Category Archives: Chocolate

St. Patty’s Day Chocolate-Mint Bars

With St. Patrick’s day coming up this weekend I felt the need to include a green recipe, even if I had to recycle it from a year ago December.  Take another look at these beautiful green no-bake bars that satisfy … Continue reading

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Valentine’s Day

Happy Valentine’s Day! It’s a day to make your loved ones (and yourself) a sweet treat.  Preferably chocolatey and pink!  Forget the boxed chocolates from the drugstore and the bakery cakes made from atrocious ingredients.  There are millions of tempting … Continue reading

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2 Holiday Party Dessert Recipes Plus Healthy Party-Going Tips

Happy Christmas Eve! Would you like some Christmas Truffles and Peanut Butter Caramel Cookies? I know I have said this before but I am in such awe of all the dessert blogs out there.  I get drawn in by the … Continue reading

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Brownies with Cashew Cream and Salted Caramel

  Do you remember the carob brownies with cashew cream frosting?  Chewy, rich, nutty-carob with a thick snowy white layer of  cool, sweet cream on top.  Well, a good thing has gotten even better.  And by better I mean topped … Continue reading

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Chocolate-Dipped Biscotti (vegan)

Hello and Happy Holidays! I have a fantastic biscotti recipe to share.  These fun-to-dip-in-a-hot-beverage cookies are made with whole wheat flour and coconut butter, sweetened with pure maple syrup, bursting with almond flavor and delicately dipped in luscious chocolate.  Definitely … Continue reading

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Cookie Baking Success!

Yahoo!  I have finally come up with a baked cookie recipe that not only meets my requirements for being “healthy”– but tastes amazing as well.   I usually stick to raw-food type desserts because of the high-nutrient ingredients and lack of … Continue reading

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Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Squares

Cake, brownie, muffin?    They are hard to describe but I’d have to say they are most like a pumpkin bread.  Moist and moderately sweet, these could be eaten just as easily for breakfast as they could  for dessert.  Whatever you … Continue reading

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A Few of My Favorite Things

As passionately as I promote “real” “whole” “actual” foods (you know– oats, apples, butternut squash, walnuts, etc, etc)  and as much as I like Michael Pollan’s advice to not eat anything your great-grandmother would not recognize as food, there are … Continue reading

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Guilt-Free Delicous Chocolate Peanut Butter Ice Cream

I automatically assume everybody knows how to make their own delicious ice cream at home from frozen bananas but I know this sadly isn’t true!  I posted about banana soft serve last summer (exactly one year ago yesterday!) but I … Continue reading

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Magical Cookie Dough Dip– Amaze Your Guests!

You’ve got to trust me on this one.  It truly does taste like cookie dough yet the main ingredient is….chickpeas.  I have Chocolate Covered Katie to thank for this ingenious recipe.  I modified hers just a bit but all the … Continue reading

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