A creamy, dairy free homemade ice cream is possible!! This one is infused with earl grey and lavender, then sweetened with honey! I’ve had to get creative over the last 5 months or so of not eating dairy while nursing my little man and have found that you can still enjoy most things using alternative…
Cherry Mascarpone Ice Cream
The 90 degree heat wave with 150% humidity we’ve been having is quite miserable, especially considering our 20 year old HVAC unit is struggling to keep up. It seems about the only way to survive this summer heat is to eat all of the frozen things. So it’s a good reason to whip up a…
Blood Orange Chocolate Chip Banana Bread
What do I do when I have leftovers of some random ingredient like blood orange glaze? I come up with another new recipe! Ha! I actually love the combination of chocolate and citrus, particularly orange. So when I had leftover blood orange glaze from these happy little donuts and some overripe bananas begging to be…
German Chocolate Cupcakes
I hate coconut. There. I said it. It’s not the flavor, but the texture that I despise. And what I’ve found is that there are two camps when it comes to coconut and most people have their feet planted firmly in one or the other. For me, it’s a texture thing I can’t get past,…
Banana Split Cheesecake
A well known fact about me – I love ice cream. So much that before we started really eating healthy, I once bought 4 gallons of Blue Bell ice cream when it went on sale for $2.49 each. One of my favorite Blue Bell flavors is the banana split. If I did not control myself,…
Homemade Butter
Making homemade butter is surprisingly simple and easy, especially if you have a KitchenAid Mixer. Here we were, sitting in our PJ’s watching Alex Guarnaschelli on her show, ‘Alex’s Day Off’ and she just “whipped up some homemade butter” Of course she did. She’s an awesome chef. But after watching her make it, we said…
Low-fat Carrot Cupcakes with Low-fat Cream Cheese Icing
I have been CRAVING cupcakes lately like nobody’s business. However, our new “diet” does not allow for such things EVER. So when we came across a recipe from Nadia G at BK for carrot cupcakes topped with cream cheese icing claiming to be low-fat, we had to give them a try. [Disclaimer: Nadia is a very…