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

October 22, 2018 by Rebecca @ Strength and Sunshine 44 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

Ginger Glazed Purple Sweet Potato Doughnuts (Gluten-Free, Allergy-Free, Vegan, Paleo)

April 10, 2017 by Rebecca @ Strength and Sunshine 137 Comments

No more beige donuts! These healthy Ginger Glazed Purple Sweet Potato Doughnuts are gluten-free, allergy-free, vegan, and paleo! A creative and fun recipe to try for breakfast, dessert, or an afternoon snack!

Yes, yes I did! From purple sweet potato pancakes to tots and gnocchi. Just normal sweet potato doughnuts didn’t cut it for me! These pretty little baked gluten-free doughnuts are about to make your day (they’ve already made mine!) There is always something so special about purple food. You can never be frowning when you’re eating something purple 😉 No one is going to want your typical beige doughnut any longer! Trust me!Read More

Cinnamon Sweet Potato Doughnuts

September 19, 2016 by Rebecca @ Strength and Sunshine 162 Comments

A perfect Fall breakfast or dessert recipe for baked Cinnamon Sweet Potato Doughnuts! Gluten-free, grain-free, vegan, & paleo, these doughnuts have all the healthy superfood nutrition of the delicious sweet potato and nothing else!

Storytime! This is another recipe from the long “to post” folder. However, this one has quite a unique story behind its creation. It’s from last year, but since we’re in the beginning stages of FALL EVERYTHING season, some comforting sweet potato doughnuts seemed fitting! (Sorry, not pumpkin, but still good!) This is one of those recipes that was “saved” and if you know my way of cooking, baking, and thinking, there is no such thing as failures!Read More

Spiralized Sweet Potato Crust Veggie Pizza

May 16, 2016 by Rebecca @ Strength and Sunshine 138 Comments

A spiralized sweet potato crust veggie pizza that redefines the definition of veggie pizza! A filling and nutritious healthy pizza that is all vegetable, making it gluten-free, vegan, paleo, grain-free and a perfect twist on the traditional pizza night pie!

I told you last week that I had more to share! So I’m officially declaring May, not only Celiac Awareness Month, but also PIZZA Month! You should smile; it’s a good thing! I also think it’s a mighty fine way to beckon late spring and summer to us. Pizza is surely not seasonal. You can make a seasonal pie, but let’s be honest. There is never ever a bad time to bake up a pie!

This veggie pizza was long overdue for sharing here on the blog. I believe it’s from last summer, so we’ve come full circle! It’s a little sad that I’ve let this one slip for so long. We need to spiralize more! Confession time: I don’t use my spiralizer much. Maybe once every few months? I know…shame.

It’s even in a very easily accessible place (unlike my slow cooker), right in a bottom cabinet with where extra food, protein powders, my falling apart toaster oven, and rice cooker live. But it sadly stays there (crying in the darkness!) Using it for pizza is one of the best ways to show it some love though. If I was a spiralizer, I’d want to be used to make pizza! This is one awesome pizza to boot! It may just be making the cassava crust jealous!

You know what my favorite thing about this spiralized pizza is? Single-serve! Why of course! I know some people find it hard to call any pizza anything but “single-serve” 😉 I know the “pie love” can run pretty deep at times! Did you know there are actually some people who don’t like pizza!? I know it sounds crazy, but it’s true. I recall this one lone child I went to school with, who said he hated pizza :O That’s pretty attuned with hating chocolate. A life without pizza is like a life without bagels (but worse!)

But there’s no pizza-haters here…right? Okay good, I’m glad we can all be friends. I understand some people having strong topping preferences, but hating the entire pizza culture? Unimaginable! That kid must have had some sad birthday parties…haha! And isn’t pizza such a typical college food? What must he be eating? I have one more mind blowing tidbit about this though that will blow your pizza-loving mind further.

His parents owned one of the most popular pizza places in our town :O I know! That kid hated pizza and grew-up in a PIZZA family…the definition of a pizza family! I don’t know how that happens. He was always pretty proud of his pizza-hating and never minded the stares he would get as he so boisterously told his preferences. You know what this means though? More pizza for us! The pizza-loving people of the world!

Spiralized Sweet Potato Crust Veggie Pizza

Spiralized Sweet Potato Crust Veggie Pizza

Author: Rebecca Pytell
Cook Time: 15 mins
Total Time: 15 mins
Yield: 1 1x
Category: Main
Cuisine: American, Italian

Scale

Ingredients

1 Large Sweet Potato (spiralized with 3mm Blade)
3 Baby Radishes (sliced)
3 Large Brussels Sprouts (quartered)
3 Large Bell Pepper Rings
2 Flax Eggs (mix 2 TB Milled Flax Seed + 6 TB Water, let sit.)
1–2 TB Nutritional Yeast
Sauce:
2 TB Unsalted Tomato Paste
1 Tsp Dried Oregano
1/2 Tsp Minced Garlic
1/2 Tsp Onion Powder
1/2 Tsp Dried Marjoram
1/2 Tsp Dried Basil
1/4 Tsp Black Pepper

Instructions

Preheat the oven to 450°F.
Mix the spiralized sweet potato with the flax egg mixture, using you hands (be gentle).
Mix the sauce ingredients together in a small bowl.
Grease a 9 inch round baking dish, cast iron skillet, or baking sheet lined with parchment or silpat, and place the spirlized potato in the center and form a tight circle shape.
Spoon on the sauce on top of the pizza crust, then layer on the veggies and sprinkle on the nutritional yeast.
Bake in the oven for 15-18 minutes. Use a spatula to gentle remove onto a plate.

Nutrition

Serving Size: 1

Now, this pizza is obviously more “fork-friendly” than, slice and eat with you hands. But if you want to get messy..use your hands 😉 I’m sure you know that’s what I do! I fully embrace the pizza culture in every way I possibly can!

**I get asked all the time, so THIS is the spiralizer you want to buy if you still don’t have one!**

So tell me:

+ Do you know any pizza-haters?

+ How often do you use your spiralizer?

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Purple Sweet Potato Sugar Cookies

December 16, 2015 by Rebecca @ Strength and Sunshine 136 Comments

No need to decorate these sugar cookies! Purple Sweet Potato Sugar Cookies are naturally purple, gluten-free, vegan, and sugar-free! You would never know that these thick & soft cookies are secretly healthy and loaded with fun!

Are you one of those sugar cookie people? I have a lot of mixed feelings about sugar cookies and I’m not sure where I fall on the love or indifference spectrum. You see, in my mind, there are 3 types of sugar cookies. Those famous soft thick bakery sugar cookies with frosting (seem more like discs of cake though), the soft chewy ones you make at home to decorate for various holidays, or those not soft, sad, no flavor, gross kind of sugar cookies that kids would bring in on there birthdays in elementary school since their mom thought it was a “healthier” choice than cupcakes.

You see, I have a lot of expectations and assumptions about what a good sugar cookie should be if I’m going to put that thing in my mouth. It has to be soft, chewy and have flavor. For get crunchy sugar cookies. That is the worst cookie that could be made crunchy. Ack! My number one though, is it must have flavor! It’s hard to place a sugar cookies flavor. Yes, the vanilla extract and the sweet sugar, but those are rather bland if that’s all you have. But I’ve been feeling a bit in need of a sugar cookie after so many of you told me those were your favorite cookie of the season.

Many of you said the reason for this festive favorite was more for that fact that you get to whip out all the cookie decorations. Frosting, gels, sprinkles, glitter, etc. Well sure, that’s a great way to play up so boring neutral colored black slate cookies. BUT, if you just want a sugar cookies, a nice soft, flavorful sweet bite, without any more fuss, and would also be perfect anytime of year, then I have your solution right here my friends! I can’t really keep it a secret either, you can tell from the title, and the color of these sweet delights.

That’s right! The Purple Sweet Potato is back again! With the very few I’ve gotten so far this year, I’ve been holding myself back from just eating them straight, and trying to save them for fun recipes instead. (It’s hard…very hard!) Cookies seemed like a great use to reward that forced hoarding and appease the random sugar cookie craving I felt. Plus I think these will be a new favorite sugar cookie for you too. No need for decorations since the magic is right in the potato. This is when letting the natural ingredient shine becomes that sage advice.

These purple sweet potato sugar cookies are also NOT bland. They are naturally sweet from the magic that is a Stokes Purple Sweet, plus the lovely stevia syrup and my favorite baking erythritol to coat these bad boys in. So they’re actually sugar-free, wooo what!? Nor are they bland on festive color (is purple festive?). I guess purple can be festive for any holiday, right? Just a fun color for Christmas, a lucky color for New Years, eh, we’ll make it work! I do know that these are my new favorite sugar cookies. So soft, thick, and uniquely flavored, and they really are sweet! Sugar cookie conundrum no more! This girl is a PURPLE sugar cookie fan through and through, and you will be too 😉

Purple Sweet Potato Sugar Cookies

Purple Sweet Potato Sugar Cookies

Author: Rebecca Pytell
Yield: 8-10 1x
Category: Dessert
Cuisine: American

Scale

Ingredients

1/2 Cup Arrowroot Starch
1/2 Cup Millet Flour
2 Tsp Baking Powder
1 Packed Cup Purple Sweet Potato Mash*
2 TB Stevia Syrup
1/2 Tsp Pure Madagascar Bourbon Vanilla Extract
1/4 Cup Unsweetened Non-Dairy Milk (I used almond)
1/4 Cup Erythritol

Instructions

Preheat the oven to 375°F.
In a large mixing bowl, combine the arrowroot, millet flour, baking powder, and potato mash. Mash everything together with a fork (your hands work better!) and knead into a well mixed dough.
Next, add the stevia syrup, vanilla, and milk. Knead again until all is well incorporated.
Prepare a baking sheet with a Silpat or parchment paper. Pour the erythritol on a plate and set aside as well.
With the dough, form 8-10 balls with you hands, then flatten them a bit before fully coating each side in the erythritol and then placing on the baking sheet.
Bake the cookies for 15-20 minutes (mine were done in 18). Remove and let cool.

Notes

Simply wash one large potato, make 2 slits in to the flesh, wrap in a damp paper towel and microwave on high for 3 minutes. Flip, and microwave another 3 minutes. Remove, slice open lengthwise and allow to cool a bit before scooping out the flesh.

The best gluten-free sugar cookies? Well, you know what I think, but you tell me after you make them yourself! I have a feeling these will make any sugar cookie lover or hater a fan, regardless! These cookies are everything you want and nothing that you don’t! So forget the bakery specials and crumbly bland school cookies, make these instead for any all all festive occasions and watch as smiles and joy fill the faces of everyone 🙂

Want more cookie? Try Soft Spiced Cocoa Pumpkin Cookies, Soft & Grainless Pumpkin Spice Latte Cookies, Soft & Chewy Ginger Cookies, Chocolate Candy Cane Crunch Cookies.