Hola! I’m back in Charlotte where it’s sunny and 80 degrees. That’s how we do things in the South. It was 40 degrees and sleeting this time last week. Now we’ve fast-forwarded right into early summer. It will be 90 degrees before we know it. I LOVE IT. Okay, the real reason for this post [...]
Sweets + Baking
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Gluten-Free, Refined Sugar-Free Mini Carrot Cake Cupcakes
April 5, 2013 { 15 comments }I can count the number of the times I’ve tried to bake desserts that skew more towards healthy than sinful and my experiences have mostly led me to believe that when you want a sweet, you just need to go for it. There was one incident where Pintest led me to believe it was a [...]
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Weather Talk, Egg Talk, A Healthy Cookie Recipe and More…
March 26, 2013 { 22 comments }http://oascentral.blogher.org/RealMedia/ads/adstream_jx.ads/SocialBoom/OID4380_Cigna_Cigna_SocialBoom_031/@x13 Hola! (Seriously, hola…I so wish I was back in the Caribbean right now. It’s so cold and windy in Charlotte. I shouldn’t complain though as some of you are digging out from snow…again.) But really, when is spring going to actually arrive this year? It’s going to be a cold Easter and the 10 [...]
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Peanut Butter Chocolate Chunk Cookies
March 6, 2013 { 15 comments }Baking is my favorite. Baking with peanut butter is even better. Baking with peanut butter AND chocolate is over the top heavenly. Some of my all-time favorite peanut butter and chocolate recipes are these peanut butter chocolate chip bars and these flourless peanut butter chocolate chip cookies. Today, I have a new peanut butter and [...]
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Make-Up Cookies
January 15, 2013 { 26 comments }I have failed you and I am sorry. I was so excited for the first yoga Monday post yesterday. I wanted to do a post-workout/run stretching video and that turned into a giant mess involving the video cutting off halfway through, a second video that I was going to merge with the first, over 200 [...]
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Chocolate Cupcakes with Salted Caramel Frosting
December 23, 2012 { 15 comments }I love to bake but it’s something that I have not been able to do nearly as frequently since I gave up my 9-5 and transitioned into a career in the fitness industry. It’s not that I can’t do it from a nutrition and calories perspective but more from a there is not time and [...]
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Butterscotch, Pretzel and Chocolate Chip Cookies
November 2, 2012 { 11 comments }Do you know what’s boring? Salad…salad for lunch… Salad for dinner. I am over salad. I inhaled this chicken dinner last night after teaching BodyPump. If I ate one more bowl of leftover soup or another salad I was going to cry. I blazed into the grocery store at 8 p.m. praying that they still [...]
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Peanut Butter Chocolate Layer Bars
October 21, 2012 { 17 comments }I think many of us have heard of Ann Byrn, better known as “The Cake Mix Doctor.” She’s published multiple cookbooks sharing how to turn a traditional boxed cake mix into something special. Since cake mix is the cornerstone of most of Ann’s recipes it seems only logical that she would create her own brand [...]
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Coconut Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Banana Bread
September 16, 2012 { 20 comments }How’s that for a recipe title? It could also be known as “open the pantry and fridge and throw in everything that you have banana bread.” I had two bananas that were destined for the trash can if I didn’t find a use for them yesterday. I am a little over traditional banana bread so [...]
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Home Cooked + Cast Iron Cheddar Cornbread Recipe
September 4, 2012 { 41 comments }It was too much to combine the family love and food love into one post yesterday. Especially given that I whipped up the best corn bread that I ever baked. I am very fortunate to come from a family that enjoys planing and preparing meals. Growing up my dad did most of the cooking (he’s [...]
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Oatmeal Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies
August 27, 2012 { 33 comments }My Sunday activities consisted of sleeping in, making brunch, baking cookies, blogging, hot yoga, house cleaning and a meeting at lululemon. While I did keep myself busy, none of these were “have to do’s” and everything was done at a relaxed pace. It is still weird for me to wake up on Sunday morning and [...]
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Blueberry Crumb Bars + A Dilemma
July 24, 2012 { 69 comments }Some of you might know this but I didn’t get my start with blogging on Peanut Butter Runner. I actually had my food/recipe blog, Bakin’ & Eggs, for two years before launching Peanut Butter Runner. I posted recipes there 3-5 times a week. I started PBR because I was constantly asked how I could bake [...]
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Cookies And Babies
June 25, 2012 { 76 comments }Monday has been a much better day. Full of work, yoga privates, babies and cookies. That’s good stuff. I was up early to put together a meal for Caitlin. She just had a baby boy and I offered to bring them dinner. Nothing like sauteing onions and baking cookies at 7 a.m.! Cooking for other [...]
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Strawberry Nutella Muffins
May 13, 2012 { 13 comments }I did manage to finally peel myself off the couch and do something last night. I am a little sore from yesterday’s Fight Gone Bad workout but it’s not nearly as bad as I anticipated. First, I headed over to our new location for a quick meeting about our wall murals. We are having some [...]
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Easy and Healthy Banana Muffins
April 26, 2011 { 30 comments }I’m popping in with a lunch break update for you because I have a recipe to share! I buy bananas every week at the store and sometimes I end up with bananas that are a little past their prime…even for oatmeal. (I prefer bananas with brown spots for oatmeal because they are sweeter and mix [...]
