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Chocolate Pumpkin Pie Spice Smoothie Plus This Week’s Top 10

Sometimes combining two of your favorite things is a bad idea like sauerkraut and chocolate or horseradish and mango but sometimes you reach that magical middle and find a combo that works. Chocolate and pumpkin pie spice. Yes. In a smoothie. Yes again. This smoothie makes enough for two people or go all in and have it …

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Banana Chocolate Cherry Trail Mix Clusters

Today’s delight is Banana Chocolate Cherry Trail Mix Clusters. Sounds like a delicious mouthful, no? This recipe provides a wonderful raw food snack to have on hand, keeping your hands reaching for something healthy when the craving hits. They are a mixture of chewy from the dried fruit base to crunch from the nuts and …

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Chocolate Raspberry Rounds

This is a fantastic swoon-worthy no-bake dessert! I was inspired to create these Chocolate Raspberry Rounds after watching Megan Elizabeth’s latest youtube video, Halloween Berry Bat Bites and Ghosties. She combined the beloved medjool dates with freeze dried raspberries. Mind blown!! Once you taste it, you will understand. The raspberries are super tart and are just …

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Chocolate Coffee Peanut Butter Ice Cream

Dessert Porn Alert! Dessert Porn Alert! Dessert Porn Alert! I know how you are about dessert posts. You all go ape balls over it, pin it like crazy, make it for dinner every night of the week with wild abandon, and just plain love it more than any broccoli salad. 🙂 Well here you go! …

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Chocolate Chia Madness ‘To Go’

I might have just discovered my new favorite breakfast, after a tall green smoothie of course. This morning we finally went running outside and I’ve been pretty lazy about my runs since getting back from IL. That shit’s about to change! I thought it would be a good idea to just walk/run straight south from …

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Chocolate Shake for Dinner

Because you can. I’m giving you permission. This makes a perfect blender batch for 1 person. If you’re feeding 2 mouths, just run the blender twice, like I did. I really don’t think any more needs to be said. No one needs twisting their arm when it  comes to chocolate shakes. Make sure you check …

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Chocolate Vanilla Cinnamon Raw Vegan Brownies

These go from make to devour in like 5 minutes. How sweet is that?! I know that I’m ‘alone’ when it comes to my feelings on desserts. I like them few and far between, I’m a salty girl, what can I say? The other day though, it happened that I did want some chocolate and …

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LARGE Chocolate Carob Green Smoothie

I mean all my smoothies are large, but this one seemed even more valiant than others. It was super sweet, super tasty, and super green; these are just a few of the attributes I find essential in my green smoothies. Since this will hold me over until my early dinner, check out the nutritional stack …

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Rich Chocolate Brownie with Mint Chocolate Frosting

Does the title have you drooling? This mint-chocolate combo is the best. This is a raw dessert BUT I’ve served it to many foodie lovers of the non-raw variety and it has been loved by all. We have Jeremy’s Mom and Dad visiting us in Portland for about a week! Stayed in tonight and had …

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Chocolate Coconut Baked Oatmeal: A Tribute to the Samoa Cookie

I’ll be honest, I didn’t like these cookies growing up. I was a thin mint sort of girl and I did not like coconut, at all. It wasn’t until 4 years ago when I was heavily influenced by my friend Stephanie and soon to be husband, Jeremy. It was that time of year and they …

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