Snack Recipes

I add a couple of teaspoons of multi-colored nonpareils to make them a bit more festive.

Instead of potato fries, try these oven baked sweet potato fries. They are sweet and creamy in the inside, golden and crispy on the outside. Dip them into this creamy and tangy chipotle yogurt dip, delicious.

Crispy Indian samosas made easy with spring roll wrappers instead of homemade pastry. Spiced potato-pea filling wrapped and fried until golden.

An easy to make and impressive appetizer or snack. Smokey, creamy and packed with flavor.

Knead berbere spice into stiff dough, roll into thin strips, cut into bite-sized pieces, and bake until crunchy for these addictive Ethiopian snack bites.

These are a delicious snack! As always, play around with it to make it the most delicious you can!

Veggie cheese skewers stacking cool cucumber, fresh basil, cherry tomato, and mozzarella on a stick. A no-cook, five-minute caprese-style snack that's crisp, fresh, and built for parties and lunchboxes.

Backpack banana bran muffins are portable, fiber-rich snacks made with ripe bananas, bran cereal, brown sugar, and cinnamon. Sturdy enough to survive a school lunch or hike, soft enough to enjoy.

Banana oatmeal pecan bread with whole wheat flour, rolled oats, ripe bananas, honey, and a generous cup of broken pecans. A hearty quickbread with no white sugar.

Banana orange yogurt muffins are a healthy oat-based breakfast bake with mashed banana, fresh orange zest, plain yogurt, and chopped dates. Lower-fat with egg whites, ready in under an hour.

Curried pumpkin and ginger scones with warm curry spice, golden turmeric, and chewy bites of crystallized ginger. A savory-sweet fall bake that lands somewhere between brunch and tea time.

Old-fashioned drop donuts, spoon-dropped into hot oil for craggy, irregular shapes with crisp edges and tender, nutmeg-spiced centers. Dusted with powdered sugar, makes three dozen.

Banana ginger bran muffins with ground and crystallized ginger, oat bran, ripe banana, and a tart lemon glaze. A double-ginger muffin with whole wheat flour and high fiber.

Pumpkin breakfast muffins sweetened with honey instead of refined sugar, with buttermilk for a tender crumb and a warm hit of pumpkin pie spice. Mix until just lumpy and bake for soft, golden fall muffins.

Lemony cranberry cornmeal muffins balance tart fresh cranberries against bright lemon zest in a cornmeal-buttermilk batter, kept light by whipped egg whites and non-fat sour cream.

Ginger molasses muffins fold whipped egg whites into a buttermilk batter spiced with cinnamon, nutmeg, and fresh ginger. Crackly tops, tender tangy crumb, and the warming bite of dark molasses in every bite.