Healthy Monkey Bread

My Aunt Cammy makes the best Monkey Bread I’ve ever tasted. As a kid, my sisters and I would love spending the night at my aunt’s house. Not only did we get to sleep in our cool older cousins’ beds, but we would wake up to the yummiest, most sugary dessert-like breakfast ever. Monkey Bread.…

Copy Cat Wheat Thins

Take a look at the ingredients list of your favorite crunchy guilty-pleasure. How many ingredients can you pronounce? In fact, how many would you actually find in a typical kitchen. And no, not an industrial food-plant kitchen. Your own, or even your mother’s kitchen. For me, I would have to say two, maybe three… Of…

Chia Seed Waffle

Chia seeds are my new favorite ingredient! Not only are they extremely nutrient dense, with 11g fiber and 4g protein per ounce, but they contain Omega-3 fatty acids and many vitamins and minerals beneficial to bone health. Plus, there’s something so satisfying about the little pop of the seeds as you bite into a fluffy,…

Double Chocolate Muffins

I can’t come within thirty feet of a bakery. Because I know if I do I won’t be able to resist stopping in, and possibly sampling a few baked goods. Or as many as I can carry… And I must admit, my #1 weakness when it comes to any bakery is the fresh batch of…

Apple Cinnamon Breakfast Cake Squares

Healthy Cake. Yes, I repeat: Healthy Cake…. Cake so healthy you can eat for breakfast. These cake squares are my three favorite things: healthy, delicious, and cake!! In all seriousness: I initially intended for these babies to be “granola bars”. But after baking them and tasting them for the first time, I discovered that they…