Gluten-free, refined sugar-free cake with 2-ingredient frosting… are you intrigued?? This recipe came about as a birthday cake for my dad, who is diabetic and can’t have large amounts of refined sugar. Of course it’s also gluten-free and vegan, because what’s the point in making a cake that I can’t eat. Especially chocolate cake. Seriously,…
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Gluten-Free Chocolate Chunk Cookies
Today I’m swooning over these chocolate chunk cookies. They’re sweet, with big chunks of melted chocolate, crispy on the outside, and chewy and tender on the inside. I’ve been playing with this recipe for the better part of a year (that’s a lot of cookies). Changing the sugars, flours, oils, and egg substitutes in each…
Healthy Brownies
Healthy Brownies. Yes that’s a thing, and no they aren’t gross. I think everyone has seen the meme for vegan healthy brownies that look like blocks of grass. I promise these are nothing like that. They’re fudge-y, dense, and super chocolatey. Vegan, gluten-free, and refined sugar-free. Remove the walnuts and they’re also nut-free in case…
Gluten-Free Fudge Brownies
Every once and a while I get the urge to play with gluten-free recipes. I don’t actually have any major issues with gluten, but I’ve found that when I over indulge my body makes sure to let me know. Generally speaking most of the foods I eat throughout the day are naturally gluten-free, but when…
Rocky Road Cookies
The past week or so I’ve been pumping cookies out of my kitchen at an impressive rate. Mostly an effort to try to get ahead of the Christmas baking while juggling a few other things… Christmas shopping, Christmas decorating, baking, wrapping, cleaning, organizing… not sure how I managed get myself into this mess, but there…
Millionaire’s Layer Cake
A couple weeks back I was looking for birthday cake ideas for the hubby’s B-Day. Every year I have uncontrollable urge to surpass the previous year’s cake. Last Year I whipped up a an easy, but delicious chocolate cake, with peanut butter frosting and a layer of peanut butter caramel in the center. A recipe…
Grown-Up Brownies
Going through the fridge over the past few weekends I noticed quite a few bottles of open red wine. I know leftover wine might be a foreign concept to some people I know (I won’t name names). Not being a big drinker myself, it’s not uncommon to have leftover wine in the fridge after dinner…
Nutty for Praline Paste
Praline paste has become an obsession of mine over the past couple of months. For years I strayed from it thinking making a vegan version would require a fair amount of trail and error. Little did I know that most praline paste recipes don’t include dairy at all.
Cowboy Cookies
Weather in Montreal has been quite divers over the past couple of weeks. We have beautiful days above 30°C and the very next day it’ll drop down to 10 or 13°C. We had a few of those colder days over the past week and personally I refuse to start turning back on the heaters.
Mexican Hot Chocolate Donuts
I love the versatility of donuts, and the fact that they’re easy to transport makes them an easy choice for bringing to pot lucks or get-togethers. No frosting clinging to plastic wrap, or cupcakes toppling over in the car. There were a few instances where i got creative and tried to use pillows and seat…
