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Lilac Velvet Cupcakes with Peanut Butter Frosting
Spring is here! And so are my favorite flowers, lilacs! Purple has always been my favorite color so its fitting that I would have purple hair and my favorite flower would be purple. I have a huge lilac bush in my backyard so every year when the short lilac season comes around I take advantage of it. I swear these are a lighter purple in real life but isn’t this color pretty too! This year I decided to up it a level by matching my cupcakes to lilacs. These cupcakes are soooo good! I know the peanut butter frosting sounds a little strange…
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Lavender Apricot Earl Grey Tea Cake
I don’t know about you but I simply adore lavender! For one I love the purple color but I also like the calming effects it has. I often sprinkle some lavender essential oils on my bed to help me sleep at night. I’ve been meaning to bake some treats with lavender and saw my chance when I found this lavender extract at Home Sense! The lavender extract smells lovely and it adds a wonderful aroma and taste to baked goods. I also find that -as with the essential oil- consuming lavender extract also gives a calming effect. If you don’t have lavender extract feel free to use vanilla or almond…
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Zucchini Muffins Filled with Cream Cheese
If you’re anything like me you probably loveeee desserts! If I don’t have something to satisfy my sweet tooth then I just don’t feel good at the end of the day. To keep a healthy life balance I like to combine health with sweet and delicious. These zucchini muffins are the perfect combination of sweet and rich but also healthy and filling. They make the perfect snack or after meal treat! Zucchini Muffins Filled with Cream Cheese 12 muffins adapted from here For muffins: 2 cups shredded zucchini 2 eggs 1/3 cup olive oil 1/2 cup honey 1/2 cup Greek yogurt 1/2 tsp salt 1 tsp baking…
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Sprinkle Cake Doughnuts
My city used to have a Krispy Kreme. The words “used to” are key here. I remember going into this store when I was a kid and being entranced by the huge doughnut making machine they had behind glass. It was like a mini doughnut machine but ginormous! And of course, whenever the light was on that meant they would be handing out fresh doughnuts to munch on! At some point, this Krispy Kreme had to close down. I guess for a Canadian city, although we loved doughnuts we remained faithful to our native Tim Horton’s (also the location was kinda meh like seriously that thing should have…
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Chocolate Quinoa Candy Bars
I’m not always one to want to make no-bake treats, simply because I love turning on the oven and seeing what I’ve mixed up turn into something new. I have to say though that these no-bake candy bars are changing my mind. They are probably my most favorite thing I have created in a while! These candy bars are packed with all the good things. They have no processed sugar, can be made paleo, are gluten-free, and vegan! and they are so so so good!! I really suggest that you make them stat! If you wish to make these paleo, you can substitute the peanut butter with almond butter I…
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Chocolate Zucchini Baked Doughnuts with Peanut Butter Frosting
Mmmm is it just me or are baked goods with zucchini just so oddly delicious! I like to think that having veggies in my baked goods makes these extra healthy. Right? These doughnuts have a light and chewy texture. I topped some with peanut butter frosting which made them extra amazing! If you don’t have a doughnut pan then you can use a muffin tin, I made some in my heart shaped muffin pan <3 Tips for baking: Make sure not to over mix as this will make your doughnuts tough If desired, you can use all white flour or all spelt flour To make this vegan you can use flax eggs…
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Soft Chocolate Walnut Cookies
I know its almost March but I hope everyone is enjoying the new year so far! A couple years ago I did a gratitude jar. Everyday that year a wrote something on a small piece of paper that made me happy that day. At the end of the year I spent New Year’s Eve reading what I had written. It was a nice way to reflect upon the year and it was fun to see the jar fill up. I have decided to do a similar thing this year bit instead of a jar I am writing everything down in a journal. This way I can keep track of…
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Caramel Date Stuffed Pumpkin Cookies (vegan)
A couple months ago I saw the Dracula Ballet! I know what you’re thinking its either “how can there be a ballet about Dracula?!” or “man that’s so cool, I wish I could see the Dracula Ballet”. It was an amazing show. The dancers were wonderful and the show was something I would have never expected to see in a ballet. There was suspense and horror, cute moments, and special effects. The dancers sometimes flew across the stage attached to wires from above and there was one part where Dracula slowly climbed to the ceiling only to hit a chandelier at the moment the chandelier sparked causing sighs of astonishment…
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Pumpkin Blondie Cake with Coconut Vanilla Glaze
Happy late Halloween! Fall is so great because of all the pumpkin things. Pumpkin is great, even though this interesting vegetable is kinda strange when you think about it. Today I would like to remind you all to remember to breathe. This week I sat in a grade 1 classroom. When it seemed they were losing concentration teacher had the students do a bunch of jumping jacks and then take three deep breaths. All the students did and I swear you could feel the whole atmosphere in the room shift after that. Breathing deep breaths can be very calming when your emotions are getting out of control or when you need…
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Crisp and Chewy Coconut Oatmeal Cookies – Vegan
Hi everyone! Long time, no see. If this is your first time here my name is Kat. I took a hiatus from the world of blogging due to my university studies. Since then I have graduated with a degree in Kinesiology, gotten my yoga teacher certification, and started a Youtube channel! I have recently started a second degree in Education and plan on becoming a physical education and health teacher. This blog has always stayed close to my heart since I still love creating healthy and delicious desserts. A couple things happened the last year that inspired me start my blog back up again including meeting a successful blogger…
