No picture but great recipe, Healthy Vegan Brazilian Caramel Sauce

I didn't take pictures but I HAVE to share this recipe with you. Now many vegan caramel sauces are either
a) sugar based
b) cashews based
c) soy cream based

Now in moderation these thing aren't bad but wouldn't you like a caramel sauce that you didn't have to moderate so much? I'm not saying consume the whole batch of this however it wouldn't be awful if you did. In my version I use Brazil nuts, banana, hemp milk and dates. As vegans cashews and almonds are used a lot and Brazil nuts less, however they are perfect for this recipe as they are surprisingly creamy and Brazil are the richest dietary sources for selenium, beating the cashew nutritionally. Hemp milk also helps to add creaminess, silkiness and nutrition to this caramel. Hemp milk is rich in omega 3's and free from cholesterol. Seriously can this caramel get any better.
Yes, yes it can.
Banana adds the sweetness and potassium and dates are just delicious. we only use 4-5 brazil nuts so the caramels doesn't have a high fat content and if you use Pink Himalayan rock salt your getting 84 minerals out f the 84 minerals that your body need.. perfect for a hangover.
Now do you understand why I had to share this with you!

Ingredients
1/3 of a cup of roughly chopped dates
2 prunes
4-5 Brazil nuts soaked over night (depending on size if they're large have 4 if they are particularly small have 5, simple)
1/2 cup of hemp milk
1/2 cup of water
1-2 tbsp of agave (to taste)
1 banana (very ripe)
'large pinch of nutmeg (freshly grated/ground is all ways better)
1/2 tsp of cinnamon
1/2 tsp of Pink Himalayan rock salt (or salt of choice)

-Soak your dates and prunes in the water till soft (2 hoursish)
-Once soaked place in your blender with the soaking liquid and the rest of your ingredients (apart from the agave).
- Blend in till smooth, you may want to add more water or milk to make are thinner sauce, depending on your preference. Add your agave to taste, it may be sweet enough depending on your banana and dates.
- For an extra smooth sauce pass through a sieve. Store in a air tight contain/jar in the fridge.

VOILAAA
sorry about the lack of visuals, I'll try post some picture soon!

Date Caramel Cashew Thumbprint Cookies with Cacao Nibs

 Hello world, so I have finally taken the jump and told the parents I've gone VEGAN so I am now officially vegan, I guess. I know it's not much but it's a start! So to celebrate I wanted to make something I have wanted to make for a while.. Date caramel. I have never been a chocolate fanatic, I mean it's nice but I can live with out it. No, what I adore it caramel and fudgey things, so to hear you could have a healthy caramel was mind blowing. I have been afraid to make it cause my blender is awful and extremely noise but it succeeded so it i can make it with 90's blender so can you! These are full of protein so get em' down your gullet and get some guns to rival Popeye's! Or just for good skin and hair, what ever, big cartoon muscle arms are cool but ya know, your life. Anyway here are my...

Date Caramel Cashew Thumbprint Cookies

I am genuinely so so so so so proud of these.. like so proud.

Date Caramel 

Ingredients 

7 dates

3 prunes

1 tbsp of raisins

1 tsp vanilla bean seeds / 2 tsp vanilla extract

Pinch of salt

-Soak you dates, prunes and raisin in 5 tbsp of water for about half an hour

- Reserve a tbsp of the soaking liquor (for the cookies) then add the rest to the blender along with the salt and vanilla and blitz till smooth

Cashew Cookie

Ingredients 

1/2 cup of raw cashews

1/4 cup oats

tbsp of plain (or vanilla) protein powder (mine's vegan but its not certificated raw, you can however get raw certificated protein powder online to make this 'fully raw')

1 tsp vanilla bean seeds / 2 tsp vanilla extract

4 dates

2 tsp of granulated sweetener of choice (stevia, coconut palm sugar etc)

1 tbsp of agave

1 tbsp of date caramel soaking liquid

 Pinch of salt

1 tbsp of cacao nibs (optional)

- If you have a stubborn blender, like mine, roughly chop up your dates and nuts. Then throw into your blender with the rest of your ingredients (apart from your agave and soaking liquid).

Ingredients going into the noisiest blender ever

- Blitz in till the nuts and oats have been fully ground down and are starting to clump together into a dough, then add your agave and soaking liquid to help it along and blitz till a dough does form.

- Remove from blender and stir in your cacao nibs (you could use vegan chocolate chips also which would be sweeter but not as healthy and full of antioxidants as cacao nibs, plus I like the crunch you get from the nibs)

- Roll in to balls the size of a large marble the flatten and make a dimple in the center of the cookie (for the caramel)

Ready for the caramel!

- Fill the dimple with the caramel and serve!

KEEP CALM AND MAKE THESE