the diary of a mad food scientist

Sweet Treats

This Dutch Baby with Poached Pears is a glorious winter brunch dish! The light and fluffy pancake is features spiced, wine-poached pears!
These Liège Style Waffles are inspired by a classic Belgian treat. They feature a rich brioche dough, sprinkled with delectable pearl sugar.
Chocolate Crinkle Cookies are made for cozy winter nights. Brownie-like and tender cookies made from rich chocolate, the brilliant white powdered sugar coating evocative of the fluffy snow just outside.
Vegan French Toast Bake
These Vegan Pecan Pie Brownies are the perfect marriage of decadent, fudgy brownies and chewy, sweet pecan pie filling.
Pumpkin Turtle Cheesecake
Chocolate Chess Pie is a delicious tribute to classic chess pie with a little twist! This gooey delicacy features a thick and rich custard.
French Silk Pie
This Vegan Peanut Butter Pie is the sophisticated older sister of a peanut butter cup. Sit down with a fork to devour this deeply rich treat.
This Easy Apple Crisp will fill your home with warm aromas of sweet cinnamon and peppery nutmeg. This apple crisp is easy because we are leaving the skin on our apples, and we only need one mixing bowl! 
This Strawberries and Cream Chia Seed Pudding will have you experiencing a sweet, dreamy, and nourishing treat. This treat is so fiber-full that it will leave you satisfied all morning long! Not to mention, you can totally customize your meal with any variety of your favorite toppings.
Dark Chocolate Mousse is a classic dessert for a reason. It’s rich and decadent yet impossibly light and dreamy.
These Lemon Ricotta Pancakes are light and tender, filled with bright lemon flavor, and perfect for your weekend brunch at home! I love topping a stack with a light drizzle of honey and some fresh blueberries.
Banana Bread Blondies
This Browned Butter Granola is creates clusters that are lightly sweet, balanced with salted nuts, crunchy quinoa, chewy oats, and nutty browned butter!
Each bite of these Cafe Mocha Oats is sprinkled with dark chocolate chips, intense and deep espresso flavor, and lightly sweetened with rich pure maple syrup.
These Carrot Cake Cookies are not your average cookie. Grain-free, and sweetened with maple syrup, these chewy cookies are loaded with shredded carrots, golden raisins, and walnuts in every single bite. They're chewy, diverse in texture, and packed with nourishing and satisfying ingredients. They're just as delicious as they are simple to make. Just mix, form, and bake!
Pear Yogurt Bowl with Thyme Honey
Blood Orange Mocktail. I don't drink alcohol, but that doesn't mean I don't appreciate a pretty little mocktail! This simple blood orange mocktail is the fresh and bright bubbly drink you need, any night of the week. 
Grapefruit Ginger Jam
Turmeric Latte
This Chocolate Chip Banana Bread is the reason you forgot to use your ripe bananas that are now a little too ripe for just normal consumption!
I'm a fruit dessert kind of human. Take me to an ice cream parlor, and I'm the one ordering sorbet. Given the choice between chocolate cake and a berry tart, I'll pick the tart every single time. That's why I wanted to create these White Chocolate Raspberry Doughnuts. Each bite features bright, zippy raspberry flavor that cuts through a soft and tender cake donut with pops of smooth and creamy white chocolate chips!
Chocolate Espresso Doughnuts
Chia Seed Pudding
Few things are as cozy and comforting as a warm and creamy bowl of rice pudding. This Vegan Rice Pudding is ready in a flash and made with full fat coconut milk, so you don't miss and of the decadence typically found in a traditional recipe that may include heavy cream and butter.
Winter can be dreadful and dragging. Thank goodness for bright and vibrant citrus that cuts through the gray, cold, and dreary days. This Winter Citrus Yogurt Bowl takes advantage of the stars of winter produce!
THREE ingredients and just a couple of quick steps, and you're done. These Sea Salt and Chocolate Covered Oranges are way too simple not to share!
Overnight Oats with Caramelized Bananas and Praline Pecans
This Dark Chocolate Custard with Fresh Berries is rich, decadent, smooth, and creamy! Dig in!
Dig into this winter-inspired dessert. Each slice of this Cranberry Pear Tart features a tender almond flour crust, a creamy ricotta custard, sweet and fresh pears, and tart and bright cranberries!
White Chocolate Cranberry Cookies
Pomegranate Bark
Rich, creamy, and oh so simple to make! This Oat Milk Hot Cocoa is so cozy, you can forget how cold it really is outside!
Enjoy the fresh berry flavor of summertime all year round because this Mixed Berry Crisp is made with FROZEN berries!
Move aside apple pie, this Apple Skillet is the only apple dessert you'll need this fall, Thanksgiving, holiday season, for the rest of your life, etc! I love this recipe because it is made with only a few simple ingredients, and it truly puts these fresh, crisp apples front and center - just the way I like it.
Don't miss out on the super simplified applesauce this fall! It'll fill your tummy with warm, sweet, and delicious flavors of fall!
Dig into a tender and simple crust with a creamy, decadent frosting, and topped with fresh fruit!
This Lemon Basil Sorbet is fresh, and your newest summertime obsession!
This Pear Skillet is loaded with seasonal fruit and a whole-grain crumble.
Banana & Chocolate Chip Muffins
This Pumpkin Pie Ice Cream is so easy to make and only takes FIVE simple ingredients!
This Pumpkin Pie Panna Cotta is super simple to make and made with only a few simple ingredients.
These PSL Rice Crispy Bars are perfectly spiced and topped with a rich dark chocolate espresso drizzle!
These Apple Chai Muffins are PERFECT for fall. Warm spices and fresh, crisp apples in every bite!
Take advantage of summer's best produce with this simple, healthy, gluten free fruit crisp! Loaded with Colorado Peaches, Farmer's Market Strawberries, and Fresh Blueberries!
Strawberry Rhubarb Bars
This No Bake Strawberry Tart is perfect for those hot summer days when you want to enjoy fresh, seasonal berries, impress your guests, and appease your sweet tooth. Can you believe it's only 6 ingredients?
Chocolate Peanut Butter Puffed Rice Bars
This Triple Berry Crisp is a simple summer dessert loaded with fresh strawberries, raspberries, and blackberries
Blueberry Crumb Bars
Dig into these deliciously sweet and tangy No Bake Key Lime Pie Bars
These Lemon Coconut Bites are sweet, refreshing, and perfect for on-the-go snacking.
Raw Lemon Bars
The Flourless Chocolate Cake has only FIVE INGREDIENTS! What are you waiting for?!
You're only four ingredients and five minutes away from this Vegan Chocolate Mousse!
I am in love with making my own granola bars.
When berries are in season, I always stockpile my refrigerator for recipes like this.
You know a scone is delicious when you get a mouthful of blueberries in each bite. These Lemon Blueberry Scones are delicious for your weekend brunch.
Loaded Carrot Cake
Vegan Girl Scout Cookies
PB & J Donuts
Coconut Macaroons
Dirty Chai Energy Bites
Berry Skillet Cobbler
Strawberry Rhubarb Muffins
Protein Mousse with Berry Compote
Anything with strawberry rhubarb makes for the perfect summer dessert., and this one is gluten free, refined sugar free, and full of delicious, fresh fruit filling!
These Dessert Sweet Potatoes will satisfy your sweet tooth in no time!
Paleo Blueberry & Almond Scones with Blueberry Compote
Pineapple Mango Crisp
Key Lime Pie Bars
Key Lime Panna Cotta with Fresh Mango Puree
Chocolate Coconut Bites
Triple Berry Pops
Strawberry Rhubarb Crisp
Maple Cinnamon Pecans
Holiday Eggnog
Chocolate Peanut Butter Energy Balls
Gingerbread Cookies
Coconut Gingerbread Snowballs
Pumpkin Pie Dip
Pumpkin Chia Pudding
Apple Crumble Pie
Paleo Pumpkin Pie
Pumpkin Spice Macaroons
Fully Loaded Carrot Cake
Pumpkin Pie Protein Pudding
Loaded Black Bean Brownies
Pumpkin Pie Spice Cream
Baked Pears
Pumpkin Protein Muffins
Lightly Sweetened Kettle Corn
Protein Doughnut (AKA Pro-nut)
Fruit Pizza
Peach Cobbler