Sweet potato brownies are so decadent and rich, no one will know you hid a healthy vegetable in there! Yes, even kids will eat their vegetables. I was at my book club a few years ago when the Moms in the group started talking about their children and food. I was shocked to learn that …
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Easy Texas Sheet Cake is a rich and moist chocolate cake with a chocolate-y frosting glaze. Its flavor is as rich as the state of Texas! There's a lot of debate about the origins of Texas Sheet Cake. Some say the recipe first appeared in a Texas newspaper, while others theorize that the cake gets …
It's almost time for the kids to go back to school. Hold on to summer just a little longer with this easy 3-ingredient Grape Soda Sherbet. For the last week, my entire Facebook feed has been nothing but my Florida friends posting pictures of the kids going back to school. Here in North Carolina, school …
This easy 4-ingredient avocado fudge is the perfect treat for the health nuts in your life. Eating healthier has never tasted this good. I don't know about you, but when the holidays roll around I find myself spending lots of time in the kitchen baking various treats for gifts and get togethers. Why do we …
Here's a simple and refreshing orange ice cream recipe. You will see that making ice cream at home is easy and fun! Earlier this summer, Jeni's Splendid Ice Creams came out with a Kraft Macaroni and Cheese flavor. It sold out in less than two hours. I blinked and it was gone. The same thing …
Springtime Cupcakes - we've got blue monsters, fried eggs, and grassy cows! I am not a baker. I love the Vegan Desserts class from Rouxbe Online Culinary School but that’s as good as it gets for me. I bake cupcakes twice a year - once at Halloween (because spiders and candy corn!) and I make …
The ultimate Shamrock Shake Copycat Recipe is here. Made with real vanilla bean syrup and mint extract. Now you can enjoy this year round! I can remember the cold winters growing up in Northern Virginia. I always looked forward to March when the weather began to warm in the South. Spring for me officially started …
Valentine Hot Chocolate Bombs Just because the Holidays are over doesn't mean hot chocolate season ends. Let's make Valentine Hot Chocolate bombs! Read on to learn about the Good Cookie Food Bloggers' Valentine's Event and how you can help us fight pediatric cancer. Good Cookie Food Bloggers' Valentine's Event I’m so excited to participate in …
It only takes 6 ingredients to make easy homemade peanut butter cups in your own kitchen! Ask me what my favorite candy bar is. Go ahead…ask me. Why, thanks for asking! Peanut Butter Cups. Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups. I am a sucker for them. Especially the mini ones you just pop into your mouth. I …
These are so cute and easy to assemble! Brownie Santa Hats are a fun afternoon project for the Holidays. From Beauty and the Beets. Did you survive Thanksgiving? We spent the holiday on Hilton Head Island and went out for a buffet dinner at the Sea Pines Resort. It was absolutely delicious and the weather …
This recipe for Chocolate Beet Brownies poses the question: if no one knows there are vegetables in the brownies, are they really in there? A few years ago I posted a recipe for my Iced Beet Cake and it was a huge success. I had a lot of great feedback and some glowing comments, but …
When I was a senior in high school I worked in cheesecake shop. I ate so much cheesecake you would think I would be sick of it, even to this day, but I am not. I love cheesecake. I am sure my boss thought we would grow tired of all the free cheesecake, but he …
There are so many days when Mr. Beet rushes out the door in the morning, or I rush off to class, and we often forget to eat. And of course it catches up with us. Usually by mid afternoon I am contemplating before a bucket of chicken or a Big Mac. Anything that is fast …
I grew up in the northeastern region of the United States, where the summers were hot and the winters were cold and snowy. And other than a piping hot bowl of soup, nothing was more comforting on a freezing winters night than a giant cup of hot cocoa. I loved hot chocolate so much that …
You cannot take me into a Michael’s or JoAnn’s craft shops without me hitting the baking aisle. Not that I am a baker. Far from it. Baking is so precise, while I prefer the more abstract freedom of cooking things like vegetables. However, I cannot go into one of these craft stores without scooping up …
I sit here in front of the TV, my eyes glued to CBS as I wait to see when and where my team will be playing for the NCAA Basketball Tournament. OK, I was not glued to my TV, and it isn’t my team – it’s Mr. Beet’s team. Go Purdue Boilermakers!! Basketball is a …
Tomorrow is Valentine’s Day! Anybody have any fun and exciting plans? Mr. Beet and I have none, other than a class at church, and then I am sure we will probably go somewhere for dinner. And by somewhere, I mean a place like McAlister’s Deli or Chipotle, somewhere that doesn’t require reservations on such a …
It's almost Valentine's Day!!! I ditched the kale and Brussels sprouts this weekend and started playing around with some ideas for Valentine’s Day. What’s more Valentine’s Day appropriate than pink food? Try these super easy-to-make 4-ingredient Strawberry Cereal Chocolate Truffles. Since we eat pretty healthy around Beetsland I actually don’t feel too bad splurging sometimes. …
Here is a recipe for the easiest 2-ingredient pumpkin brownies ever. Your family will be impressed with your mad cooking skills. Pumpkin pumpkin everywhere. It’s Fall. The leaves are changing, the air is chillier and pumpkin-flavored everything is everywhere. I even broke down and made these Pumpkin Spice Latte Bites just a few weeks ago. …
If there is one treat that screams summer, it would be something frozen – ice cream, frozen yogurt, sorbet…….but what about whip? What exactly is whip? Well, it is similar to ice cream, except that it isn’t churned to incorporate air. It isn’t frozen yogurt, because well, it doesn’t contain yogurt. And it certainly isn’t …
Summer – flip flops, swimming pools, lemonade and frozen yogurt. Can I just get a round of applause for frozen yogurt? Ever since my Mom gifted me with an ice cream maker I have been churning all sorts of flavors out. And while Mr. Beet and I love the more traditional flavors like chocolate and …
Pictured above are Celery Cake Cookies, but before I get to those.......I have been dreaming about these Dandy® Celery Spice Cakes (pictured below) I had a few months back while attending the Food Wine Conference here in Orlando. Oh my, who knew that celery could be so delicious? Not only were the spiced cakes made …
Happy Monday! Today I am making Chocolate Avocado Pudding. It’s rich, creamy and Vegan. I love anything that can be chocolate-y and still involve vegetables, although technically an avocado is a fruit. So, that means that technically this is a fruit pudding. However, in my head, an avocado is not sweet like a berry or …
I love Beets. Papa Beet does not. So when I brought this Iced Beet Cake over to his house for him to try, I didn’t tell him at first that beets were involved. And he liked it. After I told him both the cake and the icing were made with beets he said he would …
I was reading Redbook on the plane flying home from Texas and it was a Christmas issue filled with recipes of Holiday treats. And I saw these peanut butter cracker sandwich cookies. While I normally am not one to make cookies at all, whether for the Holidays or not, I was sort of intrigued by …
Look- just because we are a week past Labor Day doesn’t mean summer is over. The weather is still warm, most of us can still spend the weekend swimming at the pool or sunning at the beach. Next weekend I will be at Cedar Point in Ohio for a blogging conference. The weather will be …
Chad and I took a recent trip to the Smoky Mountains and we had an amazing breakfast at a place called Biscuit Head in Asheville, North Carolina. We dined on biscuits and vegetarian gravy, then ended our meal with biscuit donuts and lemon curd. They were absolutely delicious and a perfect way to start the …
Happy Monday! We are less than a week away from the July 4th holiday here in the United States, an occasion that brings out the red, white and blue in all of us. I decided to get a little festive by making some treats, something I don’t so very often. Lucky Chad, the only homemade …
Welcome to Vegan Monday, also Meatless Monday. It’s been 6 months since I started writing my Vegan Monday articles every week. Some recipes have been so good that we have put them into the regular rotation for meals at the house…others have just been too time consuming and complicated to bother making again. Lately I …
Vegan chocolate chip cookies are a delicious alternative to traditional chocolate chip cookies that do not contain any animal products like eggs or dairy. Who doesn't love a delicious warm from the oven cookie? These Vegan chocolate chip cookies satisfy the craving when you want something a little healthier than it's non-Vegan counterpart. In the …
You have probably heard of replacing oil with applesauce in a baking recipe (if you haven’t it is very easy- simply replace measure for measure- equally.) I recently heard about ditching the eggs and using chia seeds instead which offer many health benefits equal or greater than that of eggs. I also learned that the …