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Category: Desserts
- Guilt-free Flour-less Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies
  
  Posted at 2:18 pm by myfoodiecall
  
  Jul 28th
  Here is a great recipe that is healthy and does not require a billion ingredients (always a big deterrent for me) This recipe is pretty much all over Google and Facebook for that matter so I thought I would give it a try. Turned out great. Healthy and most people have these ingredients right there in the pantry. Assuming you have…
  
  Garbanzo beans. Or Chick peas. Why are there two names? Always wondered that. Anyhow garbanzo beans…Doesn’t everyone have these?
  
  Back to the cookies…
  
  Garbanzo beans and peanut butter? Protein packed. The only mistake I made in this recipe was to not double it. 😦
  
  Eat me.
  
  You have this in your pantry, right?
  
  1 1/4 Cup Canned Chickpeas, rinsed and patted dry
  2 tsp Vanilla Extract
  1/2 Cup + 2 Tbs Natural Peanut Butter
  1/4 Cup Honey
  1 tsp. Baking Powder
  1/2 Cup Chocolate Chips (I used 60% Ghiradellhi chips. Why? The best. Promise.)
  
  What to do:
  
  Preheat oven to 350 degrees
  Line a baking sheet with parchment paper
  
  Non-stick spray. Bleck. Parchment. Even cooking, easy clean up.
  
  Rinse and towel blot garbanzo beans so that most moisture is gone.
  
  See how wet the paper towel is underneath? Blot it even more!
  
  Combine all ingredients in a food processor (except the chocolate chips) Process until smooth, scraping down sides as needed.
  
  Add your chips and pulse a few more times.
  
  Now we are in business.
  With wet hands (because it is DANG sticky) form into 1-2 inch balls (depending on how big you want them) and place on parchment paper.
  1. Bake for 10 minutes.
  2. Press down slightly with a fork.
  3. Bake for another 3-5 minutes or until solid
  Again. Should have doubled. Hate to ration cookies.
  Posted in Desserts | Tagged cookies, garbanzo beans, healthy, peanut butter, vegan
- Pumpkin Bites with cream cheese frosting
  
  Posted at 10:06 pm by myfoodiecall
  
  Jul 22nd
  
  So today was not the best of days. Sometimes things are just kind of…off. What’s a girl to do?
  
  BAKE.
  
  STILL HEALTHY, THOUGH. Ha.
  
  These are adapted from Chocolate Covered Katie’s Pumpkin Squares
  
  Pumpkin Bites
  
  Your dry ingredients:
  
  1 cup oat flour (or any flour! Seriously though, making oat flour is super easy. Just put your oats in a food processor and grind until they are a powdery flour.) Easy! Although do not use quick oats… 🙂
  
  2 1/2 tsp cinnamon
  
  1 tsp baking powder
  
  1/2 tsp baking soda
  
  1/2 tsp salt
  
  6 tablespoons brown sugar
  
  2 packets stevia
  
  Your wet ingredients:
  
  2 eggs
  
  1 cup canned pumpkin
  
  4 tablespoons almond milk (or soy, coconut….just stay away from cow’s milk, okay??)
  
  4 tablespoons coconut oil (or canola, but try for coconut…way healthier)
  
  1 tsp pure vanilla extract
  
  Preheat oven to 350 F. Line cupcake tins with liners. Combine dry ingredients in one bowl. Combine wet in another. Fold the wet into the dry.
  
  Pour into cupcake liners, only filling the bottom. Remember: these are not cupcakes, go light!
  
  Bake for 15-17 minutes.
  
  Let cool and work on that frosting.
  
  The frosting:
  
  1/2 cup light cream cheese
  
  1/3 cup powdered sugar
  
  2 tablespoons almond milk
  
  1 tablespoon coconut oil
  
  1 tsp vanilla extract
  
  Place all ingredients in your food processor bowl or beat well with a hand mixer.
  
  Posted in Desserts | Tagged pumpkin
- Peanut Butter Protein Bars
  
  Posted at 7:20 pm by myfoodiecall
  
  Jun 9th
  
  Looking for a good breakfast bar? Or post workout snack? This is pretty much a good anytime bar. These babies will give you your punch of protein without any of that meat nonsense people think they need for muscle repair.
  
  Peanut butter Protein Bars
  
  2 1/2 cups Brown Rice Cereal
  
  2 cups quick-cooking oats
  
  2/3 cup raisins
  
  1/3 cup gogi berries (or more raisins)
  
  3/4 cup ground almond meal (you can grind almonds into a fine flour or find this at Trader Joe’s, Whole Foods…etc)
  
  1 1/2 teaspoons cinnamon
  
  1/2 teaspoon nutmeg
  
  1/2 cup honey
  
  1/4 cup brown sugar
  
  1/2 cup peanut butter (or any other nut butter)
  
  2 teaspoons vanilla extract
  
  dash sea salt
  
  Whisk together the Brown Rice Cereal, oats, raisins, gogi berries, almond meal, cinnamon, and nutmeg in a large bowl.
  
  In a medium saucepan, heat the honey and brown sugar over medium-low heat. Stir frequently until the sugar dissolves.
  
  Add the peanut butter into the honey mixture while still over the heat. Stir until completely combined. Next, stir in the vanilla and salt.
  
  Mix contents of saucepan into the dry ingredients. Using a rubber spatula, stir the ingredients together until the dry ingredients are mixed into the peanut butter mixture.
  
  Press the mixture firmly into a 9×13-inch pan, (using your fingertips.) Chill in the refrigerator. Cut into squares. Devour.
  
  Posted in Desserts, Snacks | Tagged peanut butter
- Easy, vegan, strawberry cream pie.
  
  Posted at 1:01 pm by myfoodiecall
  
  Apr 30th
  
  Strawberry Cream Pie. Minus the cream. If I was more ambitious (and I am not, ha) I would have done a raw crust. To save time I poured it into a store-bought whole wheat crust.
  
  Dairy Free Strawberry Cream Pie
  2-3 cups fresh strawberries
  1 cup raw cashews
  2 tablespoons vanilla extract
  1/4- 1/2 cup agave nectar (depending on how sweet you like your treats)
  1 pinch salt
  1 cup coconut oil, melted down
  
  Place all filling ingredients into food processor and process until smooth and creamy. Pour on top of crust and refrigerate for 3 hours.
  
  Posted in Desserts | Tagged coconut oil, pie, strawberry, vegan
- Strawberry and cake kabobs.
  
  Posted at 10:11 pm by myfoodiecall
  
  Jun 17th
  Ok, here’s the deal. It is my turn to bring the “team snack” to baseball. First off, who the heck ever thought of starting team snack after sports?? I know that when I was little we never had parents bringing baggies of goldfish for the whole team. Can’t we just high five and call it a day?
  
  Apparently not.
  
  What’s a healthy mom to do??
  
  My son’s criteria for the team snack:
  - junky (Cheetos)
  - something not embarrassing (not carrots and hummus)
  My criteria:
  - non-junky (nothing with the words “hydrogenated”)
  - Try to not embarrass. (I realize your teammates will unfriend you if I bring kale chips)
  The compromise:
  
  Kabobs. Because kids love anything on a stick.
  
  Strawberry and cake kabobs
  
  Aka: A Non-embarrassing snack for a team of hungry baseball players
  
  Ingredients:
  - kabob sticks
  - strawberries
  - angel food cake
  - dark chocolate chips (optional, but good for bonus points)
  - 1 can pumpkin (yup, pumpkin)
  - 1 box brownie mix
  Where is the can of pumpkin, you ask? In that big brownie pan at the top.
  
  Remove all stems from strawberries.
  
  Cut angel food cake into 1-2 inch chunks.
  
  Pumpkin brownies: All you do is mix one store-bought box of brownie mix with a can of pumpkin and that’s it. NO oil, NO egg. Just brownie mix and pumpkin. Then you bake at the temperature lised on your box, minus 5 minutes. Once your batch has cooled, cut into 1 inch cubes. will be a bit more dense than traditional brownies, but in a fudgy kind of way.
  
  Thread your kabobs in whichever pattern you’d like. I kind of bounced around a bit, trying to keep mine colorful.
  
  Hope this makes the cut….
  
  Optional chocolate topping: Easy: Just melt your chips in your microwave in 20 seconds intervals, stirring in between until melty, drippy, oozing.
  
  Drizzle on top with a spoon…
  
  Then I put these babies in the fridge to keep the kabobs cool and harden the chocolate.
  
  The verdict: These were a hit. Not hard to make, and if I had to do this again (which I will), I would probably nix the angel food cake and just alternate the strawberries and pumpkin brownie. This fit the bill. Super easy, and embarrassment free. Can’t guarantee next time will be. 🙂
  Posted in Desserts, Snacks | Tagged brownies, dessert, fruit kabobs, pumpkin
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