Category Archives: Sugar Friday

Sugar Friday: Salted Mudslide Cookies

Boozy and chewy, the best kind of cookie!

I just realized it’s been almost a month since my last Sugar Friday post. A month. Wow, that’s a long time to go without some sweet inspiration, non? Now that it’s fall, and spritzer and salad days are far behind us, I thought I’d capture the essence of the season with a hard-to-resist, fatten-up-for-winter cookie.

These Salted Mudslide Cookies are just what you need on a chilly, windy day, when you’re best tucked under a throw with a good book. It doesn’t taste exactly like the alcoholic drink, but you can’t complain when a cookie recipe calls for alcohol! I used Kahlua, but I think next time I make it (and there will be a next time) I’ll try Bailey’s Irish Cream. You can use practically any kind of coffee liqueur, though. The post mentions sprinkling sea salt flakes on top (I hope this foodie fad never dies) but I didn’t have any and found that regular coarse sea salt worked perfectly. I found this recipe via Pinterest, which directed me to its origin, How Sweet It Is, a totally adorable blog by self-taught cook and baker, Jessica. Her mudslide cookies are sweet, chocolatey, gooey, and boozy, and I think it’d be a fabulous idea to serve them as dessert for a holiday dinner alongside alcoholic coffees or even coffee liqueur on the rocks. Hey, it’s fall, time to warm yourself from the inside out. Enjoy!

Photo via How Sweet It Is

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Sugar Friday: Pumpkin-Chia Seed Muffins

This Sugar Friday’s post is not from a *real* blog but considering that it allows comments, plus the fact that I found the most incredible pumpkin muffins recipe on it, I think it’s okay if I bend the rules this one time.

My two-year-old wanted to make muffins today and I thought, Why not make pumpkin muffins? It’s officially Fall now and pumpkin recipes are all over the blogosphere. Well. It wasn’t easy finding something healthy, as most pumpkin muffin recipes are more like dessert recipes. Tons of sugar. The healthy versions I came across looked like deformed lumps of something and looked dry, dry, dry. And then she saved me.

I’m not an Oprah disciple, but, yay Oprah for featuring this adapted recipe for Pumpkin-Chia Seed Muffins from chef Domenica Catelli (you may recognize her as a regular judge on Iron Chef America). Despite not using any sugar or butter (stay with me) it’s  delicious, sweet but not too sweet, and incredibly healthy. The muffin batter was so light I thought I did something wrong, but the muffins turned out very soft, moist, and spongy, almost cakelike. You’ve got all the goods in this recipe: maple syrup or agave nectar, olive oil, whole wheat flour, and chia seeds. I forgot to add my chia seeds (they have a slight nutty flavour), but the muffins were still spectacular. Now these are what I call guilt-free snacks!