Saying Sorry with Breakfast Bars & Food Porn
So I haven’t posted in a million years- sorry about that. It’s been a busy season for my little family. Huz and I celebrated two glorious years of marriage by flying to Cabo! We read in the sun and drank smoothies in our bathing suits. It was excellent.
There isn’t a whole lot of Vegan food in Cabo but we did make one great find: Pura Vida. Here we drank fresh smoothies and at gluten free/vegan sandwiches. Yep- there are hippies everywhere, y’all. You just got look for em.
When we got home we went to our favorite vegan bakery to end our celebration with a tasty lunch. We probably go to Back To Eden once a week. We love everything about that place and now they serve lunch so we’ll probably always be there.
In baking adventures: I’ve been baking. For our friend’s birthday party I made some fun cupcakes. In order to save some time I grabbed cake mixes and refined them a bit. You do have to look over the ingredients on the boxes but I think using box cake mixes is a good time saver. I bought a vanilla bean cake mix form Trader Joe’s and added orange juice instead of milk to the mix and did the same to the frosting so the cupcake had a really bright orange taste. To the chocolate cupcake mix I added a Tbs of lavender and when I made the frosting, I warmed the milk and steeped it with lavender to infuse some flavor into the frosting. They were tasty if I do say so myself!
Another recipe I made recently were these breakfast bars. I chose this recipe because I was looking for something I could take on the go and something that was nut free. I’ve been babysitting for a family that has three girls, two of which are allergic to nuts. this recipe was really delicious and I took a few creative liberties that really boosted the flavor. Check out the recipe (HERE) and have fun! I used dried cherries and blueberries for the dried fruit and added a Tbs of freshly grated orange zest.
These bars are so yummy. Once they cooled I wrapped the bars individually and had a perfect breakfast to eat on my way to work!
