Need a recipe to use up a lot of egg yolks? These lemon coconut cookies use 6 yolks! These lightly sweetened lemon cookies are soft, rich, and a little unique with the added coconut. These lemon coconut cookies are a fitting recipe to share this week. Originally developed for my home bakery, these cookies were a way to use up the excess egg yolks from all the macaron orders. I…
The Strawberry Capistrano is a refreshing, non-dairy, non-alcoholic drink. The natural bright pink hue from the strawberries makes this summer mocktail irresistible! I feel like summer is just starting… right as my e-mail inbox is assaulted with fall and all things pumpkin spice. I’m not ready to let go of summer just yet, even though I have already marked my calendar with the openings of the local farm fall festivals.…
This fabulous unique caramel corn recipe was inspired by my favorite Girl Scout Cookie, the Samoas (or Caramel D’Lites). The last batch of samoas caramel corn I made disappeared in minutes! Ever since I whipped up a batch of chai tea caramel corn and realized how easy it was to make caramel corn at home, I’ve had so much fun experimenting with recipes! Last Christmas, I shipped care packages to…
Dessert shooters make a fun and unique treat to take to a party. My no bake piña colada cheesecake shooters are the perfect mini dessert for summer fun! Some of my best ideas come after serious failures. My original plan was to make piña colada cheesecake bars, but clearly that didn’t work out. My first test resulted in bars that didn’t set. When I did get them to set, they weren’t pineapple…
With no butter, milk, or eggs, this chocolate coconut crazy 8 cake is my variation on the popular one pot style depression cake! You mix and bake all in one pan and the resulting cake is super moist, delicious, and made extra special with a vegan chocolate ganache topping! I may (or may not) have mentioned before that I’m part of a recipe club where we get together once a month,…
Coconut macaroons take me back to childhood! My mother loves coconut, so she bought these frequently, and we could find them everywhere year-round, but especially in the spring around Passover and Easter. Coconut macaroons are often eaten during Passover because they contain no leaveners, and I feel like there’s coconut everything around Easter anyway. But because my mother loved them, coconut macaroons also mean Christmas for me because every year…
What’s better than a perfectly fudgy dark chocolate brownie? A dark chocolate brownie topped with dulce de leche and a light, slightly crispy, coconut macaroon layer. A concoction that warm out of the oven could be ladeled into bowls and topped with ice cream for the messiest sundaes you can imagine, or once set and cooled, cut into the most decadent brownie you’ve ever had in your life. The kind…
For some reason, I have been hoarding coconut ingredients recently and I have no idea why. I have two and a half bags of coconut flour, have gone through two bags of unsweetened coconut flakes in less than a month with no macaroons in sight, and have a couple assorted cans of coconut milk in the pantry. I used a little light coconut milk in my coffee during my Whole30,…
It’s Spring and love is in the air! There’s love for that special someone, family, friends, life, Girl Scout cookies, cheesecake… all of these things inspire feelings of love. Today is an extra special day for love as it also happens to be Camilla over at Culinary Adventures with Cam‘s 15th wedding anniversary. Happy anniversary darling! She and her husband love to celebrate with cheesecake, so she’s having a virtual…
Once upon a time, the Godmother weighed over 200 pounds. I was entering my second year at the University, had just gotten out of an awful emotionally abusive relationship with that “what in the world was I thinking” person many of us date at one point in our lives, and somewhere along the way I chose to try and deal with recovery by not paying attention to what I was eating.…
Mashed coconut boniato (sweet potato) is a delicious and easy recipe suited to many clean eating diets. It’s also a fabulous dairy free mashed potato dish for the holidays! The photographs in this post were updated May 2016 as part of the #ThrowbackThursday photography project. Good morning my lovelies! It’s time for our second post in the Clean Eating: Cuban Style series this week. This is AMAZING. Like, I-should-just-make-this-a-meal-and-eat-the-whole-thing amazing and…
It’s good in life to appreciate the simple, the small, the nostalgic. For me, there’s always a bit of a personal “return to simplicity” that happens with every move. We aren’t the best when it comes to “Spring Cleaning”, so we are thankful the military life provides us the opportunity to purge every few years, and this summer is no different. Our home at Vandenberg had lots of kitchen storage…