My top ten favorite soups for the cold winter season that are sure to warm you right up! I feel like we can all agree that winter is soup’s prime time. They get to be front and center, everybody wants a piece of them, and just about everywhere you go has some sort of soup…
Recipe
Coconut Lemon Poppy Seed Energy Bites
An easy bite-sized, naturally sweetened snack packed with coconut and lemon flavors and dotted with poppy seeds. No bake, raw, gluten free, dairy free, paleo and vegan! We’re down to a little over a month before our wedding, and I’m finally starting to acknowledge that maybe I should put down the doughnuts and do a…
Instant Pot Carrot Ginger Soup
This carrot ginger soup makes for an easy, healthy and heartwarming winter dish! It’s creamy with a subtle spicy kick of ginger, gluten free, dairy free, sugar free and perfect for those on a paleo diet. Includes directions for making in an Instant Pot as well as on your stove top. Welcome to 2019, everyone! …
White Chocolate Champagne Truffles
Melt in your mouth white chocolate truffles are creamy with a delicate champagne flavor, making them the perfect dessert for your New Year’s Eve party! You may have noticed that I close out each year with a champagne-y recipe – and this year is no exception. 2017: Nutella Champagne Dip 2016: Mimosa Jello Shots 2015: Champagne…
Bourbon Balls
These chocolate covered confections are bite-sized, boozy, and no bake! Powdered sugar, butter and bourbon-soaked pecans are coated in dark chocolate for the ultimate holiday dessert for adults. Unless I get a second wind between now and Monday, this is probably the last new recipe before Christmas hits. We’re winding down on wedding planning (53…
Salted Dark Chocolate Pomegranate Tart
This chocolate tart recipe has a chocolate cookie and coconut oil crust, is filled with a rich and decadent cashew chocolate cream and pomegranate juice, and topped with fresh pomegranate arils and a tangy pomegranate sauce. Pomegranate is one of those foods that I love so much, but sweetbabyjesus is it hard to justify the…
White Chocolate Peppermint Lava Cakes
These chocolate lava cakes are packed with a creamy peppermint white chocolate filling and the perfect indulgent, small batch holiday dessert! Christmas is 12 days away. EVERYONE REMAIN CALM. It’s still double digits, and there’s still plenty of time for cookie baking, gift shopping, caroling, and wearing ugly sweaters. You can still pick an assortment…
Gingerbread Cake Roll with Eggnog Cream Cheese Filling
This post is sponsored by PHILADELPHIA Cream Cheese. As always, all opinions are mine. Thank you for supporting the brands that make Stress Baking possible! This moist cake roll has the signature gingerbread flavor with the addition of a rich and tangy eggnog cream cheese filling. Let’s get this out of the way: Yes, I…
Instant Pot Glühwein (Mulled Wine)
The coziest of holiday drinks, mulled wine (or glühwein) is super easy to make in an Instant Pot or on the stovetop and makes for a perfectly spiced, warm Christmas drink! Have you ever had glühwein? If you’ve hung around with any Germans around the holidays, I bet you have. And if you hang around with…
Gingerbread Linzer Cookies with Cranberry Filling
The warm spice flavors of these soft gingerbread cookies pair perfectly with the tart, slightly sweet cranberry cream filling. Top them with a delicate dusting of powdered sugar for a beautiful and festive holiday linzer cookie! Happy December, friends! This is THE month. You’re cozying up with a million layers and blanket scarves, you’re drinking…
Yule Log Cake (Bûche de Noël)
Chocolate cake is filled with whipped cream, rolled into the shape of a log, and coated with a chocolate ganache – a classic European holiday tradition! Thanksgiving is over, so I’m in full on Christmas mode now. I’m assuming I have some sort of invisible switch that flips on at midnight after Thanksgiving that apparently…
Chocolate Chunk Espresso Slice and Bake Cookies
Shortbread style cookies filled with ground espresso and chocolate chunks, providing a mocha flavor and intoxicating coffee scent! Perfect for your busiest season and baking for a crowd, you can make the dough and keep it in the fridge or freezer until you’re ready. Just slice and bake! This past weekend my future matron of…
Cranberry Bliss Puppy Chow
Dried cranberries, white chocolate, crystallized ginger and orange flavors give this a winter holiday flavor blast. Addictive and easy to eat by the handful, you can call it puppy chow, muddy buddies, whatever you want – because no matter what, it’s delicious! I have a small addiction to all things “cranberry bliss”: cranberry bliss bars,…
Candied Pecans
An easy gift for the holidays! Sweet and flavored with cinnamon and sugar, these candied pecans are an addicting snack that’s perfect for a crowd. I’ve been making candied pecans every year during the holidays for… um… forever? I honestly can’t remember a time when I didn’t make them. It’s my go-to snack to bring…
Maple Sugar Cookies
These maple sugar cookies are soft cut-out sugar cookies with crisp, defined edges that are loaded with maple syrup flavor. Use your favorite cookie cutter for fun shapes, and top with a sweet maple icing! There’s something about the smell of warm maple syrup that’s just so comforting. You know what I mean? For me,…
Grilled Cinnamon Pound Cake S’mores
This shop has been compensated by Collective Bias, Inc. and its advertiser. All opinions are mine alone. #MyCalphalonKitchen #CollectiveBias Does anyone else get supper bummed when grilling season is over? I mean, if you live in a place with temperate conditions all year, I guess you can’t relate. But for those of us in New England,…
Chocolate Pecan Pie Energy Bites
Easy, raw, bite-sized, naturally sweetened collagen bites full of chocolate and pecan pie flavors without all the hard work and sugar! Raw, gluten free, dairy free, vegan and paleo. I’ve probably mentioned this in past years, but I’m not a huge fan of pie. Depending on what kind you make, it can be a pain…
White Chocolate Cinnamon Roll Bark
A super simple, quick and easy sweet treat that combines creamy white chocolate with a buttery cinnamon sugar swirl reminiscent of a cinnamon roll! In the food blog world, autumn is all about apples, pumpkins, spice cakes, caramel and candy corn. There are adorable edible monsters for Halloween and turkey shaped cookies for Thanksgiving. Meanwhile,…
German Potato Salad
My favorite traditional German potato salad dressed with a dijon vinegar dressing and served warm. The perfect cold weather side dish! I have one of those names where it’s almost never spelled correctly, but it’s really not even that difficult a name. Most of my conversations at businesses go something like this: “First name?” “Leslie.”…
Cinnamon Buttered Rum Popcorn Balls
An adult version of the classic popcorn ball, featuring the addition of cinnamon and rum for a buttery, boozy, chewy Halloween treat! K, so, Halloween is coming up soon. Halloween means two very different things for kids and adults: Children: Overpriced costumes and costume contests where they win McDonalds gift certificates. Adults: Inappropriate costumes and…
French 75 Cocktail
A classic bubbly gin and champagne cocktail with a fresh lemon zing! My birthday is on Tuesday, and to celebrate I was going to make this really decadent, three layer German chocolate cake that may or may not be soaked with booze (that doesn’t mean it’s not going to happen, just not today). Instead of…
An Epic Fall Recipe Roundup
It’s no secret around here that I’m a total autumn gal. Give me cooler temps, apple picking and an excuse to snuggle up in big blanket scarves and cozy cardigans. I want the AC turned off, the pleasure of not quite needing the heat on, and the promise of chilly morning runs. Now that we’re…
Chewy Funfetti Granola Bars
Chewy funfetti granola bars are filled with funfetti flavor and tons of rainbow sprinkles – no baking required. Add them to your kids’ lunch for a fun back to school snack! As you may or may not know, I do not have kids. Don’t have them, and really not looking to. But that doesn’t mean…
Oatmeal Lace Cookies
These oatmeal lace cookies are thin and chewy with a crisp edge and buttery brown sugar flavor! So, my plan was to get this post live yesterday, but then I came down with something and I could barely keep my eyes open, let alone stare at a computer screen. To be fair, I’m pretty sure…