A Healthy Lifestyle with Dessert First
Healthy turtle bars are a soft cookie crust topped with healthy caramel sauce and chocolate making them the perfect holiday dessert. There’s a small candy shop back in my hometown that was known for their turtle candies. The traditional candy made with walnuts topped with homemade caramel and a hefty dollop of chocolate. I’ll be …
Chocolate peanut butter Ritz cookies are a simple holiday dessert that require just three simple ingredients. A sweet and salty treat best enjoyed frozen. The first Christmas Burken and I spent together with our respective families, his mom made these chocolate covered Ritz peanut butter crackers. I quickly found out that they were one of …
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 …
Chocolate eggnog cake roll is a spongy chocolate cake filled with fluffy eggnog flavored buttercream frosting. The perfect holiday dessert! I always found cake rolls to be really intimidating. I mean, how do you get a cake to roll like that in the first place? It’s likely some crazy complicated process with lots of ingredients. …
There’s one less week between Thanksgiving and Christmas this year. Are you already on the hunt for the perfect Christmas recipes? Every year, since I can remember, my mom and I have baked cookies together. This year wasn’t any different. We baked five different cookies over the weekend. I also can’t wait to bring our …
Healthy pecan pie bars are exactly what you would expect in a pecan pie, but with no refined sugar, and gluten free. Perfect for Thanksgiving or Christmas desserts. I’ll be totally honest. I’ve never been that big of a fan of pecan pie. I always reach for something like pumpkin pie or my all-time favorite, …
I hear this a lot: the holidays are really hard when it comes to my diet. It stresses a lot of us out, to be quite honest. Not only can the holidays be stressful if you’re the one hosting, but many people struggle with sticking to their diet when it comes to the holidays. But …
It’s Christmas Eve and you still have yet to create a dessert that will wow your family. But, you’re short on time, and maybe, just sort-of, freaking out right now. Not to worry my sweet-treat lover! I gotchu! Below are 10 of my favorite healthy {because what recipe share would this be if it weren’t …
Healthy cranberry orange muffins are bursting with tart cranberries and sweet orange flavor. With no refined sugar, these muffins are a healthy alternative to your coffee shop staple.
Cranberry orange shortbread cookies are a healthy, gluten free and vegan version of the classic shortbread cookie. Soft, sandy cookies are bursting with cranberry and orange flavor, making them perfect for the holidays! Every year my mom and I bake Christmas cookies together. We spend an entire weekend rolling, cutting, baking and frosting hundreds of …