This weekend I had the pleasure of teaching a healthy cooking class for a women’s conference back in my home town. Because it was one of my first formal presentations on healthy cooking for a large group I was a bit nervous, but the women were great and I enjoyed sharing about one of my favorite topics. Rewind to earlier this week, when I was putting together my Power Point presentation and was finding it hard to focus, so what’s … Read More
Peanut Butter-White Chocolate Chip Cookies
When I first started baking, chocolate chip cookies were my greatest source of frustration. It seemed that everyone except me had their own trademark recipe. And while I could properly duplicate a batch from the back of the Toll House bag, it wasn’t enough. After two years and many trials, it finally happened. It was love at first bite and after that moment, there was no looking back. At this point you might be wondering where the chocolate chips are. … Read More
Best Easy Cookie Cake
If you’ve been looking for a non-cake idea for special occasions, birthdays, or just a special after school treat, this is the recipe you need. This easy cookie cake is hands down my favorite way to make any day special and it’s a fun gift to friends or family celebrating their own special days. It makes two cookie cakes – which is perfect because these cookie cakes don’t last long in our house! Best Easy Cookie CakeMakes TWO 9-inch round … Read More
Healthy Cookie Dough Breakfast Bowl
This is going to sound laughable, but I eat cookie dough for breakfast nearly every morning. Truly! Okay, so there is a hook. It’s a better-for-you cookie dough recipe that leaves you feeling full and energized. Bonus? It isn’t packed with sugar, either. You can get as creative as you want with mix-ins (sometimes I’ll add in chocolate chips, M&M’s, etc. for a treat) or keep it simple. When I want it to have a bit more staying powder, I … Read More
Lactation Cookies
For the next number of days (or perhaps weeks?!) I think I’ll be talking about how we’re in “the home stretch” with this pregnancy. At 38 weeks and 2 days pregnant, not that anyone is counting, I’m quite ready to be done being pregnant and meet our little peanut! I’ve been doing a little nesting around the house over the past few weeks, cleaning the house from top to bottom and organizing every drawer and closet in our house, except … Read More
Cashew Butter Cookie Dough Truffles
Sometimes you just need to eat a little raw cookie dough, am I right? Which always sounds like a really good idea at the time, until you have a spoonful (or 8) and then feel sick to your stomach with all the sugar and chocolate and find yourself too sick to actually enjoy a cookie when they come out of the oven. Tell me I’m not the only person who does that… Not that I’m really in the position to … Read More
Super Simple Sugar Cookies and A Surprise Shower for Stephanie!
First off, thank you so much for your kind words about our recent miscarriage. I plan on responding to each and every comment and have done my best to stay up-to-date with e-mails. I so greatly appreciate each word you’ve said to me and cherish each one. This post, a baby shower for my friend Stephanie, was planned months ago. Although the timing feels a bit forced in light of our recent news, I want to be able to celebrate … Read More
Dark Chocolate Coconut Macaroon Cookies
These cookies were almost the death of me. I kid you not, having to make and photograph them 4 times really tested my commitment to this recipe. But I guess issues with your memory card and card reader will test almost anyone. Since I work in food for a living and spend a lot of time in the kitchen each day, developing, testing and re-testing recipes until they reach perfection, it’s rare for me to spend that same amount of … Read More
Cookie Dough Stuffed Brownies
I told you all last week about the new blog I’m contributing to at work, Tasteseekers Kitchen. Well, if you hopped on over there, you probably saw the ultra-decadent Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Stuffed Brownie Pops. They super cute and much easier than cake pops, which drive me crazy! I can’t never get them to look as pretty as I would like. When my friend, Laura, invited us over to dinner a couple weeks ago, I decided to make a … Read More
Almond Meal Everything Cookies
I think it’s safe to say that breakfast cookies, however you want to define them, have become a thing over the past couple years. Go into any grocery store or gas station and chances are you can get your hands on a cookie that’s billed as being an acceptable form of breakfast. I like cookies and I love breakfast, but I’ve never really been a fan of breakfast cookies mainly because they are usually not all that more healthy than … Read More
Old-Fashioned Mini Peanut Butter Cookies
I have a lot of peanut butter recipes on Espresso and Cream, probably because peanut butter is, without doubt, my favorite food. We go through a jar of peanut butter each week in our house I love it so much. So it comes as a bit of a surprise to me that I don’t have a single recipe for basic peanut butter cookies on the site. Today, I’m here to remedy that with these bite-sized peanut butter cookies based off … Read More
Paleo-Friendly Almond Flour Carob Chip Cookies
A couple weeks ago at work, the almond board of California came to talk with us at work and give us some samples of their amazing products. Did you have any idea that 80% of the almonds produced worldwide come from California? They left us each with a little swag bag, and I found myself with a large bag of almonds. Instead of eating them straight out of the bag, I decided to get a little creative with the almonds … Read More