Looking for more quick bread recipes? Try this Lemon Blueberry Bread, Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Bread, Applesauce Bread, or Beer Bread! Why I love this recipe: Healthier – I adapted this Chocolate Banana Bread recipe from my Healthy Banana Bread recipe, so it’s much lower in sugar and fat than a typical bakery-style chocolate quick bread, but you’d never know it! It’s absolutely delicious! Kid-Friendly – Every kid loves chocolate banana bread, and my kids love helping me make it too!...

Chocolate. It’s what’s for breakfast. It’s even better when paired with homemade salted caramel sauce. This isn’t the type of breakfast you’d make every day, but it sure is a good one when you do. It’s my birthday today and they’d make a nice birthday breakfast. But I made them last weekend and they’re long gone. The pancakes are light, soft, and fluffy from the buttermilk. They’re anything but lead balloons, a major gripe I have with many pancakes....

The Best Cookie Cups These chocolate chip cookie cups have it all. The dough is made with browned butter, studded with mini chocolate chips, and the centers are stuffed with melted chocolate lava. Yes please. The cookie cups are made in one bowl, you don’t need a mixer, you don’t have to chill the dough, and because they’re baked in a muffin pan you don’t have to worry about spreading like you do with cookies baked on a baking sheet....

Chocolate-Swirled Red Velvet Brownies Red velvet fever has begun in advance of Valentine’s Day. It’s everywhere. Here’s my contribution. This recipe tasted like a cross between red velvet brownies and red velvet bars. Not over-the-top chocolaty to give them true brownie status, but much fudgier, denser, and richer than your typical bar. Classic red velvet is known to have chocolate undertones, but isn’t overly chocolaty, and these easy cocoa powder brownies hit that mark....

In honor of March arriving so suddenly and catching everyone by surprise (truth be told, I thought leap day was yesterday) (I mean leap year) (whatever), all that to say – I’d like you to meet someone. This is the Donut Ball. Before you lose consciousness, let me assure you that usually the donut coma only lasts for about an hour, possibly more if there’s a fire going in the fireplace and Michael Buble softly playing and the dishwasher whooshing you into a nap....

Nothing beats an appetizer that can be made in 15 minutes, that’s what I love most about this cheese ball. That’s also the best thing about this easy vegetable dip and homemade shrimp cocktail. A homemade cheeseball is one of the most classic holiday appetizers, ever! If you want to get more creative than the traditional serving style, these mini cheese ball bites are also a crowd favorite. What I Love about this Classic Cheese Ball: Make it ahead of time....

comment icon 44 more comments It’s also hard to forget about these, even though that has nothing to do with apples or Fridays. And as long as we’re going down this road, I’m having a very very hard time not thinking about this show all the time. It’s borderline obsessive. And by borderline, I mean full-blown I wouldn’t be mad at you if you clicked that link and got sidetracked for a few hours....

And although I’ve never had or heard of a cocoa crumble, I made it. I was brainstorming about this cake on a long run (I’m running a half marathon this weekend), which is where most of my recipes begin to crystallize. I had chocolate cake on my brain, and a crumble-topped coffee cake, and I married the two. The cake is an easy, no mixer cake with plenty of smooth, chocolate flavor....

comment icon 55 more comments It’s a love-hate, although right now I’m more on the love side. I guess the only thing I really hate is the name: chicken skin. But if you feed me something that is golden like the sun, mysteriously both juicy and crispy at the same time, and full of coconut lime chicken flavor and tell me it’s chicken skin? Then I do love chicken skin after all....

These energy bites are MY ENTIRE LIFE right now. comment icon 185 more comments These are energy bites, but also they are kind of cookie dough. I mean, let’s be real – these aren’t the butter and sugar kind of cookie dough, and I am all about that goodness in my life, too. But being that I’m pregnant, I can’t / probably shouldn’t eat cookie dough right now, and these energy bites are just checking all the flavor/texture/nutrition/convenience boxes for me while also reminding me of peanut butter chocolate chip cookie dough....

Copycat Pumpkin Spice Latte Recipe I am a person who loves summery weather, but one thing that I look forward to in the fall is a freshly made Starbucks Pumpkin Spice Latte. I know I’m not the only one who loves this guilty pleasure come this time every year! You know who you are. My DIY version is super simple and straightforward, but will help you perfect the art of making homemade pumpkin spice lattes....

Secondly, it’s true. I’m going fake-vegan-rogue on you today. comment icon 434 more comments In terms of actual real life serious commitments, I’m not a vegan or a vegetarian. But I am a person who likes to try new things and sometimes I get lazy about cooking meat, so a few months ago I bought three different spiralizers – those crazy machines that make vegetables into noodles. I wanted to try them and see which ones were best, and why they were awesome, and become a super healthy person with a few swirls of a spiralizer handle, and eventually talk about it in a post....

Oven Roasted Brussels Sprouts Recipe If you’re a Brussels sprouts fan like I am, this is the perfect way to try two different versions and flavors of sprouts in one. That’s right, this is an easy flavorful Thanksgiving and Christmas side dish recipe that’s made on the same sheet pan, and cooks in the same amount of time, but with totally different flavors. Twice as nice is the way I like to think of these crispy Brussels spouts....

Super creamy, savory goodness with tender shreds of chicken and perfectly cooked veg. Wholesome piles of deliciously satisfying wild rice throughout. Ope, yep yep yep! Grab some warm crusty bread because this soup is truly a dream to come home to on a cold winter night. comment icon 907 more comments (Again, if you weren’t sure about the whole from-Minnesota thing, please see the use of “ope!” in that last paragraph....

While I was at it, I noticed they had a great price on Sun Warrior Vanilla BRPP. This shopping took place with a jar of Sunbutter in hand. New kitchen stuff + TJ’s Sunflower Seed buttah = Saturday night big thrills. As that Sunbuttah jar was widdling down… …I thought, ok I am in a spending mood let’s just go hog wild and order the PB2, too. I ordered the combo pack of three PB2 and 1 chocolate PB2....

Unfortunately, many of my favorite products have recently pulled a disappearing act. All I need to do is blog about something, profess my love for it, and then poof. It goes out of stock, becomes sold out, temporarily unavailable, or permanently discontinued. These White Chocolate Chips They’re seasonal in San Diego, although I have been told by readers that some Southern Trader Joe’s stores carry them year-round. Now that I know the seasonal situation, I buy a dozen bags or so in December because by December 31, and many times sooner, they are gone for the year and they’re my favorite white chocolate to bake with and the price is also a steal....

I was tempted to call this cheese soup rather than cheese dip because then it would have been okay to just dig in by the spoonful, which is what I wanted to do. I know what you’re thinking. That cheese dip is gluttony in a bowl. And you know what, you’re right, it is. But it’s so good. Then again, I’ve never met a dip, sauce, spread, or condiment that I didn’t love....

Easiest No-Knead Bread Rolls Recipe There’s nothing better than warm, fresh, buttery homemade dinner rolls. The only thing better than the rolls is that the dough is a make-ahead and no-knead dough. This quick dinner roll recipe is perfect for anyone who’s never worked with yeast because it’s almost impossible to screw up. If you can dump ingredients in a bowl and stir, you can make these. I like to brush the tops with honey butter before baking and it makes them even more irresistible....

If you’ve never heard of a “wet burrito” (aka Burrito Mojado) it’s not hard to guess where it gets its name! Regular burritos are stuffed in a flour tortilla and wrapped in aluminum foil so you can eat them with your hands. Wet burritos are made “wet” when smothered in enchilada sauce, served on a plate, and eaten with a fork. If you want to make my favorite version of a wet burrito, try it served with both red and green enchilada sauce spooned separately over each half of the burrito....

Homemade Edible Cookie Dough Recipe Let’s take a break from sugar cookies and red and green sprinkles. And indulge in something that never goes out of season: raw cookie dough. I love the pre-Christmas season, but there’s so much fudge, cutout cookies, mint this, eggnog that. Conversely, raw cookie dough is a year round, timeless indulgence. For you too? Oh, good. This easy edible cookie dough is egg-free, vegan, safe to eat raw, and tastes just like the real thing made with eggs and butter....