From Earth and Water.

Just down the way from Govindas in Burleigh sits the new and much larger From Earth and Water raw food cafe. I'd had this raw snickers slice a few years ago with my mum and have not stopped raving about it since. Finally, a Christmas trip home meant I could sneak a visit back!

It's fairly pricey for a slice, I think about $11, BUT it is heaven. The bottom layer is like a Nestle Crunch chocolate bar, crispy and rich. Then comes a vanilla cheesecakey layer, chocolate moussey layer and SALTED CARAMEL LAYER topped with a thin chocolate sheet and served with raw ice cream. Best raw dessert I've ever nommed.

Continental chocolate.

Okay so this brand has no online presence that I can find BUT it is available at the Brunswick IGA (Melbourne) and it's absolutely addictive. $1.60 PER BLOCK, VEGAN! The chocolate is very milky tasting which I love (so over dark chocolate) and the strawberry flavour tastes EXACTLY like strawberry cream Freddos. Do it, join me, we will start a support group.

LOLLIES.

These Unicorn lollies are available at the Brunswick IGA (where SO many strange vegan things hide on the shelves...)

They're those hard boiled style ones with chewy stuff in the middle.

Childhood memories.

I keep finding wrappers under Jeff's side of the bed, these lollies are a delicious problem.

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La Panella Bakery.

 Heaven.

 Sausage roll.

 Curry pie.

 Jam doughnut.

Chocolate muffin.

 Chocolate walnut slice.

 Veggie pastie.

Coffee cinnamon scroll.

Remnants of an apple pie (FRENZY before I could photograph... the shame.)

Mushroom, veggie and veggie meat pie.

The softest and most delicious wholemeal bread I've ever eaten - $1.80. 

My downfall.

The end of days.

Gym membership = useless.

The intense love and hate that I felt for my boyfriend the day he took me to La Panella still resonates in me.

Basically he was like "so there's a vegan bakery in Preston, 5mins drive from your house... wanna go?"

Me - "yeah whatever, you're so obsessed with bakeries, how good can it be?"...

OH MY GOD.

I've spent a good hour tossing up whether or not I should share this here as the shame that follows is depressing...

So we walk in to the bakery, I see that there are shelves and shelves of vegan marked treats.

Of course everything is old world prices, $1.50 vegan sausage rolls, $2 pies, $1.30 jam doughnuts etc. etc.

Well what choice did we have?

We bought it all.

There was a FRENZY, I don't know what came over me.

Seriously, we spent $20 and got 11 items plus a drink... ELEVEN BAKERY GOODS FOR UNDER $20.

Although we didn't eat ALL of it on the pavement outside, we did eat most of it...

I drove home a broken and bloated lady.

What am I meant to do with myself now that I know there are AMAAAAAAAZING $1.50 VEGAN SAUSAGE ROLLS RIGHT NEAR MY HOUSE!?

*sigh, my will power has been doing double time.

Anyway enough of the rant, I am sure you get the idea by this point.

La Panella = cheap, delicious, vegan bakery goods and certain doom to my bathroom scales.

GO THERE.

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Sweetie Pie & Cuddle Cakes.

My friend Mai has just started a vegan and gluten-free cupcakes/cakes business called Sweetie Pie & Cuddle Cakes.

The grand opening was last weekend and OMG was it tasty.

Basically I stumbled into vegan HEAVEN and possibly found myself in a sugar coma about 23 minutes later...

It was worth it.

Check them out!!

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Mister Nice Guy Cupcakes.

Yeah so I am surprised at how long it took me to find these.

Nearly three months of living in Melbourne and I finally got my hands on some.

Mister Nice Guy provided some very nice vegan treats.

Pictured is banana/hazelnut/chocolate and chocolate/coconut.

Both were intensely enjoyable.

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Heidi.

Move over Whittakers (not really, I still live you and your gooey peppermint perfection), Heidi is my new chocolate BFF.

This strange Lindt rip-off (packaging-wise) is DELICIOUS!

Dairy-free, super creamy and full of crunchy nuts and sweet pear essence.

AHmazing.

Available at the Brunswick IGA (have not seen anywhere else yet).

Conscious Chocolate.

I am yet to try this chocolate but it just made it to the top of my list.

Dia's Vegan No-Bake Chocolate Cheesecake

Here is the recipe for the most amazing chocolate cheesecake ever!

Dia’s Vegan Chocolate Cheesecake

So delicious and easy!

I just use Tofutti instead of making my own, and only use one 200g tub.

Nom nom nom!

Paradise Jam Fancies.

And while we're talking surprise vegan biscuits, Woolworths bakery anzacs are vegan too!

Cadbury Drinking Chocolate.

Yes that's right - it's vegan.

PUT IT IN YOU!

Whittakers orange chocolate.

 

Yes this is a whole post dedicated to Whittakers orange chocolate.

It seems I left it off my fave chocolate post (clearly I was delirious to make such a mistake).

Anyways it's awesome and rich with chewy orange pieces!

Thank you Whittakers for making delicious dairy-free chocolate :)

Umm.. Vegan BOOZE anyone?

THIS IS SO GREAT.
Check it out for yourself - I need not say any more.

Cottee's

Cottee's topping is cruelty free! and Delicious! great to have over berries for dessert... or on your breakfast cereal.

Chocolate.

Of all the many dairy-free chocolates I have tried, these are my faves;

• IGA Signature (home brand) is the best (and cheapest!) as it's a very milky dark chocolate.
• Whittakers dark almond is really good and not too bitter.
• Alter Eco (sold at Oxfam or Greenslopes IGA) dark mint chocolate is AMAZING, and fair trade :)
• Also, Oxfam fair trade dark chocolate spread... get it in you.

Lick sorbet.

The new Greenslopes IGA sells Lick chocolate sorbet and it is DEVINE.

It's basically frozen dark chocolate so it's super rich and is best with berries!

Mother Earth baked fruit sticks.

Mother Earth baked fruit sticks.

Arnotts biscuits.

It's good to have non-Oreo biscuits to choose from.

Arnotts have a fair few varieties that are vegan, including ginger nut, chocolate ripple, lemon crisp and chocolate peanut butter brownie biscuits (not pictured but they come in one of those cookie foil-style bags).

Get them in you.

Finger buns.

OMFG Woolies/Coles iced finger buns are vegan.

I am eating a 6 pack for lunch.

Delizia gelato.

The chocolate gelato from Delizia is a winner and the 5L tub in M&T&K's fridge is disappearing fairly quickly.

It tastes like paddlepop and makes life much nicer.