Merry Christmas Eve! I hope you all are enjoying time with your loved ones this Holiday season. These coconut balls are one of my favorite Christmas cookies. I love coconut and chocolate. Christmas would not be the same without them. They are a little rich but have the most wonderful texture on the inside. I [...]
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Gluten Free Coconut Chocolate Cookies
You know it’s a good weekend when chocolate cookies are involved. I made these cookies for Ava’s lunch last weekend. Needless to say, they didn’t last through the weekend. They were the most delicious cookies I’ve had in a while. This was my first time using coconut butter and I was so surprised how much [...]
Gluten Free Chocolate Bread
Having a gluten free diet has never been so easy. Bobs Red Mill has so many wonderful, easy to use products. I have tried many of them and love them. One of my favorites to have in my pantry is their gluten free brownie mix (sinfully good). I was craving chocolate so I got in [...]
The Best Mocha Cupcakes of Your Life
Sometimes a cupcake recipe comes along that makes you wonder how you ever got by in life without it. This vegan cupcake cake recipe is a keeper. I have made it several SEVERAL times. I’m not quite sure what I would do without it. I made these cupcakes for Jonathan’s birthday. The cupcake was vegan [...]
Carmel Pecan Bark Mocha
Carmel Pecan Bark Mocha Serves 2 {ingredients} 1 C Godiva Carmel Pecan Bark coffee, hot, brewed 1/3 C milk 2 T Hershey’s chocolate syrup 1 T brown sugar Pinch of salt Whipped cream {directions} In a small sauce pan heat milk, chocolate syrup, brown sugar and salt until warm. Pour ½ C of coffee into [...]
Cookie dough Truffles
These cookie dough truffles have been all over the blog world. I told myself I was not going to make them. They were too dangerous. It’s bikini season. After hours {maybe days/weeks, shhhhh} of staring and drooling over them I figured it would be in my best interest to just make them and move on [...]
Chocolate Egg Nests
Happy Monday! With Easter right on our heels I made these adorable little chocolate eggs nest for Ava to take to school last week. They were so easy to throw together and they turned out to be a huge hit! I placed two small nests in cute Easter ziplock baggies I found out the Dollar [...]
No Bake Oatmeal Chocolate Truffles
Growing up I was obsessed with Wal-Mart’s chocolate, oatmeal no-bake cookies. I could easily polish off a whole container by myself. I, of course, felt awful afterward. But the irresistible combination of oats, chocolate and peanut butter were just too much for me to handle! Since those youthful, cellulite-free, wrinkle-free days my palate has [...]
Chocolate Covered Toffee
After fighting off colds and flus all season long I’m ready for a long Christmas break. Instead of sniffling and coughing on you, I will just leave you with these pictures and wonderful recipe. This is a dangerous/addicting candy to make! I found the original recipe out of the Paula Deen Magazine from several years [...]
Chocolate Caramel Thumbprint Cookies
The cookie baking is officially on! Despite some minor obstacles my Christmas cards and shopping are finished. Now, on to the baking {my favorite part!} I originally found these cookies in the America’s Test Kitchen magazine and I knew I had to have them! Then much to my delight I spotted them on www.bakedbree.com. I knew [...]
