Vegan Chocolate Hazelnut Berry Cake
The best things in life are free. Going for a run and taking in the fresh air. Smelling the lilacs. The sunshine. Taking in the beauty of nature God has created. I have been appreciating all of this lately. Work can be busy and stressful, bills can get expensive, and things don’t always go as […]
5 Ingredient Vegan Salted Caramel Ice Cream
It has been really warm here lately, more like Summer weather than Spring. I think it is mostly the humidity, and it does wonders for plants but it makes me overheated and craving things like ice cream. So, I decided that I needed to make ice cream. I used to make ice cream every week, […]
Individual Vegan Strawberry Rhubarb Cobbler with Almond Biscuits
A lot of times when I go out running, I admire the gardens in people’s yards as I run past wishing they were mine, and I was able to grow all of the good stuff they are. I live in a townhome, so all I am allowed is small pots. I grow herbs, but that […]
Vegan Blackberry Chocolate Chip Coffeecake
I wanted cake last weekend, but I did not want to have to make one that I had to frost. I wanted it to be bake and bam! It was done, and once cooled enough, ready to enjoy. I knew it was going to be a busy day and I didn’t have a lot of […]
Cacao Mint Coconut Deodorant
Commercial deodorants can contain some nasty stuff like aluminum (linked to cancer and alzheimer’s disease), parabens (hormone disrupters), artificial fragrances, propylene glycol (can cause damage to the nervous system in large quantities), phthalates (hormone disrupters), triclosan (considered carcinogenic). I mean yes, they make you not smell or sweat, but sweating is normal and healthy, your […]
Vegan Hazelnut Coffee Chocolate Chip Cookies
I first fell in love with hazelnuts when my Mom and I were in Europe when I was in high school, and we bought some really delicious hazelnut chocolates in Belgium. They were the best chocolate I had ever tasted. I hadn’t had much exposure to hazelnuts before that, save buying Nutella (the commercial brand […]
Raw Salted Caramel Chia Pudding
When I was younger, I used to make rice pudding a lot. Not the baked kind, but the kind made with Arborio rice that you had to sit and stir for a while to make it creamy. I made all sorts of different flavors. Once it was chocolate which I stirred chocolate chunks into at […]
Raw Strawberry Almond Energy Bites
It is so beautiful here lately. I enjoy every bit of my morning runs, taking in the aroma of lilacs and blossoms with petals on the path at my feet, and the birds and frogs singing. Everything is alive again! The rhubarb is even almost ready, which is really exciting. I am a big fan […]
Vegan German Chocolate Pancakes
Pancakes can be breakfast, dinner or dessert right? Well I think they can. I was thinking more along the lines of dessert when I decided to make German Chocolate Pancakes one night last week to boost my mood. There seemed to be a lot of crabby people everywhere that day. Maybe it was the rainy […]
Raw Blackberry Jam and Hazelnut Butter Cups
When I was little, my Mom and I used to go to this little shop that sold blackberry jam filled chocolates. They were always so good. Blackberries seemed exotic to me at that age, since they were less common than strawberries and raspberries. So, they were special. I hadn’t really thought about them until recently […]
Raw Hazelnut Chocolate Mylk
My boyfriend Eric has always been a big milk drinker, and even though dairy bothers his stomach, he still won’t give it up for long. I am always trying to get him to buy plant based vegan milks, because of course I don’t believe in drinking animal milk in the first place, and I don’t […]
Vegan Moroccan Lentil Meatballs
My Mom really enjoys the Moroccan meatballs at a local restaurant (she is not vegan), and she was saying recently that I should make some vegan ones. I have made her other vegan meat balls in the past, and she actually prefers them to the ones made with meat, so I thought this would be […]
Vegan Almond Joy Mini Bundt Cakes
Since it is Mother’s Day, I thought I would post a recipe that I made for my own Mother. But first, I want to thank my Mom for being the wonderful Mom that she is. I have always been close to my Mom, we did everything together when I was younger which was easy because […]
Vegan Brownie Cookie Dough Cake
In my opinion, cookie dough is so much better than actual baked cookies (not that cookies aren’t good, I just like the dough a smidge more). So when I came across a recipe for a cake with cookie dough frosting and filling and brownie layers, I said to myself, this MUST be veganized. This was […]
Vegan Spinach Artichoke Pizza
I always enjoyed spinach artichoke dip as a child. Of course, who wouldn’t, it is packed with creamy dairy and artichoke hearts. It was delicious to me at that point in my life. Dairy turns me off now, and I really haven’t had any spinach artichoke dip in 15 years, but I got it into […]
Mini Vegan Samoa Cupcakes
I was having a day last Friday. By “a day” I mean one of those days. I felt like I could not focus, my brain was not functioning properly and I felt like I was really kind of stressed, and in hyper mode like I had drank too much coffee when I did not have […]
Mini Strawberry White Chocolate Layer Cake
Sometimes I just feel like making a pink girly dessert. Maybe it is the five year old in me that forever wants to wear sparkles and pink. So what if I am 30 I think that way sometimes. So, I decided last weekend I was in that sort of mood and wanted a pink cake. […]