Luscious pear chocolate clafoutis

You won’t be disappointed with this luscious pear chocolate clafoutis. Clafoutis is a traditional French dessert that is somewhere between a cake and a flan. It’s typically made with fresh cherries, but most fruits work, so pick seasonal ones that look the best at your local market. I personally love apricot and plums in the […]

Moist apple cinnamon raisin cake

You can use this moist apple cinnamon raisin cake recipe as the base for almost any gluten-free fruit loaf cake. Whether you replace the apple with berries, stone fruit or pears*, and the raisins with any dried fruit or nut, you will end up with a wonderfully moist and delicate cake to serve for tea, […]

Healthier sticky date pudding

An awesome vegan recipe for sticky date pudding.

Starbucks oatmeal cookie copycat recipe

Here is the story behind my Starbucks oatmeal cranberry cookie. First, let me admit that I sometimes have Starbucks cookies. More specifically, the big outrageous processed sugar, white flour and whatever else-ladden oatmeal, cranberry ones. It just takes a bite and you’re hooked. Seriously. I really felt like having one a month ago and now […]

Dunkin’ chocolate cookies

A bite of these Dunkin’ chocolate cookies conjured up images of me as a kid with a plate of fudgee-o cookies (these were a thing in Canada growing up…) and a tall glass of cold milk. I literally close my eyes, turn off the music/phone/pc or whatever else I am doing and savor every single bite […]

Moist Orange Cardamom Muffins

These gluten free bundles of goodness are moist and ooze of Persian flavors: pistachio, almonds, cardamom, honey, orange….you get the drift. I discovered them the other week when perusing through a wonderful cookbook gifted to me by a beautiful Persian friend of mine. The original recipe is absolutely delish but a little heavy for my […]

Feel-good gingerbread waffles

This is the only breakfast I ever have tea with – there is just something about gingerbread that calls for it. Deeply flavored with all the usual suspects – ginger, clove, nutmeg and cinnamon – these guys will wake up even the soundest sleepers with their great aroma. I tend to slightly underbake a few […]

The Kids’ Chocolate Granola

My last chocolate granola recipe dates back to over a year ago – and though it was a hit with the adults, my kiddos weren’t sold because it “didn’t taste like chocolate”. Eye roll…fair enough. So recently, I went back to the drawing board to create one that would be more appealing to a child’s […]

Guilt-free breakfast blueberry bars

If I made a roundup of my favorite on-the-go breakfasts, these babies would top the list. They’re a snap to make and tick all the boxes when it comes to my idea of the perfect morning food: high in taste, rich in fiber (y’all know how important that is to me), gluten free, packed with […]

Absolutely sinful banana moelleux

There are a ton of gluten free, processed sugar free and vegan banana bread and cake recipes out there. But this one stands out. You don’t eat it because it’s healthy, you eat it because it looks like chocolate cake and tastes like a little piece of heaven. In French, we use an expression: “c’est […]