These homemade peanut butter cups are dark chocolate and much more healthy (and tasty!) than store-bought. If you know me well, you eventually learn that I despise most candy. A mouth full of sugar just isn’t appealing to me. BUT one of the few sugary confections that actually tempt me is a peanut butter cup….
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Helen & Jim’s Birthday Cake
This healthier Chocolate Cake with Raspberries and Cream Cheese Frosting is a scaled-down version (baked in 6-inch cake pans) for a child’s birthday party (it’s also lower in sugar). February is birthday month for my kids. Their birthdays are a week apart. So I decided it would be best to combine their parties into one….
Lemon Curd Ripple Ice Cream + Summer Fun
If you’re going to make one dessert to celebrate the last days of summer, let it be this Lemon Curd Ice Cream. Even if you’re a lemon skeptic, please give it a try. It’s so rich and creamy and tangy and flavorful. Reuben is in love with this ice cream. I think he was pretty…
Individual Lemon Soufflé Pudding Cakes
If you’re looking for a recipe to impress the lemon-lover in your life, look no more: here it is. These Lemon Soufflé Pudding Cakes look all fancy-pants, but they’re actually pretty easy to whip up. AND they’re delicious warm, room temperature, or cold. Totally not finicky. It’s pretty amazing how these cakes create a light…
Blood Orange Olive Oil Cake
This Blood Orange Olive Oil Cake is an easy winter dessert bursting with flavor. Is it spring yet? Hmmm? Northern Minnesota weather has been such a tease this year. It was sunny and in the 50s on Sunday, but the forecast this week is in the teens and twenties. Right now it’s snowing and blowing…
Grain-Free Carrot Cake Cupcakes + Jim’s First Birthday!
You guys. My little boy turned one year old this Monday. Ack! How can it have been 12 months since I birthed him already?! Yes, I am one of those pitiful moms that wishes their child would remain a baby perpetually. Well, not really. But it makes me sad to think that before I know…
Flourless Chocolate Marbled Cheesecake
This Flourless Chocolate Marbled Cheesecake is not only decadent, it’s naturally gluten free! I first baked this flourless chocolate marbled cheesecake back in 2010. I posted about it on my first ever food blog, Cooking for Seven. Sadly, I failed to give details about WHY I decided to make it, so I have no idea…
Teabag Shortbread Cookies + A Tea Party & Surprise for Helen
Last Saturday, I had a lovely morning with Helen… After laying Jim down for his first nap, I put a kettle of water on the stove to boil. I set the table with teacups and saucers, milk, tea, and shortbread teabag-shaped cookies. Helen watched excitedly. I poured out the water and we waited for the…
How to Host a Real Food Thanksgiving
I don’t know about you, but I tend to enjoy my food more when I know that it’s been made from scratch. Sure, I love my share of Stovetop dressing. But if I take the time to prepare it myself, a little piece of me doesn’t die when I think about the MSG and corn…
Cranberry Clafoutis
Hey, friends! How is your November going? I’m BEYOND excited for Christmas this year, but I don’t want it to overshadow fall and Thanksgiving. Fall is a tiny blip as it is, so I want to savor it. Do you feel like that, or are you pulling out the Christmas decorations in October? I feel…