When I was little, chocolate chip cookies were my favorite type of cookies on the planet. Oatmeal raisin? Not so much. It wasn’t that I didn’t like them, because I did, they just weren’t at the top of the list. It wasn’t until I started cooking and baking when I was 9 or 10 that […]

I’m a big fan of coffee cake. Don’t ask me why, but I really love the dense texture and its perfect balance of sweetness. This Paleo coffee cake includes one of my favorite ingredients of all time – pumpkin. Pumpkin treats, such as cookies, cakes, and pies, often bring with them a host of memories […]

I wanted to clear the air about one topic here on The Healthy Advocate, and that topic surrounds the idea of good and bad foods. It concerns labels that we put on foods, which limit us to what we can experience or choose to experience. It’s our self-righteousness that we sometimes take, as health-foodies, to […]

This post is a part of Simply Gluten and Sugar Free’s ‘Slightly Indulgent Tuesday’! Chocolate and peanut butter. They were both meant to be, weren’t they? I think so, which is why I wanted to put together these delicious chocolate peanut butter truffles to share with you for the holidays. Actually, when it comes to […]

Brownies were a delicious, warm chocolaty treat that I’ve always known since my early childhood. For a couple of years now, I’ve been putting off perfecting a grain-free, gluten-free brownie recipe. Black bean brownies, you say? Yes, they are delicious. They do not, however, come close to “the real thing”, in my opinion, and I […]

I eat chocolate literally every single day. Sometimes, when I feel a need for a break from caffeine, I will replace it with carob, or not eat it all together. But, I just couldn’t imagine going without it for myself. Many people, upon hearing my love for chocolate, are shocked that I support such a […]

Not everyone celebrates Easter, but everyone can more than likely indulge healthfully on these tasty, sugarless (but sweet) chocolate Easter candies. You can make them without the peanut butter center, of course, or substitute for you favorite nut or seed butter. Almond butter works really well for this recipe. I am using these plastic molds […]

This post is a part of Slightly Indulgent Tuesdays over at Simply Sugar and Gluten-free These strawberry muffins are actually from my newest online cookbook, The Unconventional Gluten-free Cookbook. In it, I give more in depth analysis of the nutrition information of my recipes (which include chocolate cake, Paleo meatloaf, new green smoothies and more), […]

  This post is a part of Slightly Indulgent Tuesdays over at Simply Sugar and Gluten-free. Truffles are traditionally made with a filling of chocolate ganache; however, these chocolate truffles, made with a center of coconut flour and shortening, can only be called one thing: a truffle. Not a traditional one, but one nonetheless.These sweet yet dark gluten-free […]

Thanksgiving is a time for being grateful for the things we have. Above all things, I have to say that I’m incredibly grateful for my family – not just my relatives, but also true friends who treat me as if I were their own. The other thing that I am very grateful for is my […]