Sugar Snap Pea Aggressive Foliage

April 28, 2025 Amanda Plott

Sugar Snap Pea Aggressive Foliage Salad: Crunchy, Colorful, and Crazy Delicious!

When it comes to salads, there's something undeniably charming about the vibrant crunch of sugar snap peas. These little green gems aren’t just for snacking; they star beautifully in a salad that’s as good for your health as it is for your taste buds! Let’s dive in and whip up a sugar snap pea salad that makes your mouth sing and keeps your health in check.

Whether you’re enjoying this salad as a side dish at a picnic or making it the star of your lunch plate, it’s a sure crowd-pleaser that’s guilt-free and packed with nutrients…

Giant Strawberry Pop Tart Cookies

August 31, 2024 Amanda Plott

Introducing Giant Strawberry Pop Tart Cookies – the playful twist on a classic that your taste buds have been dreaming of! These oversized beauties pack all the nostalgic flavors of your favorite childhood treat, but with a healthier spin. Made with natural sweeteners, these cookies are bursting with real strawberry filling, all sandwiched between two chewy, buttery layers.

Tope them off with colorful sprinkles, they’re not just a dessert; they’re a delightful experience that satisfies your sweet tooth while keeping your health goals intact. Perfect for sharing (or not!), these cookies are sure to be a hit at any gathering – or as a special treat just for you!...

Air Fryer Sopapillas

March 8, 2023 Amanda Plott

Everyone loves a good Sopapilla after some tasty Mexican food. And these Air Fryer Sopapillas are not only easy to make, they also only take a handful of ingredients and just a few minutes of cook time. Being as there’s only a handful ingredients, there really isn’t much you can do to make them much ‘better for you’.

Sometimes you just need to indulge just a little bit. But, even with that being said? You get four of these to a serving that’s well under two-hundred calories. Dust them in some cinnamon sugar and a little bit of hunny and you’ve got an amazing dessert!…

Confetti Shortbread Cookies

May 31, 2022 Amanda Plott

Pride month starts tomorrow and I’m going to play around with rainbows in the kitchen as much as I possible can to celebrate. So here’s to hoping that these Confetti Shortbread Cookies will be the first of many Pride friendly treats and eats to come along for the next 30 days or so. I’m no stranger to shortbread cookies and I can tell you first hand that the dough can be more than a little finicky. But, the dough for these Confetti Shortbread Cookies was simple, easy to make, and didn’t give me much fuss at all.

Shortbread cookies are crumbly and buttery and sort of melt away in your mouth, and these here are no exception. Even with less sugar, these Confetti Shortbread Cookies are perfectly sweet and cut out really well with hardly any spreading at all…

Instant Pot Creme Brûlée

December 4, 2021 Amanda Plott

I’ve only had creme brûlée a handful of times in my life and I’ve never ventured to make it for myself because I always had it in my head that it would be a complicated dessert that likely required some sort of kitchen torch of which I can’t seem to allow myself. But, as it turns out, creme brûlée is actually a pretty simple and easy to make dessert. Especially when you make it using a pressure cooker!

This creme brûlée is started off with a few minutes in a pressure cooker. It then chills for several hours and is finished off when you’re ready to enjoy by broiling in the oven for a few minutes. Yep, it’s just that easy to make yourself creme brûlée at home…

Healthified 'Lofthouse' Soft Sugar Cookies

December 13, 2020 Amanda Plott

I've basically taken that original tried-and-true recipe and trimmed it down as best I could without losing the amazingness of that cookie.

The first thing I did was swapped out some of the regular flour for some whole wheat white flour. If you're going to be bad, you may as well get some good in there too! At least you can say you had some whole wheat, right?

I also substituted in some sweetener for about 1/3 of the sugar originally called for. Why? Well, if you can get away with less sugar, then why not? For the cookie dough, I used a light butter rather than full fat. Again, if you can get away with it... do it!

I made a few other minor changes as well, and still ended up with a perfectly light and decedent cookie that has over 50 calories less per serving than it's store bought counter part. Plus, I know exactly what in these cookies since well... I'm one that put it all there!

I'm telling you, they taste almost exactly like the original…