Raise your hand if you like all gingerbread things!!! Now, raise your hand if you don't feel like baking or decorating!!!! Then these gingerbread balls are perfect for you! You bite into a crunchy chocolate shell followed by a soft and sticky, sweet and slightly spicy gingerbread filling. Yes, I think you want these in your life this Holiday season. Also, let's just ignore the fact that I have made a lot of ball recipes for the Holidays. Two this year, my rum balls, now these … [Read more...]
3 Edible Cookie Dough Flavors (Gluten Free)
Do you enjoy eating cookie dough? Do you sometimes make a batch of your favorite cookie dough just so you can have a few bites of that raw dough? I am guilty on both accounts. Today, I have solved all of the world's problems. Well, okay just the whole you-shouldn't-eat-cookie-dough-because-it-has-raw-eggs problem, by making edible cookie dough!!! And not just in a plain chocolate chip cookie dough flavor. Nope, We've got 3 edible cookie dough flavors for you today!!!!! That's right, … [Read more...]
5 Ingredient Vanilla Cashew Butter Cups
And it begins with the Christmas treats! Are you ready?! Remember that vanilla cashew butter I made a while back?! It was so yummy, and creamy, and naturally sweet that I figured it would make some awesome vanilla cashew butter cups. You know? Like Reese's peanut butter cups? Only with vanilla cashew butter...and homemade. What's not love about that? These cute little vanilla cashew butter cups have a dark chocolate coating with a gooey, creamy, vanilla cashew butter center. Seriously … [Read more...]
Gingerbread Pear Muffins (Gluten Free)
This recipe was previously published on Robust Recipes. I have updated the photos, recipe, and post for a better user experience. Enjoy! Happy December! I hope you had a great Thanksgiving!!! I have a lot of goodies for you this December. First up, gingerbread pear muffins!!! OMG so yum! These muffins are fluffy, tender, packed with warming spices that make it just a tiny bit spicy, filled with rich, sweet molasses and studded with ripe juicy pears. the top has a sprinkle of coarse, … [Read more...]
Pecan Pie Cookies (without corn syrup)
Move over pecan pie! We've got pecan pie COOKIES now!!! These cookies are pretty amazing. Soft, buttery cookies with a maple sweetened, gooey filling studded with crunchy, nutty pecans. They are melt-in-your-mouth good, and I bet you can't eat just one. I had no idea pecan pie cookies were a thing until one of our friends made them to share at our Friendsgiving a year ago. I saved a note to my phone and knew they would be on the top of my list to create this year. I'm so glad I gave them a … [Read more...]
Roasted Carrots with Orange Honey Glaze
Thanksgiving is next week! How crazy is that?! Are you ready? Do you have your stretchy pants on? These roasted carrots with orange honey glaze are just the side you need to add to your Thanksgiving menu. They are super simple and come together in only 30 minutes. Thanksgiving cooking extravaganza. We've got this!!! Sweet and tender whole roasted carrots are topped with a sticky sweet, tangy, slightly spicy orange honey glaze and crunchy toasted pine nuts. Did you ever think carrots … [Read more...]
Instant Pot Garlic Mashed Potatoes
Ready or not, here it comes! Thanksgiving recipe number 2 is happening today! Instant pot garlic mashed potatoes!!!! SO GOOD! If you don't have an instant pot/pressure cooker, I have a stove stop version in the recipe notes. Don't worry, I've got you! We'll get more into the details of the process later. First, let's discuss how delicious these mashed potatoes are! These mashed potatoes are not your typical no-texture-no-flavor-possibly-runny mashed potatoes. They have texture, we leave … [Read more...]
Green Bean Casserole from Scratch
Welcome to Thanksgiving recipe month! First, we start with a green bean casserole. Crunchy fresh green beans cooked in a homemade cream-of-mushroom-soup-style sauce and topped with a crispy red onion topping with Parmesan cheese. Does it get any better? I know that the phrase "from scratch" might sound intimidating, but I promise, it's really not that hard. I had considered calling this "homemade green bean casserole", but google liked "from scratch" better. Always working to score brownie … [Read more...]
The Best Gluten Free Carrot Cake
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...]
Easy Salmon Cream Cheese Ball (Gluten Free)
Hey Hey Hey!!!! Christmas is only few days away. Perfect timing for this super easy salmon cream cheese ball. It's great for an appetizer or to add to a cheese board. Best part? It only takes 15 minutes to make (minus several hours of chill time in the fridge)!!! 15 minutes of active effort for a Holiday appetizer?!? Yes, I know it's hard to believe but it's true! Sometimes last minute recipes are the best that way. And no one has to know how simple it really was! Because it certainly tastes … [Read more...]
