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Healthy Peanut Butter and Chocolate Krispy Treats

These Healthy Peanut Butter and Chocolate Krispy Treats are rich, sweet, crunchy, and chewy.  They sure don’t taste refined sugar free, high protein, and gluten free in the slightest! Rice Krispies…   *snap, crackle, pop* Too bad...

Healthy Peanut Butter Fudge (+ Video!)

This Healthy Peanut Butter Fudge is just like regular fudge — super rich, uber decadent and tooth-achingly sweet — but it’s secretly healthy and guilt-free!  Yup, that means no three sticks of butter, no...

Cookie Dough DIY Protein Bars! Tired of shelling out cash for protein bars at the store? Make 'em at home with The DIY Protein Bars Cookbook -- a collection of 48 healthy no-bake protein bars recipes to satisfy your sweet tooth! The recipes are gluten-free, dairy-free, soy-free, vegan, and all-natural too!

Healthy Cookie Dough Protein Bars (+ Video!)

I’ve always been pretty good about sitting down and setting goals for the new year, but this year is a bit different.  This year has involved a lot more “adulting” than usual — I...

This deliciously rich and creamy no-bake Raw Vegan Peppermint Cheesecake is creamy without the cream cheese, fluffy without the eggs, and secretly sugar free and gluten free too!  No baking required, no water bath needed. Perfect for the holidays, birthdays, parties, or no reason at all!

Healthy Raw Vegan Peppermint Cheesecake

What’s ultra rich, uber creamy, and ultimately refreshing?  This perfectly pink Vegan Peppermint Cheesecake, of course! And to top things off, I’ve made it vegan, raw, sugar free, and gluten free too.  Oh yes,...

This Healthy Pecan Pie is so rich and decadent, every bite is pure joy -- you'd never know it's made without the corn syrup, white sugar, butter, and heavy cream! This freezer friendly Pecan Pie is an all natural, good-for-you dessert that is perfect for Thanksgiving, Christmas, birthdays, or any day for that matter!

Healthy Pecan Pie

This Healthy Pecan Pie is so rich and decadent, every bite is pure joy — you’d never know it’s made without the corn syrup, white sugar, butter, and heavy cream! Time is flying by....

Chocolate Chip Cookies (sugar free, gluten free, dairy free, vegan) from the Naughty or Nice Cookbook: The ULTIMATE Healthy Dessert Cookbook – Jessica Stier of Desserts with Benefits

Healthy Chocolate Chip Cookies

Me + Dessert  =  Fly + Lamp Bad image, but it’s so true.  So onto the cookies shall we? Okay, so first of all I’d like to apologize for not coming out with a...

This healthier Chocolate Avocado Cake is super chocolatey, perfectly sweet, and nutritionally balanced with healthy fats, whole grains, lots of fiber, and a hit of protein! It's just as rich, and chocolatey as classic chocolate cake, except this is made without the butter, oil, regular white sugar, and bleached flour!

Healthier Chocolate Avocado Cake

When it comes to baking, the most common ingredients that come to mind include butter, sugar, and flour — whether you’re making cake or cookies or bars, or even truffles and frostings!  Well today,...

Easy, no-bake, 6-ingredient Matcha Coconut Truffles made healthy! They're rich and sweet yet made without butter, heavy cream, and sugar. They're keto-friendly, low carb, sugar free, and gluten free too!

Healthy Matcha Coconut Truffles

Matcha and coconut pair together as well as peanut butter and chocolate…  or apples and cinnamon…  or sprinkles on donuts.  The matcha is earthy and slightly bitter while the coconut is rich with a...

This Healthy Chocolate Fudge Sauce is rich, creamy, and delicious over ice cream, cake, and oatmeal, and mixed into milkshakes and trifles! Made with healthier ingredient swaps, this Hot Fudge Sauce is sugar free, low carb, low fat, and gluten free. Perfect as a potluck dessert topping, a homemade gift for birthdays and parties, and a pantry staple just for you.

Healthy Chocolate Fudge Sauce

What’s thick, rich, and chocolatey, and goes perfectly poured over ice cream**?  This Healthy Chocolate Fudge Sauce! **And maybe possibly even cake, trifles, milkshakes, and oatmeal too…  😉 What makes this Homemade Chocolate Fudge...

Traveling to San Antonio, Texas? Or maybe you already live there and are looking for something fun and fresh to do? I ordered the "San Antonio Explorer Pass" via TripAdvisor and got to visit Six Flags, the Guinness World Records Museum, and Ripley's Haunted Adventure!

Fun In Austin, Texas — and a Day Trip to San Antonio!

HI!  How are you?  It’s been a minute since I last wrote about behind the blogging scenes and life in general, I just love, love, love sharing recipes with y’all!  Sometimes I get so caught...