Kitchen Sink Oatmeal Cookies – oatmeal cookies filled with everything but the kitchen sink! Chocolate chunks, white chocolate chips, cinnamon chips, walnuts, raisins, and coconut! When we moved I realized I had a lot of mostly empty bags of chocolate chips. A lot. Same goes for pecans, shredded coconut, almond meal, bottles of vanilla, all the…
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Paleo Chocolate Chip Coconut Cookies
Paleo Chocolate Chip Coconut Cookies will be your new favorites, for all time. Paleo or not, these babies are gorgeous! Meet my new favorite cookie. I’m having this thing with coconut this summer. It started with this peanut coconut sauce that I was making daily and putting on everything and now I’ve moved onto cookies. I…
Strawberry Coconut Granola
Strawberry Coconut Granola – easy homemade granola recipe! Oats, coconut, sliced almonds, and strawberries! Heeeey guys! Are you watching Big Brother? I am buuuuut I’m just not into it like I normally am. I mean, does the boyfriend come home after work and find me watching the live feeds at 1 am? Of course he…
Ambrosia Macaroons
Ambrosia Macaroons are a delicious twist on the classic coconut macaroons. Made with coconut, dried pineapple, orange zest, lime juice, and a cherry on top! COOKIES! I’m so into making cookies right now. I have 3 different cookies on my counter right now. I’m refusing to try any of them because I know if I have one,…
Samoas Bars
Originally published on February 19, 2011. It’s that time of year. You know what time I’m talking about. Girl Scouts have positioned themselves outside every grocery store, drug store, ballpark, everywhere you could possibly need to go. I try, I really do – I try to walk past them without making eye contact. It never…
Loaded Cookie Bars
I recently had a really fun opportunity to participate in a baking Blog Hop. So I baked something, sent it off to Becky of Somewhat Simple, and received the yummiest Double Chocolate Chip Pumpkin Oatmeal Cookies from Jenny of Picky Palate. This Blog Hop featured the new Pillsbury Purely Simple baking mixes. They contain simple…
Paleo Strawberry Crumble
Well guys, it’s time to start another week. Hopefully you at least got to sleep a little late today. And I hope you had a wonderful Valentine’s Day. We spent our Valentine’s morning at the park. The husband took the kids to the playground and I took the dogs to the dog park, like we…
Paleo Chocolate Chip Blondies
I’m sorry, guys. I had no intention of posting another Paleo recipe this week but the cheesy, white floury bread I made yesterday totally failed. I think I must’ve burned the yeast or something because it just refused to rise. At all. Gahhh. So you get these Paleo Chocolate Chip Blondies! And I really don’t even feel…
Coconut Flour Waffles
As if it hasn’t become really apparent over the years, I get bored really easily. Not like, sitting on the couch flipping channels bored but I get bored of things quickly. Hobbies, books, tv shows, etc, etc, etc. So on our epic roadtrip earlier this summer, it’s really no surprise that by hour 4 I was done…
Blueberries and Cream Granola
Did you know that September is Better Breakfast Month? Well it is and I’ve teamed up with California Almonds to make sure your breakfast is better than ever. It turns out that 50% of women skip breakfast when they are crunched for time. Studies show that those who eat breakfast are less likely to be…
Ocean Water (Sonic Copycat Recipe)
This Sonic copycat Ocean Water recipe is a must have for summer! Sprite or 7Up mixed with coconut extract for the perfect tropical mocktail! A little bit of food dye to make and some fish gummies really make it look like ocean water! My kid started school today. Like, all day school. Last year he…
Skinny Frozen Pina Colada
Skinny Frozen Pina Colada – don’t give up your favorite frozen cocktail during bikini season! Easy 3 ingredient, low calorie pina coladas! I told you guys that my husband and I have been having a competition to see who can be the healthiest person ever, right? Surprisingly I am pretty good at this game for…
Samoa Brownies
Last year when Girl Scout cookies started showing up in grocery store parking lots around here, we were doing last minute preparations for deployment. I cannot tell you how many boxes we went through during that time. We were literally eating them for dinner because everything was so hectic. Plus we had a constant stream…
Blackberry and Apple Crumble
Blackberry and Apple Crumble is the most delicious summer dessert! Juicy blackberries and apples with a crunchy topping of oats, coconut, and almonds! Blackberries?! I know. It’s not berry season but I got some in my Bountiful Baskets basket a few weeks back and I can’t stand the little seedy things so the only thing to…
Coconut Semolina Cake
This is the final recipe I’ll be sharing from An Edible Mosaic and it’s a good one! As the title says, it’s a cake made with semolina flour which gave it a gorgeous yellow color and a different texture – kind of like cornmeal. It’s also filled with coconut (I had to use sweetened –…