Endurance Tap and No-bake chocolate hazelnut energy squares on a baking tray lined with parchment.

No-bake chocolate hazelnut energy squares

News! I’m excited to be joining Endurance Tap’s team of product Ambassadors again in 2022 – #TeamTap! Expect to hear a little bit more about this great product both here and on my social channels this year! What is Endurance Tap? Endurance Tap is an all natural energy “gel” made with ginger, Canadian maple syrup … Read more

Closeup of Chocolate coconut breakfast cookies

Coconut chocolate breakfast cookies

Cookies for breakfast? Why not when you can include all the best parts of a granola bowl, only make it portable! I’ve been trying to recreate a favourite granola cookie from a local coffee store for a while now and I *think* I’ve just about got it with this iteration. The cookies in question are … Read more

Chocolate hazelnut Bliss Bites recipe on eatlivetravelwrite.com

World Nutella Day: Chocolate Hazelnut Bliss Bites

Happy “World Nutella Day″ ! Yup, it’s a thing! Originally created by Sara from Ms. Adventures in Italy and Michelle from Bleeding Espresso, World Nutella Day is a day to celebrate, get creative with, and most importantly, eat Nutella.  In 2015, Sara transferred World Nutella® Day to Ferrero (the makers of Nutella®) to help it live on … Read more

Recipe No bake chocolate energy bites on eatlivetravelwrite.com

No-bake chocolate energy bites

Are you a three meal a day kind of person? Or are you more of a snacker? This is a conversation I had with some of the boys in the aftercare programme last week – like me, many of them identified as “snackers”. “I like to eat a small amount of something often” declared more … Read more

Tuesdays with Dorie Dorie Greenspan Date-Nut Pinwheel Cookies from Dories Cookies on eatlivetravelwrite.com

Tuesdays with Dorie: Date-Nut Pinwheels from Dorie’s Cookies

This week’s Tuesdays with Dorie recipe from Dorie’s Cookies was Date-Nut Pinwheels. Dorie says: Growing up in New York City, I remember date-nut bread, date pudding, date-nut cake and cookies with a filling that might have been the date version of Fig Newtons. The dried dates used to make these sweets were an everyday ingredient, … Read more