Chocolate and Peanut Butter: The Best of Both Worlds When this time of year rolls around, I get nostalgic for my childhood. The Easter egg hunts, dying the easter Eggs, the cute little Easter dresses, the chocolate rabbits, the jelly beans…. oh and those peanut butter loaded Reese’s eggs! Controversies around peanut butter aside, I […]

Alll the Chocolate chip cookies please So we all know the love affair I have with chocolate. I’ve always had that sweet tooth, but chocolate in any form has always won. Chocolate cake. Fudge. Chocolate bars. Nutella crepes. Chocolate chip cookies. Melted chocolate. Chocolate truffles. Brownies. Double chocolate chip cookies… You get the point. But […]

Pumpkin Spice and Everything Nice: Pumpkin Oatmeal Chocolate Bar Style Fall is officially in full swing. Pumpkins. Pumpkin spice. Pumpkin everything. Apples. Chai spice. Cinnamon brooms…yep I got one from Trader Joe’s, and it smells amazing. It smells like fall, and it smells like baking. So even though I’m making efforts to avoid sugar and stick […]

Organic Vegan 0g Sugar Paleo Dark Chocolate Recipe – No Sugar Alcohols Necessary Life without chocolate simply wouldn’t be worth living, so when it comes to healthy chocolate, I’ve become somewhat of an expert. Ok ok, expert is a bit of a stretch. But I’ve been doing all the necessary (and delicious!) research. Because I need sugar-free paleo […]

Homemade sugar-free Nutella happened I knew I had to try to get something with hazelnuts onto my sugar-free chocolate menu, because chocolate-hazelnut is one of my favorite flavor combinations ever. Hello Nutella. I did not grow up with this stuff, but my world expanded in more ways than one when I studied abroad in Paris. There, […]

Homemade nut butter: Back to basics Before deciding to come up with some kind of raw Chocolate-Hazelnut Pie as the finale for my week-long sugar-free chocolate challenge, I had never attempted to make homemade nut butter. But I decided that homemade nutella was obviously the only way to move forward with this pie, so I got to work researching […]

My love affair with cupcakes And in this sugar-free chocolate series, we get to my favorite-ever treat: cupcakes! My love affair with cupcakes goes way back. I remember baking them in grade school for my birthday, and I loved when anyone else brought them in; this was back in the day before rampant food allergies ruined […]

Intense Chocolate A dense, brownie-like cookie. A dark chocolate cookie-like brownie bite. How about a deep dark chocolate brookie bite? Whatever you want to call them, these miraculous treats go way deep with the chocolateyness.

The True Meaning of Valentine’s Day Happy Valentine’s Day! The honorary day of love is here.  As commercialized as this holiday has become, I still do love the concept of a holiday dedicated to the celebration of love. 

Healthy fudge – yup it’s a thing The words ‘healthy’ and ‘fudge’ don’t often go together, but I’ve been on a mission to healthify the most indulgent chocolate recipes without sacrificing flavor, because chocolate is life. To follow up my luscious healthy hot cocoa, for my second post in my Valentine’s Day week chocolate series, I’m […]