Satisfyingly sweet, slightly salty, cold and crunchy chocolatey snack-attack goodness could be lurking in your freezer right now.
COULD be.
Maybe.
If you were the lucky type.
OR…
Ha!…yep that’s right, because I just blitzed up a batch of these babies, and I am not for one second exaggerating when I tell you that I’m pretty excited about it.
Fun Fact: August and September typically clock in the most births per month per calendar year in the U.S.A. What this means of course is that right about now and in the immediate days and weeks to come….somebody you know is celebrating a birthday!
WHOOOO-HOO! Happy birthday to them!
Not so fun fact: August is typically the hottest month in the northern hemisphere, and where I live (Florida) September….well…..it ain’t much better, what can I tell ya?
whoo-hoo 🙁 ? (what just happened here?)
Okay then, I’m sure you can see where I’m going with this. Lots of birthdays require lots of cakes, and nobody has a lot of time. And as far as heating up the kitchen? Not so much into THAT right now either, are you? Now you can always go BUY a cake….oh sure, you can always do that old mundane thing. And it would be delicious, of course. And beautiful, I’m sure. No problem. What’s there to judge……right? 😜
This is a re-post from 2016; it IS after all a holiday weekend, and this little gem remains a classic for good reason.
Hey hey, Memorial Day!
Not just a celebration of the beginning of summer – or a time to book fun travel plans or hang out at a barbecue with family and friends (although I conscientiously object to none of the above)….Memorial Day is an important day in America; one that reminds us – to remember.
Memorial Day was established on May 6, 1862 by General John A. Logan as a way to remember the soldiers that were killed during the Civil War. The date wasn’t chosen for any particular reason, he just sort of picked it out of a hat (okay I made that part up….about the hat).
Anyway in 1971 the Federal Government established the holiday to be on the last Monday of May as a way to grant employees a three-day weekend! Yes! Can you believe it? See…..the feds aren’t all bad.
Well, at least back in 1971 maybe they weren’t……but I digress. In all seriousness this is a date to honor all of America’s fallen soldiers, in wars past and present, for the ultimate sacrifice.
Maybe you can make ’em this apple crisp to celebrate.
Raw brownies, people! As in no-bake, chewy chocolate goodness, chock full of protein, fiber, vitamins and minerals galore, all decked out in a bombastic blanket of chocolatey ganache decadent enough to mimic a classic butter-cream (no lie).
Raw brownies, people. As in no-bake, chewy chocolate goodness, but with NO white flour. NO eggs. NO butter. Very, very little sugar. So really…..nothing anywhere close to what you might be used to if the brownies in your world equal perhaps ….. Betty Crocker’s. Or your mom’s. Or these beauties (which look AMAZING, btw).
This. Is. Just. So. Good.
Buttery, crumbly, cakey deliciousness delectably obscures a velvety layer of pumpkin perfection. (That sentence alone should have been enough to sell you, I think I just used up all of the adjectives I know.) Dig down into that golden crisp, pecan studded crown of crunch and you’ll slip into a silky layer of cinnamon spiced pumpkin puree…..not quite pie, not quite pudding.
Sort of a hybrid between a dump cake and a gooey butter cake, this crowd pleaser is my take on those two amazingly rich and yummy fall desserts.
(Okay, so what that REALLY means is that I forgot the eggs or left out the cream cheese or something goofy like that…..and ended up with this happy accident which is now one of my most favorite things!)
So have you reached your annual pumpkin spice saturation point yet?
I really hope not.
HOWEVER:
These moist and squidgy squares of phenomenally fudgy fun are super easy, super yummy and super good for you! Containing not one, not two, but three particularly pumped players, these bulked up brownies will give you a whole lot more nutritional bang for your buck than say…..the regular baked-goods you can buy at the grocery store (no bueno). Consider the lineup:
Take an old school ice cream sandwich, cut it in half, insert a handle, drizzle it with chocolate, pelt it with copious amounts of confetti colored sprinkles….and you will end up with one stupid cute, completely irresistible…
PARTY ON A STICK!
(hey, I don’t make the rules…….I’m just here to spread the good word)
These adorable orb shaped edibles are a power packin’ super snack. Bursting with health happy hardware like protein, fiber, vitamins B1, B6, Iron, potassium, manganese, magnesium, phosphorus, selenium, copper and zinc, these little cuties are almost too good for you – to be so dang GOOD!
Loaded with lignans, flax-seed is the #1 source of this all important compound in the human diet and as boring as that may sound…lignan lore is worth a listen!