Category Archives: Desserts

Homemade Snickers Bars

May 17, 2016 by Allison Hudson

These homemade Snickers bars will delight one and all who tried them. They happen to be vegan. While the bars have no refined sugar, facing facts one must concede they are still rather indulgent. The bars will last up to two weeks in an airtight container in the fridge. The recipe is originally from the blog Livia’s Kitchen, and is by Livia’s Kitchen founder Olivia Wallenberg. I duplicated the recipe using a kitchen scale to help translate the original recipe, […]

Categories: Desserts, Recipes, Snacks • Tags: Dates, Homemade Snickers, Maple Syrup, Metric Conversion, Metric Conversion for Raw Vegan Snickers Bars, No Refined Sugar, No-Bake Bars, Raw Snickers, Raw Vegan Snickers, Refined Sugar Free, Vegan Snickers

Kumquat and Greek Yogurt Tart

February 29, 2016 by Allison Hudson

Here’s a trick I thought of tangentially, when trying to come up with a good use for Kumquats – using Greek yogurt in place of custard in a tart. I’d been turning Kumquats over and over in my mind, wondering what to do with them. I’ve just learned that you can eat the skin and all of Kumquats, and they give a kick that leaves you satiated from both a sweet and sour perspective. Because they are pretty strong, just […]

Categories: Desserts, Recipes • Tags: Candied Orange, Citrus, Citrus Season, Citrus Tart, Dessert Makeover, Greek Yogurt, Kumquat, Kumquat and Pistachio Tart, Make Ahead, Pastry, Tarts

Sonoma County Olive Oil & Meyer Lemon Cake

February 10, 2016 by Allison Hudson

While briefly living in Northern California, I was lucky enough to visit a private ranch in Sonoma County where about an acres’s worth of grapes grow – enough to make several dozen cases of wine per year, with which among other things grown on-site provide bountiful country picnics with a tasting of several gold and silver winning varietals to life on a regular basis. When I got there for a late lunch on Saturday, a table on the deck was […]

Categories: Baked, Breakfasts, Pies, Gallettes & Tarts, Trips • Tags: Baking With Lemons, Candied Lemons, Cooking with Lemons, Lemons, Meyer Lemon, Meyer Lemon Olive Oil Cake, Olive Oil Cake, Sonoma County, Wine Country

Chocolate Cake Recipe Makeover

January 6, 2016 by Allison Hudson

Here’s something I learned this past December: in Victorian England, the end of Christmas celebrations actually fell on January 5th, or Twelfth Night, aka the last evening of the Christmas season. The celebration included a very specific cake, called everything from Twelfth Night Cake to Plum Cake. I would love to say that I picked up this bit of info due to a revisiting of Whistler’s works, a favorite artist who worked during the Victorian Era. Alas, the info was […]

Categories: Baked, Desserts, Recipes • Tags: Bundt Cake, Chocolate Cake, Chocolate Cake Makeover, Dessert, Dessert Makeover, Olive Oil Cake, Recipe Makeover, Twelfth Night

Pluot Gallette

September 5, 2015 by Allison Hudson

Do you ever pass by bakery windows or stare into their cases while waiting for coffee and long to order one of the beautiful treats therein, to enjoy both studying it for its beautiful shapes, colors and texture and eating it for its deliciousness, but stop yourself because it’s too indulgent from, well, all angles? Or fall down the rabbit hole of gazing at said treats online, but worry that you won’t get the assembly right, or it will take […]

Categories: Desserts, Pies, Gallettes & Tarts • Tags: Dessert Recipe, Desserts, End of Summer, Galette, Healthy Dessert, Pluot Thyme Galette, Pluots, Recipe, Thyme

Triple Berry Hybrid

August 24, 2015 by Allison Hudson

My berry addiction continues as squeezing in summer recipes feels all the more imperative – the shadows are getting longer earlier in my favorite sunny nook off our kitchen. To the urgency add a coincidental l stop at a farmer’s market that had an overage of black berries, plus a huge berry sale at Whole Foods to make this special treat justifiable (it requires a ton of berries), and an all-berry bake was inevitable. I’m not sure if my favorite […]

Categories: Baked, Desserts, Pies, Gallettes & Tarts • Tags: Baking, Blackberries, Blueberries, Desserts, Dinner Party, Food Photography, Healthier Dessert, Low Sugar, Raspberries, Recipe, Seasonal

Summer Berry Pops with Coconut & Lime

August 21, 2015 by Allison Hudson

The end of summer has never crept up so fast, and the end of the season wouldn’t necessarily be on my mind if it weren’t for the fact that in anticipation of our first small dinner party in our new home, I thought to make an apricot galette only to realize that due to our unusually packed travel schedule coupled with our cross-country move, I’ve missed the better part of the summer produce season. And while we’re off the road […]

Categories: Desserts • Tags: Blackberries, Blueberries, Coconut Milk, Coconut Milk Ice Pops, Dairy Free, Desserts, Food Photography, Frozen, Healthy Dessert, Lime, No Refined Sugar, Recipe, Summer, Summer Berries

Double Chocolate Mexican Wedding Cookies

May 1, 2015 by Allison Hudson

Is it just me or are the weeks flying by now that it’s Spring? May 1st already!! This First Friday feels a little more special since the the two are aligned, PLUS there is a very fun excuse for making all things Mexican-inspired in early May. (As you may already know we’ve been working through a mini-Mexicican Appreciation Month around here.) For these First Friday Cookies I tweaked the Double Chocolate Chip Cookies we’ve come to rely on, including by adding chili […]

Categories: Baked, Cookies, Desserts • Tags: Chili, Chocolate, Cinco de Mayo, Cinnamon, Desserts, Double Chocolate Cookies, Food Photography, healthier cookies, Healthy Cookies, Recipe

Granola Cookies with (Optional) Chocolate Chips

April 3, 2015 by Allison Hudson

Happy First Friday of April! Aka the first Friday of the month, when a health(ier) cookie is featured here at From the Athlete’s Kitchen. This concept came to be when I resolved to find a middle ground between over the top sugar bombs and clumps of sawdust claiming to be cookies. In March, a few less successful granola cookie tests finally led to the angle of modifying an oatmeal cookie recipe, namely by replacing the oats with granola. I turned […]

Categories: Baked, Cookies, Desserts • Tags: Cookie Recipe, Cookies, Desserts, Food Photography, Granola Cookies, healthier cookies, Recipe

Chocolate Chip Cookies

March 6, 2015 by Allison Hudson

First Friday in March… That makes today cookie day! For those who are catching up, I’ve dedicated the first Friday of every month to featuring a cookie that bridges the gap between the sawdust/cardboard cookie where fun goes to die and the half-your-daily-calories fat and sugar bomb. I love this project, even if it is admittedly a little more challenging than I first thought – there are only so many indulgences that can be omitted before a cookie is just […]

Categories: Baked, Cookies, Desserts • Tags: Chocolate Chip Cookies, Desserts, Food Photography, Healthy Chocolate Chip Cookies, Healthy Cookies, Paleo, Photography, Recipe, Vegan

Sun & Snow

February 20, 2015 by Allison Hudson

Lots of sun and snow this week, and hello, COLD. Curious to see its rare frozen state, I went to check out the fountain in Bryant Park early this morning. Here it is, looking to me like a cauldron boiled over: The snow/sun pattern all week left a striking visual and had me wondering how it could translate in the kitchen. When I got home from the frozen fountain outing, I noticed the pineapple I picked up earlier in the […]

Categories: Breakfasts, Desserts, Snacks • Tags: Coconut, Desserts, Food Photography, Grilled Pineapple, Pineapple and Coconut, Recipe, Seared Pineapple, Unsweetened Coconut Flakes

Silky Chocolate Mousse (Made with Tofu)

February 13, 2015 by Allison Hudson

Gulp, it’s Friday the 13th! But this time around that means that it’s also Valentine’s Day Eve , so I was thinking that a Friday chocolate repeat would be okay (we made Double Chocolate cookies last week…). Plus, I’ve been wanting to try making Chocolate Mousse with tofu for a too long now and this is as good an occasion as it gets. A few years ago, Paul and I were at a friend’s in New Paltz, NY, at one […]

Categories: Desserts • Tags: Chocolate Mousse, Chocolate Mousse Recipe, Dark Chocolate, Featured, Food Photography, Photography, Tofu Chocolate Mousse

Key Lime Ice Cream Challenge

February 11, 2015 by Allison Hudson

Week of February 9th, 2015: Me, 1, Ice Cream, 0. How did this score, and thereby this amazing treat come to be? Actually, let’s back up a moment. For those who may have missed an earlier post on this subject, ice cream is my biggest vice and while it’s great to enjoy occasionally, I can at times have a fairly serious portion control problem with ice cream. A close second to that are all other homemade or otherwise baked sweets. […]

Categories: Breakfasts, Desserts • Tags: Dessert Recipe, Food Photography, Graham Crackers, Healthy Dessert, Limes, Photography, Strained Greek Yogurt

Double Chocolate Cookies with Orange Zest

February 6, 2015 by Allison Hudson

For a little while now, I’ve dabbled with ‘healthy’ cookie recipes and have come to one main conclusion – this is by and large a recipe for dissapointment. There are a myriad of ‘Healthy Cookie’ recipes floating around in the ether, ranging from one that includes two sticks of butter to those that look like a haystack (and not the lovely coconut kind) and taste like a two by four. And after testing several HC concepts with no break for […]

Categories: Baked, Cookies, Desserts • Tags: Cookies, Double Chocolate, Food Photography, Orange Zest, Recipe

Citrus Season Snack

January 27, 2015 by Allison Hudson

I’ve been feeling pretty good about my commitment to power through first quarter with bright, fresh flavors, plus room for plenty of traditional cold-weather fare. So good in fact, that last night I checked my Sunrise/Sunset app thinking, why soon it will be light outside until 6:00! Soon is a relative concept of course, I was reminded as I continued to tap the right calendar arrow until the date when the sun will set after 6:00 for the first time […]

Categories: Breakfasts, Desserts, Snacks • Tags: Citrus, Food Photography, Healthy Dessert, How-To, Seasonal

← Older posts