Vegan Hazelnut Chocolate Raspberry Biscotti
There was a time when I made a lot of biscotti. It was back when I was in college and I had found some biscotti recipes in a magazine and decided to try them all, then make my own variations. I loved the stuff. Plus, it was a nice change from regular cookies, having a nice […]
Vegan Chocolate Hazelnut Macaroons
I was given some hazelnut meal and the first thought I had was to pair it with chocolate. I was always a big fan of Nutella growing up, but I am an even bigger fan of home made hazelnut and chocolate butter. The flavor is just wonderful! Hence the hazelnut and chocolate choice for the […]
Vegan Mini S’mores Bites
I have been making marshmallow fluff weekly since I first discovered aquafaba (chickpea liquid that creates vegan marshmallows and meringue) and how fun it is. I thought marshmallows were off limits to vegans, something I could only hold in my past memories as a child…boy was I wrong. I have been trying to create recipes […]
Raw Peanut Butter and Chocolate Dream Bars
If you read this blog often, then you know I have a thing for chocolate and peanut butter. Hasn’t changed since I had my first peanut butter cup and fell in love. So, every so often I just have to make a peanut butter and chocolate dessert. I do not think I will ever tire […]
Raw Mocha Crunch Pecan Butter Cups
I hadn’t made any chocolates in ages, and I was really craving some sort of nut butter cup really bad…so I had to make some. I never ignore these things you know. Peanut butter cups were always my favorite growing up but that is because I never got to experience any other type. The […]
Vegan Chocolate Dipped Basil Mint Sugar Cookies (gluten free)
I had lots of beautiful basil and mint from my CSA box, and I wanted to make something delicious with it. Sure, some of it made its way into salads, but I wanted something sweet as well. I couldn’t get my mind off of sugar cookies. Eric and I had spent most of the day […]
Raw Hemp Seed Cacao Fudge
Windy City Organics sent me some Dastony Hemp Seed Butter to create recipes with, and although I love it in savory applications, sweet is wonderful too. I love to include hemp seeds in my brownies sometimes, so I thought the butter might just make amazing fudge. So, I created a simple fudge recipe with it. […]
Vegan Chocolate Mint Gelato
It has been quite warm here lately which has me thinking about ice cream a lot. Not that I don’t like ice cream year round, because I enjoy it in the winter too, but now nice cool desserts sound amazing after coming inside from a hot humid day, or working in a hot kitchen. I […]
Vegan Mocha Walnut Brownies
On at least one of my days off every week I need to spend time with just myself. Maybe it is the introvert in me, but that is something I look forward to and it is very important. I do things like go for a walk, bike ride, or run (sometimes all three if I feel […]
Vegan Mississippi Mud Cookies
I was watching one of my coworkers drizzling chocolate over the freshly baked cookies at work and I decided that I had to make something with chocolate when I got home. Chocolate cookies. Because that was what I was suddenly craving after smelling that chocolate. I didn’t want to make something I had made before, […]
Raw Chocolate Raspberry Thumb Print Cookies
I really enjoyed dress up when I was a little kid. I was always putting on weird combinations of clothes that I thought would look pretty, even though most of the time I looked ridiculous. My own clothes were fun, but the most interesting clothes were at Grandma’s house. I would dig through her boxes […]
Vegan German Chocolate Doughnuts
I never turned down a doughnut when I was younger. I mean come on…who doesn’t think they are delicious?! But when I started to eat healthier as I got older I didn’t enjoy any knowing what is in most of the commercially made ones. I didn’t really miss them or crave them, but I have […]
Raw Walnut Hemp Brownie Fudge Butter
Brownies will never get old. I mean who doesn’t love a brownie?! So after I made some brownies last week, and it was time to make my weekly nut butter (I have to have some sort of delicious nut butter on hand at all times for snacking), an idea popped into my head. Those brownies […]
Raw Strawberries and Cream Truffles
We have all had one of those days. You know, the ones where you wake up on the wrong side of the bed, repeatedly drop things, ruin things…like spilling something that stains on your favorite pair of shoes or burn a huge pot of soup and have to throw it out. Or have to face rude […]
Raw Fudgy Matcha Mint Brownies
Matcha makes me happy. That happy color along with the earthy aroma and flavor is something that I love. I have always been a green tea fan, ever since I was young which is odd because I didn’t always like other types of tea, just green. I knew I enjoyed drinking a warm cup of it, and […]
Gluten Free Sugar Free Vegan Marble Cupcakes
Last weekend a reader sent me a message asking me to try and find her diabetic friendly cupcake recipe for her parents 50th wedding anniversary. Since I didn’t have one to share with her at that time, and I am always up for a challenge, I decided to make some! Marble cake is always […]
Raw Almond Joy Bark
I am so thankful for my Mom, I love her so much. I have never wanted to change anything about her. She has always been there for me, no matter what I have decided to go after in life, following me to my track meets in school, road races as an adult. Helping me find […]
Vegan Black Forest Cookies
My Mom gave me a bag of dried cherries, and asked me if I would make her some cookies. They were really good ones. Not those flavorless super sweet sugary dried cherries but the natural ones with a pop of tart with the sweet. What came to mind immediately was black forest cookies. Chocolate cookie, […]
Raw Peanut Butter Buckwheat Crispy Bars
Last week my Mom and I were discussing rice crispy bars. I was saying that the best kind when I was young were the ones with the peanut butter in the crispy part topped off with chocolate. I could have cared less about the regular ones with just marshmallows, it had to be the special […]
Raw Pineapple Chili Truffles
My boyfriend Eric is always telling me I should make desserts with fruit and heat in the form of chilies added to them. One time he asked me to make him a smoothie with berries and ghost peppers in it. That is how much he loves hot peppers. Probably because he is originally from Arizona […]
Chocolate Chunk Swirled Peanut Butter
I love my peanut butter. One of my favorite simple desserts/snacks is sliced banana drizzled with peanut butter and it tastes as good to me as a piece of cake that is how much I love it. Add in some chopped raw chocolate, and even better. Which got me to thinking, what if I […]
Raw German Chocolate Chia Porridge
I always have some sort of porridge for breakfast during the week, whether it be oatmeal or chia porridge. I am pretty plain with it most of the time, with the chia porridge simply using coconut water and topping it off with bananas and ground flax seed. But sometimes I like to give it a […]
Raw Almond Maple Crunch Truffles
There is just something so delicious about the combination of chocolate, nut butter and crunch. Sure, smooth plain dark chocolate or silky truffles are good sometimes, but I decided to go a little different route with my last batch of truffles. Ever since I made some Raw Butterfinger Eggs for Easter, I have been loving […]
Vegan Strawberry Chocolate Chunk Oatmeal Cookies
I recently had a good amount of strawberries, and I decided to dry some. I thought the intensely flavored strawberries would be wonderful in recipes like granola. But I was craving some oatmeal cookies, and I didn’t want to just make the usual (I never do, it has to have a twist on it). So, I […]
Raw Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Energy Bars
I never leave the house without a snack on hand if I know I am going to be somewhere long. I guess I take after my Grandma, who always brought us kids snacks whenever we would go anywhere. She was always prepared. We would never go hungry with Grandma around. And it wasn’t just […]
Raw Pistachio Rosewater Truffles
I am sooo ready for green to appear outside. Green grass, green leaves sprouting from the trees, and green tulip leaves sprouting up from the ground to say Spring has arrived! It is still pretty brown here, and although buds are appearing on the trees, it is not green quite yet. Probably because it […]
Raw Butterfinger Eggs
I have made Raw Maca Peanut Butter Eggs, Raw Raspberry Cream Eggs, and Raw Vanilla Bean White Chocolate Eggs…but I did not want to stop there. What other candy eggs could I make? Then it came to me. Butterfinger eggs! I loved the mini ones that they used to have when I was little, and […]
Raw Tag-Along Tart
I made some Raw Tag-Alongs since it is Girl Scout season, and they were so good that I thought I should make another Tag Along dessert as well. I never tire of the chocolate and peanut butter combo, I am in love with it. I thought the Tag Alongs deserved some more time in the […]
Raw Tag-Along Cookies
I like to make Girl Scout cookie inspired desserts sometimes. Maybe it is because I loved those things as a child and I have good memories of enjoying them. I know if I ate them as an adult it would not quite be the same though since my taste buds and body are no longer […]
Vegan Flourless Chocolate Cake
I have always wanted to make a flourless chocolate cake and finally last weekend I did. It all started when someone asked me if I had a flourless chocolate cake recipe because they wanted to make one for Easter. I didn’t unfortunately, and I decided that I needed to make one! Surprising in all of […]
Mulberry Pecan Crunch Dark Chocolates
Vivapura was kind enough to send me some products to try recently, and one of them was white mulberries. I could not have been more excited because I have been hearing about these for years, and have never gotten to try them, until now. If you have not heard of Vivapura, they are a supplier […]
Raw Banana Almond Chocolate Chunk Ice Cream
Sprout Living was kind enough to send me some of their protein powder samples to try out and create recipes with. I was super excited because being as active as I am protein powders are always something I use. I love them in smoothies, but I sneak them into other recipes as well. Their […]
Raw Samoa Macaroons
Every where you go practically this time of the year, you hear about buying Girl Scout cookies. I used to indulge in them myself up until I decided to eliminate refined sugars and transfats from my diet. Samoas were always my favorite. Don’t get me wrong, Thin Mints, and Tag Alongs were a close second, […]
Raw Vanilla Mint Chocolates
I have always wondered why mint is part of the St. Patrick’s Day tradition besides the fact that it is green and green is of course the color of St. Patrick’s Day. I mean, did they eat lots of mint stuff over in Ireland? I am not Irish so I do not know, but probably […]
Raw Chocolate Blood Orange Caramel Cheesecake with Lavender
I am obsessed with blood oranges lately. They are seriously the most beautiful citrus fruit I have ever seen, and their flavor is the perfect balance of tart and sweet. I have been buying them by the bagful for a few weeks now since they became available here, and I am savoring every juicy orange […]
Vegan German Chocolate Cookies
A lot of times when I decide to make things, it is on a whim. That was how it was last Friday when I decided to bake a batch of cookies. I have been on a cookie baking kick lately, not sure why since cookies were never my favorite dessert in the past, but they […]
Raw Dark Chocolate Glazed Coconut Almond Doughnuts
I realized last week it had been far too long since I had made raw doughnuts. I needed to remedy that. I haven’t had a real doughnut in probably 12 years, and I haven’t missed them because I know I can make some pretty amazingly delicious healthier doughnuts. I was never a fan of how […]
Raw Marble Cake Batter Nut Butter
I am always experimenting with new flavors of nut butters. Sometimes I keep them simple and sometimes, I like to play it a little sweet and dessert like. This is because I think the right sweet nut butter is wonderful drizzled over some bananas for dessert, or over a smoothie bowl as an extra treat […]
Vegan Dark Chocolate Blood Orange Layer Cake (gluten free)
Last Saturday on Valentine’s Day, Eric and I decided to take a trip to the Minneapolis Institute of the Arts for a date. I had planned on going for a nice walk outdoors somewhere, and as it worked out, Mother Nature did not cooperate and it was about 5F degrees that day. So, the art […]
Raw Chocolate Maca Almond Butter Cookies
Sprout Living recently sent me some of their protein powders to try, and I have to say they are some of the best protein powders I have tasted. If you have not heard of Sprout Living, you check them out, their protein powders are raw, non GMO, gluten free, made with whole foods, and vegan. […]
Raw Neapolitan Cheesecake, Blogaversary and a Giveaway!
4 years ago today I posted my first recipe on this blog. It was a red velvet cupcake recipe featuring beets, and it was not plant based at all because I had used cream cheese frosting and I had taken a single photo of the cupcakes with the worst lighting possible. But I was proud […]
Vegan Double Cookie Dough Blizzard and Zimt Artisan Chocolate Giveaway!
Emma over at Zimt Artisan Chocolates was kind enough to send me a few samples to try. Dark Chocolate Baking Pieces, which I made some Vegan Banana Peanut Butter Chocolate Chunk Cupcakes with, as well as some Double Chocolate Macaroons, and Cookie Dough Cups. They were all amazing! If you have never checked out Emma’s […]
Vegan Peanut Butter Banana Chocolate Chunk Cupcakes
Emma over at Zimt Artisan Chocolates was kind enough to send me a bunch of products to try, one of which was dark chocolate baking pieces. I know they are called baking pieces, but seriously these are great for snacking on just as is. But since I wanted to try them in a recipe as well, […]
Raw Maca Mocha Love Brownies
Everyone has one of THOSE days once in a while. You know, the ones where you wake up on the wrong side of the bed, you get to work and realize your pants are on inside out, you keep messing things up or dropping things, and you feel like you can’t do anything right…then the […]
Raw Matcha and Rose Marzipan Truffles for Mother’s Day
My Mom is one of my best friends. She is one of the strongest most beautiful women I know. I have learned a lot from her in my 28 years, and I am grateful that God chose to have her be my Mom. She has always been there for me, supporting me when I choose […]
Raw Nut Goodie Bites
Nut goodies. The name brings back memories of biting into a maple cream and crunchy peanut goodness coated in smooth chocolate. A child’s dream dessert. I have to admit when I was little they ranked right up there with Reese’s PB cups if not higher. They are made right here in Minnesota, and I […]