Last week I shared a recipe for slow cooker apple butter. It's easy to make, bursting with rich apple flavor, perfectly spiced, and ideal for spreading onto toast, English muffins, or biscuits. Today, we are using some of that apple butter to bake with. We are making apple butter muffins!!! OMG THEY ARE SO, SO GOOD! YES, ALL CAPS ARE NECESSARY FOR EXCITMENT!!! Soft, moist, muffins that are fluffy, perfectly sweet, and bursting with intense cinnamon, and apple flavor. We … [Read more...]
Gluten Free Blueberry Muffins (Healthy)
Welcome to the land of fluffy muffins studded with juicy blueberries and topped with crunchy sugar. It's a lovely place to be. Sit. Stay a while. Muffins are one of my favorite things to bake. I think it's because I LOVE the idea of a muffin, but usually, they are pretty much cake trying to disguise itself as a healthy breakfast food. What if I told you muffins don't have to be that way? That a muffin can be relatively healthy, yet still taste delicious? Would you be on … [Read more...]
Healthy Chocolate Oatmeal Cookies (Flourless)
OMG!!! I so want a bite of that cookie. Don't you?! I am so obsessed with these healthy chocolate oatmeal cookies!!! I could eat them multiple times a day, every day, and never get sick of them. They are soft, so chocolate-y and, fudgy, perfectly sweet, and studded with chocolate chips, and chewy oats. Even though they are a healthier cookie, they satisfy my sweet tooth and craving for baked goods like crazy. A few years ago I shared a recipe for banana peanut butter oatmeal snack … [Read more...]
Irish Tea Bread (AKA Barmbrack)
Hi friends! Since St. Patrick's Day coming up next week, I have another St. Patrick's Day inspired recipe for you. 🍀 Irish tea bread. Or, as it's called in Irish, Barmbrack! Let me just tell you that I am obsessed!!! This is my new favorite quick, sweet bread!!! As you may know, I studied abroad in Ireland while in college. I am in love with anything to do with Ireland, so it's always fun for me to share Irish inspired recipes with you for St. Patrick's Day. 🧡🤍💚 I never had the … [Read more...]
5 Minute Vegan Chocolate Frosting
You all have LOVED this vegan chocolate frosting recipe. It was originally published in 2017. It has been one of my most popular recipes on the blog. It's time to give this recipe the extra attention it deserves. I have updated the photos, and re-tested and re-written the recipe for a better user experience. Despite re-writing the text of the recipe the ingredients and recipe itself have stayed mostly the same. I have included a few tips I have learned. I have also answered some … [Read more...]
Three Christmas Cookies, From One Simple Dough
Who's ready for some cookies?!?! Three Christmas cookies!!! From one simple dough, to be exact!!! Since Holiday baking might look a little different this year due to Covid, I thought, why not make three different cookie flavors all in one fell swoop? That way you can still enjoy a variety of cookie flavors without having to make a bajillion different batches of cookies. My stomach, and my husband, were both happy with this idea. 😉 Here's how it works: You whip up the basic … [Read more...]
Maple Pecan Pie Bars (Without Corn Syrup)
Wow. wow. WOW!!!! Gooey, crunchy, super delicious maple pecan pie bars are in the HOUSE!!!! Well, okay, they're really just here on the blog. But, they can be in your house, if you want them to be. All you have to do is make them!!! Seriously though, how can you not want to sink your teeth into one of those gooey pecan pie bars? Thanksgiving month is upon us. Ever since I made those pecan pie cookies last year - using a maple syrup filling, rather then the traditional corn … [Read more...]
Pumpkin Cake with Yogurt Cream Cheese Frosting
Pumpkin cake, AKA pumpkin bars, are often shared at fall-time gatherings. I am always excited to see pumpkin cake topped with white cream cheese frosting and a little pumpkin candy at football parties, Halloween Parties, or other fall gatherings. I love anything pumpkin spiced. I would happily take a slice of cake and dig in. It was always good. Had that tender cake, laced with pumpkin and warming spices - topped with that rich cream cheese frosting, a real treat. However, I have always … [Read more...]
Yogurt Cream Cheese Frosting
Hi friends. It's officially, officially baking season. For some people, baking season starts on September 1st. For me, it starts once it's cold enough out to wear cozy sweaters. Having the beautiful smell of something baking away in my kitchen makes everything even better. And what is some baking without having a good, reliable frosting recipe for you to spread onto a variety of baked goods? This yogurt cream cheese frosting is my new favorite recipe for a slightly lighter take … [Read more...]
Healthier Zucchini Bread (Whole Wheat)
Is there a better way to celebrate the transition of summer to fall then baking zucchini bread? Well okay, maybe baking some healthy pumpkin muffins would also be great way to get us into the spirit of fall. But, today, let's make some zucchini bread!!! Zucchini bread that's' tender, and moist, perfectly spiced, and studded with just the right amount of chocolate chips. And most importantly, packed with shredded zucchini. Do you taste the zucchini? No! That's the best … [Read more...]
