Orange Brownie

 What are two of the best things you could put together? What are two of the weirdest things you could put together? The answer is one amazing, fantastic, fabulous recipe (drummmm rolllllll)

ORANGE BROWNIE!

I have made this recipe at least twice a week over the past few weeks. It is an amazing after workout snack! So again why am I wasting your time reading this? Lets jump in!

What you will need:

1 cup walnuts

1 cup orange juice

1 cup oatmeal

2 T cinnamon

3/4 cup cocoa or carob powder

1/2 cup chocolate chips

1 egg

1 T baking powder

~Preheat oven to 350~

Mix walnuts and orange juice in a high power blender or food processor. Add oatmeal and make sure the walnuts, oatmeal, and orange juice are a very liquidy paste. Now it gets super simple! Add everything else mix, scrape into a greased pan, wait 30-40 minutes and

ENJOY!



Guilt Free Nutella

This is possibly my new favorite recipe! It is a guilt free NUTELLA it does not get any better than that! I would bore you with the details of how great this is but honestly it would just be wasting the time that could be spent making and enjoying this lovely recipe!!! 

What you will need:

1 cup walnuts

2 T maple syrup

2 T cocoa powder or carob powder

2 T milk

1 t vanilla

1/2 cup of chocolate chips

Put your walnuts into the blender or food processor until they are finely ground. Throw in the rest and mix!

And ENJOY!!!!!

P.s. amazing with bananas!!!

Pumpkin Cookies

Hello and Happy Wednesday!

Something we should probably get straight before we become TO good of friends is that I LOVE pumpkin, chocolate, and coconut. If I could survive off of these ingredients alone I would be a very happy girl! In the past I have shared my favorite brownie recipe and my absolute favorite coconut recipe but I realized I haven't shared a pumpkin recipe! When I made these yesterday my youngest brother (who never likes anything I make) said and I quote "these are surprisingly decent" coming from this little guy that is a 10 star review! But I don't want to bore you with the details so lets get into,

What you need:

1 cup of pumpkin

1 cup of flour

1 1/2 cup of oatmeal

1/3 maple syrup

1/2 apple sauce

1 T of milk

1/2 t salt

1/2 t baking powder

1/2 T pumpkin pie spice

1 t cinnamon (I think I used a little more because I personally love it!!)

You can add chocolate chips, I didn't.

Preheat oven to 350

Look how cute they are!!!

Throw all of your ingredients I bowl...

And stir, stir, stir!

It is actually that simple! If you do not have pumpkin pies spice you can substitute it for ginger, nutmeg, cloves.

Adapted from:  http://mywholefoodlife.com/2012/11/23/pumpkin-spice-breakfast-cookies/

Have a lovely day!!!!

Gluten Free Healthy Waffles

BREAKFAST! This is my personal favorite meal of the day and no matter how hot it is outside I will still make a warm breakfast and this has to be my favorite. Especially since it's so easy! My dad who really doesn't like anything semi-healthy likes these.

(Sorry for the poor quality of the pictures they were taken at 6 AM and it was really dark.)

What you will need:

1 banana  

1 cup of oatmeal

1/2 cup of water

1T of vanilla

You can add fruit or you can leave the waffles plain.  I sprinkle cranberries on top of the batter once it is in the waffle maker.

Put everything except the fruit (if you are doing fruit) in the blender. You can, of course, mix it up and stick in the fridge but I prefer to make them fresh.

This will make around 4 waffles.  I usually double the batch and my family and I eat them for the next couple days.

This is also a great after workout breakfast!

Almond Coconut Macrons

Hello and happy Saturday.  The weekend has finally come (sigh). In celebration of this marvelous day I have put together one of my most tried and true recipes. If you like coconut you will love this!!!

What you will need:

1 T vanilla 

1/3 cup of sugar

2 cups coconut 

1 cup almond (or really any nut walnuts are amazing!!)

Preheat oven to 350 

Blend all ingredients in the blender or food processor and your good to go!!

Stick them on a sprayed baking sheet and bake for 20 min on 350. 

Hope you enjoy!! Have a lovely weekend!!!