Dessert Archives - Strength and Sunshine

3-Ingredient Classic Gluten-Free Vegan Shortbread Cookies (Allergy-Free)

December 5, 2018 by Rebecca @ Strength and Sunshine 42 Comments

Traditional Scottish shortbread couldn’t be any easier! These soft 3-ingredient Classic Gluten-Free Vegan Shortbread Cookies are allergy-free and sugar-free! A simple sweet biscuit for coffee or tea and an essential holiday recipe!

And you thought you could no longer have your favorite buttery soft shortbread anymore! Don’t worry! You’ll still be able to swipe these sweet and soft Scottish biscuits from the cookie platter now that you have this gluten-free, vegan, and allergy-free recipe! With this base recipe for allergy-free shortbread you’ll be able to add any flavors or add-ins your heart desires!Read More

Lofthouse-Style Soft Frosted Gluten-Free Vegan Sugar Cookies (Allergy-Free)

November 26, 2018 by Rebecca @ Strength and Sunshine 63 Comments

Everyone loves a light, buttery, and cakey Lofthouse sugar cookie! These Soft Frosted Gluten-Free Vegan Sugar Cookies are allergy-free, kid-friendly, with naturally colored sugar-free frosting, and a healthier copycat recipe for homemade Lofthouse cookies! From holiday desserts to birthday celebrations, you’ll be addicted!

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Sure, you could make classic cut-out sugar cookies for decorating, but no one can pass up one of the soft, cake-like, frosted gems that have been gracing grocery store shelves since 1994 from Lofthouse! Like a cake and a cookie all baked up into one delicious buttery, sweet, colorfully frosted treat! Can you still have this classic cookie even if you’re gluten-free, vegan, or have food allergies? Sure you can! With this easy copycat homemade version of the classic soft-baked frosted cookie, you’ll never have to miss out again!Read More

Gluten-Free Vegan Cranberry Bliss Bars {Squares!} (Allergy-Free)

November 21, 2018 by Rebecca @ Strength and Sunshine 54 Comments

An easy homemade copycat recipe for the classic seasonal Starbucks treat! Gluten-Free Vegan Cranberry Bliss Bars that are allergy-free, perfectly baked blondie cake squares, loaded with dried cranberries, vanilla, citrus, and dairy-free white chocolate drizzle!

Caveat, no, I’ve never had a Starbucks Cranberry Bliss Bar and initially, I had zero intention of these cranberry bliss “squares” to even be a copycat recipe. Alas, when all was said and done, that’s what came out of the Strength and Sunshine oven. Cranberry and white chocolate is such an iconic holiday combo; the perfect tart and sweet balance and just begging to be included on the holiday dessert table in some form or another!Read More

Sweet Gluten-Free Rosemary & Fig Quick Bread (Vegan, Allergy-Free)

October 31, 2018 by Rebecca @ Strength and Sunshine 51 Comments

An easy sweet and herby bread recipe that’s perfect for a warming breakfast, dessert, or afternoon snack! This Sweet Gluten-Free Rosemary & Fig Quick Bread is vegan, allergy-free, full of dried mission figs, fig preserves, rosemary, and topped with a brown sugar crumble!

The greatest dried fruit, the fig, the greatest aromatic herb, rosemary. Combine these two elegant ingredients and you’ll have one show stopping flavor combination on your hands! Pairing fruit with an herby, typically savory, ingredient always yields a mouthwatering delicious taste experience. Yet it is an underutilized food phenomenon that needs to go mainstream and grace more kitchens ASAP! Fruit and herbs are a must and soon you’ll be pairing them together every chance you get!Read More

Gluten-Free Crustless Sweet Potato Pie (Vegan, Allergy-Free, Paleo)

October 22, 2018 by Rebecca @ Strength and Sunshine 46 Comments

All the flavors you love in grandma’s old-fashioned Southern sweet potato pie, but easier, healthier, and without the crust! A Gluten-Free Crustless Sweet Potato Pie that’s vegan, top-8 allergy-free, paleo, creamy & sweet! This quick, healthy, lower carb & sugar-free twist the classic dessert will be a winning recipe for the holiday season!

Whether it be Thanksgiving, Christmas, or any Fall/Winter holiday in-between, cozy sweet pies are always a popular dessert option to serve. Where fruity pies are left for summer holidays, the more decadent and rich pies you tend to see in the cold months. All in the name of health, celiac disease, food allergies, and veganism, that’s never been a problem over here on Strength and Sunshine. Coming from someone who personally is not a pie fan, but knows she’s in the minority on that opinion, I have high standards to pies (or what I deem to be pies), so you know I’ll only provide you with the best.Read More