Healthy Brownies

Ingredients:

3 cups rinsed black beans (canned is ok)

1 ripe banana

4 eggs

1 tbsp cinnamon

1/2 cup coconut flour

1/2 tsp baking powder

1/3 cup water

1 cup xylitol

3 tbsp coconut oil

1 tsp sea salt

1 tsp vanilla extract

1/4 cup unsweetened almond milk

5 tbsp cocoa powder

1/3 cup chocolate chips (opt - if no, add an additional 1/4 cup xylitol)

First combine all dry ingredients in a food processor: cinnamon, coconut flour, baking powder, xylitol, sea salt, chocolate chips (opt), and cocoa powder.  Next add wet ingredients: black beans, banana, eggs, water, coconut oil, vanilla extract, and almond milk.  Blend together until thoroughly mixed.  Pour batter into a greased pyrex dish or magic brownie pan.  Bake at 350 for 25-30 min or until a toothpick can be inserted and removed without drawing up any brownie batter.  Store brownies in a tupperware container in the fridge.

Serve by itself or with a chocolate syrup drizzle.

Healthy Hawla

Hawla is one of my husband's favorite Indian sweet treats, and it is loaded with sugar!  Well no longer will I deprive my husband of his favorite treat from home.  I have made his favorite treat healthy, and you can not tell the two apart!

Ingredients: 

2-3 bags large carrots

2 cups original unsweetened almond milk

2 cups xylitol

10 cardamoms

1/2 cup chopped cashews

1/2-1 tbsp ghee or organic butter

Peel the carrots by hand, and then shred them in your food processor (or you can crate them by hand). Place the grated carrots in a pressure cooker with almond milk and cook until the pressure cooker gives two whistles.  If you don't have a pressure cooker, you can boil the mixture for 10-15 minutes.  Transfer the carrots from the pressure cooker to a large heavy pot heated at a low temperature; add in your xylitol and ground cardamoms.  The mixture will need to simmer for about 1-2 hours on low to get rid of all the liquid.  Near the end, in a separate pan sauté cashews in ghee or organic butter.  Lastly, add your sautéed cashews to your Halwa, and mix up well.  Serve this treat warm.  Enjoy!

Healthy Homemade Sweet and Salty Hot Chocolate

This is my healty homemade version of Starbucks Sweet and Salty, and Starbucks can't touch this! Here it is: 

Ingredients:

1 1/2 cups original almond milk

1/2 cup water

1/4 tsp vanilla extract

1/2 tsp cinnamon

1 tbsp unsweetened cocoa powder

1/4 tsp sea salt

1/4 cup xylitol

Heat your liquids on low in a pot.  Once you start to see steam add in all your dry ingredients, and whisk away. Heat to desired temperature then pour into two mugs or, if you're like me, one big mug!  This recipe makes enough for two regular cups or one big one.  Sprinkle cinnaomon, nutmeg, and sea salt to garnish.  To make this a Sweet and Salty Mocha just brew one cup of your favorite black coffee (no cream or sugar), and add 1/2 cup per serving. Enjoy!