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St. Patrick's Day is around the corner, and this Lucky Charms white chocolate bark recipe could quite possibly be the easiest recipe I have done to date. It is just one step, and only requires about three to five minutes of your time. Did you know yo…

The holiday season is all about baking, and boy have I got a recipe you’re going to need to make ASAP. Wow your friends and family with this indulgent cake batter cheesecake that couldn’t be easier to make. I skipped the frosting this time around, an…

It doesn’t seem particularly right to go an entire holiday season without having one ginormous cookie baking session. It’s an essential part of the holidays: baking dozens of cookies, eating about a quarter of them while baking, then waiting for some…

Nails have had quite the year. For the most part, it's been great, seeing as how chrome and holographic patterns remain popular, standing the test of trending time. However, on the other hand, sometimes the things people haven't thought of yet should…

Dec. 8 marks National Brownie Day, so there are only two things you should absolutely make sure you do today: scarf down square after square of chocolately goodness, and have a good laugh at these memes about brownies for National Brownie Day. These …

What's that one snack that can instantly cheer just about everybody up? Well, as these quotes about brownies for National Brownie Day prove, it's... well, brownies! (Big shocker, I know). But seriously, who doesn't love a nice, warm brownie fresh out…

As far as Jewish holidays go, I'd argue that Hanukkah is one of the better ones for food. I mean, the only real guidelines are to eat lots of things fried in oil to celebrate the blessed magical oil that kept the candles lit for eight days when the M…

During the holidays, warm drinks like pumpkin spice lattes and peppermint mochas steal the spotlight. However, that didn't stop me from dreaming up this gingersnap pumpkin milkshake recipe. After making homemade gingersnap cookie butter, I became obs…

Personally, I'm always grateful to be vegan on Thanksgiving. Even though we vegans incur lots of insensitive and sometimes crazy questions from family on Thanksgiving, the day is a great reminder that you don't need to cause suffering (and sadly ther…

I'm sorry, but Thanksgiving is really just a fancy pretense to eat pumpkin pie, as far as I'm concerned. And if you're vegan — or simply looking to lessen your after-dinner stomachache — making sure your Thanksgiving pumpkin pie recipe is vegan is a …

Aside from cheese and wine, there are probably few things in this world that are more universally loved than chocolate. I mean, what's not to love about chocolate? It's sweet. It's rich. Its dark varieties are high in antioxidants, which have proven …

If there is anything we humans can collectively agree are amazing, it's doughnuts. Thankfully, we have ways to celebrate National Doughnut Day (which should probably be added to the official holiday calendar, so we can all get at least the morning of…

There are two things every party needs to be considered a success: cake, and wine. Lots and lots of wine. Kill two birds with one delicious stone with this wine cake recipe from Thug Kitchen masterminds Michelle Davis and Matt Holloway. The duo that …

Chocolate plus science makes for guaranteed headlines. Flavonols, compounds in the cacao bean, are the current target of gigantic studies focusing on the possible health benefits of chocolate, for everything from cardiovascular health to cancer; but …

Do you know what you should be doing on Oct. 28? Laughing your way through these 13 memes about chocolate in honor of National Chocolate Day, of course! If you're not aware, Oct. 28 is National Chocolate Day, which, yes, is a whole day dedicated to t…

It's almost Halloween, which means it's pretty much Thanksgiving, which means it's basically Christmas; and Pringles is stepping up its game this holiday season with a brand new, limited time flavor. Pringles has introduced a new sugar cookie flavor …

January gets a bad rap for being "the most depressing month of the year" — after all, the holidays are over, it's cold, and you have to wait until Feb. 15 to get the good sale on boxed chocolates at the drugstore under your apartment. But January 201…

What's the first thing you think of when you think of Halloween? If it's candy, and you're vegan, then you might feel pretty left out... but thanks to these vegan Halloween candy ideas, you don't have to anymore! That's right, things are about to get…

Iconic and delicious, the Oreo has provided many endless hours of edible entertainment and helped settle family discrepancies the world over through the famous Oreo twist. The excitement that arises from trying to predict which side of the Oreo gets …

We've all heard the idea that dark chocolate is good for you; but it's only recently that we've identified what, precisely, might be giving us any health benefits. It turns out the culprit is likely flavanols, naturally occurring compounds that seem …