Today is my Birthday, and the last couple weekends I have been choosing fun activities to celebrate it, because everyone gets a Birthday month right? So a couple of weekends ago we did something I have always wanted to do, visit a lavender farm!  We went to The Lavender Barnyard in Farmington MN, and it was such a magical experience!  I love using lavender in recipes, scenting my home with it and using it in personal care products so when I found out there was a local lavender farm I could visit I was all in!  This place is awesome, a little farm with rows of different varieties ..read more

Banana bread has always been my go to for over ripe bananas on the counter.  My Mom used to make my Grandma's recipe for it, which I then veganized and  it is always so good!  I switch up the add ins, sometimes I will just make it plain, sometimes with chocolate chips, sometimes with nuts or dried fruit like dates.  But I think my favorite is just with the chocolate chips which is what I decided to make last weekend.  I switched it up though and made it into Vegan Banana Bread Muffins instead of just a loaf because I thought it would be easier to share, and bake a lot ..read more

It definitely feels like summer here lately and with summer comes berries!  It think berries (I can't pick just one type I love them all) are my favorite fruit.  I am loving all things strawberry right now, while they are in season here in Minnesota.  I love baked goods with berries, like scones, muffins, cakes, cobblers and crisps but I also love a good shortcake.  Since strawberry shortcake is so delicious, I decided to bake some strawberry shortcake inspired cookies! I have also been on a cookie baking kick lately.  I love them because they are an easy dessert.&nbs ..read more

I love foccacia bread!  It is always so delicious and it is fairly easy to make.  I love it served with soup, salad or just for snacking!  Although I have only ever made simple foccacia usually just with herbs and garlic or just plain, I see lots of them made topped with veggies, so I decided that I would try making a Strawberry Basil Foccacia!  Why not?  Strawberries are in season and I have loads of fresh basil growing in my herb pots. A long time ago I was actually afraid to make my own yeast bread but now that I have made a bunch of it, the process really isn't t ..read more

I love shortbread, the buttery melt in your mouth texture, the fact that it can be flavored with many different things depending on what you are in the mood for and the fact that it goes wonderful with coffee for a mid-morning pick me up!  Last weekend I decided to make some shortbread and I went with some flavors I am loving lately.  Vegan Vanilla Strawberry Lavender Shortbread seemed like the perfect thing to make as we are hanging onto the last bit of spring and heading into summer! The other thing I love about shortbread it that it is really simple quick and easy to make with m ..read more

Tis the season for all things rhubarb, so I have been making a lot of desserts with it lately!  I picked a ton of it in my Dad's backyard because why not enjoy it while I can?!  The season is only in the spring here after all, and soon we will be on to summer treats.  So I pick it while I can and also freeze it for later!  I made rhubarb cake already this year and rhubarb crisp, so I decided this time I would try something different and make cookies!  I had never heard of rhubarb in cookies but I figured why not?!  So I made these Vegan Rhubarb Cookies and they w ..read more

I have always loved all things rhubarb, so I get excited when rhubarb season rolls around here in Minnesota.  My grandma used to grow a bunch behind her garage and she would always make the best rhubarb treats, especially her strawberry rhubarb sauce!  It has actually been rhubarb season here for a while now, but I just now got my hands on some rhubarb from my Dad's garden when I finally had time to pick some last weekend.  I knew I wanted to make something with it but I wasn't quite sure what.  I debated on making a pie or crumble, maybe involving some strawberries, but w ..read more

We are definitely now way into iced latte season.  It was in the 80s yesterday outside, I definitely felt very warm on my run and wanted my coffee to be refreshing so iced latte it was!  I heard of a local coffee shop serving blueberry muffin lattes and really want to try one but have not done so yet because of lack of time and trying to save a bit of money by not buying coffee out a lot. So I decided to create my own so I could enjoy one!  So I made some Blueberry Muffin Oat Milk Iced Lattes for Eric and I and they turned out wonderful! I started out with an oatmilk base of c ..read more

Blueberry muffins remind me of lazy weekend mornings growing up. I remember making them with my Dad often and enjoying them with brunch. Even though they came from a boxed mix I still enjoyed them and looked forward to them. I especially loved scraping the last bit of batter from the bowl to enjoy. I now make my own blueberry muffins and that is still my favorite flavor. So the other day I was thinking, how delicious would it be to make blueberry muffin cookies and enjoy the best of both worlds?! So I made Vegan Blueberry Muffin Cookies! I used my chocolate chip cookie dough as a base and it ..read more

I love all things lavender.  I enjoy the aroma of lavender in my home, lavender vanilla lattes are one of my favorite things ever, and I love lavender in baked goods!  So last weekend I decided to make some Vegan Dark Chocolate Lavender Shortbread!  I have made chocolate shortbread before and vanilla lavender short bread, but never combined the two and let me tell you the end result was so delicious!  Which is why I am sharing it with you all! This is so simple to make and so good!  I used vegan butter for the fat because I feel like it behaves slightly better in sho ..read more