The Most Popular Recipes Of 2011

Life’s a bit of a popularity contest; I’m not delusioned into thinking otherwise. And so, instead of me telling you what my favorite recipes have been so far, I figured it’d be more useful to show you the recipes you all picked as the best—the popular crowd.

These are my 5 most visited recipes over the past year. Rereading the comments on all of these posts, I’m shocked by how many people tried(and loved) them. It makes me happy since I loved all of these, too. Hopefully as popular as they are you’ll find one that’s new to you and be inspired to try it out like others have.

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These Raw Vegan Hazelnut Chocolate Cakes blew up on stumbleupon. With almost 40,000 views and a couple hundred likes, it’s been a huge hit for plenty of foodies. But don’t think it’s just for raw vegans; this tastes delicious no matter who you are(even the avocado frosting, which I swear you won’t be able to taste anything funny in).

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Healthy Frozen Smore Parfaits were a huge hit on Pinterest over the Summer. I have to say I made these more times than I can count myself; they were the perfect way to beat the Summer heat with 2 servings of fruit in each serving. 

If you’ve ever googled “Almond Flour Cookies”, you’ve probably landed on these Almond Flour Chocolate Chip Cookies. It’s one of my most visited daily pages and has been visited even more frequently in the past few weeks; looks like a lot of people will be having gluten-free holidays. The best thing about these is that you probably already have all the ingredients for them in your pantry. 

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To this day I’m surprised by how often this Peanut Butter Yogurt Dip is pinned on Pinterest. If everyone who pinned this onto a board called “NEED TO MAKE!!” actually has—well that would be a lot of peanut butter. Apparently it’s a big hit with little kids, which I can understand since I love it and am pretty much just a big kid at heart.  

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This Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Hummus is probably my most made recipe judging by the comments and testaments I’ve gotten. If you’re still afraid of the idea of a sweet hummus, trust the hundreds of people who tried it and know that you can’t taste anything but goodness.

Here’s to 2012 being an even tastier year.

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18 Responses to The Most Popular Recipes Of 2011
  1. Kelly
    December 30, 2011 | 10:10 am

    I want everything you make!!! But I can personally vouch for the peanut butter chocolate chip hummus…brilliant!

  2. Erin
    December 30, 2011 | 10:24 am

    So cool and rewarding, E! You make amazing food
    P.S. I’m Regina George

  3. Jessica @ Healthy Dairyland
    December 30, 2011 | 10:46 am

    I have a funny story for you about the s’more parfaits…at work we were talking about the mini dessert trend and a coworker sent me a link to that post. I emailed them back and said, “I know him. In real life.” I felt cool.

    Your almond flour brownies will always be my favorite brownie! Have a happy new year!!!

    • Wannabe Chef
      December 30, 2011 | 10:58 am

      LOL. I do that, too, whenever my non-foodie friends are talking about food blogs.

  4. Robin
    December 30, 2011 | 11:58 am

    I honestly hardly ever make recipes after reading about them on blogs (I just google stuff instead), but I DID make your almond flour cookies after reading the post! (Looks like I’m one of several thousand, hehe.) SO tasty and that is a recipe that will def be showing its face on Passover! yay for cookies that don’t have real flour in them 😀

  5. Jolene (www.everydayfoodie.ca)
    December 30, 2011 | 1:38 pm

    Those all look fantastic – especially that hummus and the hazelnut chocolate cakes.

  6. Amber K
    December 30, 2011 | 1:57 pm

    I have no idea what I did wrong when I first tried to make a dessert hummus forever ago, but it was awful! I’ll have to try again because so many people can’t be wrong, right? Well..we’ll see 😉

  7. Averie @ Love Veggies and Yoga
    December 30, 2011 | 4:10 pm

    I don’t know which gooey chocolatey PB’ey thing to make first…Drool!

  8. Ela
    December 30, 2011 | 5:54 pm

    Happy New Year to you, and thanks for your sweet, creative spirit.

  9. Pure2raw twins
    December 30, 2011 | 8:50 pm

    those are some great looking recipes! we will have to give some a try, we have made a version of almond chocolate chip cookies before and loved them 🙂 now we need to make those hazelnut bars!

  10. Tracy
    December 30, 2011 | 9:09 pm

    The raw hazlenut cake was A-MA-ZING! Will have to try the others. Sometime soon!

  11. Kristina @ spabettie
    December 31, 2011 | 2:32 am

    that’s it. I am making the hazelnut chocolate cakes. like, tomorrow.

    happy new year to me, indeed. 🙂

    oh, and to you, Evan – happy new year!

  12. Lori Lynn
    December 31, 2011 | 10:58 am

    Easy to see why these were most popular. I like that idea of combining peanut butter with yogurt.
    Wishing you a very HAPPY NEW YEAR!
    LL

  13. C&C Cakery
    January 1, 2012 | 6:11 pm

    The Raw vegan hazelnut chocolate cakes were my favourite of the year as well – I’m glad they got the recognition it deserves! Happy New Year!

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  15. Leanne @ Healthful Pursuit
    January 2, 2012 | 12:44 am

    Yum! Those hazelnut cakes caught my eye the very first time I saw them. So delicious! Happy New Year 🙂

  16. Annette
    January 2, 2012 | 11:14 am

    It has been a great year for your site and I hope that 2012 will be your best year ever!

  17. Kita
    January 20, 2012 | 8:56 am

    There were many more you put up that totally caught my eye and I want to try. Love those frozen smores parfaits too! Keep em coming 😉