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Homemade Chocolate Peppermint Patties (Vegan+GF)
Yes, I know you can buy them at the store but how much more fun is it to make them at home? I mean, really. Peppermint patties are one of the most classic duos of chocolate and peppermint that I can think of. They’re right up next to mint chip ice cream and candy canes dipped in hot cocoa. They’re sweet, they’re soft, and they’re really easy to make. Now in the past I’ve tried the method of rolling out the filling and cutting it with a small cookie cutter. While this way totally works, I’ve found that it’s so much faster and simpler to form the “dough” into a log kind of…
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Peppermint Patty Stuffed Chocolate Chip Cookies (Vegan+GF)
As I’m sitting down to write this post it’s starting to pour down rain and with it comes the promise of a good thunderstorm. Have I ever mentioned that I love storms? No, I adore them! Actually, those don’t seem like a fitting enough words to describe how happy they make me. In Spanish they’d say “me encanta”, which is a way to say that you love something but literally translated it more like “it enchants me”. I’m still trying to work through my challenges in learning Spanish but I have to say it’s a beautiful language and in some ways a much more descriptive one than English. I just realized that this is the…
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Candy Cane Peppermint Chocolate Chip Cake (Vegan)
You know those times when you wake up and realize that it’s been way long since the last time you made a cake??? No? Okay, so that probably only applies to a few of us, but maybe you can imagine it. Those are very sad moments for me personally because I sort of have a thing for making cakes. I attribute it to my childhood of watching both my mom and, more often, my grandma (“Meme” to us) decorating gorgeous cakes. She did it professionally for years. Have mentioned that before haven’t I? Yeah, Meme decorated cakes at Disneyland actually and she can still crank out these perfect roses of icing so fast…
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Edible Gifting Week #5: DIY Vegan Hot Cocoa Mix 4 Ways
I’m ending my series of edible holiday gifting ideas with #5, hot cocoa mixes! A cup of hot Cocoa is like the quintessential holiday drink. It’s an icon that everyone can associate with Christmas. Come on, who doesn’t love a hot cup of cocoa to sip on during the cold winter season? I’m going to assume that you all just did a little cocoa dance, or at the very least are silently cheering with me for the wonderful creation that is sweet and cozy hot cocoa. Now, if you just mentally responded to the negative, then you’d better go find someone else’s parade to rain on because cocoa and I are really having a…
