TL/DR – Chocolate Peanut Butter Snack Cake. This is a healthy cake you won’t feel guilty about feeding kids. It has beans, squash, coconut sugar, cocoa and powdered peanut butter. – Not every healthy choice has to be rewarded, but it is nice to have …[read more]

TL/DR – Fig Upside Down Cake. Figs make a gorgeous pattern. Use parchment paper and cooking spray to achieve clean lines. This cake can be GF and tastes a lot like a lemony fig cookie. It’s moist and great with tea. – Another challenge from …[read more]

TL/DR – Strawberry Lemon Cake. Key words for this cake are fresh, moist, and subtle. A roasted beet is a sneaky, healthy ingredient in an otherwise cakey cake. No buttercream, but whipped cream lightens everything and interacts deliciously with the strawberries and the bright lemon …[read more]

TL/DR – Chocolate Beet Bean Banana Cake. A moist and nutritious version of chocolate cake with beets, kidney beans, banana, cocoa, coconut sugar, canola oil, egg and mini chocolate chips. It’s a sneaky-healthy chocolate cake. – In an effort to create healthier treats, I’ve been …[read more]

TL/DR – Cranberry Macadamia Blondies. A mostly traditional blondies recipe with the great textures of dried cranberries and macadamia nuts. Easy to make. Freezes well. – As a dessert lover, I am also a big dessert freezer. Hear me out before you judge. I love …[read more]

TL/DR – Lemon Basil Ricotta Ice Cream! No eggs, just simmering milk with basil and lemon zest, then straining, adding sugar and cooling the milk before putting it in the machine. Worth any labor involved. Off the chain good, easily scoop-able ice cream. – This …[read more]

TL/DR – Zucchini Lemon Layer Cake! Paul Hollywood is a silver fox, this cake isn’t “claggy,” notes on layer cake best practices, perfectly imperfect is OK. – Ah yes, August again. My birthday isn’t for a few days but, well, I feel like this year …[read more]

TL/DR – Cinnamon Quick Bread. A quick and easy treat to satisfy a craving for cinnamon rolls when there is simply not enough time to make them! – If I had the patience and the time, I’d make cinnamon rolls twice a week and eat …[read more]