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Peanut Butter and Jelly Energy Balls (3 Flavors)

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These beautiful things you see before you are peanut butter and jelly energy balls. I made them in not one, but three different flavors! Aren't they gorgeous?! I had so much fun photographing them. Peanut butter and jelly is one of the best flavor combos, right?! Why not turn that classic flavor into energy balls?! I know you will love them! Here's what we've got: raspberry peanut butter energy balls strawberry peanut butter energy balls blueberry peanut butter energy … [Read more...]

The Best Gluten Free Carrot Cake

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It's Friday and your carrot cake recipe is here. As promised!! Now you can make good use of that cream cheese frosting we made on Monday. And with plenty of time to spare before Easter. You're welcome! You guys!!! I made a cake!!! One that has two layers!!!! I have been wanting to share a gluten free carrot cake recipe for years but chickened out. Guys, this is only the second cake I have shared on Robust Recipes. The first one was a caramel apple upside down cake. It was delicious, but … [Read more...]

Cream Cheese Frosting without Powdered Sugar

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If you don't know this already, Friday means CARROT CAKE!!! I mean, no, Friday does not actually translate to carrot cake lol. What I mean is that on Friday I am sharing a carrot cake recipe. Right here, on this very blog. Just in time for your Easter celebrations!! But first, before the carrot cake, I am here to talk about the frosting. Cream cheese frosting...without powdered sugar, to be exact. Yes, you read that right. A cream cheese frosting. Without. Powdered. Sugar. But, is … [Read more...]

Chocolate Whiskey Zucchini Cupcakes

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Happy St. Patrick's day week Friends!!! I just love that we have a Holiday to celebrate all things Irish. It gives me an excuse to talk about when I studied abroad in Ireland for a semester of college. And an excuse to drink whiskey and make something fun like these chocolate whiskey zucchini cupcakes!!! Which, I never actually had while I was living in Ireland. But my Irish cookbook has a recipe for a chocolate whiskey cake...inspiration had me turn that idea into cupcakes!! The result was a … [Read more...]

5 Ingredient Banana Peanut Butter Oatmeal Snack Cookies

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Do you ever wish that you could make a banana bread cookie? You know, when those bananas have gotten all brown on you, but you really don't wanna go make a time consuming loaf of banana bread? Don't get me wrong banana bread is the absolute best! Buuuuut sometimes you don't want to take all that time to make it, right? Yet, you don't want those perfectly overly ripened brown bananas sitting on your  counter to go to waist again....or to add to the pile in your … [Read more...]

Healthy Turmeric Chocolate Snack Bars

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Hello there gorgeous turmeric chocolate snack bars! I have been wanting to bring the two of you together for a while now. Turmeric meet dark chocolate. Dark chocolate meet turmeric. May you live happily ever after! The End! Really, I always knew that perfectly sweetened turmeric would match so well with dreamy dark chocolate but I didn't know how to bring the two together. Until I saw Pinch of Yum's recipe for raw salted chocolate snack bars and thought, hey what if I add turmeric into that … [Read more...]

Mexican Chocolate Cake Balls (No Bake)

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Well hello there sexy little Mexican chocolate cake balls!!! Yes, I will be your Valentine! Valentine's day treat numero dos is coming in with a bang because today we are making ourselves (or our loved ones) some Mexican chocolate cake balls! Valentine's day recipe numero uno was quinoa crunch chocolate bark with cherries. Can't decide which one to make? Go ahead, make both. You deserve it! Allow me to tell you what Mexican chocolate is...in case you are unfamiliar. Mexican chocolate is … [Read more...]

Quinoa Crunch Chocolate Bark with Cherries

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  You know Crunch candy bars with the puffed rice? That's exactly what this quinoa crunch chocolate bark is like. Chocolate with a good crunch mixed in...and some dried cherries because why not? It's Valentine's day!!!! But seriously, I had no idea that if you toast some raw quinoa in a pan for a few minutes that it will become super crunchy. Food. Is. Magic. Plus, it's a lot of fun! The quinoa starts popping a little. Here's how you make quinoa crunch chocolate bark. It's so … [Read more...]

Peanut Butter Blossom Cookies (Gluten Free)

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I am so distracted by that photo above. I so badly want to eat one of these cookies. The struggle is real friends, because I have two peanut butter blossom cookies waiting for me to devour at lunch. My last two cookies from this batch. I might cry once I'm done eating them. Yes, they're that good. If you ever doubted that peanut butter and chocolate belong together than these cookies will erase all of your doubts. Seriously, perfection in a cookie. Let's count the ways these … [Read more...]

Homemade Vegan Chocolate Turtles

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Here we are, in full swing of our Holiday treat making and I've got a good one for you! Homemade vegan chocolate turtles! Yes!!! We are making chocolate shop quality candy over here. It's way delicious, and surprisingly easy....and a little messy. But hey, isn't that what makes Holiday treat making so much fun?! You remember on Wednesday I shared a recipe for my easy vegan caramel?! Did you make it yet?! If you did than you get a golden star for being prepared. If you haven't made the caramel … [Read more...]