'Sweets & Desserts' Category
Apple Date (or Prune!) Bars
Here’s another recipe that I found online and thought was worth re-posting. It’s delicious for breakfast or as a snack and contains tons of great vitamins, fiber, and nutrients. Instead of using regular flour, I opted for the gluten-free kind since I sometimes cut out all gluten products for a week. I find that going [...]
I Can’t Believe There’s No Milk – Chocolate Pudding
Once in a while I’ll post a recipe by a FoodNetwork star or other celebrity chef that is just really tasty AND unique. This past weekend, we were looking for a creamy, chocolatey, but still moderately healthy dessert. We found just that in Rachael Ray’s Chocolate Silken Tofu Pudding. It’s creamy, full of flavor, and [...]
Spiked Lemon Pudding
I made this super-easy, no-bake dessert on new year’s eve. If you’re making this for kids, or would like to keep it alcohol-free, feel free to leave out the limoncello. I think my hubs actually preferred it with less of this Italian, lemon-flavored liquor. This recipe would also be great for entertaining, especially with some [...]
Chocolate-Peppermint Holiday Cookies
Need a good cookie recipe for Christmas eve or Christmas day? Whatever holiday you’re celebrating, you can’t go wrong with these festive holiday cookies. I’ve been baking batches of these for my co-workers and friends. Enjoy with a cup of hot cocoa, tea, or coffee! Ingredients 3 cups of all-purpose flour 1.5 cups of sugar [...]
Health Nut Food Faves of the Month – October
It’s finally fall and is starting to feel a bit more like it as well in my area. With cooler weather, here’s what I absolutely love this month! Trader Joe’s Mulling Spices If you’re looking for a warm, fat free dessert, this is going to be one of your new fall favorites! What I love: [...]
Grown-Up Hot Chocolate
I absolutely love this drink! It’s perfect for the holidays and cold weather and it tastes like a dessert, while still being fairly low-cal. It takes only a couple of minutes to whip this up, so please give it a try! Ingredients (for 1 cup) 3/4 of a mug or cup of milk (whatever you’re [...]
Fruit Tart
This is a very easy recipe that’s great for entertaining! I copied Ina Garten’s recipe, which can be found here: Fruit tart recipe. Rather than copying that recipe on the blog, I will just give you a few tips and will tell you what I did differently: Instead of using plums, I used quartered nectarines [...]
Chocolate Zucchini Bread
I know the combination of chocolate and zucchini sounds weird to a lot of people, but this is probably the best bread I’ve ever eaten. It beats the banana-walnut-chocolate chip bread that I often bake. I got this recipe from the Producebox and will make it as long as I can find zucchinis! Ingredients 3 [...]
Lemon Pound Cake
I got this recipe from one of my co-workers and decided to slightly modify it by adding a lemon twist to it. It takes a little bit of time to cream together the butter and shortening, but this is absolutely the best pound cake you’ll ever taste, with or without the hint of lemon! Ingredients [...]
No time for baking?
I made this dessert for our Superbowl party this year because I was short on time, but still wanted to serve dessert. I grew up eating Nutella, but if you’ve never tried it, it’s worth the calories! A sweet treat doesn’t get any easier than this! Ingredients (for about 12 people) 1 lb loaf of [...]
