Lavender lemon ice cream cupcakes

Lemon lavender. It’s a flawless combination. It’s a Yankee candle, for god’s sake. Maybe it doesn’t have the richness, the addictive qualities of a combo like, say, peanut butter and chocolate; but it certainly deserves a spot in the top 10 cutest food couples. If peanut butter and chocolate are Jay-Z and Beyoncé, then lemon and lavender are the 80-year-old married couple approaching their 50^th anniversary of peace and bliss.

Vegan pistachio ice cream

You know me. I am a cake person. Not an ice cream person—oh no, not in the least. That would be why my only frozen dessert recipe on this blog (meaning, the only instance of me making something remotely related to ice cream) is a chocolate cookie dough ice cream cake, a recipe whose primary purpose is to deliver the consumer a large quantity of cookie dough. And in that purpose it succeeds. Yes, there’s a little bit of chocolate chia ice cream in there, but that’s beside the point.