Coconut Macaroons

The coconut macaroon is a harmonious cookies prominently featured at the big two December holidays: Christmas and Hanukkah. I love making Coconut Macaroons cause they are soo easy to make. With only 5 ingredients (6 if you choose to coat the bottoms with chocolate), this recipe is sooo simple. And its also naturally gluten free, …

Chocolate Peanut Butter Balls

Chocolate, peanut butter, these are my dessert kryptonite! As a kid I always loved ‘buckeyes’ the sweet peanut butter balls covered in chocolate.  I could easily eat five or six, no questions asked. Now, as an adult, I could definitely do the same, but I know it’s not the healthiest option. In a quest to …

Peppermint Patties

The Christmas season brings with it a series of quintessential flavors, one of the primary ones being peppermint.  Candy canes, peppermint mochas and one of my personal favorites, peppermint patties. The flavor epitomizes the season – fresh and crisp like the air yet somehow comforting and calming like a warm toasty fire.  I’d always loved …

Pineapple Dream Muffins

Another recipe inspired by my desire to create something super simple, low-cal and use up extra items in my pantry.  I’d been wanting to make a pineapple cake or dessert for months and the can of pineapple and box of pineapple jello in my cupboard kept staring at me begging to be transformed.  I couldn’t …

Lemon Coconut Daisies & Cookie Cups

I’m a big fan of lemon flavored anything and I also love coconut. So why not combine the two for the perfect spring dessert!  That’s where these cookies originated from. I wanted something that felt like spring. To make these cookies look like spring I chose to use a daisy shaped cookie cutter and place …

Coconut Chicken and Mango Salsa

MANGO. COCONUT. SUMMER.  Do I have your attention yet?  There is nothing better than some fresh mango salsa and coconut on a warm breezy beach day….. Or maybe just when you are just dreaming of a warm beach day when it’s actually mid winter and you feel like you haven’t seen the sun in months. Today …