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Healthy Double Chocolate Muffins
I am always looking for ways to make fun treats in the kitchen with the kiddos. I am also always looking for ways to make those fun treats a little more healthy. This recipe checks all the boxes. You will satisfy yours and your kids chocolate cravings, while giving yourself and your family a more healthy breakfast or snack option. These double chocolate muffins are fun to make with the kids. All while giving a healthy alternative to sugary, white flour snacks. How are these better? In this recipe I have swapped out the white flour for wheat flour. Added in Greek yogurt and honey to swap out the sugars and…
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Homemade Pumpkin Butter
I was trying to think of yummy treats to add into the baskets that I am creating for a local marketplace. These baskets are Thanksgiving hostess baskets and I wanted to have a mix of cool, fun gifts and yummy homemade gifts. I also wanted to make sure that everything that goes into these baskets can be shelf stable and perfect for Fall. So, I decide pumpkin butter was perfect for one of the homemade treats. I love unexpectedly yummy things like this. Fall “Butters” There is no actual butter in Pumpkin butter or Apple butter for that matter. These are increcible spreads that you can enjoy on everything from toasts to pastries.…
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Chocolate Banana Bread
There are a million and one banana bread recipes out there. Yet, I cannot help adding one more… especially when it has this much chocolaty goodness in it. In this recipe I wanted to make a banana bread that was a little healthier, but still super indulgent. This definitely fits the bill for both. I made this for a part of gift basket for my bestie when she had her first baby. In the basket I put pasta, homemade pasta sauce, cookies, fresh berries and this amazing banana bread. It packed up so cute and fit perfectly into the basket. They loved this loaf as well. Perfect food basket gift ideas I love…
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Mint Oreo Fudge Brownies
This is one of those recipes that you are going to make again and again. These fudgy, ooey-gooey, minty, Oreo brownies will very quickly become a family favorite. The other thing I like about these brownies is that you can use this base recipe and make other versions very simply. I absolutely love recipes like this. Where you can make they many different ways by using one base recipe. I will give you a few examples of other options as well as I would love to hear what you all come up with to change it up. How do you Brownie? Are you a fudge packed brownie lover or a cake-like brownie lover?…
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The Best Chewy Chocolate Chip Cookies
I have been on the search for the BEST chewy chocolate chip cookie. I have tried so many recipes and worked with the techniques I have always know for cookies. It wasn’t until I flipped what I knew on it’s head that I found the BEST chewy chocolate chip cookies. I wanted to find that amazing cookie recipe that we go to time and time again. That recipe that as my kids grow up they say and feel, “My mom makes the best chocolate chip cookies!” They have to know the recipe to teach to their kids and it makes them feel the feels. You know, that recipe that is from your childhood…
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1-2-3 Granola
I have started eating healthier in 2021. It is something that I have needed to do not only for awhile now, but as I get older. Also, as my kiddos get older. It is super important to me that they develop positive eating habits from a young age. I did not give them ANY sugar for their first year of life and I limit the amount that they intake now. I also make sure that they get healthy amounts of fruits and veggies. Which all of you amazing mamas out there know how difficult that can be. Especially when they are little and want to fight you at every meal and snack period.…
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M&M Chocolate Chip Cookies
Saturday all day, my oldest was asking me to make cookies. I said, “I don’t know if I have anything to make cookies?” She looked at the counter and saw a jar of M&M’s and said, “Yes, we do! We have M&M’s!” Well, I couldn’t say no after that. I checked the cabinets and we had everything else we needed to make cookies. We even had about a half a bag of chocolate chips to throw in with the M&M’s. I pulled out the butter and softened it in the microwave for about 10 second intervals, twice, I think I put it on. We were ready to go! Soft cookies vs Crunchy cookies…
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Banana Nutella Bread
We are always looking for new fun ways to use Nutella in our house. I mean, we are Italian! We also use the Nutella from Italy which is slightly different. The girls both love Nutella and so do my husband and I. It was no surprise that I figured out how to swirl it into this simple and delicious chocolate chip banana bread recipe. I mean, the chocolate chips just were not enough! Making banana bread or zucchini bread or cranberry orange bread… any kind of sweet bread is a great project to get the kiddos involved in. They are usually simple dump and mix recipes that don’t require too much skill. My…
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Homemade Hot Cocoa Bombs
Ok, so there seems to be a new trend popping up every month. Mainly I believe due to Tik Tok, but also as more and more people are home and cooking a lot more! I think it is great and these are always so fun to try. Some are better than others, but I think that hot cocoa bombs are fun and delish! A little on on the rich side, but yummy chocolaty goodness is never a bad thing in my opinion. Now, I think that many people would rather purchase an item like this than make it. Just for the sheer fact that chocolate can be tricky, who has the time and…
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Homemade Apple Cider
So, if you have been following the blog, you know that we went apple picking last weekend. We have been enjoying orchard fresh apples all week. I made apple crisp stuffed apples, a few pans of apple slices, bourbon caramel apple ice cream and the girls and I have been eating apples for snack all week. They are actually the perfect size for the snacks for the little ones without having any leftover. I was looking at the bowl on Friday and realized we still had a couple dozen apples left. I wanted to make sure that we used them all up before they went bad. While trying to think of the best…
