Category Archives for "Dessert"

Three of my most beloved fall flavors come together in these Cinnamon Maple Oat Cookies with Pumpkin Buttercream. Cinnamon: the ultimate sweet Autumn spice. Maple Syrup: the scent alone is sweet, rich, and intoxicating. Pumpkin: obviously, a late-September requirement! The result is a chewy cookie with a soft center enveloped in a fluffy pumpkin-infused frosting. Think the Oatmeal Creme Pie of your childhood – but a lot more sophisticated, and dare a say, HEALTHY?! AKA, […]

Let’s talk healthy cookies! There’s a billion (no, really!) “healthy” chocolate chip cookie recipes hanging out on the world wide web. Some, more delicious than others 😉 Here’s the problem: Paleo versions usually have eggs and/or a crazy amount of not-budget-friendly almond flour. Vegan versions have 1 or more of these: gluten, inflammatory grains, refined sugar Also, most vegan and paleo versions have a lot of added coconut oil which isn’t terrible, but isn’t always […]

Ever want to take your two favorite desserts and smash them together, so you can enjoy the best of both worlds? Swoon over a hybrid that is more delicious than the sum of its parts? Or maybeeee, I am the only one who takes dessert this seriously . . . Anyway. I love ice cream and I rarely go a day without a cookie, so I dreamt up these Snickerdoodle Ice Cream Bars. I know […]

Fruity. Creamy. Nutty. Chocolate-laced. With a bit of spice. These ice cream bars give me PB & J vibes, in popsicle form! Because dessert is more fun to eat on a stick. Especially ice cream. Always ice cream. Can you sense my love affair with ice cream?  Are you counting how many times I write “ice cream?” About this recipe though. It’s my favorite version of nice cream (simple & nut butter-packed!), with some extra […]

Reminisce with me, will you? Even before my obsession with all sorts of cookies (I know, what was wrong with me??) I had a thing for shortbread. Like the really good, freshly homemade, vanilla bean specked, butter-heavy kind that blows your socks off. I actually remember the first time I made homemade shortbread on an August afternoon. I made strawberry jam for it to serve with it. And I nearly devoured the whole pan of […]

S’mores. Doesn’t that word evoke such nostalgia? I bet we all have at least one fond memory of a summer night that included a bon fire, citronella candles, loud music, booze lemonade, and a attempt to make the perfect, melty, chocolatey, just-burnt-enough s’more. There’s something magically about the process of cooking over an open fire surrounded by your clan. An the fact that sugar and chocolate are involved in the cherry, I mean . . […]