These delicious oat squares are perfect for the holiday season. Make your own jam for added deliciousness and freeze for later.

Milk and cookies? Peanut butter and jelly? Chocolate and quinoa? Wait, what? Quinoa is the secret ingredient you didn’t know you needed to make the best chocolate cake. Finish off this decadent cake with icing in between each cake layer and on top, or enjoy a slice as is. GLUTEN-FREE | DAIRY-FREE OPTION | PLANT-BASED | VEGETARIAN | Best Chocolate Quinoa Cake Author: Jen - A Naturally Nu Foodie Recipe Prep Time: 15 minutes Cook Time: 30 minutes Total Time: 45 minutes Number o

Enjoy an impressive dessert that requires minimal effort. GLUTEN-FREE | DAIRY-FREE | PLANT-BASED | VEGETARIAN | VEGAN Vanilla Coconut Custard with Berry Compote Author: Jen - A Naturally Nu Foodie Recipe Prep Time: 5 minutes Cook Time: 20 to 25 minutes Total Time: 25 minutes Number of Servings: 3 to 4 Ingredients: Vanilla Coconut Custard 1 can (13.5 fl oz / 400 mL) coconut milk 2 large eggs ¼ cup (60 mL) maple syrup 1 tsp (5 mL) vanilla 1-½ tbsp + 1 tsp (27 mL) cornstarch

Pumpkin season is coming to a close. Thankfully, canned pumpkin is available year round! Wink wink. This delicious gluten-free and dairy-free cake is super easy to make whether you’re an amateur baker or a seasoned professional. It requires ten to fifteen minutes of your time before you toss it in the oven and forget about it. Enjoy a slice of this sheet cake as is or add your favourite topping like cream cheese icing, coconut cream, or more shredded coconut. GLUTEN-FREE | DA

Chocolate brownies deserve serious consideration to become its own food group. ‘Nuff said. This recipe is as close to fail-proof as it gets. It worked the first time. It’s worked every time since. Want a baking tip? Pre-measure the ingredients and line them up in order beside the stove. Super easy, right? Bake the brownie batter for up to thirty minutes and let cool. Forget the icing! You don't need it. Serve these beauties at room temperature on its own or with a scoop of ic

Want your recipes to pop with flavour? Add a HINT of cardamom. Want your guests to make funny faces? Add a LOT of cardamom! Cardamom is a bold spice. That’s one thing we can agree on. One thing we can’t agree on is how to describe cardamom. Fellow foodies define it as a strong aromatic spice with hints of citrus, mint, wood or smoke. To me, ground cardamom is sweet and floral which is why it blends so well with desserts. Also, let’s not forget about chia seeds. But what abou

Want to impress over the holidays? Want to do it with minimal effort? Yeah, that’s right. I said it. Let’s be lazy and still impress! (Insert wink here). If you have 15 minutes to slowly heat and cool chocolate (plus add the fixings), and another 60 to let it set in the fridge, you’ve just made chocolate bark! You go girl! I mean, well, after you’ve actually made it. But you go girl! Traditional fixings are nuts, seeds, and dried fruit, but feel free to get creative. The be

Did you know that cheesecake was served to athletes at the first Olympic Games in ancient Greece? Now that’s worth all the training. Right? Yet, New York style cheesecake wasn’t created in the early 1900s after New Yorker William Lawrence developed cream cheese. Fast forward to the present and cheesecake still stands the test of time. It’s one of those classic desserts that draws “oohs” and “aahs” from everyone at the dinner table. It’s the dessert you eat a little less dinn