When I think about baking — nearly all the acne triggering foods come to mind. So how is one supposed to heal their skin while still enjoying our favorite sweets? We swap the troublemakers with better (and often tastier) alternatives. Keep reading below for my favorite skin friendly, plant based dessert recipe: Strawberry Rhubarb Crumble.

Butter Face

Typically, any pie or crumble would be loaded with butter but dairy doesn’t simply break down and digest. It sits and rots in your gut and is highly mucus forming. Dairy feeds pathogens and allows acne-causing strep bacteria to thrive in the small intestinal tract and colon, slowing down the absorption and assimilation of healing foods such as fruits, vegetables, leafy greens, and herbs. These foods hold healing nutrients that get caught up in dairy’s film and lose their vitality and value.

These toxic pathogens stimulate your blood vessels and tissue to form mucus-like fluid that clogs your lymphatic system . Lymphatic vessels become clogged with dairy byproduct and dairy gets in the way of natural killer cells, allowing strep to thrive and create poisons that stimulate blood vessels and tissue to produce mucus.

Dairy can leave someone looking puffy and inflamed because of waste build up that has no place else to go but through the skkin. It also smothers critical oxygen flow to the skin which is so important for skin healing. 

This dairy free strawberry rhubarb dessert recipe uses maple syrup and coconut oil as a binder and crisping agent for your crumble instead.

Ingredient Spotlight

Coconut:
Coconut drives a food to fulfill its highest purpose by igniting amino acids, vitamins, and other nutrients. Coconut oil is antipathogenic due to its lauric acid content combined with other antioxidants present in it, so turn to coconut when you’re in need of an antibacterial and antiviral food. Plus, its medium-chain fatty acids break loose other fats and aid in pushing them out of the body. 

Maple Syrup:
Maple Syrup remineralizers the body and provides fuel for the liver (happy liver = happy skin)

Cinnamon
”Cinnamon has the highest antioxidant strength of all the food sources and is several hundreds more potent than any fruit or vegetable. Cinnamon is a great source of vitamins A and B-complex and minerals such as chromium, iron, zinc, and calcium.” — Medical Medium

Strawberries:
Strawberries help to prevent breakouts and clean up the lymphatic system. They also help reduce inflammation and provide protection against oxidative stress.

Keep reading below for my vegan and gluten free strawberry rhubarb crumble recipe that will satisfy any sweet tooth without fueling common acne triggers and conventional baking ingredients such as dairy, gluten, eggs, canola oil. processed sugars, and flavorings.

Strawberry Rhubarb Crumble Recipe:

Crumble:

• 1/2 cups each of almond flour, oat flour, and oats

• Cinnamon (measure with your heart)

• 1/4 cup coconut sugar

• Pinch of salt

• 1/4 cup of chopped pecans

• 1-2 tbs maple syrup

• 2-3 tbs coconut oil

Filling:

• 1 Basket of fresh strawberries

• 5 Sticks of rhubarb (chopped)

• Coconut sugar 2 TB

• Cinnamon (measure with your heart)

• Vanilla extract 2 tsp

• Maple syrup 2-3 TB

• Arrowroot starch 1 TB

• 3 TB Orange juice

• Small squeeze of lime
  

Directions:

Slice strawberries and chop rhubarb and place them into pie dish. Next combine all other filing ingredients in a separate bowl and pour over the strawberries and rhubarb inside your pie dish. Mix and coat everything and press down and flatten your filling.

Combine all of your crumble ingredients in a bowl from dry to wet (slowly make sure not too moist or you will have soggy crumble), mix together with your hands and place and press on top of the filling mixture.

Bake at 350 for 20 minutes covered and 20-30 minutes uncovered. Let rest for at least 20 minutes uncovered before eating.

Remember sometimes choosing the cleaner choice is the healing option. The fastest way to achieve your skin goals is through the slow and consistent changes we can make day to day. There are so many flavorful foods to explore, and vegan baking can be a fun way to experiment and get to know your plant based options.

Notes: This recipe could easily be adapted to a fat-free recipe by excluding the coconut oil and using more maple syrup instead. If there was a nut allergy, do not use pecans or almond flour and increase oats and oat flour.

Don’t forget to post your strawberry rhubarb crumble on Instagram and tag me @facesbykatey! I love to see your creations.

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