Cookie Monster Cake

June 23, 2020 Amanda Plott

This cake isn’t your average cake. In fact, it’s one of the most decadent cakes I’ve ever eaten, much less made. Though there’s a few steps and ingredients to get through, I promise that this cake is worth every bit of it. Any time and effort put into this cake will melt away when you take your first bite of it. And being as I turned the ripe age of 35 this year, I thought I could use a little something extra on my special day.

This cake starts out using my recipe for ‘wacky cake’; meaning it’s made with no eggs, butter, or milk! The filling is a safe to eat edible version of chocolate chip cookie dough. I lightened both up by substituting most of the sugar for natural sweeteners (such as splenda, monk, etc.) Yep, even for the frosting!…

Sparkler Dogs

July 1, 2019 Amanda Plott

The 4th of July is already a pretty big holiday. But, it’s also right there in close to my mom’s birthday and is yet another one’s favorite holiday in the family. So, for us? It’s go big or go bigger. There isn’t much room in between for anything else. I’m not sure when or where, but I saw the idea for these ‘sparkler dogs’ a while back now and have been meaning to make my riff on them for at least a year or two.

Originally, they were pretty plain, plain, plain. So I decided to up the ante a little bit with throwing some 'Everything’ seasoning at them and using some of my other favorites to make them a little more health conscious…

Skinny Leftover Turkey & Mushroom Pot Pie

January 5, 2019 Amanda Plott

Can you believe it…? I STILL have meat in my freezer that’s leftover from Christmas, y’all! The turkey has now OFFICIALLY been all used up. (Though there is still plenty of ham socked away. - Someone buy me a deep freezer please and stop this madness!) With all this meat still taking over my freezer, I’m still working on coming up with delicious ways to use it all up.

So far… it’s been in a quiche, which is one of my favorite ways to use up leftovers. Another fun way is… pot pie! Even though I’m a southern girl, I don’t think I ever had a homemade pot pie. And now that I’m an adult and sticking with this healthier lifestyle, this Skinny Leftover Turkey & Mushroom Pot Pie is as close as we’re going to get!…

Skinny Wildberry 'Toaster Strudel' Pie

November 11, 2018 Amanda Plott

This past week I played around a lot in the kitchen and made things fun by turning ‘kid classics’ into sweet treats that kids and adults alike will enjoy. Skinny ‘Homer Simpson’ Donuts to Skinny Strawberry Pop-Tart Cobbler. Another of my favorites from my childhood was Toaster Strudels. And being as I had some phyllo dough in the freezer that needed to be used up, I decided to make a Toaster Strudel Pie.

My favorite flavor of both Pop-Tarts and Toaster Strudel was always ‘wildberry’. Something about the perfect mix of sweet and tang in there. This is obviously not your average pie and it’s surprisingly simple and easy to make with literally a handful of ingredients…

'Tombstone' Pizza Pockets

October 3, 2018 Amanda Plott

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Spooky scary skeleton! … …I have no idea. It’s a song that my daughter sings. While these aren’t skeletons, or made of bones, these 'Tombstone' Pizza Pockets are super cute and rather easy to make too! What’s better is that YOU get to decide what goes in them and their shape - unlike those frozen-to-microwave ones. You know the ones I’m talking about. The ones filled with a bunch of scary sounding yuck.

These cute little pizza pockets are made with a whole wheat dough and are filled with the basics of any pepperoni pizza; sauce, cheese, and pepperoni! Yep. That’s basically it. A few traditional pizza favorites in a perfect and festive little pocket!…

Skinny Edible Monster Cookie Dough

August 4, 2016 Amanda Plott

It's still really hot here in Texas right now. Seriously, it was 80 degrees upstairs in my house last night. ...And that was after the sun set. So, clearly I'm staying away from the oven as much as humanly possible for a few more weeks. In the mean time... I'm still craving things that generally require cooking or baking. Let's face it, life doesn't stop just because it's hot outside! Cookies are what's been on my brain lately.

If it's cookies I want, it's cookies I get.

Not just any old cookie though. I want something thick and rick and colorful. Enter this Skinny Edible Monster Cookie Dough! If this won't get you through the heat of the summer and curb your cookie cravings, nothing will...