None of your favorite foods are safe from being turned into balls. Be warned. Dates, toasted pecans, vanilla, cinnamon, and salt get blended up to form a sticky, crunchy caramel-like filling for these simple, nutrient-dense Keep Reading
Whole Wheat Butternut Spice Cake
A dense yet tender whole wheat cake spiced with cinnamon, nutmeg, and ginger, that’s topped with maple whipped cream. This cake would be just as welcome for breakfast this weekend as it would be for dessert Keep Reading
Maple Peanut Butter Oatmeal Cookies
Cookies are my love language; I use them to tell people I care about them, to say thank you, to celebrate milestones, and to comfort a loss. While I usually make cookies for other people, Keep Reading
Date-Sweetened Chocolate Ice Cream
With chopped up Dark Chocolate Hazelnut Butter Cups and toasted hazelnuts for good measure. I have loved ice cream for the majority of my almost-27-years on this planet. Growing up in a vacation hotspot meant there Keep Reading
Dark Chocolate Hazelnut Butter Cups
It’s Friday, let’s eat some chocolate! Homemade toasted hazelnut butter gets mixed with maple syrup and enrobed in chocolate to make a perfectly sweet, nutty, complex version of a good old peanut butter cup. I’ve Keep Reading
Crockpot Apple Butter (No Sugar Added)
Have you ever had apple butter before? I tried explaining it to Kevin, but he thought I was talking about butter with apples mixed into it. Or, maybe something like peanut butter where you just grind Keep Reading
Chocolate Peanut Butter Freezer Fudge
This fudge is a distant cousin of the one I’m used to eating at Christmas. It’s still rich, creamy, and decadent in all the right ways, but is much easier to make, is made with Keep Reading
Apple Cider Spice Cake
With boiled cider caramel! On Saturday, Kevin and I stopped by Quonquont Farm to pick a peck of apples and reminisc about or wedding. I loved walking through their apple orchard, taking in the honey-sweet Keep Reading
The Ultimate Apple Pie Guide
Apple Pie: the most American of all the desserts; thinking about it gets my eyes star-spangled and my heart all warm and fuzzy. Although it’s perhaps the most iconic, I’d argue there isn’t ONE apple pie Keep Reading
Whole Wheat Fig Bars
Thick, sticky dried figs get sandwiched between layers of tender, buttery (though, butter-less), lightly spiced whole wheat cookie dough to form a better-than-Fig-Newtons bar that will satisfy all of your snack cravings. These fun little snacks Keep Reading