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Hummingbird Cake
If you're looking for a classic Southern recipe that's sure to wow your family and friends, Hummingbird cake is guaranteed to be a hit. This comforting, moist cake with its creamy cream cheese icing and dried pineapple flower garnish is perfect for impressing your guests and is a no-fail dessert.
Easy Mini King Cakes
These Easy Mini King Cakes are a breeze to make, yet very impressive and fun! With Mardi Gras right around the corner, I was inspired to create an easy recipe for this time-honored cake. A two-ingredient cinnamon flavor filling and I used heated store-bought icing and sprinkles for a quick decoration. Don’t forget your little babies! Find out what the colors represent on a king cake.
Easy Caramel Sauce
This Easy Caramel Sauce has the delicious flavor and texture of the traditional but with no dairy or corn syrup added. It’s vegan friendly and comes together in less than 10 minutes for a creamy and luscious caramel sauce that can be used for dipping, drizzling and even as a simple syrup for brushing cake layers before icing. Makes 8 ounces.
Sweet Potato Pie with Streusel Topping
This dairy-free version of sweet potato streusel topping pie is a chef’s choice recipe from Biltmore Estate’s Bistro restaurant. A comfy taste of the south, elevated with the crunchy and delicious streusel topping. The luscious cheesecake layer blends together wonderfully with the sweet potatoes. Perfect for Thanksgiving dessert.
Elvis Cupcakes
These Elvis Cupcakes were inspired by none other than the king of rock n’ roll himself, Elvis Presley. I wanted to create an Elvis themed party cupcake with all of the flavors of Elvis's favorite sandwich and so I made a banana bacon cupcake with peanut butter frosting. I also added edible gold glitter dust, because Elvis was flashy and loved gold!
Pina Colada Sorbet
This dairy free Pina Colada Sorbet is easily made with a blender, or you can also choose to pour mixture into popsicle molds for a hand-held frozen treat. The inspiration for the flavor is a classic summertime cocktail, the Pina Colada. Easy no churn sorbet recipe using only 5 simple ingredients for a vegan and gluten free ice cream alternative.
Margarita Cupcakes
If you love the sweet and salty citrus flavor of a classic margarita drink, you will love these fun Margarita Cupcakes. It’s easier than you think to make these delicious treats and they make the perfect dessert for cocktail parties, bachelorette parties, pool parties or for any margarita lover’s birthday or celebration.
Banana Coconut Rum Cake
This dairy-free banana coconut rum cake is extremely moist and full of tropical flavors that combine for a delicious and sweet indulgent Bundt cake. It is topped with a rum sugar glaze that has a hint of coffee flavor and sprinkled with flaked coconut. Full step-by-step instructions for making rum cake with glaze.
Enchanted Forest Cupcakes
These Enchanted Forest Cupcakes are easy to make, yet impressive and delicious. Starting with a box cake mix and elevating the flavor with Nature’s Flavors Organic Strawberry Syrup elevated this dessert to AMAZING! Decorated with marshmallows, (mushroom stumps and rocks) fresh strawberries (mushroom caps) and green-colored flaked coconut (moss.) Perfect for a fairy party dessert!
Key Lime Icebox Tart
This dairy-free key lime icebox tart will transport you straight to paradise at the first bite. A luscious, smooth filling that has all the flavors of a tropical vacation with lime and coconut, perfectly balanced out with a salty/sweet graham cracker crust. The filling is no-bake and easily mixed together and poured into crust, then frozen for an effortless yet impressive dessert. Optional toasted meringue topping.
Cheerwine Brownie Doughnuts
These easy-to-make Cheerwine Brownie Doughnuts have a chocolate cherry flavor with a cherry Cheerwine glaze for the perfect amount of sweetness. Makes approximately 2 dozen doughnuts. Try this delicious recipe using this uniquely southern soda today!
Flower Shortbread Cookies
These “melt-in-your-mouth” soft and delicious Flower Shortbread Cookies are easier to make than you think. With just a few simple ingredients you can have an impressive and beautiful cookie perfect for tea parties, Mother’s Day or gift giving. You can make them as plain shortbread cookies or add any flavor to the dough to enhance the flavor.
Kentucky Bourbon Balls
These no-bake Kentucky Bourbon Balls would be the perfect Kentucky derby party dessert. They are dairy-free, vegan and gluten-free which makes them friendly for pretty much any guest. The taste is so amazing you can’t tell that these are a much healthier version made with pecans, vanilla protein powder, milled flax seeds, plant butter and sweetened with pure maple syrup. Makes 26 servings.
DIY Easter Chocolates
One of my favorite candy bars is a Take Five, which consists of peanuts, caramel, pretzels and peanut butter all covered in chocolate. That was the inspiration for these DIY Easter Chocolates. I found some fun Easter silicone molds to use but you can also just use a muffin tin with paper liners or any mold you might have. So, I made more of a smaller candy bar bite, perfect to gift giving (or enjoying yourself!) This recipe is very simple, yet impressive.
Blueberry Lavender Cupcakes
These dairy-free Blueberry Lavender Cupcakes are such an enchanting and delicious bite. If you are longing for summer, these are full of flavors that will excite you. The cupcakes have a vanilla and slight hint of lavender flavor. The center filling is a blueberry lemon compote made with fresh blueberries and lemon rum (you can substitute with lemon juice, if desired) and the frosting is a lavender vanilla buttercream tinted with a touch of purple.
Arkansas Travelers Peanut Butter Cookies
This recipe for gluten-free Arkansas Travelers Peanut Butter Cookies was inspired by a few different things. The first time I discovered this recipe (in its original form) was in my grandmother’s very old recipe scrap book. I wanted to create a healthier version that was gluten-free with less sugar. These cookies are named after the MiLB baseball team out of Little Rock Arkansas, where my husband’s family is from.
Mocha Tortoni Cups
My dairy-free Mocha Tortoni Cups are made from eggs, gelatin and coffee, which makes this a low-fat version. Instead of using traditional paper cupcake liners, I decided to make dark chocolate cups to hold the delicious Tortoni's and even topped them off with a dairy-free whipped cream and made chocolate covered pretzel stir sticks for a fun garnish. These have a great mocha flavor thanks to JUST Coffee El Corazon blend.
Guinness Pub Brownies
These Guinness Pub Brownies have all the wonderful textures and delicious flavors to make your taste buds cheer with excitement! A pretzel crust, a cake-like chocolate brownie made with Guinness stout topped off with a creamy dairy-free chocolate fudge frosting. Delicious brownie recipe made with guinness stout.
Guinness Black Bean Brownies
Give these Guinness Black Bean Brownies a try for a healthier brownie version. Packed with protein, folate and antioxidants that are great for improving gut health, heart health, controlling your appetite and more. The creamy and delicious drizzle glaze represents the iconic creamy head when a fresh opened can of Guinness Stout is opened and poured into a drinking glass and the perfect sweet accentuation for this decadently healthier brownie.
Strawberry Cheesecake Bites
These Dairy-Free Strawberry Cheesecake Bites are incredibly delicious and easy to make. The creamy center is made with a dairy-free cream cheese alternative mixed with honey, coconut milk and full of strawberry flavor thanks to Nature’s Flavors Organic Strawberry Flavor Powder. The crust is simply made with baked brownies and tops are sprinkled with chopped freeze-dried strawberries and drizzled with chocolate.