Press
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Cookbooks and e-books
In June 2013, my first cookbook, Peanut Butter Comfort: Recipes for Breakfasts, Brownies, Cakes, Cookies, Candies, and Frozen Treats Featuring America’s Favorite Spread
I wrote another cookbook released October 6, 2014 Cooking with Pumpkin: Recipes That Go Beyond the Pie and the official blog announcement.
Contributing Author in Cooking With Trader Joe’s Cookbook: Easy Lunch Boxes with accompanying blog posts here and here. Book was released September 13, 2013 and is the seventh book in a popular Cooking With Trader Joe’s series
Featured in the eCookbook, 19 Scrumptious Casserole Recipes for Breakfast, May 2013
Featured in the eCookbook, 20 Casserole Recipes for Mexican Food Lovers, March 2013
Featured in the eCookbook, 14 Easy Recipes for Potato Casseroles, January 2013
Featured in the eCookbook, 14 Perfectly Delicious Christmas Recipes for Breakfast, December 2012
Featured in the eCookbook 8 Classic Recipes for the Best Thanksgiving Side Dishes, October 2012
National Media Coverage, Online Media & Magazine Features
My name and recipe on the cover of Taste of Home Magazine, August/September 2014
Featured in Country Living Magazine, May 2015
Featured in Redbook, March 2015
Featured in the Huffington-Post Taste for my Samoas Cookie Pie, February 2015
Featured in the Huffington-Post Taste for eight of my banana bread recipes, February 2015
Featured in the Huffington-Post Taste for four of my desserts receiving the Best Of title, January 2015
Featured on Redbook, January 2015
Featured on Woman’s Day, December 2014
Featured on Today.com, November 2014
Featured in Parade Magazine, October 2014
Featured on Today.com, October 2014
Feature on Saint Louis Post Dispatch, October 2014
Featured on Publisher’s Weekly, October 2014
Featured in the San Diego Union Tribune, October 2014
Featured on Good Morning America, October 2014
Featured in Country Living Magazine, July 2014
Featured in Parade Magazine, May 2014 (cookies, item #3)
Featured on The Today Show, April 2014
Featured on Fox News, April 2014
Featured in InStyle, April 2014
Peanut Butter Comfort was featured on The Kitchn, January 24, 2014
Cosmopolitan Magazine featured my Soft Vegan Pumpkin Bread with Brown Sugar Streusel Crust in their piece about 15 Ridiculously Delicious Vegetarian Thanksgiving Recipes, November 17, 2013
Featured in the Huffington Post, in the Biggest Cookies You’ll Ever Make story, October 23, 2013
Featured on Ladies Home Journal for my Soft and Puffy Pumpkin Spice Honey Cookies, October 21, 2013
Interviewed and Featured on Foodie Crush: Crushing on Averie Sunshine of Averie Cooks, October 1, 2013
Redbook Magazine featured my Homemade White Chocolate and Butterscotch Sunflower Seed Butter (GF), September 26, 2013
Named as one of the 100 Dessert Lovers to Follow on Twitter (#21), September 26, 2013
Named by Photodoto as one of 100 Incredibly Tasty Instragram Accounts for Foodies to Follow (#13, averiesunshine)
Named by Mashable as one of the 75 Tasty Instagram Accounts Every Foodie Should Follow (#61, averiesunshine)
Named as one of the 35 Awesome Sugar-Slinging Blogs You Should Be Following on Twitter – September 12, 2013
Featured 4 times in the Huffington Post, in the Football Snacks story, September 11, 2013
Interviewed and Featured on Best Friends for Frosting: In the Kitchen with Averie of Averie Cooks, September 7, 2013
The Food Network UK featured 4 of my recipes in their Things to Make with Boxed Cake Mix story, August 28. 2013
Featured 4 times in the Huffington Post, in the What You Should Eat Now: Snacks story, August 19, 2013
Featured In Ladies Home Journal, August 13, 2013
Featured 4 times in the Huffington Post, in the Trail Mix story, July 29, 2013
Featured on She Knows Canada for my Healthy Oatmeal Cookies, July 17, 2013
Yahoo Shine’s Poet in the Pantry and Food Republic featured my cookbook, July 10, 2013
Featured 3 times in the Huffington Post, in the Snack Recipes story, July 10, 2013
Featured in a BlogHer press release about my cookbook, July 9, 2013
Cookbook Review on FaveHealthyRecipes, June 2013
*My cookbook was named as One of the Summer’s Best by The Atlantic Wire, June 17, 2013
Recipe Development for Pillsbusy, appearing on their website here, June 2013
Recipe Development for Red Star Yeast, appearing on their website here and here, May 2013
Recipe for The Best Peanut Butter Brownies You’ll Ever Have featured on Joanna Goddard, A Cup of Jo May 15, 2013
*I’m a contributing Blogger, Recipe Developer, and Photographer on Pillsbury, a “Pillsbury Maker”, with corresponding blog post here, May 2013
*Named one of the Top 10 Desserts and Sweets Bloggers on Pinterest– “…Based on proprietary research, with results limited to bloggers who dedicate significant coverage to sweets.”, May 2013
Featured on The Kitchn’s Delicious Links, March 7, 2013
Featured twice in the Huffington Post in theirSt. Paddy’s Day Desserts and my photography is used as the lead, March 11, 2013
Featured 5 times in the Huffington Post, in their Dessert Recipes for Peanut Butter Lovers (featured on Slides 3, 7, 12, 16, 18), March 4, 2013
Featured in the Huffington Post, in their No-Bake Cookie Recipes (Slide 2 and Slide 3), February 21, 2013
Featured in the Huffington Post, in their Cookie Butter Recipe: How to Make Your Own At Home February 7, 2013
Featured in the Huffington Post, in their Recipes with Nutella: Cookies, Cakes, & More (slide 28), February 1, 2013
Featured in the Huffington Post, in their Gluten-Free Dessert Recipes: Fruit Cakes, Cookies, and More feature for 3 recipes (slide 3, slide 4, slide 5), January 25, 2013
Featured in the Huffington Post, in their Girl Scout Cookies: Thin Mints, Samoast and More feature for my Thin Mints, slide 1, January 24, 2013
Featured on Daily Buzz Food in their Daily Top 9 Stories of the Day, French Toast, January 23, 2013
Featured three times on the Huffington Post’s story Agave Recipes for Healthy Baking (Slide 1 for Cinnamon Oatmeal Date Bars With Chocolate Chunks, Slide 5 for Sunflower Seed Butter Granola Bars With Chocolate Drizzle, Slide 14 for Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Bites), January 4, 2013
Featured on Shape Magazine’s 40 Easy Recipes Under 400 Calories for my Thin Mints (page 40), January 2, 2013
Featured on Spry Living, December 2012
Featured on Babble’s 12 Simple, Healthy Meals to Cleanse the Holiday Overload for my Creamy Tomato Soup, December 26, 2012
Thanks to them for featuring my Creamy Tomato Soup (vegan, gluten-free, microwave-friendly)
More than 10 recipes included in the Top 100 Recipes for 2012 from Fave Healthy Recipes, December 14, 2012
Featured in the Huffington Post, showcasing three of my recipes in their Healthy Holiday Appetizers feature, December 7, 2012
Featured on The Kitchn for my Cranberry Bliss Bars, December 3, 2012
*Featured in a two page spread in the December 2012/January 2013 print issue of Bust magazine for my Thin Mints recipe with accompanying blog post here
Featured twice on the Huffington Post’s story Gingerbread Recipes for Holiday Baking (Slide 2 for Molasses Triple Chocolate Cookies and Slide 6 for Cookie Butter Spread Ginger Molasses Cookies), November 30, 2012
Featured as part of the ZipList Top 12 Recipes from the Week, November 11, 2012
Featured on Lifehacker, DIY Peanut Butter is Healthier and Tastes Better Than the Stuff You’re Buying Now, November 10, 2012
Featured on Daily Buzz Healthy Living in their Top 9 Stories of the Day, Soup’s On, October 31, 2012
Featured twice on the Huffington Post’s story Halloween Candy Recipes: What To Do with your Halloween Loot (Slide 5 for Mounds Bar Chocolate Coconut Cake Mix Cookies and Slide 14 for Snickers Bars Stuffed Chocolate Chip Cookies), October 26, 2012
Featured on The Kitchn’s Delicious Links for my Banana Zucchini Pudding Cake with Vanilla Browned Butter Glaze, October 23, 2012
Featured on YumSugar, From Brownies to Beverages: The Best Candy-Stuffed Treats, (Slide 2), October 23, 2012
Featured on the Huffington Post, Biscoff Recipes (slide 13 of 22- Chocolate Banana and Biscoff Graham Bars), October 18, 2012
Featured on Daily Buzz Healthy Living in their Top 9 Stories of the Day, Baking Brownies, October 15, 2012
Featured on Cupcakes Garden, October 14, 2012
**Nominated as one of the Top 25 Recipe Blogs by SkinnyScoop, Oct 12, 2012 and was recognized as of the Top 25 Recipe Blogs by SkinnyScoop, November 1, 2012**
Featured on Glamour Magazine, Afternoon Snack Recipe: Fluffernutter Smoothie, October 8, 2012
**Featured on the Huffington Post and named as one of the 10 Best Food Bloggers: HuffPost’s Top 10 Picks (slide 7 of 11) October 5, 2012**
Featured on the Huffington Post, Caramel Dessert Recipes (slide 6 of 16- Spiced Apple and Banana Bundt Cake with Vanilla Caramel Glaze), October 5, 2012
Featured on Gourmet Live in their Weekly Roundup: All Things Peanut Butter for my Pumpkin Spice Peanut Butter Granola, September 21, 2012
Featured on The Kitchn’s Delicious Links for my Peanut Butter and Jelly Blondies, September 14, 2012
Featured on Daily Buzz Healthy Living in their Top 9 Stories of the Day, Artichokes, Vol. 2, September 3, 2012
Featured on Daily Buzz Food in their Top 9 Stories of the Day, Doughnuts, August 29, 2012
Featured on the Huffington Post, Funfetti Recipes (slide 5 in slideshow – Cookie Butter Funfetti Triple Chip Bars), August 14, 2012
Featured on Daily Buzz Healthy Living in their Top 9 Stories of the Day, Mmm Mango, August 13, 2012
Featured on Foodbeast Food News for my Malibu Rum Fruit Loops Bars, August 10, 2012
Featured on The Kitchn’s Delicious Links for my Baked Peach and Nectarine Donuts, August 7, 2012
Featured on the Huffington Post, Coconut Dessert Recipes For Cookies, Cakes, and More (slide 1 in slideshow – Mounds Bar Chocolate Cookies), July 31, 2012
Featured on Better Homes and Gardens, Bloggers We Love, July 23, 2012
Featured on Daily Buzz Healthy Living in their Top 9 Stories of the Day, Island Party, July 12, 2012
Feature twice on Daily Buzz Healthy Living in their Top 9 Stories of the Day, A Red, White, & Blueberry Affair, July 2, 2012
Featured on My Fox 10 News, June 25, 2012
Featured as The Cooking Club’s Editors’ Pick, June 19, 2012
Featured on the Huffington Post, Microwave Cake Recipes: Easy Desserts Made in a Mug (slide 4 in slideshow), June 18, 2012
Featured twice on DailyBuzz Healthy Living in their Top 9 Stories of the Day, Happy Hour, June 4, 2012
Featured in the Parenting.com Delicious Donut Recipes for my Chocolate Peanut Butter Donuts, June 1, 2012
Featured on The Kitchn’s Delicious Links for my Orange Pushup Smoothie, May 21, 2012
Featured in Kris Carr’s Crazy Sexy Life Newsletter, Peaches and Coconut Cream Smoothie, May 18, 2012
Featured on DotComForMom’s Strawberry Season is Here recipe roundup, May 7, 2012
Featured on The Kitchn’s Delicious Links, May 2. 2012
Featured on DailyBuzz Healthy Living in their Top 9 Stories of the Day, A Cinco de Mayo Fiesta, May 2, 2012
Featured on DailyBuzz Healthy Living in their Top 9 Stories of the Day, Orange Crush, April 30, 2012
Featured on Best Friends For Frosting, April 27, 2012
Featured in TofuXpress recipes, Peanut Sauce Baked Tofu, April 27, 2012
Featured on DailyBuzz Healthy Living in their Top 9 Stories of the Day, Time For Tempeh, April 18, 2012
Featured on The Cupcake Blog, April 16, 2012
Featured on DailyBuzz Healthy Living in their Top 9 Stories of the Day, National Peanut Butter and Jelly Day, April 2, 2012
Featured on DailyBuzz Healthy Living in their Top 9 Stories of the Day, Eggs-ellent, March 24, 2012
Featured on DailyBuzz Healthy Living in their Top 9 Stories of the Day, The Best Fitness Wear, March 14, 2012
Nominated to Fitness Magazine’s Blogs We Love: Best Healthy Eating Blogs list, March 2, 2012
Nominated for The Kitchn’s Best Food Photography on a Blog, March 1, 2012
Featured on Serious Eats as a West Coast Marsh Madness Competitor, February 27, 2012
Participant in Marsh Madness with Quirk Books and Serious Eats, February 22, 2012
Featured on DailyBuzz Healthy Living in their Top 9 Recipes of the Day, Gluten Free Mardi Gras, February 21, 2012
Featured on DailyBuzz Healthy Living in their Top 9 Recipes of the Day, Homemade Nut Butters, February 17, 2012
Featured on DailyBuzz Healthy Living in their Top 9 Recipes of the Day, Smoothie Power, February 13, 2012
Winner of the Best Homemade Breakfast Recipe Contest on Babble’s Family Kitchen for my Baked Chocolate Peanut Butter Donuts with Vanilla Peanut Butter Glaze, January 30, 2012
Featured on DailyBuzz Healthy Living in their Top 9 Recipes of the Day, Oh….Oats!, January 14, 2012
Featured in Fitness Magazine, 11 Ways to Wake Up Oatmeal, January 10, 2012
Featured on Gourmet Magazine’s Gourmet Live website for my White Chocolate Vanilla Peanut Butter Puppy Chow, December 23, 2011
Featured on the Martha’s Circle Martha Stewart site for my Chocolate Saltine Toffee, December 16, 2011
Featured in Namely Marly’s Virtual Vegan Holiday Dinner for my Cranberry & Orange Ginger Mango Chutney, December 2011
Featured as the Foodista Drink of the Day for my Peaches and Coconut Cream Smoothie, December 13, 2011
Featured in the first issue of Foodie Crush Magazine, my White Chocolate Cookies & Cream Fudge is featured on page 44, December 2011
Featured on Style at Home’s Holiday Cookie Swap Recipes, Peanut Butter & Oatmeal White Chocolate Chip Cookies, December 2011
Featured on Babble’s The Family Kitchen, Rice Krispies Gone Wild: 10 Totally Addictive Recipes, November 2011
Featured on Oh She Glows, Vegan Recipe Link Love, November 2011
Featured on Taste & Tell, Blogger Spotlight: Love Veggies and Yoga, November 2011
Featured on The Kitchn, The Ultimate Candy Corn Roundup, October 2011
Featured on Brown Eyed Baker, 35 Awesome Halloween Recipes, October 2011
Featured as a Love Grown Foods ‘Love Blogger’, Averie: Love Veggies and Yoga, September 2011
Featured in Fitness Magazine’s The Fit Stop, Fit Blogger We Love: Love Veggies and Yoga, and a post here, September 1, 2011
Featured as the FoodBuzz Daily Special, Snickers Bar Stuffed Chocolate Chip Cookies and a post here, August 30, 2011
Featured in Yummly’s Divine Vegan Recipes for Meatless Mondays, Raw Pasta Salad, August 2011
Featured in Spry Living’s 6 Yummy Afternoon Snacks, Vegan Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Balls, August 2011
Featured on Pooja’s Way, Blogger Spotlight, August 4, 2011
Featured on Katie Lee at Home, New Favorite Cooking Blog, July 2011
Featured on Une Vie Saine, Friday Featured Blogger, July 2001
Featured in a National Fox News story and my followup post on the Influence of Blogs, April 2011
Featured in Women’s Health Magazine May 2011. Purple Rain Smoothie (recipe is listed under ‘Make It Rain’)
Partnerships, Affiliations, and Sponsored Posts
Sponsored post for Ghirardelli
Sponsored post for Nestle Tollhouse
Partnership with the National Peanut Board, June 2012
Sponsored post for Glad Freezerware in partnership with my Foodbuzz sponsorship, May 29, 2012
Sponsored post for Häagen-Dazs® Ice Cream in partnership with my Foodbuzz sponsorship, May 27, 2012
Sponsored post for Kraft Singles in partnership with my Foodbuzz sponsorship, May 21, 2012
Sponsored post for Land ‘O Lakes, April 29, 2012
Brand Ambassador and sponsored post for COOL WHIP (Kraft Foods) in partnership with my Foodbuzz sponsorship, April 24, 2012
Brand Ambassador for Frigidaire in partnership with my Foodbuzz sponsorship, March 18, 2012
Member of the Babycakes Treats Team, featured here, March 5, 2012
Contributing Editor Posts
On Marcus Samuelsson, Taste of the Tropics Smoothie, May 2011
On Marcus Samuelsson, No Bake Oatmeal Raisin Carrot Cake Bites, with blog post here, May 2011
Guest Blog Posts
Some of the many include:
On Fitnessista, Prenatal Yoga, August 2011
On Une Vie Saine, Guest Post: Love Veggies & Yoga, August 2011
On Oh She Glows, Love Veggies and Yoga, July 2011
On La Fuji Mama, Dessert Bites from Averie of Love Veggies and Yoga, July 2011
On Choosing Raw, Yoga Wisdom From Averie, April 2010
On Peas and Thank You, Your Family, Your Choice, March 2010
On Meals & Moves, Your Meals & Moves, February 2010
Featured as a Muscle & Fitness Hers Magazine Recipe of the Month, May 2010. Featured my No-Bake Vegan Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Protein Bars
Featured on Tropical Traditions: Hereand Here . My Vegan GF Pancakes and No-Bake Vegan Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Coconut Oil Protein Bars
Recipes & Food Photography Featured In Galleries
Finding Vegan and Here
NuNaturals Stevia Recipe Gallery
Workshops, Seminars, Conferences, & Trips
Barbados Food & Wine and Rum Festival, November 15 -19, 2012 with Food & Wine Magazine, American Express Publishing, celebrity Chefs Marcus Samuelsson and more
Blogshop San Francisco, April 9-10, 2012
Will Write for Food Workshop Here and Here with Diane Jacob, March 3, 2012
KitchenAid, Cook Books, & Photography Event, February 29, 2012
Food and Light Photography Workshop, Boulder Colorado, August 2011
Food & Light: Favorite Images & Judging
Food & Light: Restaurant Photography Tips
Food & Light: Photographing Challenging Food & Personal Assignments
Food & Light: Photography Tips from Diane Cu
Food & Light: Photography Tips
Mexico City Photography Tour with Penny de los Santos, July 2011:
Mexico City: Themes from a Photographic Tour of Mexico City
Real Food Styling Photography Workshop, April 2011
BlogHer ’11 San Diego, August 2011
Food Buzz San Francisco: Meeting Friends, Celebrating San Francisco, and Trip Gifts & Recap, November 2010
Festivals & Fairs
San Diego Cityfest, August 2011
San Diego Pride Parade, August 2011
Taste of Adams Avenue, June 2011
Greek Festival, June 2011
Food Buzz San Francisco: Meeting Friends, Celebrating San Francisco, and Trip Gifts & Recap, November 2010
Charity, Volunteering, Bake Sales
Bake Sale for Childhood Hunger and Here, April 2012
The Great Fundraising Act, July 2011 (results here, followup post here)
Bake Sale for Team for Kids, May 2011
Bake Sale Brownies, May 2012
Bake Sale to Eliminate Childhood Hunger, May 2011
Bake Sale for Japan, April 2011
Awards
Top 100 Health Blog Award, January 2011
2010 Top Vegan Blog Award, January 2011
Product Reviews, Contests, & Giveaways
I have done product reviews and hosted giveaways for over 200 companies including:
Nestle Tollhouse, Ghirardelli, COOL WHIP, Land O Lakes, Kitchen Aid, Le Creueset, Capresso, Zoku, MagiMix by Robot-Coupe, Magic Bullet, CSN Stores, Nuts Online, iHerb.com, Be Present Yoga, Yoga Journal, Book PubCo Cookbooks, Joop handbags, Barney Butter, Natually Nutty, Artisana, Nutiva, Navitas Naturals, Chia Seeds Direct, NuNaturals Stevia, Tropical Traditions Coconut Products, Kelapo Coconut Oil, Love Grown Foods, Sarris Candies, Chunks of Energy, Blue Mountain Organics, ONE Coconut Water, Sun Warrior Protein Powder, Larabar, 18 Rabbits, Vixibars, Bora Bora Foods Bars, Go Max Go Vegan Candy Bars, Ulimana Chocolate, and many more.
If you are interested in having me review your product in a similar fashion to this post or this post, email me with the details.
If you are interested in having me host a giveaway or contest with your product in a similar fashion to this post or this post, email me with the details.
If you are interested in having me review your product and then do a giveaway as a followup, here is an example I did for Pillsbury first the product review, then the giveaway.
