Recipes

Believe it or not, growing up, I was never really a fan of Nutella *gasp* ? — I preferred peanut butter.  I didn’t like how Nutella was runnier than my favorite butterized nut, which was much easier to scoop with a spoon and eat out of the jar with.  I was the odd one …

Healthy Homemade Chocolate Syrup recipe — thick, rich, sweet, and chocolatey, yet secretly sugar free, low fat, high fiber, gluten free, and vegan!  Perfect in chocolate milk, milkshakes, smoothies, oatmeal, and more. If you’ve ever wanted to drizzle some chocolate syrup over pancakes or waffles or ice cream or maybe …

This Healthy Oreo Cookie Butter is so thick, rich, sweet, and chocolatey, you’d never know it’s sugar free, low calorie, low fat, gluten free, dairy free, and vegan!  This amazing spread will beat peanut butter and almond butter ANY DAY. Those are some serious claims, I know, but I will back …

ATTENTION.  THIS IS NOT A DRILL.  THIS GUILT-FREE FRENCH SILK PIE IS BOMB AND WILL CHANGE YOUR LIFE! ? Sorry (not sorry) for shouting, but it was absolutely necessary that I get your attention.  This pie.  THIS PIE.  It’s the ultimate pie for the chocolate-lover in you — it’s incredibly …

It’s that time of year. Crowds, weird mall Santas, and gingerbread.  Gingerbread houses are interesting things, aren’t they?  On one hand, they can be beautiful, and yet on the other hand they can seem incredibly germy.  The person making the house obviously manhandles the hell out of each piece, and …

There is something about blueberries and lemon zest and cream cheese… it’s kind of like chocolate and caramel and nuts- they just go together, and you don’t fight it.  (But really- check out these Caramel Chocolate Pecan Cubes after you’re done making these muffins.) I have married cream cheese with blueberries …

I just made one of my dreams come true.  (Well, technically a dozen dreams, since this recipe makes 12 puffy and sticky and wondiferous cinnamon buns.) Because I know you’re keenly interested, let’s have a discussion about The History of Cinnamon Buns in My Life, shall we?  I don’t remember …

Bigger is better when it comes to muffins, eh? (Except when you’re talking about the muffin tops that spill over a perfectly good pair of jeans.  Of course.) These muffins don’t look that big in the picture, and for that I am bummed.  I bought these rather gargantuous (word?) muffin …

This banana bread is basically a chocolate cake, and for that reason you will love this recipe (and me) forever. This recipe makes two lovely loaves, and takes care of those spotty old bananas on your counter.  And it hits that craving for a dense, rich cake right in the …

I am so excited by these! Yeah, we’ve all had blueberry muffins, and I’ve posted more than my share of blueberry-filled recipes.  But these.  These muffins have a crumbly top, which takes them out of this realm and into another kind of buttery, sugary world.  (I think crumble tops make anything …