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Milk Chocolate Salted Pecan Butter

February 10, 2014 by Erica

Milk Chocolate Salted Pecan Butter

Happy Monday! I often post healthy recipes on Mondays, but I think today deserves some chocolate.

Not only chocolate… chocolate and pecans.

Milk Chocolate Salted Pecan Butter

I have a slight pecan obsession. I’m actually surprised I don’t have more pecan recipes on this site. But it’s tiiiime to fix that! And it doesn’t hurt to add to the chocolate archives, either.

Remember the cashew-macadamia nut butter I posted a few weeks ago? Well, it’s probably one of my favorite recipes on this site. It’s a pretty solid rule that anything I can’t stop eating is blog-worthy! And in that post I wrote about the time or two that I’ve tried to make pecan butter… with horrible results. As I was writing that, I was thinking, hmmm, that doesn’t make any sense. There must be a way to fix that. So naturally… this happened.

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Quinoa Chocolate Bark, 3 Ways

December 20, 2013 by Erica

You know what’s really good together? Quinoa and chocolate.

Quinoa haters, you’re like “aw heyyy-all no!” Quinoa lovers, you know better.

I recently decided I wanted to try to make a quinoa chocolate bar. And right after that, I saw just such a thing at the grocery store! Talk about serendipity; of course I had to buy it… you know, to see if my efforts would be worth it and everything.

Well, as you can probably tell from the fact that I made three different variations, stuffed my face with them all of last weekend, and am now posting about them… the quinoa chocolate bar was good. VERY good.

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Three-Ingredient Mint Meringues (Gluten-Free)

December 16, 2013 by Erica

Well, I think I included my elevator pitch for these cookies nicely in the title of this post: Three ingredients. Mint meringues. Gluten-free. Oh, but did I mention they’re made with not just any mints but Andes mints?!

It doesn’t get much better.

These are a Christmas classic from the archives of Mom, and they are my all-time favorite.

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Chocolate Cranberry-Walnut Clusters

November 15, 2013 by Erica

Chocolate Cranberry-Walnut Clusters

I’d say it’s only right that we finish the week off with some chocolate – what do you think?

I hope we’re all in agreement. Say hello to these chewy, chocolaty clusters of cranberry-walnut goodness.

Chocolate Cranberry-Walnut Clusters

Here is the deal with these chocolate clusters: They are the cranberry-walnut version of the no-bake quinoa cookies I posted a few weeks ago. Basically, I liked those quinoa cookies wayyyy too much not to make a few more versions of them. And you guys seemed to like them, too! I knew I wanted a chewy, nutty version of those cookies, and after a bit of experimentation, I declared this simple combination of dried cranberries and toasted walnuts the clear winner.

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Coconut Quinoa Granola Bars (For Becky!)

November 13, 2013 by Erica

A year ago, I was a new blogger, trying to figure out how this whole blogging thing worked. Well, I am still trying to figure a lot of that out. The difference now is that there are a lot more people to witness it! Last year at this time, my family members were pretty much the only ones reading my blog or leaving comments on it. I loved them for it (still do!), but I can text them pictures of what I’m cooking anytime I want. And I do. No blog necessary.

Becky was one of the first people I didn’t know to start leaving comments on my blog. I was thrilled to find out she was another new blogger, and also kind of shocked. She seemed to really have it together! Almost a year later, we still follow each other’s blogs (and she still really has it together). And I’m excited to be throwing a surprise party today for her blog’s first birthday!

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