Dates recipes for vegans & vegetarians

This easy vegan cream of tomato soup is the perfect way to use up an abundance of summer tomatoes. It’s quick, super easy and so unbelievably delicious that I ate it for three months straight without getting sick of it.

This raw vegan banana raspberry smoothie is a quick and delicious way to use up a summer bounty of fresh raspberries. With just four ingredients, this smoothie is super easy to make, and even easier to drink. Sweet, creamy and tangy. Mmmmmm.

Raw chocolate hemp pudding with only four ingredients – dates, hemp, cacao & vanilla – and the richness and creaminess you’d expect from chocolate mousse. But it’s dairy-free and nut-free! So simple, so quick and SO delicious. You will thank me, I promise.

This raw caramel sauce is also vegan and paleo, takes barely 5 minutes to make and is a rich, creamy, sweet and decadent topping for just about anything. Like fruit salad, ice-cream, raw cake, or even just a spoon.

This raw vegan mango lassi is sweet, tangy and creamy – everything a perfect mango lassi needs to be. Full of flavour and fresh, whole ingredients – mango, banana, cashews and dates. So tasty and sweet, it’s like dessert in a glass.

This raw pina colada smoothie combines the rich and creamy taste of coconut milk with the tang of fresh pineapple, which is then perfectly melded together with banana, dates and vanilla. And did I mention that there’s tiny paper umbrellas?

I LOOOOOVE sweet chili sauce. So I decided to have a go at making my own raw sweet chili sauce. It was really great for a first attempt, but I’m sure I can do better, so it’s back into the kitchen for me!

This raw vegan almond milk is so simple and fast to make, and turns out rich and creamy. And it’s so delicious with everything – on homemade raw muesli, with raw chocolate fudge brownies, or just in a glass on its own.

With just four wholesome ingredients, these raw date coconut macaroons are gorgeous balls of pure bliss. Just coconut, dates, vanilla beans and a pinch of salt, which makes them gluten-free, nut-free, vegan and paleo. So simple, so easy, so quick, so tasty! Just. Too. Delicious.

I love it when I discover things by accident, especially when they’re as delicious as this raw hot chocolate. It’s so creamy and warm and tasty and sweet and chocolatey and everything that’s wonderful about hot chocolate.

When I was making raw hot cross buns at Easter, they seriously reminded me of mum’s date scones. So I’m currently adapting a them into a recipe for raw date scones, and the experiment is definitely headed in the right direction.

You’re either going to curse me or bless me for sharing this recipe for raw caramel fudge with you. But how could I deny you the magic of this raw caramel fudge with just two ingredients? Dates. Macadamias. That’s it. Nothing more. Too easy.