Dark Chocolate Peppermint Kisses

Each of these little peppermint kisses is a drop of decadence. And at this time of year, I need a bit of something delicious, rich, and chocolate-y to get me through the day. Sure, Christmas is the most wonderful time of the year. However, that’s only if you count “Christmastime” as beginning the day after…

No Bake Trail Mix Bar

When I first tried out this recipe, I all but abandoned it. However, instead of throwing out the uncooperative granola bars, that just wouldn’t seem to stick together without being baked in the oven, I set them aside to return to later. And ended up learning quite a lesson on patience. When I came back…

Raspberry Swirl “Nice Cream”

Midnight snacks are never a good thing when you’re a food blogger. Not because of the time of night, because honestly I’m always up for a good midnight snack! But it’s the food photography that’s less than desirable at that time of night — and really, any time after sunset. Food always looks the best…

4 Ingredient Mint Chocolate Fudge

What do you mean it’s not Christmastime yet? I think every radio station ever would disagree with you there — especially considering they’ve all already begun to play Christmas music 24/7. I’ve gotta be honest: I’m not a fan of listening to Christmas music prior to Thanksgiving. Believe me, the day after Thanksgiving my stocking…

Very Berry Smoothie

My favorite place in the world when I was a kid was Costco.  To my sisters and it, it was basically the best store ever: there were free samples waiting on every aisle, you could buy a bag of pretzels practically taller than you were, and their food was phenomenal. After dragging our mom around…