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Showing posts with label fruit. Show all posts

Wednesday, February 3, 2021

Recipe: Healthy Dessert Apple Nachos

I LOVE dessert. It's my favorite part of any meal! But when you're trying to eat healthy, it's not always eay to even have dessert, let alone enjoy it. So, here is one of my favorite easy desserts when I have the calories to spare.

Ingredients:
1 apple
2 Tbsp peanut butter
2 Tbsp mini chocolate chips

Steps:
1. Cut your apple into thin slices or rings and place on a plate.
2. Microwave your peanut butter until it is fully melted. This will make your peanut butter appear to go further and get an even coating on all of the apple slices. Pour the peanut butter in a drizzle all over the apples on your plate.
3. Sprinkle the mini chocolate chips evenly over your apples.
Serve and enjoy!

I know this is really simple, but I just love eating them!

Sunday, January 31, 2021

Recipe: Breakfast Cookies

I recently tried a new recipe, changed it a little to make it a little more me, and I seriously love it. Bonus: My husband and son love these as well! Extra Bonus: They're pretty healthy for you! I was hesitant to call these cookies because they're more reminiscent of muffin tops, but we'll stick with the word cookies because those are more fun to eat! Right?



Ingredients:
1 cup whole-wheat flour
¾ cup all-purpose flour
½ cup Hershey’s special dark cocoa
1 ½ Tbsp instant coffee
1 ½ tsp ground cinnamon
1 tsp baking soda
½ tsp kosher salt
3 large eggs, lightly beaten
1 ripe banana, peeled, microwaved 30 seconds, then mashed
½ cup nonfat plain Greek yogurt
½ cup honey
1 Tbsp vegetable oil
2 tsp pure vanilla extract
1 ¼ cups blueberries
¾ cup mini semisweet chocolate chips

Instructions:
1. Heat oven to 350 F. Line 2 large baking sheets with parchment paper.

2. In a large bowl, whisk together flours, cocoa, coffee, cinnamon, baking soda, and salt.

3. In another bowl, whisk together eggs, banana, yogurt, honey, oil, and vanilla until well combined (small lumps of banana are OK).

4. Stir egg mixture into flour mixture, gently stirring until just incorporated. Fold in blueberries and chocolate chips. Do not overmix.

5. Scoop balls of dough, about 1 ½ Tbsp each, onto prepared sheets, about 2 in apart. Flatten cookies slightly by pressing lightly with fingers or back of fork (to keep from sticking, use nonstick spray).

6. Bake until firm around the edges, 12 to 14 minutes. Let cool completely on sheet on wire rack.

Servings: 40
Calories: 73 (When I made these, I used a small scoop and ended up making 46, making them 63 calories a piece.)



I hope that you like these as much as my family does. I put two "cookies" in a snack bag and then put those into a bin. Now, we have an easy 146 calorie breakfast filled with fruit and chocolate that we can just grab in the morning with no extra prep.

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