Baking

Ladies and gents, SHAKE your way to health! What do I mean? Green Shakes!   Blend them. Drink them. Reap their rewards! And what are their rewards? FULLY LOADED: Green smoothies are packed with essential vitamins, minerals and nutrients. INSTANT GRATIFICATION: Those great nutrients are absorbed and assimilated far more easily by your body and absorption is almost instantaneous. This means drinking a big green smoothie will not only boost your overall health, it will make you feel nourished almost immediately.  DECEPTIVELY DELICIOUS: For green-o-phobes , consuming a large serving of greens in smoothie form is a tasty way to disguise what your body needs -- minus the gag-reflex. CLEAN SWEEP: Unlike juice, a smoothie retains all the fabulous fiber of the fruits and vegetables it incorporates. This fiber works like a broom in your digestive tract and provides a gentle and effective flush of your system. Today's recipes are for 2 variations of a healthy and delicious Green C...

  Frosty Fudgecakes with PB-Fudge Frosting! Are you drooling yet? I made these decadent nearly vegan (I use a little honey but also provide a vegan option for the recipe below) and gluten-free frosty cupcakes for my mom's birthday. What a hit! Everyone was wowed by the incredible texture of these frosty cupcakes. They came out more like chocolate fudge than cake after I let them cool down in my sister's freezer for 30 minutes before I served them.  Don ' t like fudge ? Don ' t freeze them and they will be moist chocolate cupcakes instead!   Why did I freeze them?  Because putting chocolate cake in the freezer creates an amazing flavor and texture combination. Why? I have no idea, but trust me , if you've never done it, do it! These delicious cupcakes aren't made with just any chocolate cake batter. This batter is loaded with healthy gluten-free whole-grain flours, good fats from organic safflower oil, chia seeds and flax and is sweetened with dates, maple syrup...

It's HOT out there!  Want a creamsicle? Yea, me too. But I'm not going to buy one -- I'm going to make a creamsicle smoothie instead!   This creamsicle smoothie is totally delicious and totally healthy. Store-bought Creamsicles are full of refined sugar and additives and are definitely NOT vegan. These tasty smoothies however are fresh fruit-sweetened, full of EFAs (essential fatty acids) and real ingredients like juicy navel oranges, ripe bananas and even a few superfoods for good measure! I'm calling this smoothie my "CreamSEXel" smoothie. Why? Well, this smoothie doesn't just stir up creamsicle memories of yore -- the recipe contains energy, stamina and libido boosting ingredients too!  Hey, it's Friday! What ingredients you ask? Great ones like  maca  powder,  dates , real  vanilla beans  and  bananas !    These same fabulous superfood ingredients are featured in my recent post for some delicious and nutritious  SUPE...