Originally posted 2016-02-29 12:00:12. The 29th of February is my anniversary. This is officially our *first* real one so I thought I’d make our favourite cake, simply because we’ve been trying to watch our health and haven’t had cheesecake in what feels like forever! This is also the easiest one I have ever found and…
Originally posted 2016-02-25 12:00:27. I thought I’d give you guys my base smoothie recipe, in case some of you need to switch things up a bit! Maybe yours is getting boring, and I am not really into making the real fancy ones on a regular basis. I like a base smoothie and then I change…
Originally posted 2016-02-22 12:00:14. My kids have been begging, over and over for oatmeal cookies, so here we have them! The recipe I usually use: Oatmeal Cookies Ingredients: 1 C Butter 1 C White Sugar 1 C Packed Brown Sugar 2 Eggs 1 Tsp Vanilla 2 C Flour 1 Tsp Baking Soda 1 Tsp Salt 1.5…
Originally posted 2016-02-18 12:00:20. I came across a Facebook advertisement from Tenderflake with some super sweet heart shaped flakies you can make at home, and since Valentine’s Day was fast approaching I thought it might be an easy thing to throw together for us! My mom had given me some heart shaped cookie cutters for…
Originally posted 2016-02-08 12:00:25. Even with a broken oven (that’s totally fixed now yay!) I still had to make birthday cakes for my youngest who wanted a Skylanders cake. When making cake for another of my kids birthdays I came across this recipe for vanilla cake and it was amazing! So amazing that I stopped…
Originally posted 2016-02-04 12:00:23. My oven is still broken, and I really wanted to make some brownies or something. I am not a very good microwave baker, so I went to see if I could find a recipe for a mug cake (my teenager makes them all the time), a recipe that would be diet…
Originally posted 2016-01-21 12:00:21. I have all girls at my house and we do lot’s of pink, ponies and rainbows (thanks Rainbow Dash). So when we asked our then 4 year old what kind of cake she wanted for her birthday, the answer was easy for her – a pink, rainbow pony cake. Well that’s easy…
Originally posted 2016-01-18 12:00:29. This weekend my diet totally derailed! With birthday parties and kids up all night (literally) it was a total disaster! So this morning I am going to make myself up some chocolate to get me through the day! Ingredients: 1/2 cup cocoa 1/2 cup coconut oil 1 tbsp butter 1 tbsp…
Originally posted 2016-01-07 12:00:30. Here ya go, you can thank me for this later! This ends up like a mousse/ice cream type yum that is totally diet approved! Great way to have something sweet and not derail everything! Ingredients: 1 C of coconut cream (loosely) 1 tsp maple syrup/honey 2 Tbsp Cocoa Generally I keep…
Originally posted 2016-01-04 12:00:04. Today you’re going to get my chia seed pudding recipe! This one is great if you get sick of the avocados and still need something like that in the morning for breakfast. My neighbour makes hers in little mason jars and one week does chia seeds the next week will do the…
Originally posted 2015-12-31 12:00:11. I have made this a few times since I got this recipe given to me, I put paleo-ish because I use real butter instead of the coconut butter, so that puts the recipe on the edge of whether or not it’s paleo but in my opinion it’s splitting hairs! If you…
Originally posted 2015-12-28 12:00:18. It sounded scary when I first heard about this, and what was in this “pudding” haha We braved the ingredients and what we thought it was going to taste like and made it anyway! Ingredients: 1 avocado 1/4 cup unsweetened coconut milk or other milk of your choice 1/4 tsp of…
Originally posted 2015-12-24 12:00:39. So I’ll apologize now for giving you this amazing recipe on Christmas Eve!! Unless you have all the ingredients on hand, and then you’ll be good to go and won’t have to go back out to pick stuff up! I also just learned that this is classic Canadian dessert! It still…
Originally posted 2015-12-21 12:00:16. Carrying on with the dessert theme, since 4 more days til Christmas! Here is the recipe we have always used for fudge! There are a million ways you can change up the chocolate chips and make different flavours, colours, really whatever you want! Ingredients: 1 package of chocolate chips 1 can…
Originally posted 2015-12-19 12:00:27. Every year, my sister and I make pumpkin rolls for the family as gifts for Thanksgiving and Christmas. We have such fun making them (all 8 of them) but it can be quite a chore! These are way better than the ones you buy at the store, but if you are…