Midnight Dark Chocolate Truffles

Ever sneaked downstairs for a midnight snack? I still, to this day, have the most vivid memory of sneaking downstairs at night with my best friend, Phebe, in 1st grade in order to get a midnight snack. Actually, it was more like a 10 PM snack, considering we were only in 1st grade. We slid…

Homemade Dairy-Free Hot Cocoa

I tell ya, it’s really hard to workout in winter. Going to the gym just never seems appealing. I mean, between the freezing weather outside and allure of pumpkin pie, pecan pie, white house rolls (the list goes on!) at home, which require no sweating to attain, I feel more like curling up in front…

Homemade Copy Cat Coconut Dippin’ Dots

Have you ever entered a theme park or ball game with over a hundred dollars, and left without two pennies to rub together? I know I have! Multiple times. It may be because of the $8 burgers, $25 t-shirts, or even the four bags of cracker jack you scarfed down. But for me, there’s one…

Cacao Coconut Butter

I’ve always dreamt of making my own Nutella. Unluckily, whenever actually pursuing this dream crosses my mind, we never have hazelnuts. And it’s not like we have peanuts either, so I could make chocolate peanut butter. Or even an adequate amount of almonds (we go through almonds like money in my house) for cocoa-almond butter.…

Black and White Brownies

When I was younger, I never liked white chocolate. I think it all started when I thought I was eating white chocolate covered raisins, and it turns out they were yogurt-covered. From that point on, whenever I ate white chocolate all I could think about was yogurt. (I also wasn’t the biggest yogurt fan as a…