choklad

• 2 msk virgin Cocosolja

• 2 msk raw Kakaopulver

• 1 msk Agave nektar

Smält Cocosoljan i ett vattenbad eller i torkugnen. Rör sen i Kakaon och Agaven för hand. Vänta tills chokladen tjocknat endel innan du doppar i hjärtana. Strössla lite chiafrön över chokladen sen innan den har hunnit stelna på hjärtat.

Om du gillar mina recept kommer du älska recepten i min ebok The Dessert Revolution (på svenska). Ta en titt här!