Do you remember when I posted this picture up on Facebook of these deliciously looking Gluten-free Vegan Samoa Cupcakes? Some of you accused me of teasing and taunting {which to a certain degree I won’t argue with you}. Okay, okay I totally admit to being a cupcake bully. Remember when I said that the recipe…
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Vegan Mint Chocolate Chip Ice Cream
Something I continue to learn about life is that the more you are open to change, the happier you will be. I tend to be someone who has expectations of a daily routine and if something comes off kilter, it can throw me off. People tell me that when you have kids, these “expectations” tend…
Gluten-free Vegan Trefoil Cookies
Today is monumental. It is one of those lessons of tenancity and perseverance. It is a life moment of realizing that I am a slave to the kitchen. No wait, that isn’t right. It is a life moment of realizing that you can do anything that you put your mind to. What taught me this? The Trefoil Girl…
Vegan Chocolate-Covered Spoons
Sometimes the simple things are just in order. Everybody knows that Valentine’s Day is the holiday of chocolate,so these spoons fit perfectly into the categories of: Simple. Chocolate-y. Romantic. {A fancier way to make a cup of hot chocolate} Perfect to romantically serve to your loved one while you snuggle with each other next to…
Gluten-free Vegan Sugar-Coated Donuts
Gluten-Free Vegan Sugar-Coated Donuts Last night, I was caught watching the OWN station on television. I don’t usually make a habit of it typically but there was something about the Jane Fonda interview that rapidly caught my attention. It touched my heart deeply, partly because I empathized a lot of what she was saying. But the thing that she said that…
Homemade Fortune Cookies
If you were to open my wallet, you would find a dozen fortune cookie messages tucked inside the side panel. I have grown fond of saving all of the fortunes from the cookies I have opened in the past few years. Consider them like collector’s coins. Except they are paper. Inside a cookie. Some range from…
Grandma is sitting this one out on New Year’s…
This is the funny thing about holidays that require me to stay up into the wee hours of the night: I usually don’t celebrate them. (thankfully that only makes 1 holiday missed for the year) You see friends, I am what you call a “grandma”– no offense to the real grandmas out there. It’s just that I am…