This Matcha Chocolate Chunk Ice Cream is a wonderful way to enjoy the flavors of matcha! September is here! I know everyone else will be sharing baking, apple, pumpkin, and spice-infused recipes. But I’m over here hanging on to the last bits of summer in northern Minnesota. Fall is my favorite season, don’t get me…
Dessert
Homemade Dark Chocolate Peanut Butter Cups
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….
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…