Spicy Oatmeal Crisps

Fast, light and delicious!

Preheat oven to 325. Line cookie sheet with tin foil.

In large bowl combine:
2 cups oats
1/3 cup sugar
1 cup flour
1/2 tsp baking soda
1 tsp cinnamon
1/2 tsp allspice

Add in:
1/2 cup melted butter
1/4 cup coconut oil (or more butter) melted
1/4 cup honey
2 tbls milk

Drop rounded tbsps onto tinfoiled baking sheet. Bake for 12 minutes until edges are golden brown.

Cool cookies on foil. Lift edges off tin foil and peel cookies off.

Ice Cream!! Err.... Banana-milkshake-icecream....

DELICIOUS! I may never buy icecream again! A quick and simple way to have a healthy dessert. Not your typical milkshake or icecream... Fruit blended with milk to make the "icecream" and toppings to complete the dessert! Here are some variations we enjoy! **The overripe is essential!

Banana Split

3-4 cups frozen overripe bananas

1 cup milk

1 tsp vanilla

Chocolate syrup

1/2 cup chopped peanuts

Puree frozen bananas. Add in milk and vanilla until thoroughly blended and stiff. Scoop into bowl. Top with chocolate syrup and sprinkle with peanuts.

Neopolitan

4 cups frozen overripe strawberries

1 cup milk

1 tsp vanilla

Chocolate Syrup

Puree frozen strawberries. Add in milk and vanilla until thoroughly blended and stiff. Scoop into bowl. Top with chocolate syrup.

Chocolate Peanut Butter

3-4 cups frozen overripe bananas

1 1/4 cup milk

1/4 cup peanut butter

1/4 cup Chocolate Syrup

1/4 cup chopped peanuts

Puree frozen bananas. Add in milk, peanut butter and chocolate syrup until thoroughly blended. Scoop into bowl and top with chopped peanuts.

I also enjoy slices of fresh bananas or strawberries, when in season, with these toppings. They don't have to be frozen and blended with milk to make a dessert!

Delicious Low-Cal Peanut Butter Cookies

I found this recipe on recipezaar.com. The original recipe called for low-calorie peanut butter (which I never have) and egg whites (which I think is a waste of an egg unless you are having cholesterol problems). So I tweaked slightly and re-calculated the calories and each cookie has only 104 calories! Finding a low-cal peanut butter cookie has been a challenge because peanut butter is anything but low-cal! This makes 36 smaller cookies, but it's worth it. Amazing taste and good portions.

Cream:

1/3 cup brown sugar

1/3 cup white sugar

3/4 cup butter

3/4 cup peanut butter (I like crunchy)

Add & Mix until fluffy:

1 Egg

2 tsp vanilla extract

Mix in:

1 cup flour

1 cup ground oats

1/2 tsp baking soda

Place tablespoons full on ungreased baking sheets. Cook in preheated oven at 325 for 10 minutes.

Chocolate Mint Cookies

I went and bought mint extract as I was craving chocolate chip mint! I found a high rated recipe on Allrecipes.com and tweaked it a tiny bit to make these a 100 calorie dessert!

Original title on Allrecipes "Chocolate Chip Peppermint Cookies"

Makes 36 cookies at 97 calories each.
3/4 cup butter
1/2 cup white sugar
1/2 cup packed brown sugar
1 egg
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 teaspoon mint extract
1 tbls milk
1 1/2 cups whole wheat flour
1/3 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup semisweet chocolate chips

DIRECTIONS
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease cookie sheets.
In a large bowl, cream together butter, white sugar, and brown sugar until light and fluffy. Beat in egg, then stir in milk, vanilla and mint extracts. Combine flour, cocoa powder, baking soda, and salt; gradually stir into the creamed mixture. Mix in the chocolate chips. Drop vy heaping tablespoons.
Bake for 9-10 minutes in the preheated oven. Allow cookies to cool on cookie sheets for 5 minutes before transferring to a wire rack to cool completely.

Mmmmmm delicious!

Chocolate Meringue Cookies

As part of Kraft's First Taste Program member I received a high value coupon for the new "100- Calorie Oreo Cakesters". They were absolutely delicious little cake like cookies with a light airy cream center. How could you go wrong?? Well the price is outrageous! You get 6 "packs" for $3. Each pack is 4 bite size cookies that are about the same size as ONE cookie combined... so 6 cookies for $3. I searched high and low for a similar recipe. I found one called Whoopie Pies at www.eatbetteramerica.com . I took the recipe and modified it slightly.

These cookies are AWESOME and only 75 calories per cookie.

1 cup flour
1/4 cup unsweetened cocoa
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup sugar
1/4 cup margarine or butter
1 egg white
1/2 cup milk

Meringue

1 egg white

1/4 cup sugar

1 tsp vanilla

1/2 cup chocolate chips

Heat oven to 425°F.

In medium bowl, combine flour, cocoa, baking soda and salt.
In large bowl, beat sugar, margarine and egg white with electric mixer on medium speed 2 minutes or until fluffy. Stir in flour mixture. Stir in milk just until blended.
Drop dough by rounded tablespoons onto large ungreased baking sheets to make 24 cookies. Bake 6 minutes or until tops spring back when lightly touched.
Place baking sheets on a rack to cool completely.

Meanwhile beat on highest speed egg white, sugar and vanilla for 10 minutes until fluffy.

Top cookies with dallop of meringue and a few chocolate chips. Broil at 500 for 3-4 minutes until meringue is lightlybrowned.

Chocolate-Raspberry Mousse cookies

These are AMAZING! The reason I call them mousse cookies is the batter is thick and airy just like mousse. They have a similar taste to chocolate covered cherries. Makes a ton of cookies AND get this.... 90 calories & 13 g of carbs per cookie!! For those of you not counting calories, this is about 1/2 the calories and carbs a regular chocolate chip cookie has and a only 1/3 of a brownie!

Start to Finish:45 min
makes:4 dozen cookies


1/2 cup granulated sugar
1/2 cup packed brown sugar
1/2 cup butter, softened
1/3 cup plain yogurt or oil
2 eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla
2 1/4 cups flour
1/2 cup baking cocoa
1 1/2 teaspoons baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup dark or semisweet chocolate chips
2 cups frozen raspberries -- partially thawed (or tart apples, strawberries & lemon juice)
2 cup oats

1 Heat oven to 350°F. Spray cookie sheets with cooking spray. In large bowl, beat sugars, butter and yogurt with electric mixer on low speed until blended. Beat in eggs and vanilla.

2 Beat in flour, cocoa, baking soda and salt until well blended. Mix in 2 cups raspberries until well blended. Stir in oats and chocolate chips. Drop by heaping tablespoon size about 2 inches apart onto cookie sheets.

3 Bake 10 to 12 minutes or until set.


Nutrition Facts User Entered Recipe
50 Servings
Amount Per Serving
Calories
91.4
Total Fat
4.4 g
Saturated Fat
2.0 g
Polyunsaturated Fat
0.6 g
Monounsaturated Fat
1.7 g
Cholesterol
13.5 mg
Sodium
65.3 mg
Potassium
58.6 mg
Total Carbohydrate
13.5 g
Dietary Fiber
1.2 g
Sugars
3.9 g
Protein
1.3 g

Orange Pineapple Jello Salad

This is one of my favorite dishes when visiting my Nana's! Thank you Nana!

1 Package Orange Jello
1 small can crushed pineapple
1 Cool whip

Drain pineapple and set aside. Prepare jello according to package. When jello is NEARLY set stir in pineapple and cool whip. Let set for another 1-2 hours.

Make a double batch for a huge bowl of light-fluffy-goodness at a potluck!



Nutrition Facts
User Entered Recipe
12 Servings Per Recipe
Amount Per Serving
Calories
94.1
Total Fat
2.5 g
Saturated Fat
2.1 g
Polyunsaturated Fat
0.1 g
Monounsaturated Fat
0.2 g
Cholesterol
0.4 mg
Sodium
47.7 mg
Potassium
70.0 mg
Total Carbohydrate
17.3 g
Dietary Fiber
0.3
Sugars
16.8 g
Protein
1.3