Reasons We Love Holiday Cakes! Cakes are versatile and can be altered for different holidays with sprinkles and food coloring. A homemade cake can be a showstopper, and perfect for feeding a large group. Bake a Yule log cake topped with sugared cranberries, a fruitcake recipe, or a red velvet cake with cream cheese frosting. These desserts are worthy of finishing your holiday meals and for your parties and celebrations!...

Fruit dips are a great way to add something extra to your healthy snack. This one is perfect for dipping apples especially! We also love to dip our apples in our Caramel Apple Dip, or Snickers Dip. Brickle Dip – Trust us… It’s Good! It was a LONG time ago that I tried Apple Brickle Dip for the first time. I was attending a baby shower and saw a dip sitting amongst a bunch of apples....

Oh, just look at that drizzle. If you’re wondering just how good these Vegan Apple Pie Bars are, they’re a straight 10/10. Oh, and that’s before you even put the caramel sauce on them. These bars are my favourite take on apple pie. Whether you’re getting into the fall mode, looking for a Thanksgiving dessert or just making dessert for your friends/Netflix binge night, these bars are a total treat worth every bite....

Oat flour might just be magic. You don’t even need to buy it—add oats to a blender and boom, you’ve got flour. And when it comes to gluten-free pancakes, oat flour is the BEST. These apple pie pancakes are the perfect example. They come out soft, fluffy, and tender, plus the oats add a mildly nutty flavour that’s fabulous in this recipe. And let’s not forget the apples, which get caramelised during the cooking process, making them deliciously tender and sweet....

Aquafaba has been a game-changer in the vegan food world. The same liquid you usually pour down the drain from canned chickpeas can be used to make aquafaba meringues and as an egg substitute in recipes from Vegan Marshmallows to Sweet Potato Soufflé! If you’re ready to dive in and start experimenting with aquafaba, vegan aquafaba meringues are the perfect place to begin. This 4-ingredient recipe will help you familiarize yourself with how to whip aquafaba and how it performs in comparison to traditional egg whites....

Are you intrigued and excited to try more fun phyllo recipes then make my deconstructed veg spring rolls or these Schezwan Paneer Cigars. You will be blown away by the ease and the taste of these pick-me-up appetizers. What is Katori Chaat? Katori means cup and chaat means a melange of chickpea, potatoes, yogurt, spices, and sev. In this recipe, we are making cups using phyllo dough instead of grated fried potatoes....

Lather this fruity frosting on top of Vanilla Cake, or even Chocolate Cupcakes to add a delicious berry flavor to your desserts! Simple, Yet Impressive I initially created this recipe somewhat by “accident” when I was trying to make cupcakes for a Girl’s Night Out. I was following a recipe for berry frosting, but it was way more complicated than I preferred, so I simplified and made my own version!...

These crispy little Deep Fried Pickles are for sure on the list of favorite appetizers, right on up there with Bacon Wrapped Smokies and Jalapeño Poppers! Why we love THEM! Deep Fried Pickles are one of our FAVORITE appetizers at restaurants. If they have “frickles” on the menu, we order them. We love the salty pickle taste with the crunchy breadcrumb coating, similar to our popular Fried Zucchini and Fried Green Beans....

Try paring this yummy sandwiches with Orange Julius, Bacon in the Oven, Coffee Cake, or Strawberry Blueberry Smoothie. Best Breakfast Sandwich I need all of the easy breakfast ideas I can get! And I love sharing these great breakfast recipes I find. I hope these easy breakfast ideas can help you feel more prepared for your busy mornings. This breakfast egg sandwich is so yummy prepared first thing in the morning, or made ahead of time and reheated before you run out the door (like our breakfast burritos and breakfast tacos)....

Imagine this: your new favourite vegan meatballs recipe, with the best texture, slathered in a sweet and spicy buffalo sauce. That’s exactly what you’re going to get with this recipe. Now I’ve made meatballs before when I made my beet meatballs, and after that I knew I wanted to delve deeper into the meatless meatballs world. That’s one of the things I love about vegetarian and vegan food. You can use such a range of ingredients to recreate dishes that you can make something that is completely in your taste....

For more fudge try Chocolate Fudge, Cookies and Cream Fudge, or Caramel Apple Fudge. A Classic Fudge made its debut in America around the late 1800’s. A 30lb slab was made for a school auction in NY and it quickly gained attention. As you know, many different concoctions have been created since then. You can find hundreds of crazy recipes all over the internet. You can even find a few here on LilLuna....

If you follow me on Instagram, then you definitely saw the making of this insane Butternut Squash Pasta Bake. I got an overwhelming response from you guys about how badly you wanted to try this and I’m happy to say – it’s finally here. Today is National Pasta Day – woohoo, so it was the BEST day to share this with you! This pasta bake is easy, and has straight forward steps that are so worth it....

Fall is full of delicious desserts and sweet snacks! We love this Candy Corn and Peanuts snack mix along with our Pumpkin Snack Mix and Halloween Puppy Chow. Candy Corn snack mix We love good snack mix recipes. S’mores Puppy Chow and Puppy Chow are some of our favorites. This Candy Corn and Peanuts is one of the easiest, but most delicious snack mixes! It literally includes two ingredients and takes seconds to make....

Calling All Caramel Lovers! Without a doubt, this caramel frosting recipe is hands down one of my favorite frosting recipes. It can pair well with many desserts, especially a variety of cakes like chocolate cake recipes and our favorite Caramel Cake recipe. We love a classic Vanilla Buttercream Frosting or Chocolate Buttercream Frosting but if you love caramel as much as we do than you have to try this recipe!...

You’d think by now I would stop freaking out over how quickly each month is going by, but HOW is it about to be October? Kind of crazy but the weather has been wonderful lately so I’m absolutely enjoying the change. I wanted to switch things up with a recipe you could definitely make for fall if you wanted, but wasn’t necessary fall themed: Cauliflower Bites in Sweet Sriracha Sauce....

How to make Chapati Rolls Prep time – under 10 mins Cook time – under 15 mins Yields – 5 rolls Ingredients needed Chapati or phulka -5 Onion -1 big Ginger-garlic paste -1 tsp Green chillies -1 Tomato – 2 medium size Capsicum -1 medium size Paneer – 150 grams Turmeric powder – 1/4 tsp Cumin powder -1 tsp Coriander powder -2 tsp Chilli powder – 1/2 tsp Kitchen King Masala -1 tsp Salt needed For the seasoning Oil – 1 tbsp Cumin seeds/jeera – 1 tsp Preparation Prepare chapati and keep it ready....

Ingredients needed Chow Chow/Chayote -500 gramsOnion – 2Curry Powder -1 tbspSalt to taste For the seasoning Oil -1 tbspMustard seeds -1 tspUrad dal -1 tspChanna dal/Bengal gram -1/2 tspCurry leaves – little Preparation Peel the skin of chayote and remove the seed.Cut it into cubes and keep it aside. Cut onion lengthwise. Method Heat oil, add mustard seeds, when it splutters, add the other ingredients mentioned under seasoning. When dal turns golden brown, add onions and fry till it turns transparent....

We served this pasta dish with some yummy garlic bread, a salad, and some zuppa toscana soup and felt like we were at Olive Garden, it was that good! We have a feeling everyone who tries this will love this. Better than the restaurant Do you like Italian food? I LOVE it, and it’s something we make all the time at our house (hello Spaghetti and Fettuccine). Many of our favorite Sunday dishes have been Italian recipes....

This recipe is a baked casserole version of one of our favorite pasta recipes—Chicken Bacon Ranch Pasta! For some more delectable casseroles perfect for weeknights, check out Pizza Casserole, Taco Casserole, or Mexican Casserole. Another Chicken Dinner Winner! I love a tasty, quick, and easy meal for weeknights! This is definitely a weeknight winner to add to the repertoire. My kids love alfredo sauce, and let’s be real, who doesn’t love bacon?...

If you’ve had the bottomless Chips, salsa, and queso at Chili’s restaurant, then you’ll know just how good this Chili’s skillet queso is! Don’t forget your Salsa and Baked Tortilla Chips!! So Cheesy! We love appetizers, especially at holidays and special events like the Super Bowl. Dips are always a go to appetizer and this Chili’s skillet queso is a must. The recipe is one the hubby wanted and has been dying for me to try....