This past weekend was our wedding shower! Only 21 days until I am a Mrs!

I cannot wait! As much fun as the planning has been the past year, I am definitely ready to wrap it up!

So let’s talk about these sandwiches. One of my guilty pleasures is a sausage egg and cheese McMuffin. Obviously, that is not on my wedding approved food list. I decided to try and make a lightened up version.

These homemade English muffins are so airy and light. Once you toast them they are nearly identical to the popular fast food version. The sausage I made from scratch because I wanted to know exactly what was in them. Lots of fennel seeds and crushed red pepper make them soooo good.

Ingredients

1 pound of ground pork

1 tbsp of garlic

1 tsp of crushed red pepper

1 tsp of fennel

Salt and pepper

3 cups of bread flour

1 cup warm water

1 tbsp of sugar

1 packet of active yeast

1/2 tsp of salt

1 egg

2 tbsp butter

American cheese

Scrambled or steamed egg

Directions

In a mixer attach the dough hook

In the bowl add warm water, sugar and yeast until the yeast bubbles

Add in the butter and egg

Slowly add the flour and salt

Let rise for 1 hour

Roll into 6 even balls of dough

Heat a non stick skillet with oil or butter to medium low

Press down the dough balls

Cook each side for about 5 minutes

Mix the sausage with garlic, salt, pepper, crushed pepper, and fennel

Brown patty shapes in a skillet until cooked through

Toast the muffin and add the sausage, egg and cheese

Still a treat, but slightly less calories!

Enjoy!

Have you ever tried to go low sugar before? Your taste buds completely change. Things are way saltier to me now. I played around with this recipe until I found a texture that matched my favorite peanut butter cookie recipe the closest.

The key here is to use room temperature butter and really whip it to get as much air as possible in the batter. Typically I am super against airy batter, but in this case it just works. If you don’t whip your batter the cookies will be pretty dry and crumbly.

You can add peanut chunks or pecans too! I think that would make an awesome topper.

Ingredients

1 cup natural peanut butter ( mine only had the ingredient peanuts)

5 drops liquid stevia

2 eggs

1 cup soft butter

1 1/2 cups of almond flour

1 tbsp vanilla extract

1/2 tsp cinnamon

1 tsp baking powder

Directions

Preheat oven to 350 degrees

Whip butter until light and airy about 4 minutes

Add 2 eggs and continue until nice and fluffy

Add vanilla, cinnamon, and stevia

Incorporate almond flour and baking powder

Scoop batter onto a parchment paper lined pan

Bake 10 minutes or until golden brown

Enjoy!

My wedding is only 3 months away!!!! I am in extreme wedding boot camp mode. I’ve been reading through so many keto articles lately trying to jump start this last push to lose weight. We were pretty relaxed with our diet during the holidays. Plus Patrick did a special order of my all time favorite candy and filled our fruit bowl with oh henry bars. Have you ever had an oh henry? They are very similar to a baby ruth, but also has a layer of caramel. We still have a fruit bowl filled, but I refuse to eat any more until after the wedding!

This low carb pizza is perfect for anytime of the day. You can swap the pepperoni for bacon and eggs to make a delicious breakfast pizza.

I used low sugar marinara, thin sliced deli pepperoni, jalapeños, and mozzarella. The whole process took around 30 minutes which is shorter than the time to make real pizza dough.

I was really impressed by the structure of this pizza. It held up really well and the bottom had a nice crust.

Ingredients

6 oz of chicken breast

1/2 tsp of garlic

Egg 1

1 tsp of herbs oregano, basil

Salt and pepper

1/2 cup of mozzarella

Low sugar marinara

Toppings of your choice

Directions

Preheat the oven to 400 degrees

Roast the chicken with the herbs for 15 minutes or until cooked

Cool for a few minutes and toss into a food processor with the garlic, salt, pepper, and 1/4 cup of mozzarella

Add the egg

Pat onto parchment paper lined pan

Bake until golden brown about 5 minutes

Add the rest of the cheese and your toppings

Bake until cheese melts

Enjoy!!

Merry Christmas!!! I couldn’t think of a better time of year to share my go to royal icing recipe. This is so kid friendly. The best part is the icing will harden in 2-5 minutes. Sometimes it’s just way too hard for me to wait around all day while waiting for icing to harden especially if we are doing a lot of different decorations.

I decorated these with the kids in about an hour. Since we didn’t use cream of tartar these actually tasted really good too!

My favorite design was the mittens. They were so easy!!!! Just a dip into red. Some piped white then sprinkles!

Royal Icing Recipe

2 tbsps of pasteurized egg whites

2 tbsps of vanilla

3 cups of powdered sugar plus more for thickening

Directions

In a large bowl mix the eggs and vanilla. Add in the sugar and whisk until smooth. You can add more vanilla or water if you need a thinner consistency. I like to start thick and slowly thin out. Add your food coloring and decorate! Let dry in between colors. Use sprinkles when the icing is still slightly wet.

Enjoy!!!!

Merry Christmas!
I had so many recipes planned for December! Sorry I have not had a chance to post very much. I have had a very very busy month. I was with my company for 11 years and I suddenly had a great opportunity to make a very big career change. The beginning of December I moved to a new company and started a completely different career! On top of that I have some very big news!!!!

Patrick proposed! He surprised me with my mom’s original engagement diamond which is what I’ve wanted since I was a little girl. It has just been a whirl wind ever since!

I think I’ve taken maybe 4 days off this entire month.

The cool thing is I still have been creating recipes and pictures so I will have tons of content for the new year!

I hope you all understand why I needed the sudden time off!

Merry Christmas Everyone!

Kelliericecakes.com is officially one year old this September! Three years ago I started on this blogging adventure. I wrote about beauty, day to day life, food, home hacks, anything on my mind that day. Last September I finally took my food blog vision and made it a reality. I launched Kelliericecakes.com. Since then I have learned so much. Not only about food, but about photography, styling, and editing.

Over the year I have studied every part of lighting that I can get my hands on. I know my food speaks for itself, but I want you guys to be able to see the food the way I see it. I am constantly in the kitchen creating. So far I have only posted my favorite recipes. I have so much more in store for kelliericecakes.com and I cannot wait to see where this year goes!

In honor of this special day I want to link a few throw back recipes! In case you missed them I highly recommend you try these out!

These Steak Egg and Cheese Onion Bagels are still the breakfast of my dreams!

Buffalo Chicken Tacos because oh my gosh yes

These Dark Chocolate Coconut Donuts all day every day

Smashed Avocado Grilled Cheese sandwiches!

This Chocolate Cream Pie that is as light as a feather

My first foodgawker published recipe! Cinnamon Roll Danishes

These Blueberry Banana Muffins

And these Oatmeal Strawberry Jam Muffins

Happy birthday to Kelliericecakes.com thank you for all you have taught me and I am ready for all the new recipes in our future!