A Healthy Lifestyle with Dessert First
Healthy-ish Halloween spider web cupcakes are a homemade light and fluffy chocolate cupcake. Topped with velvety cream cheese frosting. Perfect for a fun Halloween dessert. I always imagined Kennedy’s first Halloween. Wondering what we would dress her as and taking her trick-or-treating. This year is obviously looking very different than any years past. We still …
Strawberry cheesecake ice cream is a silky blend of homemade strawberry ice cream studded with chunks of cream cheese, strawberries and graham crackers. Perfect for a hot summer day! I honestly don’t think I’ve loved a recipe so much as I have this strawberry cheesecake ice cream! It deserves that exclamation point at the end …
Baileys chocolate truffles are decadent with a hint of Irish cream. Topped with melted dark chocolate, these truffles are a chocolate lover’s dream! Chocolate and Valentine’s Day. They’re like peanut butter and jelly. Or cute puppies and smiles. Or pizza and ranch {trust on this one}. They just go together. I mean, doesn’t it seem …
Chocolate pecan turtle clusters are a super simple, four ingredient recipe. Toasted pecans, gooey caramel and chocolate make the perfect holiday treat. There’s a candy store in my hometown that is known for their chocolate pecan turtle clusters. Except they call them Gremlins. A combination of toasted pecans, homemade caramel and coated in their special …
Berry trifle is the perfect dessert for Memorial Day or 4th of July. Layers of angel food cake, fresh berries and whipped cream is the easiest way to celebrate the holidays. It’s hard to believe that we’re almost to the end of May, which means Memorial Day! Memorial Day, Fourth of July and Labor Day …
Lemon raspberry cheesecake is tart yet sweet, smooth and creamy with the best crunchy cookie crust. This will become your favorite warm weather treat! We’ve had a lot of ups and downs in the weather this month of April. One day it’s 70°F and I’m sweating in a t-shirt and shorts walking Winston. Two days …
This chocolate whoopie pie recipe is made up of healthy tender round chocolate cakes sandwiched between fluffy peanut butter frosting for the best combination of chocolate and peanut butter out there! This whoopie pie recipe has me wishing for summer, or at least for spring to finally start making it’s appearance. Why? Because here in …
Guinness snickerdoodle cookies are pillowy soft, rolled in cinnamon sugar and are a healthier, but still absolutely delicious melt-in-your mouth cookie! It has been years since I’ve made snickerdoodle cookies, but every time I think of them, I know exactly what they should taste like. That quintessential cream of tartar taste that almost makes your …
Healthy-ish puppy chow is the same puppy chow {or muddy buddy} mix you know and love, with just a little healthier spin. Puppy chow {or muddy buddies, whatever you want to call it} takes me back to my grade school days. I picture those small Ziploc bags stuffed with the powdered sugar goodness at bake …
Healthy-ish chocolate cake is a dense, chewy, brownie-like chocolate cake topped with the best buttercream frosting. Making it the perfect healthy-ish combination! I feel like I’ve been hitting the dessert jackpot lately. As in Burken has really liked a lot of the desserts I’ve recently baked up in our kitchen. For those of you who …