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Chocolate Coconut Covered Strawberries

Easy vegan chocolate covered strawberries with a crunchy chocolate coconut exterior. Perfect for a healthy Valentine’s Day treat!

When I was in high school I thought I was way too cool for Valentine’s Day.

“Valentine’s Day is a holiday invented by greeting card companies to make people feel like crap,” I used to tell myself, to quote Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (one of my favorite movies of all time– have you seen it?)

I told myself I could be cool like Clementine.

I didn’t need anyone to shower me with roses and candy and sweet nothings.

My friends and I wore black while everyone else wore pink and I pretended not to feel pangs when the roses delivered in class by “cupid” weren’t for me.

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Peanut Butter & Jelly Crisscross Cookies

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Easy peanut butter and jelly cookies with a hearty oat flour base. Naturally sweetened with berries and jam. Perfect for a healthy breakfast, snack, or dessert.

Are you surviving the Polar Vortex?

It’s been too cold here to do much of anything, and Harper and I are feeling a little stir-crazy.

The kind of crazy that makes you bake all day and then jump around to an intense dance workout at 7 PM because…cold.

Aside from getting back into cardio (it’s been a while!), I made three batches of Peanut Butter and Jelly Crisscross Cookies.

These easy oil-free, gluten-free, and no sugar added cookies really hit the spot for a quick nutritious snack.

You can have them on the table in 10 minutes with just 6 ingredients!

This messy marrying of peanut butter and jelly in quick cookie form is one you don’t want to be without when the temps drop.

So let’s drop it like it’s (not) HOT.

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Chocolate SunButter Rice Crispy Treats

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Chocolate SunButter Rice Crispy Treats naturally sweetened and nut-free! Enjoy as is for a snack or dessert or add a creamy 2-ingredient frosting.

Did you know that National Peanut Butter Day was this past week?

I had way too much fun scrolling through desserts dripping with PB and entrees drizzles with peanut sauce on social while casually wiping away the drool.

Which is all good and fine for all of you nutty folk, myself included.

But after giving peanut butter all of the lovin’, I thought we should give seeds a bit of attention…you know, in case they felt left out.

These Chocolate SunButter Rice Crispy Treats (Nut Free) require only 5 ingredients to make!

They’re kid-friendly, delicious, nutritious, with a super seed twist on your childhood classic.

NO NUTS ALLOWED.

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Vegan Banana Chocolate Chunk Bread

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Vegan Banana Chocolate Chunk Bread made in 1-bowl. Naturally sweetened with bananas and coconut sugar.

I was sitting in 10th grade Psychology class when my friend, Dan, pulled out a loaf of banana bread from a large Ziplock bag.

“Want this?” he said, offering the crumbled loaf to me.

“I realized afterwards that I forgot to add sugar,” he said sheepishly.

I grabbed a big chunk from inside and chewed.

Banana walnut, yum.

It was a little (okay, a lot) bland, but I liked how you could clearly taste the bananas and nuts.

The bell rang.

He shrugged, “You can have it if you want.”

So I tucked the ziplock bag of sugar-free banana bread into my backpack and strolled out into the locker bay.

For the remainder of the day I enjoyed pieces of bland banana bread, the subtle sweetness growing on me, and by dismissal time I was pretty sure I needed the recipe.

I didn’t quite feel right continuing into 2019 without a banana bread recipe on the blog.

Before we continue, no, this isn’t a remake of my friend Dan’s sugar-free banana bread fail.

But if we were doing one of those word association games I’d probably tell you this story if prompted, “BANANA BREAD.”

What I do have for you, though, is a delicious banana bread recipe that’s also oil free and refined sugar free, which is pretty cool.

This weekend we cleaned the oven for the first time since moving in (two years ago).

Obviously by we I mean it was Dan who wiped it down and it was me who watched in disgust as the paper towel came out black again and again.

I vowed to never let it get that bad again, and then I set out to start breaking it in again.

This Vegan Banana Chocolate Chunk Bread was the first thing I baked in our freshly spruced furnace.

So here’s how to dirty up your oven in the best possible way.

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Salted Cashew Butter Chocolate Chunk Cookies

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Easy grain-free Salted Cashew Butter Chocolate Chunk Cookies with salty dark chocolate chunks. Ready with 6 ingredients in 15 minutes!

Hi guys!

Well, here we are again.

You, me, and the first cookie of 2019.

You’ve been so good eating all the veggies this new year that I thought you could use some cookies in your inbox.

Clean cookies, though, don’t worry, I didn’t drop them on the floor.

They’re grain-free, gluten free, and oil free boasting the irresistible combination of sweet and salty.

Oh, what was that, you’re too busy to bake because you’re killing your new years goals and intentions?

Don’t be salty, these Salted Cashew Butter Chocolate Chunk Cookies are ready with 6 ingredients in 15 minutes!

Get it.

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Coconut Cashew Cookie-Dough “Snowballs”

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Coconut Cashew Cookie-Dough “Snowballs” made with dates, coconut, and cashews for a naturally sweet, gluten-free, and grain-free snack.

Happy New Year!!!

Did you ring in 2019 in robe and slippers or were you out and about in a big crowd?

I was the latter, sandwiched between hundreds of sequined dresses and dapper suits at a Great Gatsby themed Masquerade Ball when the clock struck 12.

I used to expect some epic change in the split seconds between 11:59 and 12:01 but now I kind of roll with it.

New year, same me.

But new eats can be fun, and I thought we could kick things off with a healthy snack.

These Coconut Cashew Cookie-Dough “Snowballs” require only 5-ingredients with zero added sugars, while being gluten free and paleo.

The only new year ball drop I *really* care to watch, ya know?

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Vegan Dark Hot Chocolate

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Rich vegan dark hot chocolate made with simple ingredients you already have in your pantry. Perfect for a cold day treat!

This time of year is weird, isn’t it?

We’re sitting in an awkward limbo somewhere between colorful Christmas presents and sequined New Years parties.

People are everywhere and nowhere at the same time, with tons of events to attend but hardly any traffic on the streets.

The Christmas tree is still up, looking a little weary and wiry, a telling metaphor for how I feel post holiday-hustle.

I want to push myself to get things in order for the new year, but I also want to lay in bed all day and do absolutely nothing.

Do you feel me?

How about we find a happy medium between the two?

Let’s cozy up to a mug of Vegan Dark Hot Chocolate while we wait to ring in the new year on a sweet note. …

Vegan & Gluten Free Graham Crackers with Chocolate SunButter Frosting

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Crispy Vegan & Gluten Free Graham Crackers with Chocolate SunButter Frosting. Enjoy as is or top with a 3-ingredient SunButter icing!

My favorite cake growing up was yellow with chocolate frosting.

Arguably the best part of the cake, pillowy yellow insides aside, was the homemade chocolate frosting that my mom made to top it.

It was rich, chocolately, and creamy, the kind of frosting you lick the mixers clean of before releasing them into sudsy water.

When we had extra, my mom spread thick layers of the stuff on cinnamon graham crackers for snacking.

If you’ve never had frosting on graham crackers, you’re going to love this recipe.

If you have, in fact, had frosting on graham crackers, you’re going to love this recipe, too, because it’s made with simple whole foods ingredients.

These Vegan & Gluten Free Graham Crackers are made with less than 10 ingredients!

Enjoy them as is or top them with a decadent 3-ingredient Chocolate SunButter frosting.

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Raspberry-Beet Thumbprint Cookies

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Easy vegan, gluten free, grain free, and Raspberry-Beet Thumbprint Cookies filled with a sugar-free raspberry-beet chia jam.

There was a Christmas card writing marathon in my living room over the weekend.

I scribbled addresses furiously in my messy hybrid of cursive and print, sometimes oscillating from one to the other in the same sentence.

I can’t vouch for their complete legibility, but friends, they’re done.

I’ve been baking and cooking and shopping and wrapping and partying and visiting and talking and planning and doing it all again.

This time of year can be complicated, so you know what?

Your cookies shouldn’t be.

These Raspberry-Beet Thumbprint Cookies require less than ten ingredients.

(Well, technically, only FOUR if you make the Raspberry-Beet Chia Seed Jam in advance…)

Turn on the oven and get your thumbs ready for some autographing.

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Cacao Dusted Dark Chocolate Truffles

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Easy vegan chocolate truffles made with dark chocolate, coconut milk, and a light cacao powder finish. Perfect for a simple decadent treat!

Happy December!

Today we decorated our freshly cut blue spruce it with all of the ornaments while Harper watched with attentive curiosity.

What are your holiday traditions?

When I was little we had advent calendars that I tended to each day in December, gingerly opening the cardboard door to reveal a new festive scene.

Opening those tiny squares gave me the same instant satisfaction that crossing off a day on the calendar does on my massive wall calendar today.

Moving toward something GREAT.

So, I need to know, without the advent calendar, can we still eat the chocolates behind the open doors?

How about we truffle it out these 25 days of Christmas.

These Cacao Dusted Dark Chocolate Truffles are the perfect way sweet way to start the holiday season simply and sweetly.

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