• Banana Blender Muffins

    These muffins are a standard in my house. I make them at least once a month, if not more. I just feel safer when they’re around, ya know? 🙂 These could not be easier and come together in literal minutes. They utilize a blender and only take 15 minutes in the oven, so they can go from raw ingredients, to in-yo-mouth in 30 minutes or less. These work every time I make them–they might even be foolproof! Give them a go and you’ll be hooked. Pinkie swear. Banana Blender Muffins Yield: 9 muffins Ingredients: 2 ripe, medium-sized bananas 1 cup natural peanut butter (only PB and maybe salt) 2 eggs…

  • Healthy 3-Ingredient Peanut Butter Cookies

    These healthy little nuggets are amazing! Made up of only peanut butter, dates, and an egg (+ a dip in dark chocolate if you’re so inclined), they are definitely a treat you can feel good about. I enjoyed these while watching Great British Bake-off with a cup of black, pumpkin-flavored coffee and it was the scrummiest delight 🙂 Peanut Butter-Date Cookies Yield: about 14 cookies Ingredients: 1 cup natural peanut butter 1 cup dates (8 oz.) 1 egg Optional: Dark chocolate (I used this 88% bar) Flaked sea salt Method: Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line a baking sheet with a slipmat or parchment paper. If your dates are hard…

  • Chocolate Chip-Peanut Butter Bars

    Every weekend I go through the same song and dance with myself.. an exhausting internal monologue (sometimes it’s aloud if I’m honest) that involves arguing over whether I should get a chocolate croissant from the patisserie or make something at home. I go through the the cost/benefit analysis, the nutrition/lack thereof analysis, the time/energy analysis… comprehensive analyses are kinda my thang. Depending on the weekend, it could go either way.  Though more times than not, I end up tinkering on something at home. Today, I tinkered.  Oh yes, I tinkered.  My goal is always, yummy and decadent with ingredients that I feel good about.  The magic of nut butters in…