Easy and quick lemon Greek yogurt cake / bread recipe with a citrusy bite from fresh lemon zest balanced by the sweet aromas of vanilla and powdered sugar finish. Lovely sprinkled with some healthy chopped pistachios, a few berries or some of these balsamic roasted figs. Whatever tickles your taste buds. Lemon Greek Yogurt Cake There’s no butter in my recipe, as always I go to my healthy fat of choice: the extra virgin olive oil, forever and ever! You can bake this cake in a simple ...
Desserts
Frozen Yogurt Bars Recipe
Healthy frozen yogurt bars made with sugar free, non fat creamy Greek yogurt, wild honey, fresh fruit a fruity blueberry purée. Perfect for breakfast or a late night night snack, or simply to cool off during the hot summer days. These protein packed frozen bars are the best thing ever! Did you know 1 cup of organic Greek yogurt has about 29 grams of protein ? True story! Assemble a DIY frozen yogurt bar outside by the pool or for your next garden party. Just remember to keep them on ice ...
Easy Lemon Curd Filling Recipe
Easy, step by step guide on how to make the best lemon curd filling at home, using organic egg yolks, lemon and sugar. A fruit spread made with only the freshest organic, free range egg yolks, freshly squeezed lemon juice, zest, sugar and butter! Don’t skip the butter ok ? It will make things silky and smooth, and rich and amazing! Like a lemon pudding, but I swear it's even better. No gelatin and no yuckies! Duhhhh! Technically a custardy fruit curd, it can also be made with oranges, ...
Nut Roll Recipe
An Eastern European Christmas and Easter tradition, this nut roll recipe can be made with ground walnuts, pecans, hazelnuts, raisins and even a poppy seed filling. Nut Roll Recipe Risen with instant yeast and made exquisite by the addition of sour cream to the nut roll dough, this recipe is super easy to make and a holiday favorite. It literally tastes like Christmas! Loaded with ground or roughly chopped walnuts, vanilla extract and a burst of citrus from orange zest, your house will be ...
Best Pumpkin Bread Recipe
The best pumpkin bread recipe from scratch loaded with dark chocolate chips, canned pumpkin puree, smooth extra virgin olive oil (no butter), then covered in sea salt caramel and toasted coconut. Easy like Sunday morning, insanely delicious and a must on the Thanksgiving table! Best Pumpkin Bread Tis' the season for comforting quick breads to go with your pumpkin lattes and this beauty right here is without a doubt the absolute best pumpkin bread I've ever had. Loaded with morsels of ...
Cannoli Cream Filling Recipe
An authentic, easy Sicilian cannoli cream filling recipe / dip, I picked up while in Sicily last summer, served with chocolate dipped pizzelle cookies. How to make cannoli filling or dip, the simple Italian way! Because who doesn’t love cannoli right ? Authentic Cannoli Siciliani that is, filled with the freshest sheep’s milk ricotta cheese and candied fruit or nuts. Before I hear it from the "Cannoli Police" I would like to tell you that there is nothing groundbreaking about this ...
Easy Pumpkin Muffins Recipe with Orange Glaze & Mascarpone
The best easy pumpkin muffins you will ever make, extra fluffy with a little pocket of mascarpone cheese inside and draped in a decadent orange glaze. Are you ready for pumpkin everything kids ? Yeah, me either, but I made these easy pumpkin muffins like a month or so ago, and been waiting for a sweater kind of day to share them. And today is that kind of day, so forget whatever I said I was gonna post next. Today you are getting easy pumpkin muffins stuffed with mascarpone cheese and ...
Fresh Peach Dessert Recipe with Mascarpone and Puff Pastry
An easy fresh peach dessert, baked in puff pastry sheets with creamy mascarpone cheese and vanilla bean. I made us the best fresh peach dessert you guys! Because i am a peach monster this time of the year, and if it was up to me I would eat them for every single meal. How about dessert for breakfast ? Because this fresh peach dessert is baked inside puff pastry, and isn’t puff pastry technically breakfast ? Not sure, but does anyone really care ? Not me kids! I actually made them ...
Limoncello Cake Recipe
This no bake Limoncello cake recipe or Lemon Tiramisu, makes the perfect summer dessert for all the lemon lovers of the World! Let the summer garden parties begin, because this no bake Limoncello cake recipe screams summer and it is super easy to make! A rustic beautiful mess that requires no oven, just a couple of hours in the refrigerator to set. Truth is, not everybody loves coffee, so not everyone will be as thrilled as me with my Italian Tiramisu cheesecake for dessert. But I ...
Avocado Cake Recipe
Please meet the best Avocado Cake, fluffy like a pillow and draped in a luscious blueberry glaze. Made with creamy ricotta cheese, decadent dark chocolate chunks and smooth olive oil. Can you resist? Avocado Cake It's oh so good, creamy and decadent, a perfect blend of smooth extra virgin olive oil, creamy ricotta cheese and some avocado for both color and richness. To that, you add a handful of roughly chopped dark chocolate, not too much, just enough to give us a few chocolaty pockets at ...