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Grain-Free Coffee Walnut Brownies

If you love chocolate, nuts, and coffee, then these rich, decadent grain-free brownies are the perfect treat for you. Plus, they’re low carb! Go ahead and indulge a little, you deserve it!

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Keto Macaroons

If you’re a coconut lover, then you will adore these scrumptious little morsels, even if you’re living a keto or low carb lifestyle. Who said you can’t enjoy dessert while staying healthy?

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Grain-Free Chocolate Lavender Brownies

Take your brownies to the next level with a hint of lavender. They are rich, decadent, and low carb. You don’t have to feel guilty eating this sweet treat!

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Healthier Banana Foster

A classic, simple dessert that was originally created at a restaurant in New Orleans in the 1950s. It’s easy to throw together and will curb any sweet tooth. You can feel good about eating this healthy version.

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Pina Colada Panna Cotta

Looking for a light, summery dessert? Try this classic Italian sweet treat with a tropical twist that’s also gluten-free, low carb, and refined sugar-free.

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Keto & Sugar-Free Butter Toffee Ice Cream

Looking for a sweet treat that won’t ruin your healthy lifestyle? Grab a bowl of this dairy-free, sugar-free butter toffee ice cream. It’s rich, creamy, and buttery!

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Healthy Keto Vanilla Coconut Fudge

You only need a few ingredients to make this tasty no-bake dessert. It’s smooth, creamy, and not only keto-friendly but also sugar-free and dairy-free, so you can enjoy this treat without any guilt!

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Sugar-Free Cream Cheese Mints

You only need a few ingredients to make these simple, old-fashioned cream cheese mints. These make the perfect little treats because they are sugar-free, low carb, and low calorie. You’ll love these guilt-free morsels!

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Sugar-Free Creamy Vanilla Panna Cotta

This delicious dessert is like an eggless, silky custard that’s also sugar-free. Make this simple, creamy treat when you want to impress dinner guests.

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Grain-Free Pumpkin Spice Madeleines

A fluffy, airy sponge cake with the flavor of pumpkin spice that’s perfect for the fall and holiday season. You can feel good eating this tasty treat because they are refined sugar-free, gluten-free, and grain-free. Perfect with a hot cup of tea or coffee.

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Healthy Refined Sugar-Free Pumpkin Pie

Pumpkin pie is a classic dessert around the holidays in the U.S., however, you can make this pie all year long when you’re craving pumpkiny goodness. Plus, you don’t have to feel any guilt when eating this treat because it’s refined sugar-free, grain-free, gluten-free, and tastes amazing!

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Grain-Free & Low-Sugar Raspberry Crisp

This delicious grain-free, low-sugar raspberry crisp is full of antioxidants and vitamin C. This juicy dessert is best served warm, right out of the oven. Add a drizzle of cream or a scoop of ice cream for a tasty treat.

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Grain-Free Piña Colada Cheesecake (for the adults!)

Transport you and your guests (or family) to the tropics with this rich, creamy dessert. Filled with coconut, pineapple, and rum, this is an adult-only cheesecake that is quite the treat!

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Grain-Free White Chocolate Crackle Cookies

You would never know that these cookies are made without any flour. Delicious and chewy with perfect crackles on top. Enjoy during the Christmas cookie season or throughout the year.

Baby & Kid Food

Gluten-Free Christmas Cornflake Wreath Cookies (Made Healthier)

These are so much fun to make with the kiddos during the holiday season. Just a few simple ingredients are all you need to whip up a batch of festive wreath cookies.

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Lactogenic Grain-Free Sour Cream Raisin Bars

These little bars are so sweet, creamy, and have little pops of warm raisins in each bite. So so good! They are also good for breastfeeding mamas to help with lactation.

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Easy Chocolate Mousse

This super easy mousse can be enjoyed immediately, unlike other mousses which require setting time. It only takes 15 minutes!

Baby & Kid Food

Healthier Hot Chocolate Bombs

You will have a lot of fun making these with the kiddos. They have a fun little surprise inside!

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Strawberry Santa Hats

How cute are these? Using the simplest of ingredients, these little strawberry Santa Hats will delight kids and adults alike!

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Grain-Free Pecan Snowballs

This is an easy and fun cookie recipe that your little ones can help with. Plus, they are so delicious and perfect for a light snack or dessert.

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Cashew Nut & Coconut Cookie Dough Fat Bombs

These fat bombs are super tasty – even the kids will love them.

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Keto Snowmen Meringues

Keep it light during the holiday and winter season with these sugar-free Keto Snowmen meringues. They are so much fun to make and decorate!

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Keto French Silk Pie

A rich, creamy, and decadent dessert that you can eat without any guilt. It's low carb and low sugar, but insanely delicious!

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Keto Chocolate Ice Cream

This is a delicious, sugar-free chocolate ice cream with 85% dark chocolate.

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Low Carb Carrot Cake

Looking for a low carb treat made with real food? Make this grain-free, sugar-free carrot cake.

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Chia Pudding Two Ways

Curb any chocolate craving or sweet tooth with this healthy choc-coconut chia pudding. Or, try a delicious, dairy-free coconut chia seed pudding for a healthy snack or dessert.

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Delicious & Easy Grain-Free Snickerdoodles Cookies

These chewy cinnamon cookies are a must-have for any Christmas cookie list. They are gluten-free, grain-free, and so much fun to make. Even the kids can help!

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Sugar-Free Lemon Cheesecake Chia Seed Pudding

Chia seed pudding is super easy to make, and you can experiment with different flavor variations. It is also loaded with healthy fats and probiotics!

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Chewy and Delicious Low-Carb Chocolate Chip Cookies

Since there is no sugar in these low-carb chocolate chip cookies, you will get a spongier texture, rather than a crunchy cookie. But, with the delicious hidden chocolate chips running through the cookie dough, you won’t even care!

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Delicious Sugar Free Low Carb Key Lime Pie

Low Carb Key Lime Pie has the refreshing taste of lime with an added ingredient to make the flavor really pop! Very refreshing, satisfying, and made without sugar so you can enjoy it guilt-free!

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Eton Mess Using Sugar-Free Meringues

Sugar-free meringues are a game changer! I decided to showcase them in the classic Eton Mess, where we can enjoy the natural sugars in the strawberries and devour the meringues without guilt.

Baby & Kid Food

Kid Favorite Healthy Fudgesicle Fudge Pops Recipe

Cold, creamy, and delicious with just enough sweetness. You'll love these healthy fudge pops for a snack or dessert.

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Creamy Keto Lemon Cheesecake

This heavenly Keto Lemon Cheesecake can be enjoyed guilt-free. Deliciously creamy, sweet, and tart, you'll never know this refreshing dessert is low carb.

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Healthy Vanilla Coconut Tapioca Pudding Recipe

This pudding not only satisfies and satiates the cravings, but it also nourishes your body. This Healthy Vanilla Coconut Tapioca Pudding is full of healthy fats and amino acids; it's a great dessert to serve without the guilt!

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Dairy-Free, Egg-Free Healthy Chocolate Pudding

When my kiddos are under the weather, I whip up a batch of magical healthy chocolate pudding. This pudding actually DOES have health-promoting ingredients!

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Einkorn Sourdough Bread Pudding with Bourbon Sauce

This bread pudding makes a lovely accompaniment to a holiday breakfast, as a sweet side dish. The bourbon sauce is so delicious but entirely optional. However, the ingredients in this recipe definitely do make it healthier than the standard bread pudding recipes out there.

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Healthy Powdered Peanut Butter and Chocolate Cups

Ditch the junk at the stores and make your own healthy powdered peanut butter and chocolate cups. Homemade candy tastes so much better anyway!

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Delicious & Award-Winning Grain-Free Lemon Bars

These Grain-Free Lemon Bars are just as tasty as the original recipe. Tangy, sweet, and refreshing... try not to eat the whole batch at once!

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Grain-Free & Gluten-Free Chocolate Brownies

These delicious gluten-free chocolate brownies will be a crowd-pleaser – especially with the kids!

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Spooky Ghostly Meringue Cookies

When October rolls around and you're getting ready for Halloween, it's time to make some ghostly meringue cookies for fun.

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Delicious & Healthy Paleo Sweet Potato Brownies

These little buggers are loaded with vitamins, minerals, and antioxidants! Go ahead, have one for breakfast and feel guilt-free.

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Quick and Easy Pumpkin Pie Cake In a Mug

Pumpkin pie cake is a great way to get the kids to eat more veggies, but these pumpkin mug cakes will appeal equally to adults. With a quintessential pumpkin pie flavor, these mug cakes can be quickly thrown together for a high-fiber, guilt-free dessert.

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Meringue Topped Polish Grain-Free Apple Pie

This Polish Grain-Free Apple Pie is light, sweet, and oh so pretty! If you've never had meringue on apple pie, you don't know what you're missing out on!

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Delicious Dairy-Free Coconut Cherry Ice Cream

Move over plain old vanilla ice cream, dairy-free coconut cherry ice cream is taking over the favorites list! 

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Easy Homemade Vanilla Lavender Ice Cream

Put a twist to classic vanilla ice cream with lavender. It's so smooth and delicious! Cold, refreshing, and calming.

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Real Food Vanilla Custard Cups

This vanilla custard is rich, buttery, and so smooth. Perfect for a dessert or a quick snack.

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Grain-Free, Egg-Free, Dairy-Free Pumpkin Spice Cookies

When your sweet tooth is wanting that pumpkin spice flavor, whip up a batch of these delicious, moist cookies.

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Chocolate Fat Bombs with a Secret Ingredient!

These little buggers are good for you! If you need to get in more healthy fats and need to curb a sweet tooth, then these chocolate fat bombs will hit the spot.

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Healthy No-Bake Chocolate Peppermint Bites

If you're working on a sugar detox or just trying to limit your sugar consumption but still want something sweet, then these little morsels are perfect to throw together. They are actually good for you!

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Paleo Sugar-Free Chocolate Pudding Cups

The best part about these chocolate pudding cups is that the ingredients are good for you! Feel good about eating these and sharing them with your kiddos!

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Grain-Free Copycat Nieman Marcus Cookies

If you love the cookies from Nieman Marcus but want a healthier, gluten-free, grain-free cookie, try out this copycat recipe.

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Paleo Pumpkin Spice Cookies

These pumpkin spice cookies are so easy to whip up, they freeze well, and there is no shame loading these into little lunchboxes. The best part is that they are filled with vitamins, fiber, healthy fats, and flavor. They are NOT filled with gluten, dairy, or sugar.

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Paleo Pumpkin Pie Pudding

If you like pie filling more than the crust, then make this delicious pumpkin pie pudding for a healthy treat or dessert. It's like fall in a bowl!

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40 Paleo Holiday Cookie Recipes

One of the best things about the holiday season are all the variety of cookies. With this list of sweet treats, it'll be hard to choose your favorite.

Baby & Kid Food

Chocolate Dusted Homemade Marshmallows

After much tinkering in my kitchen with the kiddos, we finally perfected a delicious homemade marshmallow recipe. We even dusted them with cocoa! A kiddo favorite for sure, only these are made with healthy ingredients.

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Delicious and Moist Grain-Free Yellow Cake

Making a cake that tastes good, is grain-free, and that does not have the consistency hardtack was a serious challenge! I tried many, many different recipes until I finally came up with this version of grain-free yellow cake. It's a winner. Every kid gave it a thumbs up!

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Easy Cream Cheese Frosting

After you this homemade cream cheese frosting, you will never use tub frosting again. Plus, with this frosting recipe, you even get healthy fat into your favorite sweet treat!

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Caramel Apple Pie Fat Bombs

These fat bombs are like eating little bites of caramel apple pie. Hide them. From yourself.

Baby & Kid Food

Grain-Free Homemade Graham Crackers

These grain-free homemade graham crackers are much lower in sugar and have more protein and healthy fats in them than store-bought varieties. S'mores, anyone?

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Chocolate Superfood Cookies

I made these cookies egg-free, dairy-free, and grain-free. Plus, I added in a bunch of superfoods to make these healthy chocolate superfood cookies!

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Lactation Cookie Dough Bites

If you're breastfeeding and need a boost in your milk supply, try these delicious lactation cookie dough bites.

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Cinnamon and Sugar Grain-Free Mini Donuts

Create wonderful memories without destroying your gut - grain-free mini donuts without any of the junk and all of the enjoyment.

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Easy Homemade Ice Cream Cake

Now you can enjoy an ice cream cake any time of year that tastes so much better than any store-bought cake and has healthier ingredients.

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10-Minute Homemade Ice Cream (no-cook method)

Nothing better than ready-to-eat homemade ice cream! And you can make it in just 10 minutes.

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Chocolate Cake Cookies

I could eat chocolate for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. This is the fuel that fires me up to always try to create healthy chocolate recipes that are so healthy you could even eat them for breakfast! This recipe does the trick. It is also a perfect recipe for those who are gluten, dairy, or egg intolerant.

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Easy Paleo Chocolate Frosting

This is not only a delicious frosting recipe, but it also helps give your metabolism a kick in the rear too!

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Metabolism-Boosting Healthy Chocolate Chunks

Coconut oil and coconut butter actually give your metabolism a boost and also provides your body with immediate energy. Now you can have "healthy" chocolate any time!

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How to Make an Egg Substitute with Chia Seeds

Chia seeds are full of omega-3's and fiber, so they even replace some of the nutritional content that is lost when you remove eggs from your recipes.

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Grain-Free Brownies

I have come up with a version grain-free brownies that has a batter so good you won't even know its grain-free. You bake this batter of course into my next favorite thing: warm homemade grain-free brownies.

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Grain-Free Lemon Cake Cookies

These grain-free lemon cake cookies seriously taste like lemon cake. Bet 'cha can't eat just one!

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Easy Holiday Grain-Free Cut-Out Cookies

For any special celebration or holiday, use this recipe to make easy grain-free cut-out cookies.

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Easy Homemade Healthy Hot Chocolate Squares

I have been trying to come up with some recipes that satisfy the sweet tooth, provide the antioxidant levels of dark chocolate, and have lower sugar content. So I threw together this recipe with cocoa powder and honey! Plus, you also get the medicinal benefits of raw honey.

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Paleo Cheesecake Bites

I find these delightful treats to be a nice mix in the traditional baked goods bunch, and the color to match the holiday. Each bite is actually healthy, and in total, takes about 15 minutes to make. Perfect!

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Grain-Free Homemade Berry Crisp

There is nothing quite like a berry crisp fresh out of the oven! Warm and delicious with that amazing crumble on top! Smother it in homemade whipped cream and WOW!

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White Chocolate Peanut Butter Fudge

Healthy White Chocolate Peanut Butter Fudge. Should I really say anything more?

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Homemade Mini Paleo Pumpkin Pies

Who doesn't love a pumpkin pie? Well, who doesn't love a paleo pumpkin pie that only has a handful of ingredients and takes no time at all to throw together?! Yeah, pretty awesome!

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Healthy Chocolate Covered Amazeballs

This recipe was created from random foods in my fridge and cabinet in a four-alarm treat emergency. After I made them up and we all gave them a try, the only word that came to mind was "amazeballs" because I was just amazed at how so few ingredients could make such a delicious treat!

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3-Ingredient Blueberries & Cream Popsicles

My kids LOVE popsicles! Who doesn't on a hot summer day? Being the sneaky mom that I am, I wanted to keep these treats healthy and filled with goodness.

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Healthy Buttermints

Of course in my on-going adventures of healthifying every recipe on the planet, I just had to come up with a recipe for healthy buttermints! They are full of healthy fats and delicious!

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Paleo Coconut Macaroons

This recipe is a much healthier variation because they contain immune-boosting raw honey, healthy fat in the coconut, and quality protein with the pastured eggs. Not to say these are a balanced meal in one little cookie, but they are a much healthier option if you are going to have a sweet treat!

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3-Ingredient Homemade Fudge

Make your own homemade fudge so you can control the ingredients. This recipe is super easy and only requires three ingredients. Perfect when you need a sweet treat quickly.

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Homemade Jello Cups

Making jello cups from scratch allows for so many nutritional bonuses to be added to them. I have finally perfected the best recipe filled with vitamins, minerals, and probiotics.

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Real Food 4th of July Recipes

As you prepare to celebrate our beautiful country, here are a variety of healthy options that you can make or take to all your Independence Day celebrations.

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Dairy-Free Chocolate Peppermint Popsicles

These popsicles are full of healthy fats, vitamins, and minerals. I do not feel bad about letting my kids snack on them daily!

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Gluten-Free Chocolate Strawberry Shortcake

What better way to celebrate strawberry season than with a delicious little gluten-free strawberry shortcake treat! I added the cocoa to the recipe because, you know, CHOCOLATE!

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The Best Paleo Chocolate Cake Ever

This recipe was born of a brownie craving. What I ended up with was a moist, fluffy and amazing paleo chocolate cake -- not brownies! WOW!

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Feed the Monster Cookies!

The fun part about making these healthy cookies is that each time you can add something new: dried fruit, protein powder, coconut butter, coconut chips, dehydrated nuts, and seeds, etc. Get creative with these little buggers!

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Gluten-Free Crepes

These wonderful little egg pancakes are just about the easiest breakfast food I have ever made...AND, you can fancy them up with awesome fillings to really impress your friends and family.

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Healthy Homemade Whipped Cream

The stuff in the can will NEVER taste as good as homemade healthy whipped cream. You can put it on anything - cake, cupcakes, brownies, pancakes, the possibilities are endless!

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Homemade Vanilla Pudding

So easy to make, filled with healthy fats, and has the richest buttery flavor.

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Gluten-Free Shortbread Cookies

You will love these gluten-free shortbread cookies without destroying your gut! Plus, they are dipped in chocolate... yum!

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Skillet Apple Crumble {GAPS}

You don’t have to be deprived when you're on GAPS or any other strict diet. This skillet apple crumble is divine and indulgent! Also perfect for apple season when there's an abundance of apples!

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Dairy-Free Chocolate Ganache

This recipe is SO SO easy. All you need is 2 ingredients and a few minutes. Perfect for cake, brownies, cookies, ice cream, or any other sweet treat. Try not to eat the entire batch in one sitting. I dare you!

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Paleo Flourless Chocolate Cake

Flourless cakes are not hard to make. I came up with my own version that has healthy ingredients so you can feel good about eating this decadent chocolate treat. You can thank me later.

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Coconut Snowballs

When you need a quick sweet treat that is low carb, gluten-free and delicious, just take a few minutes to make your own homemade candy.

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Coconut Snowflakes Candy

All you need is 1 ingredient to make candy - that's it! Choose your favorite molds and make your own homemade treats.

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No-Cook Dairy-Free Caramel Fudge (Raw, Paleo)

With just four ingredients, you can make this sweet treat any time of year, but they are especially perfect for the holiday season. Make a big batch and give as gifts to your loved ones.

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Paleo Chocolate Truffles

If you love rich desserts, you gotta make these rich chocolatey treats. They are so easy to make, you can get your kids in the kitchen to help make them.

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How to Make a Barbie Birthday Cake

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Paleo Peppermint Patty

Make your own healthier peppermint patties. Perfect for the holiday season or any time of year. You can feel good about eating this delicious candy.

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