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I’m another year older and I can’t help but sit here and wonder where the time has gone. It doesn’t seem right to be celebrating my 28th birthday already. Time is one thing I will never understand and never be able to beat.

I decided to go the mini route this year and make a small 3-inch tiered cake. In years past I’m always left with a bunch of cake, which seems awesome at first, but then it quickly becomes a bad idea when I’m justifying to myself why it’s okay to eat it for breakfast. Plus, I can never eat it fast enough before it starts to dry out. So, mini cake = problem solved.

I originally was going to take only a couple of photos so I could get back to more important birthday activities like watching Wes Anderson movies, looking through a new baking book, and sipping hot tea. But, I took about a million so I’ll let them take it from here…
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I’ve been feeling a little under the weather this week. For some reason I was craving muffins, so instead of resting the other afternoon like I should have been, I dragged myself into the kitchen to make muffins. The black banana perched on my counter pretty much dictated what type of muffins I would make.

Though these contain banana, it’s really not a strong flavor once they are baked. You can still taste it, but it doesn’t hit you over the head like some banana baked goods can. The nuttiness of the flax and the bits of chocolate really help to balance out the banana. These little muffins surely won’t win a beauty contest, but they are quite delicious. As is, they are already healthier than the typical sugar bombs you find at breakfast spreads and coffee shops, but you can make them even more virtuous by leaving out the chocolate chips and going easy on the agave. If for some reason you can’t eat these up within a few days, you can freeze them. Just thaw them out whenever you get a craving for muffins 🙂

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Cardamom Chocolate Cake With Rose Cashew Cream & Rose Sugar

Mini Chocolate Chip & Flax Banana Muffins