Easy Carrot Cake Oatmeal recipe. Made with carrot juice, this sweet treat is the perfect healthy way to wake up in the morning. You know how I'm always a couple of months behind all of the food trends? At least this time, I am only 1 month behind on the Easter carrot cake craze. Plus,...
Easy Chocolate Chip Cookie Cups recipe. My new favourite way to make cookies, it makes the best quick nut free dessert idea. These days, all I want to do is make quick and easy recipes. Specifically, quick and easy desserts. This is probably not a great thing because I haven't left the house, and have...
Easy Vegan Chocolate Banana Bread recipe. This loaf is moist and perfect for a grab and go breakfast or nut free snack idea. It seems like this quarantine is making almost everybody want to bake banana bread. And now I have been influenced by everyone else to make some banana bread too. So here we...
Easy Easter Egg Chocolate Chip Cookie Cups recipe. Made with Cadbury mini eggs, these are the perfect last minute dessert idea. Move over Weetabix Chocolate Nests. I have a found my new favourite Easter dessert. (John still likes the Chocolate Nests better, but we won't talk about that right now)
Easy Cadbury Mini Egg Cookies recipe. This makes a simple, nut free last minute dessert or snack idea to make for Easter. Today is the first day of Spring Break. First day, with no where to go. I really can't complain though. My school had a protocol wayy early on in the "unlikely event of...
Easy moist Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Loaf recipe. Perfectly spiced, this quick bread makes a great nut free breakfast or snack idea. Okay, yeah. So I didn't want to be that person that posts pumpkin recipes in the dead of winter, but here we go. I will try to hold off on pumpkin recipes until September...
Easy Mint Chocolate Chip Cookies recipe. Made with mint extract, these green cookies are perfect for St. Patrick's Day or as a fun snack. It seems like almost immediately after Valentine's Day, I am already thinking about St Patrick's Day. It's that time of the year already. My last post: White Chocolate Matcha Latte, was only...
Easy Mini Red Velvet Cheesecakes recipe. Perfectly portioned desserts, these sweet bites are perfect for Valentine's Day. January is finally over. That month felt like an eternity. Now, we are entering the month of love. With Valentine's day right around the corner, I want to make sure that I have at least one Valentine's Day recipe...
Easy Macadamia Nut Banana Bread recipe. This moist lightly sweet loaf is perfect for a grab and go breakfast or snack idea. It's a long weekend, and the first snowstorm of the year was yesterday. All that means is that I don't want to go outside or do anything around the house. Today has been...
Easy Eggnog Latte Oatmeal recipe. Made with strong coffee and rich eggnog, this is the perfect breakfast idea for the holidays! It's Thanksgiving here in America, which means nothing is open and everyone is visiting family and stuffing their face with all the food. While I would love to be doing that right now, we don't...
Easy Baked Nutella Doughnuts with Nutella Glaze recipe. Healthier than your typical donut, this makes the perfect dessert idea to satisfy your sweet tooth. Fall is finally here, which means pumpkin and apple recipes are coming out of the woodwork. Everyone is grabbing their pumpkin spice latte and apple pie, and gearing up for sweater...
Easy Salted Caramel and White Chocolate Chip Cheesecake Cookie Cups recipe. Nut free dessert that the whole family will love. Today was officially my last day at my job in Toronto. And tomorrow I am going to Italy to see my husband for the first time in 3 months. I am getting all of the...
Easy Strawberry Shortcake Oatmeal recipe. This decadent breakfast idea is so good, you could even eat it for dessert! Whipped cream optional. Berry season is officially here, and I am HERE for it!! Can you walk through your grocery store without buying the beautiful berries in the produce section? Because I can't. I almost want...
Easy Millionaire Bars recipe. Shortbread base, caramel like filling and chocolate topping, what more would you want in a dessert? My obsession for all things chocolate shouldn't surprise you at this point. From my Healthy Double Chocolate Muffins to my Magic Chocolate Shell to my Almond Butter Chocolate Cups, I put chocolate in my muffins, ice cream and everything in...
This Eggless Almond Butter Coconut Brownies recipe is keto, gluten free and so easy to make. Today was the first time since Christmas that I went to the gym. Big mistake. I thought that it would only be filled with people going there with good intentions in the first week of the year. We are...
Healthy Gingerbread Oatmeal Recipe. Can be made vegan and filled with all of the fall spices. Perfect breakfast for the holidays. Now that January 1st is just around the corner, I am being told by all these magazine articles (that I finally have the time to read during the holidays) that I need to reinvent...
Healthy Applesauce Baked Oatmeal recipe. Made with oats, applesauce and chia seed, this makes a quick and easy breakfast idea. I am sure this is no surprise, but I have a little bit of an oatmeal obsession. Peppermint Mocha Oatmeal, Coffee Oatmeal with Coffee Ice Cream, Berry Peanut Butter Oatmeal... I really don't discriminate, I...
Fluffy Blueberry Pancakes recipe made with fresh blueberries. So easy to make, and somewhat healthy, they make a delicious filling breakfast idea. Can you believe it has took me all of this time to make the most classic breakfast recipe ever? The real question is, is there even a time when I walk into a...
These Peanut Butter Smores Layered Brownies are in instant hit. This will be your new go-to brownie recipe for when you want a quick and easy dessert that looks fancy! Wasn't it just the first day of spring a week or two ago? Why is it that I am already craving smores? But then again,...
Peppermint Bark Chocolate Bread recipe is basically a cake with melted chocolate and crushed candy canes on top. The perfect dessert for Christmas. So.. up until now I STILL have some leftover crushed candy cane from Christmas. Last year when I tried saving it for next Christmas, I pulled it out only to notice that...
White Chocolate Coconut Flour Cookie Dough recipe is so easy to make, and perfect for Valentine's Day or Canada Day. Gluten free and egg free. This week was exhausting!! Between writing tests and marking math papers, I am ready to just sit back and binge watch Netflix with something sweet. How about you? But being...
These super soft and fudgy Nutella Peanut Butter Chip Cookies are easy to make, and ready in 15 minutes. I honestly can't believe it has been over a month since school started. I am already drowning in work, with barely any time for anything for me. Days revolve around going to school, creating worksheets and...
This Applesauce Cake is made with pecans and cranberries. The perfect dessert or breakfast recipe for the fall. Okay, here we go. Let the fall baking begin. Maybe if I start baking like fall, the weather here in Toronto will start ACTING like fall. Seriously! There was a heat warning yesterday, and another one today....
My favourite Chocolate Sheet Cake from scratch. Made without buttermilk and super easy to make, you will never need another chocolate cake recipe. Okay, I promise I will start making actual food sometime soon. But first, cake! I know what you're thinking. The internet doesn't need another chocolate cake recipe. And I agree. But this one...
This moist Snickerdoodle Apple Bread is such an easy recipe to whip up on the weekend. Works as a grab and go breakfast, or a sweet snack idea. Totally not even apple season yet, but I am SO excited for fall flavours that I am getting my start a little early this year. But can...
These Strawberry Apple Muffins are like a cross between Summer and Fall. Spiced with cinnamon and nutmeg, this recipe makes the perfect breakfast or snack. Looking for more strawberry recipes? Try my Strawberry Muffins or my Strawberry Cream Cheese Coffee Cake recipe. I am seriously wishing I had some of these muffins with me right now!! I...
Pecan, Cranberry and Banana Oatmeal recipe that is ready in 10 minutes. With cinnamon and coconut added, it tastes like fall in a bowl. Trying hard to space out my oatmeal posts because I am freaking obsessed. Even in the summer, is my breakfast of choice. No matter that it is blisteringly hot outside. I need...
Easy Layered Apple Coffee Cake using fresh apples and applesauce. An easy breakfast recipe that is perfectly spiced. Note to self, do not buy apples during the summer. I am a big apple eater, and I always go crazy around apple season in the fall to buy bags and bags of them. But even during the...
Vegan Chocolate, Peanut Butter and Avocado Pie recipe that is gluten free and so quick and easy to make. Rich and fudgy dessert idea. I have a way to cure Monday blues. And it involves this Vegan Chocolate, Peanut Butter and Avocado Pie! It's more like an avocado pudding on top of a prepared (or...
This banana split oatmeal is like a dessert that you can have for breakfast. This is the perfect treat to begin your morning. Is it too early to post another oatmeal recipe? I am seriously obsessed! And around half a year too late to be obsessed with oatmeal. Why was I not craving comforting...
Easy strawberry layer cake recipe made from scratch! White cake with buttercream frosting, this is perfect for Canada Day, Valentine's Day or any other special occasion. Okay, I have been trying to churn out recipes for Canada Day, but since it is only a couple of days away (!!!) this is probably going to be...
Super easy rocky road fudge recipe made with condensed milk. 5 ingredients and no bake, this is perfect for the summer. Looking for more fudge recipes? Try my Easy Nutella Fudge or my Matcha Fudge. Is there anything more comforting than fudge? While I'm sure most of you make fudge for Christmas and other special...
Moist strawberry bread that is so easy to make. Perfect spring recipe. Will you judge me if I told you that I made this strawberry bread twice in the past week? And I am only calling it strawberry "bread", because the fact that this is basically strawberry pound cake and should only be consumed as...
Red Velvet Oreo Cupcakes with Oreo Frosting and an Oreo surprise inside. Topped with cookies and cream frosting. March break: 9 days away. And counting. And I think my students are feeling it too. The promise of travel and time off is making some of them reluctant to do work: especially since we moved...
This is fall in a muffin: pumpkin and snickerdoodle mixed into one. These Pumpkin Snickerdoodle Muffins are so easy to make! I know what you're thinking. Pumpkin?? What is happening?!? It is nowhere near fall, and yet I am pulling out a can of the good stuff to make some pumpkin treats. To be...
Super moist mocha cupcakes with chocolate frosting made with coffee to give you a nice pick me up. The perfect dessert to satisfy your sweet tooth. We made it to the weekend!! And a long weekend at that! I'm not the only one celebrating. The sun is shining so bright, I can hardly believe...
Your favourite chocolate chip cookie in bar form! Soft and chewy and packed with chocolate chips. Craving chocolate chip cookies is just a constant in my life. Most of the time you can find me in the kitchen baking my peanut butter chocolate chip cookies or, my favourite cookie of all time, my oatmeal chocolate chip cookies. Obviously,...
Christmas Lights Cupcakes right in time for Christmas! This recipe is the perfect holiday dessert idea. Quick: how do you get a group of teenage students to not mentally check out after a test during the last week of school before the holiday? And a followup question: how do I prevent myself from not to mentally check...
Why make little individual cinnamon rolls when you can make this Easy Giant Cinnamon Roll Cake? Made with Pillsbury crescent rolls. Is it the weekend already?? This week has been sooo busy, that I am kind of glad that it will be over soon. Report card deadlines are looming, and so are 4 upcoming...
Super soft pumpkin cookies that taste like a pumpkin muffin top. Not too sweet, so it is a perfect breakfast recipe. Is it just me, or do you think the tops of muffins are the best part? I always rip off the tops of the muffins and save it for last. Eating the boring bottom part...
Nutella dulce de leche brownies that are gooey and fudgy at the same time. Perfect quick and easy dessert. Hello favourite dessert EVER! Hey! How have you been? I don't think I can remember a time where I was more busy then I am right now. I guess this is why there is a...
Deliciously moist peach coffee cake recipe. Perfect with a cup of tea or coffee! Hey! How was your weekend? Mine was super hectic with lesson planning and other general school related stuff. Not that I'm complaining: I love being busy. But every once in a while, I feel like I need to wake up and smell...