Honey Vanilla Toffee -- Gluten and Refined Sugar Free

Last week I shared my recipe for homemade vanilla ice cream topped with honey vanilla toffee.  This week, I'm sharing my recipe for the toffee. 

This is the perfect recipe for parties and special events when you need something that sugar eaters will enjoy as much as you do! 

Vanilla Ice Cream -- Gluten and Refined Sugar Free

Ah, ice cream.  How I love thee.  If anything were to ever make me return to eating refined sugar, it would be ice cream.  Especially Ben and Jerry's Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough or Maple Tree Hugger...Yum!  Or Snickers ice cream bars...drool!!  My friends and I ascribed to the motto at college that there was always room for ice cream because it just fills in the cracks!!  In my opinion, there is always a reason to eat ice cream.

3 Ingredient Fruit Juice Jell-O (Jelly for the Aussies!)

When we removed refined sugars from our kids' diets, I never considered Jell-O.  My kids love it.  It used to be an easy treat, boil some water, pour in the box and stir.  They were devastated the first time we walked past a box in the grocery store and they realized I wasn't going to buy it for them anymore.  The thought remained in the back of my head that mums must have made it for their kids prior to processed foods being readily available.  I did some research and discovered that making Jell-O from fruit juice is as simple as making it from a box, and much better for them.  No nasty colours or flavours and it's not pure refined sugar!

Vanilla Cinnamon Poached Pears -- Gluten and Refined Sugar Free

Want a dessert that's tantalizing enough to serve at a dinner party, but simple enough that you can make it as a weeknight dessert for the kids?  These beautiful Vanilla Cinnamon Poached Pears are it!

Poached Pears are one of the simplest desserts, but also one of the most sophisticated.  They are beautiful, rich, and impressive, but so easy to make and you probably already have the ingredients in your kitchen!  With simple and wholesome ingredients that are also good for you, you'll never feel guilty indulging!!