Refreshing Iced Tea (2 different ways)

Refreshing Ice Tea 

(2 ways - vegan, gluten free, refined sugar free, oil free, nut free)

I loooove Iced Tea, and now that you clicked the recipe, I assume you do as well. But did you ever notice, how much sugar one small bottle of Iced Tea can contain? Isn't that crazy?

But don't worry, there's an easy way to make a sweet, delicious, fruity Ice Tea at home, that is actually good for you.

Depending on if you like the taste of tea or not, I'd suggest to use a liquid sweetener of choice. If you love tea by itself, you might not even need that. If you don't like tea in general, you should probably use a sweetener, that has a unique taste to it, such as maple syrup. (You could also use coconut sugar, but I prefer liquid sweeteners with this recipe.)

Refreshing Wildberry and Lemon Iced Tea

Serves: 1
Cooking time: 5 to 10 minutes
Total time: about 2 - 4 hours

Ingredients

• 1 bag Wildberry Tea
• 1 tsp to 1 tbsp liquid sweetener of choice (I used Agave)
• juice of half a lemon
• lemon slices (make sure your lemon is organic, so the skin doesn't contain any toxins)
• lemon balm or mint leaves (or both)
• as much water, as you'll need to fill your jar/glass/container

Instructions

• boil your water
• to your jar/glass/container, add the tea bag, sweetener, lemon juice, leaves and lemon slices and poor the boiling water on top
• mix well until the sweetener is dissolved
• leave for about 5 to 7 minutes or until the tea is strong enough for your liking
• let cool a little 
• put in the fridge until cold enough to drink (at least 2 hours)
• enjoy

Refreshing Maple Black Iced Tea

Serves: 1
Cooking time: 5 to 10 minutes
Total time: about 2 - 4 hours

Ingredients

• 1 bag black tea of choice (I used English Breakfast)
• 1 tsp to 1 tbsp maple syrup
• optional: some fresh berries of choice 
• optional: lemon balm or mint leaves (or both)
• as much water, as you'll need to fill your jar/glass/container

Instructions

• boil your water
• to your jar/glass/container, add the tea bag, maple syrup, and optional ingredients and poor the boiling water on top
• mix well until the maple syrup is dissolved
• leave for about 5 to 7 minutes or until the tea is strong enough for your liking
• let cool a little 
• put in the fridge until cold enough to drink (at least 2 hours)
• enjoy

Notes

You can create your own varieties of Iced Teas by just combining ingredients you like. It's really easy and I made tons of different variations.

Let me know your favorite Iced Tea flavor in the comments below! 

Chocolate Pancakes with Dark Chocolate Cream (vegan, gluten free, oil free, refined sugar free)

Chocolate Pancakes with Dark Chocolate Cream

(vegan, gluten free, oil free, refined sugar free)

I actually got the idea of making chocolate pancakes a while ago, when I was craving crepes with nutella. (My grandmas austrian-style 'Nutella Palatschinken' have been my total childhood obsession!) And as I'm not good at making crepes at all, I decided to give pancakes a shot. 'Cause what can go wrong? In the worst case, they would have ended up super scrambled like an austrian-style 'Kaiserschmarrn' (which they somehow did). 

So what will you need?

Chocolate Pancakes

Serves: 1
Total time: 25 to 30 minutes

Ingredients

• 65g buckwheat flour
• 10g coconut flour OR almond flour
• 10g cacao powder 
• 1 tsp baking powder
• 2 tsp maple syrup (or any other sweetener of choice)
• egg replacer of choice for 1 egg OR 1 flax egg
• 1 tsp apple cider vinegar OR 1 tsp lemon juice (both work)
• 150 - 160mL almond milk (or any other plant based milk of choice - hazelnut milk is great in this recipe as well)

Instructions

• whisk together all ingredients and let sit in the fridge for around 10 minutes 
• add to a hot pan and bake on both sides over medium heat until golden brown

Dark Chocolate Cream

Serves: 1-2
Total time: 2 minutes

Ingredients

• 100g plant based yogurt without any flavor or sugar added (I used unsweetened almond yogurt)
• 5g cacao powder

Instructions

• Simply mix together with a spoon and enjoy!

Notes

If you prefer sweeter chocolate cream, you could use sweetened yogurt or add a liquid sweetener of choice.

The pancakes are also great with jam and nut butter.

You can add any toppings you like.

Let me know what you think if you try them in the comments below!