Healthy Honey Cornbread Muffins

Have you ever been down the wire? And not just baking a cake two hours before your birthday party or hitting “check out” just as an online sale closed. But really cutting it close. Like pulling into the gas station just as your gas gauge hits empty, or turning in a paper seconds before it’s…

Homemade Protein-Packed Peanut Butter Cornflakes

Cereal is definitely a classic breakfast item. Remember waking up as a kid, pouring yourself a bowl of Cornflakes, and drowning it in 2% milk? Or if you were running late, dumping the Cornflakes in a Ziploc bag and practically sprinting to the bus? This was basically my childhood in a nutshell, although sometimes substituted…

Almond Butter-Stuffed Banana Bread Muffins

I like keeping things short & sweet. Especially in the morning. Getting ready in the morning can really take me anywhere from 30 minutes to two hours, including breakfast, getting dressed, and just generally preparing myself for the day ahead. Of course, there are those days (like today!) when I have to wake up at…

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…