8 Ways To Make Kale Less Smug

Even couch potatoes can bask in the warm, self-righteous, glow of kale. In cake.

1. Kale And Orange Cupcakes With Orange Icing

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For these, Veggie Desserts bakes kale into these bright green Kale and Orange Cupcakes with Orange Icing and calls them 'a cake version of a green smoothie'.

2. Kale Brownies

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Chocolate Covered Katie adds kale to her brownies giving them bright green flecks and a lot of extra goodness.

3. Chocolate Kale Cake With Sea Salt

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Over at Foodie Underground, Anna makes a gluten-free chocolate and kale cake with sea salt. Trend-central.

4. Kale And Apple Cake With Apple Icing

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Back to Veggie Desserts for this kale and apple cake, which is not only smug with kale, but is also lower-fat with applesauce instead of oil. If I could think of a word for moist that doesn't sound dirty, I'd use it.

5. Kale Chocolate Chip Cookies

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Even chocolate chip cookies aren't safe from kale! Here Olga at Effortnesslessly adds healthy greens next to melting chocolate in the classic cookie. Don't you just want to finish eating that for her?

6. Blueberry Kale Pops

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It's a superfood mashup by Kiersten at Oh My Veggies with blueberry and kale pops. Perhaps not the best weather for this at the moment, but one to pin for summer.

7. Raw Green Ice Cream With Avocado And Kale

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This is one healthy ice cream! Eat Feel Fresh has added veg to the classic vegan banana 'ice cream' with this kale version.

8. Avocado, Kale And Cashew Parfait

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This Avocado, Kale and Cashew Parfait by Paleo Fondue is, you guessed it, paleo. Sharon uses soaked cashews for healthy 'bulk' instead of cream cheese and helpfully provides vegan options.