Biscotti sitting on the shelf Biscotti looking rather stealth Criss-crossed in their tan and brown Speckled with their chocolate gown Turning upside down my frown Biscotti to go round and round Tickling your insides light Enticing with their crumbly bite Filling all with great delight Biscotti make the world ignite Enjoy on these cold winter…
Hot Cocoa with Truffles / Marshmallows (paleo)
Hot cocoa bocolo bottle of rum Wandering willowing beating a drum Looking for pasties and cookies and crumbs Hot cocoa bocolo bottle of rum Hot chocolate boggle it sit around fire Toasting ‘mallows o’er it sugary pyres Melting dripping oozing wandering higher Hot chocolate boggle it sit around fire Turmeric matcha marshmallow magoo…
Matcha, Coconut, Cocoa Truffles (paleo, vegan)
Ruffles of truffles are trundling through Bundles of goodness and brown chocolate goo Dipped and replete with zest up the wazoo Green for matcha Coconut like laksa Cocoa powder for days Raspberry dusting for glaze And supernatural carob canapes This poem is mostly gibberish Is nearly 100% frivolous But that’s what happens when you eat…
Chocolate/Carob Chunk Banana Muffins (paleo/AIP, vegan)
The monkey placed the banana on his head and looked at himself in the mirror. “All ready!” he said, scampering down the sidewalk to where the man with the safari hat was waiting. “Come on George!” shouted the man. “We must hurry!” George scrambled up onto the man’s shoulders and they took off, pedestrians and…
Chocolate/Carob Frozen Bananas with Pistachios/Coconut (paleo/AIP, vegan)
The other day I was walking down the boardwalk when I saw a monkey throwing a banana. “Hey monkey,” I said. “Why are you wasting a perfectly good banana?” The monkey looked at me and bared its teeth. “No garnish,” it said. “Excuse me?” “BANANA. HAS. NO. GARNISH!” It then pitched a banana at me,…
Chestnut Brownies (paleo, vegan)
Mr. Chipmunk shivered to himself in the brisk autumn air. The Meeting had been a harried affair, the shouts and cries of angry colony chipmunks still ringing in his ears, proclaiming doom and gloom, a never-ending battle over division of this year’s chestnut supply and the Great Human Problem. Mr. Chipmunk had had enough. He…
Rum Sunbutter Cups (paleo, vegan)
“Boom ba da boom boom!” Ernest looked up from his drum over to where the other gorillas were packing up their mallets and drumsticks. “That’s it for tonight, guys,” yelled Bert, the bandleader. “Practice tomorrow, same time.” “Hey Ernie, you joining us at the Jungle Room for drinks? It’s mojito night,” said Phil. Ernest shook his…
Brownie-morphosis (paleo, vegan)
Herbert woke up one morning and stretched his arms above his head only to discover that his arms were tiny sticks and his body was in fact the corpuscular shell of a giant, repulsive beetle. “Oh, gross,” he said, his voice all crackly from the compression of his vocal chords and inner self-loathing. He had…
Hoppy’s Chocolate Bark (paleo, vegan)
Hoppy looked around with satisfaction. The Island was nice…very nice indeed. It had taken some getting used to, the heat and humidity and buzzing insects that delighted in his exotic northern blood. The locals had welcomed him with a lei of purple orchids when his coconut igloo sailing vessel had first arrived on their shores…
Mint Chocolate Minions (paleo)
In the evergreen forests of northern Norway, a strange thing happens each and every winter night. The forest goes to sleep and the northern woodland fairies come out and set to life the dirt beneath their feet and everything it contains, including a certain brown mushroom which is transformed by the fairies’ touch into a…
