Desserts & Sweets without cacao cereal

Homemade HealthyΒ Tagalongs – they can be vegan, gluten-free, sugar-free, soy-free and even grain-free! It’s Girl Scout Cookie Season. And you know what that[...]

It might seem strange to see the author of β€œthe healthy dessert blog” holding a book all about junk food. Contrary to what one might assume from reading[...]

1 Cup - Peanut Butter ( Creamy or Crunchy your choice/ i used the latter). 1 Cup - Quick cooking Oatmeal (Quaker's oats is what i used). 1 Cup - Sugar( of[...]

3 cups flour 1 and 1/2 cups sugar 3 teaspoons baking soda 6 tablespoons cocoa powder 1 and 1/2 teaspoons vanilla 1 and 1/2 cups cold water 1 and 1/2 cups[...]

Bananas (frozen) Peanut Butter (1 Tablespoon per banana) Peel ripe bananas and put them in a zip lock bag to freeze Freeze for two hours (if you leave them[...]

1 C packed brown sugar 2/3 C butter 1/4 C dark or light colored corn syrup 1/4 C peanut butter 3 1/2 C quick cooking rolled oats (Oatmeal) 1-12 oz package[...]

OK...maybe not quite illegal, but I'm sure glad I'm waking up in Texas this morning instead of New York City where I feel sure Mayor Bloomberg would be[...]

Really, you might as well call these health food cookies. I know, we all pledged to "eat better" in 2013, and I'm here to help you out. Chocolate:[...]

Welcome! Come on in! Today you're attending a baby shower. { Yes, you there...in your pajamas...you're at a baby shower. } Our baby shower today is in honor of[...]

Salted caramel. Have you tried it? Now, I'm a chocolate girl, through and through, but salted caramel has me a bit smitten. I had a salted caramel cupcake in[...]

Last year if you would have told me that I'd write two blog posts on running, I would have laughed (and laughed, and laughed some more). What I always said[...]

Please tell me you do things like this, too... A friend, let's call her Cheryl , tells you about making desserts in push-pop containers. You then see a blog[...]

After making Frosted Animal Cookies , I guess I had store-bought cookies on the brain. I had Nutter Butter Brain. There was no stopping it. But these are[...]

Aren't they pretty? These are Pretzel M&M's. Have you seen them? After Peanut M&M's, these are my new favorites. Plain M&M's, I can resist. That's[...]

What is it about the combination of peanut butter and chocolate that is so magical? I'm not a girl to eats peanut butter by the spoonful, but combine it with[...]