Healthier than your typical fried donuts, these vegan baked donuts use fresh strawberries, oats & cashew butter in the batter, & are topped with a strawberry cream cheese frosting! I haven't shared a sweet tooth recipe with you in a solid six weeks. The madness! Truth be told, I've been doing a lot of experimenting in the kitchen with new snack & dessert recipes, but many of them have been freelance projects. But today I'm back with a very delicious donut recipe... my very first donut recipe on the blog! Over the holidays, my hubby's grandmom & mom gave us a gift card to Stonewall Kitchen, and I went ahead & purchased something I'd been meaning to nab for awhile... a donut pan! I've been playing around with my first batches of homemade donuts, & ... [Read More]
strawberry recipes
Strawberry Banana Bread Bars [vegan]
Sometimes around this time of the year I get a little overzealous about all of the summertime fruit that's in peak season. I eat a ton of fruit, but I wind up getting excited and buying more fruit than even I can eat before it gets too ripe. Case in point was a few weeks ago, when I found myself driving past a strawberry farm stand while out running errands. I simply had to pop in and buy not one, not two, but three pints of strawberries (it was a buy more kind of deal!)... after I had just nabbed a big bag of cherries and a yuuuugggge container of blueberries, on top of my usual banana and apple purchases. For the next few days, I ate lots of fruit: threw some on top of smoothie bowls, in my cereal, mixed in with yogurt, on its own as a healthy dessert... but I couldn't eat all of the ... [Read More]
Easy, Creamy Strawberry Vanilla Smoothie
“Candy is basically fake fruit that wishes it was fruit and is doing its best to smell and taste like it.” - Cameron Diaz, The Body Book Happy, happy Friday! Speaking of the word 'happy,' I'm usually a pretty happy woman, and it typically doesn't take much to put me in a good mood. Let me play with puppies? I'm happy. Bring me to a winery and let me hang out (and drink wine) all day? I'm happy. Take me to watch the sunset on the beach? I'm happy. Find me a farm stand with sweet, super ripe strawberries just before their season ends? I'm a happpppy girl. Because I'm happy Clap along if you feel like a room without a roof Clap along if you feel like happiness is the truth Because I'm happy Clap along if you know what happiness is to you Because I'm happy Clap along if you feel like that's ... [Read More]