Olive oil cake is all the rage in the baking world right now. This vegan olive oil quick bread is versatile and moist enough to moonlight as an olive oil cake (if you want to bake it in a pan and frost it) or as olive oil cake muffins. We love it best as an […]
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Gluten-Free Peanut Butter Brownies (Dopamine Booster)
These gluten-free peanut butter brownies are dense and delicious, made with seratonin-boosting bittersweet chocolate and happiness-inducing mucuna bean powder. Mucuna pruriens, also known as velvet bean, is a bioavailable source of L-Dopa, an amino acid that metabolizes into dopamine in the brain. (Dopamine is the neurotransmitter responsible for happiness.) This naturally occurring, caramel-tasting bean powder […]
Hillary Clinton’s Chocolate Chip Cookies (With a Twist!)
Last year when I unearthed the recipe for Hillary Clinton’s chocolate chip cookies in Family Circle Magazine, I was bummed to learn that the original recipe calls for vegetable shortening as the principle fat. Vegetable shortening is pure trans fat and should be avoided at all costs. Trans fat has *zero* redeeming health qualities– and yes, […]
Meryl Streep’s Pistachio Rose Heart Cookies
These heart-shaped cookies are perfect for Valentine’s Day– just ask Meryl Streep. Based off a recipe I originally saw in Good Housekeeping, these pistachio-rose shortbread cookies are an homage to Meryl Streep’s original almond shortbread cookie recipe. (I changed the flavor profile since I don’t eat almonds, and I wanted to do something rose-flavored for […]