Cookies & Bars

If the idea of a fudgy, creamy, almost-inch-thick layer of bittersweet chocolate makes you feel funny inside (in that good way), then try to imagine this lovely layer sandwiched between what is essentially a buttery, crumbly, oatmeal cookie.  The cookie knows enough in this recipe to yield to the beauty …

I know there’s no such word as ‘cocodamia’, but work with me here.  Coconut macadamia got together and had a love child, who then hooked up with white chocolate.  And these bars were born, in the tropics. You’re basically going to take the recipe for Coconut Macaroons and stir in the …

If you haven’t figured it out, these bars have three layers of chocolate.  Some might think it’s excessive to have three layers of cocoa goodness going on in one meager bar, but these are the people that we don’t want to associate with anyways.  Bring on the layers, I say, …

Okay, so I didn’t just make these bars because I made homemade maraschino cherries (and therefore have a crapload of them hanging around- let’s face it- how many cocktails with maraschino cherries can a girl take in a two week window?)- I made these bars because any kind of dessert …

I knew I was going to fall hard for this recipe as soon as I stumbled upon it.  White chocolate?  Definitely interested. Cashews?  Keep talking. Coffee in the batter?  Um hmm. White chocolate frosting, generously slathered over top (my own twist on the recipe)?  Preheat the oven and let’s get …

Healthy Red Velvet Gooey Butter Cookies – like Red Velvet Cake but in a palm-sized cookie, and without any butter, oil, refined white sugar, bleached flour and artificial food coloring!  And only 67 calories a cookie? Go ahead, have another one, no guilt involved! Just the other day as I was standing at the checkout line …

Healthy Chocolate Flax Crackers ? — crunchy, chocolatey, and slightly sweet crackers that’ll satisfy the snack monster that lives in all of us.  Who needs storebought crackers when you can make these simple 5-ingredient squares of goodness?  ?? Storebought crackers are generally never 100% whole grain…  they usually cheat and say they’re whole …

13 (secretly) healthy Halloween recipes for a guilt-free, spooky shindig!! ??? Say what?  You can enjoy your favorite snacks and treats and delicious, chocolatey goodness without all the excess sugar, calories, and fat?? YES, PUH-LEASE.  I’ll take ALL the guilt-free goodies, thank you very much. Instead of peeling hundreds of mini …

. Healthy Gingerbread Cookies — lightly sweet, rich, and robust cookies full of molasses, ginger, cinnamon, nutmeg, and cloves.  Unlike typical Gingerbread Cookie recipes, this version is refined sugar free, gluten free, dairy free and vegan! Gingerbread Cookies were never the kind of treat I craved all year around (that’s what …

These Healthy Homemade Oreos will fulfill your wildest dreams!  They’re chocolatey and sweet and 100% delicious and addicting, they’re serious rivals to the storebought variety.  But, there’s something very different about this DIY version…  these are sugar free, gluten free, dairy free, and vegan! I remember a time when I was …