Hearty whole wheat muffins packed with fruits, vegetables, nuts, and flaxseed to fill you up at breakfast time. What do you immediately think of when I say “healthier muffin?” Is it something like a bran/fiber muffin, tasting much like cardboard, with a dense and dry texture? Yeah. Me too. So I’m here today to scratch…
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Irish Soda Bread
Dense, hearty, crunchy-on-the-outside bread with a faintly tangy interior studded with the slightly sweet yet tart bits of currants. Up until this weekend, I had never made Irish soda bread. Can you believe it? A baker, with a partial Irish background, who married into a very Irish-on-one-side family, never making a loaf of traditional soda…
Soft-Baked Carrot Cake Granola
This soft and chewy carrot cake granola is perfectly spicy and full of the best parts of carrot cake… Without all the guilt! Fun fact about Lynn: carrot cake is one of my top 3 favorite desserts (along with chewy oatmeal raisin cookies and yellow cake with chocolate frosting), and I make an amazing one…
Homemade Cinnamon Raisin Peanut Butter
Mouthwatering homemade peanut butter that is lightly spiced with cinnamon and sweetened up with raisins. Are you full? Of the cookies, wine, brownies, candy, and more cookies that have taken over your life in the past month or two? Yeah, me too. I would be ok with never seeing another cookie ever again. Kiddinggggg! Cookies are…
Apple Cinnamon Baked Oatmeal
Easy, customizable, crowd-pleasing baked oatmeal spiced with cinnamon, loaded with chunks of apples, and studded with plump raisins. It’s that time of year that I start wanting warm, cinnamon-y breakfast. Maybe it’s because the weather is chilly and cozy, but it probably has a lot to do with the fact that I am a vacation hoarder…
Chewy Oatmeal Raisin Cookies
These oatmeal raisin cookies are chewy, buttery, and sweetened with brown sugar and molasses. My favorite question to ask people, especially people I’m meeting for the first time is this… If you could choose one dessert to have for the rest of your life, what would it be? I’m talking if this dessert were on…