I have to warn you, you are about to witness a blackstrap molasses feast over the next little while.
Buckle up, it’s going to be a fun ride.
Yesterday, my wholesale order reunited me with my beloved Blackstrap Molasses. I have been out of it for a long time. Too long, my friends, too long. I love blackstrap molasses and all the delicious creations it touches from ginger bread to Wedded Bliss ginger cookies to Maple baked beans and everything in between.
Blackstrap molasses is the tallest, darkest, and most handsome of all things syrup. But it’s not just a pretty face. It boasts a nutritional profile that will make you weak in the knees.
In just 1 tablespoon:
- 175 mg of calcium,
- 3.6 mg of iron,
- 45 mg of magnesium,
- 510 mg potassium
Blackstrap molasses is a great supplement to any diet, not just for vegans, but for women in general. Most of us could use a boost of calcium and iron now and then.
So…..I cracked it open and did what any normal human being would do; I made Gingerbread Pumpkin Vegan Overnight Oats!
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Gingerbread Pumpkin Vegan Overnight Oat Parfait
Inspired by Yo Soy.
Ingredients:
- 1/3 cup regular rolled oats
- 1 tbsp chia seeds
- 1/2 tsp ground ginger
- 1/4 tsp cinnamon
- 1/8 tsp nutmeg
- 1/16th tsp sea salt (aka: a tiny pinch)
- 1.25 cup almond milk
- 1 tbsp blackstrap molasses
- 1/4 cup pumpkin
- 1/2 tbsp pure maple syrup, to taste
- 1/8 tsp vanilla bean paste (or 1/4 tsp vanilla extract)
Directions: In a medium sized bowl mix the oats, chia seeds, ginger, cinnamon, nutmeg, and salt. Stir. Now add almond milk and whisk. Next add molasses, pumpkin, maple syrup, and vanilla and whisk until fully mixed. Place in fridge for 1.5 hours or overnight. In the morning make your banana soft serve and layer it in a parfait for a special gingerbread with ‘icing’. Alternatively you can also use a bit of warmed coconut butter on top for the icing.
Notes: This recipe will work without pumpkin too. You can also adjust the amount of molasses, spices, and maple syrup to your taste of course.
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Loved it. So much so that I ate the VOO I prepared yesterday and had to make a new batch before bed!
This recipe has some bite to it. If you find that the molasses is too strong in this recipe, you can always adjust it to your taste. Try adding more pumpkin or milk if it is too strong. I added 1/2 tbsp maple syrup to tone down the sharp molasses taste just a bit. It worked perfectly.
I couldn’t get enough of this.
For more fun Vegan overnight oat parfaits, check out these recipes:
Chocolate Cake Batter Vegan Overnight Oats
Peanut Butter and Jam Vegan Overnight Oats
Strawberry Carob Vegan Overnight Oats
Homemade Strawberry Jam Carob Vegan Overnight Oats
Blueberry Vanilla Banana Soft Serve Vegan Overnight Oats
Cherry Chocolate Bomb Vegan Overnight Oats
Banana Soft Serve Vegan Overnight Oats
Banana Split Vegan Overnight Oats
I thought I would share with you some of my favourite websites. They will keep you entertained for hours and hours!
Sites I love
- Dwelling Gawker
- Craft Gawker
- Food Gawker
- VegNews
- Young House Love
- Yoga Journal
- Tastespotting
- Fitsugar
- Huffington Post
- Ihasahotdog & icanhasacheezeburger
- Real Simple (specifically the organizing tab!)
What non food blog websites do you love to visit?
Now go have some Friday Fun!
My favorite non food blog sites include: Huffington Post, Lifehacker, Gizmodo, Runner’s World, The Frisky, and Young House Love (new infatuation!).
And I love matcha tea!! Is there a place that you buy yours from that has a reasonable price? It seems wherever I look that it is expensive!
i bought from my wholesaler and it was still $26! OUCH!!!!
What a great recipe for the changing seasons. You are the oatmeal goddess!
I love food blogs but I’m a sucker for youtube. I watch the most random videos – it’s crazy what you find there. Facebook and hotmail also receive a lot of my attention. Boooooring I know haha!
I love all my friends who have blogs about their families. :) I am an ol’ lady. :)
Love you, dear! I plan to make your donut (banana) recipe this weekend! Wish me luck!
Big hugs, Ange! XOXO
I love me some matcha! & www.designspongeonline.com is so pretty to look at it. People are so freakin creative/artsy, it’s insane!
I love to visit health.com and glamour.com! That oat parfait looks SO good! Gingerbread+Pumpkin= perfection :)
I can’t wait to dig into some gingersnaps soon!! Ahh your breakfast looks fantastic. :D
Ooooo….I may have to try those VOO for tomorrow mornings bfast before my golf tourney! They look fab and I happen to have some left over pumpkin in my fridge that needs to be used up!
That tea is an amazing color…it would match the decor in my house perfectly! :)
Molasses intimidates me for some reason, maybe because I live in Boston and there is a history of molasses flowing into the streets and killing people (okay that only happened once in 1919 but still, that’s some gnarly stuff!) I do love when it’s baked into things, so I’m going to have to man up this baking season! Non-food blog: I think I could spend forever and a day browsing etsy.com
oh etsy is trouble!!
So funny that you mention this! I lived in Massachusetts as a kid and I remember learning about the molasses “flood” in kindergarten. We got to draw a picture of the flood and then our teacher gave us little Dixie cups with molasses to dump on our papers. :-) Why a sane adult would give a room full of five year old kids instructions to dump molasses on their papers I will never know!
Wow, that is some very green tea! I love Real Simple as well… so many ideas and such great advice. I’m going to check out some of the other ones! :)
Hi there Angela, I was just wondering what brand of canned pumpkin you use?
I think it is called Farmer’s market…its organic and I buy it by the case from my wholesaler.
Can’t seem to find any that doesn’t have tons of sugar and food colouring in it, oh well I’m sure I’ll come across the good stuff one day. :) And thanks for responding so fast, also great blog, you’ve got me hooked! lol :P
I love Style Me Pretty. I have to check it several times a day to see all the pretty pictures :)
wedding gawker is awesome too!
This looks so yummy! I see you are using molasses from Wholesome Sweetners. I actually live in Sugar Land where the company is based. They are a great company and do a lot for the community. Anywho…..I cannot wait to try these overnight oats! My husband loves overnight oats too! Thanks for all the great recipes :)
you live in SUGAR LAND? like CANDY LAND? haha. Super jealous ;)
I love matcha green tea too! But yes… it sure is expensive!!
And the Gingerbread Pumpkin VOO Parfait looks AMAZING! As soon as Trader Joe’s gets organic pumpkin in stock, I will be making this… and many other of your pumpkin recipes! I ♥ fall…and your blog! :)
fitsugar (and the other various sugars) and the huffington post
I don’t think I have ever had blackstrap molasses, but it sounds good! Molasses cookies are my favorite!
i think they might be my fav too (I made them for my wedding favours!)
Molasses – OH MY! (So seductive!)
And that green tea – wow. I must try.
Sadly, I love yahoo’s OMG – total celebrity gossip and photos, lol. Can’t get any more mindless and indulgent.
I’m not a huge food person, so while I like to read other food blogs, I enjoy non food ones too. There are so many… hard to think of a few favorites… definitely Style Me Pretty. Also kellehampton.com is an inspirational personal blog.
Wahoo! Thanks for the shout out. Love those delicious molasses pictures too. My mouth is officially watering.
xo,
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Love that brand of molasses! I’ve had a love for molasses since I was young b/c ever since I can remember my dad + I make molasses cookie to send to the family around xmas every year! I need to veganize them and send you some :)
Oh how yummy! I’m so ready for gingerbread men :) I love hyperbole and a half – I discovered it this summer and have spent countless hours on there…and MLIA/FML sucked up so much of my time last year in college!
This pretty much made my life
http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com/2010/09/four-levels-of-social-entrapment.html
lmaoooooooooo
i had NO idea molasses was so good for you! thanks for pointing that out :)