This recipe for Hula Pie Frappe Shake is inspired by the famed Hawaiian Dessert, Hula Pie. The original Hula Pie contains macadamia nut ice cream in a cookie crust, topped with chocolate ganache, whipped cream and chopped macadamia nuts. We’ve mixed these flavors together into a frozen drinkable coffee version. This post is sponsored by Torani but all opinions
This recipe for Pineapple Upside Down Iced Tea is inspired by the famed cake of the same name. Pineapple, cherries mixed up in a refreshing iced tea for your springtime entertaining. This post is sponsored by Torani but all opinions expressed are genuine. Too, they’re giving you 15% off and free shipping when you visit shop.torani.com and use
These Bloody Raspberry Lime Ice Cream Floats are sponsored by Torani but all opinions expressed are genuine. Too, they’re giving us all 10% OFF your First Purchase when you sign up for their E-Newsletter!” Who doesn’t love that? Ice Cream Floats I haven’t had an ice cream float in eons. As a kid, we’d make them fairly
A year ago I published a video on how to make a mocha and it has been my most viewed video to date. Since then, however, I’ve changed the way I make a mocha. Instead of melting chocolate, I go with Torani dark chocolate sauce. It’s worth spending the money to get the good stuff!
Happy New Year! In this year, I noted a trend of people pouring champagne over sorbet and gelato. I figured, why not make myself a non-alcoholic version with some good luck grapes for New Year’s? It’s a festive and refreshing holiday drink fit for a toast. Of course, you could do this very same recipe,
I recently did a series of video projects for Dreyer’s and Edy’s Ice Cream for their social media channels. Each video required three half-gallons of ice cream in order to produce the videos and the recipes in them. But, I only needed a few scoops per video, so I was left with a lot of
Seeing as I don’t drink anymore, I love concocting fun beverages that I can still enjoy at a party. Through my Latin dinner party series, I was inspired by the mojito, but of course nixed the rum and swapped in fresh pineapple for a fresh and easy mojito mocktail. Pineapple No-jitos – Mojito Mocktail It’s
*The iced matcha tea featured in this post was provided complimentary by Your Tea though all opinions expressed are honest and authentic. I know that matcha has been a major “thing.” I typically don’t get involved in healthy trends (acai bowls, spirulina, etc.) but when the folks at Your Tea sent me some of their fine matcha
Need your espresso mocha fix, but don’t have an espresso machine and don’t want to drop $4 at Starbuck’s? Got ya covered! It’s rich and creamy, not too sweet and very chocolatey. Of course, like most of my recipes, you’re welcome to make tweaks based on your tastes. You do you. Biggest suggestion to getting this
I had a hardcore hankering for hot cocoa. To the pantry, pushing the Raisin Bran and mixed nuts to the side, looking for hot cocoa. Wooo hoo! There’s a canister of cocoa! Hmmmm…I wonder if cocoa expires. Awwwww, crap. March 15, 2013. I should probably do a pantry clean-out… [scratches head] Pish-posh, I can make my
Another recipe from my first ever cooking class was chocolate malt shakes. I decided to go with strawberry for the class, but originally devised the recipe with chocolate. The night of the class, come to find out one of the attendees was allergic to strawberries, so we went vanilla for him at the last minute. It
