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Chocolate Pumpkin Caramel Poke Cake

This Chocolate Pumpkin Caramel Poke Cake uses boxed chocolate cake so it’s super convenient to make, but the pumpkin caramel and pumpkin buttercream guarantee that it tastes completely homemade! Your guests and family will love this cake throughout the holiday season. Remember that Pumpkin Spice Overdose Cake I shared a couple weeks ago? Of course…

Little Damage and Charcoal Ice Cream

I had a day off from band and finally got out of my dorm / off campus over the weekend. Naturally, that involved getting dessert. I chose a soft-serve ice cream place called Little Damage that went viral because their ice cream and cones are black. It seems fitting that my first food review…

Fall Harvest Bowl with Roasted Sweet Potato, Apple, and Wild Rice

Delicious and nutritious Harvest Bowl Sweetgreen copycat recipe. This tasty and filling grain bowl is made with seasonal ingredients: wild rice, roasted sweet potatoes, kale, goat cheese, chicken, apples, and balsamic vinaigrette. Recently, we made a Harvest Sweet Potato Sandwich. Now we’re making a Harvest Bowl. Have you heard of Sweetgreen? It’s like the salad…

Pumpkin Spice Overdose Cake

Pumpkin Spice Overdose Cake is for the PSL lover that doesn’t think they can possibly get enough pumpkin no matter how many pumpkin spice products they buy. It’s three decadent layers of pumpkin flavor inside and out: pumpkin cake, pumpkin ganache, pumpkin salted caramel, pumpkin frosting, and pumpkin whipped cream. I have a mixed relationship…

Harvest Sweet Potato Sandwich with Apple Butter and Goat Cheese

While I was living at home (before I moved back to Minnesota), I worked at a farm-to-table restaurant. My official title was Dairy Barista, a title as perfect for me as if I had chosen it myself. The restaurant was attached to a dairy farm, so they specialized in all things dairy, including the BEST…

Pumpkin Whoopie Pies with Whipped Cinnamon Filling

I first made these pumpkin whoopie pies five years ago (!!). I was a sophomore in college at the time, and my friends and I went through two batches in less than three weeks. That’s saying something, when you consider that a) I almost never re-bake things and b) we had access to a full…

Easy Stovetop Vegetarian White Bean Chili

After making the Tempeh Cauliflower Rice Burrito Bowls last week, I still had a couple ears of Sogn Valley sweet corn left. With corn that tasty, I wanted to put it to good use. It was chilly last week and this weekend (though that’s hard to believe now, when we’re experiencing a wave of Indian…

Tempeh Cauliflower Rice Burrito Bowls

How was your Labor Day weekend? Mine was really good! We had b-e-a-utiful weather here in Minneapolis. It was the perfect transition weather between summer and fall: bright blue skies, warm sun, and a crispness to the air that signals summer is coming to an end. My highlight was spending an afternoon on Lake Minnetonka…

Paleo Millionaire’s Shortbread Bars

Audrey and I told you we were back, back, BACK to the blog and we kept up a good run for a few weeks, but then guess what happened. I moved (for the third time in three years) and Audrey went to college. And our blog momentum? Skidded. to. a. halt. Oops. Though to be…

Cookie Dough Pie (3 Ingredients)

Cookie Dough Pie does not actually have cookie dough in it. It’s the simplest dessert ever. 3 ingredients. A world of deliciousness. Cookies. Milk. Cool Whip. Dip the cookie in milk, layer them with Cool Whip. It sounds weird, I know, but it is so so SO good. And, so simple, even a three year…