Dessert

This Healthy Chocolate Chip Mug Cake For One Recipe is a delicious low-calorie dessert that you can make in just a few minutes! As much as I love making a bunch of small changes to make my meals healthier, dessert tends to be the course I leave alone. Because…balance, right? And so many healthified treats …

These Healthy Strawberry Greek Yogurt Popsicles made with fresh strawberries and honey make for a fun and refreshing healthy summer snack or dessert. It is getting hot around here these days! Now, I always have to preface that by saying it’s hot in comparison to what our normal Colorado weather is like. After spending 7 …

How to make homemade vanilla extract to add a magical (and SUPER easy) secret ingredient to all of your baked goods.  Little things end up making a big difference. I’m a big fan of shortcuts, especially when it comes to cooking. Pre-chopped frozen veggies? Bring ’em on. Ready-to-use spaghetti sauce? Saves me hours in the kitchen! …

This festive popcorn is super simple, using hot chocolate mix and marshmallows, and it can be thrown together in minutes for a perfect party treat! The holidays are definitely in full swing around here with Christmas parties, small group potlucks, present shopping, and cookie baking! There are a ton of things to do, but not …

This fluffy, healthier whipped cream has the added tang of Greek yogurt. The perfect complement to fruit and angel food cake for a fresh and light dessert! I have made tons of “healthified” recipes over the years. I’ve cooked cauliflower pizza crusts, lightened up mac & cheese, zucchini noodles, broccoli tots, cauliflower rice, whole wheat …

This healthy summer berry trifle is perfect for a barbecue or potluck. It features light angel food cake, protein-packed Greek yogurt, and beautiful summer berries. I am trying really hard to pay attention to ingredients these days. Honestly, there are foods that I absolutely love (here’s lookin’ at you, Little Debbie Nutty Bars!) and I …

This soft and Chewy Molasses Cookies recipe is the perfect addition to your Christmas cookie baking and are only 91 calories per cookie! In the crispy vs chewy cookie debate, I am chewy cookies all. the. way. Soft, chewy Christmas cookies are my absolute favorite and these chewy molasses cookies are everything I love about …

These no-bake orange coconut ball cookies with their fruity twist are light and refreshing.  Have you seen the movie Frozen yet? If you haven’t, you should probably go and do that. Like now. It’s okay, I’ll wait…. Are we good now?  Good. I watched it for the first time a few weeks ago and I’m completely …

I have this wonderful woman that I work with. She is a teacher I interpret for and was also Roxy’s foster mom when I adopted her. She has two (extremely well trained) dogs of her own and is always my go-to person for any and all puppy related problems. Heck, I go to her with …

This Dark Chocolate Orange-Cranberry Cookies recipe is soft and chewy – the perfect addition to any Christmas cookie exchange! There’s a “thing” in the food blogger world called The Great Food Blogger Cookie Swap. Last year, my Instagram feed was filled with people tagging #fbcookieswap and I just figured it was a super exclusive invite-only …

This simple hot chocolate cake is made with hot chocolate mix and topped with fluffy frosting – the perfect sweet treat for winter! I wait for this month all year long! Not only is it my birthday month, it’s my mom’s birthday month, and, um, hello, Jesus’ birthday month! Hands down, it’s the best month of …

I put up our Halloween decorations yesterday. It sounds intensive when I leave it generalized, when really I should specify that our Halloween decorations include candy corn that I put into glass candle holders and a few pumpkin/ghost/witch snow globes that we bought from the dollar store. I don’t really do a lot for Halloween. …

I know it’s officially Fall now and I’m supposed to have moved into pumpkin and apple everything, but since it’s still in the 90’s here, I think I have a good excuse for sticking with summer fruit. At least for today. After the Blended Conference yesterday, we went to Joe’s Crab Shack for dinner and …

Do you remember the Real Seal? I remember seeing it all over the place on dairy products growing up, but until I was asked to create a recipe using a Real Seal product, I didn’t realize that it’s not quite as common before. They actually have a Facebook page with meal ideas and healthy tips …

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So…I started playing ChefVille on Facebook. I had just deleted Candy Crush off of my phone, after trying to break my addiction for 3 months. And I succeeded! But then…I got sucked in. A sweet woman asked if I would start playing with her and boy do I have a hard time saying no to …

My parents are here! The dogs are in doggy heaven from the constant petting, playing, and walks they’re enjoying from these two. We’ve already taken them to one of our favorite Tucson restaurants (The Hub), seen Monster’s University (so cute!), and my dad’s already washed a load of dishes, fixed our garbage disposal, and our …

Strawberries are one of those foods that taunts me. A perfectly ripe strawberry is one of the most delicious things on the planet. Perfectly sweet, perfectly tart, perfectly firm. To sum up – they’re perfect. But an off strawberry, either not ripe enough or overly ripened is just vile. It’s either completely mushy or way …

I work as a sign language interpreter for a school district, meaning my work days are almost identical to the school year calendar.  The school year ends on Thursday and my work year ends on Friday, which means… it’s almost summer break!  No more mandatory 5am wake-ups, no more 30 minute bell-to-bell lunch breaks, no …

This Nutella Peanut Butter Chip Cookie recipe has a delicious blend of creamy hazelnut spread with peanut butter in these soft, chewy cookies. I have this cookie recipe.  I accidentally came up with it 3 years ago.  I was supposed to be making a massive amount of cookies to bring on a church camping trip, …

I had some people over earlier this week. I had originally planned on about 5 and that number quickly jumped up to 15, meaning I quickly had to go back to the drawing board for my dinner plan. As I was planning, I knew I wanted to have a couple of fun desserts and, since …

Did you know that St. Patrick’s Day is this Sunday? This year has flown by so far! Soon I’ll be in the final stretch of work/school until summer vacation!  I’m already prepping the pool, seeing as the temperature is already creeping up into the 90’s. Yeesh. Those summer temperatures always sneak up on me. Complete. …

These Pot o’ Gold Cheesecake Trifles are an adorably delicious sweet treat to help you celebrate St. Patrick’s Day. I totally missed Valentine’s Day this year.  I had a list of fun themed recipes to try and I didn’t try any of them. I guess there’s always next year, but I vowed that I wouldn’t …

These white chocolate pumpkin cookies combine pumpkin puree with white chocolate for a perfect Fall combination of flavors in a soft, chewy cookie. I have different categories of food likeage (yes, I just invented that word).  There are foods I love, foods I like, foods I don’t like, foods I hate with a passion (cough …