Totally forgot to drop some super secret sexy recipes for holidays coming up!
Chocolate Peanut Butter Fudge
I'm NOT a huge fudge fan.. but this is pretty indulgent and it isn't overbearingly sweet. My versions are listed below. I double the recipe so that it has some substance. Still, when calculated, splitting the doubled recipe up among 6 servings is 147 calories a serving (this is calculated for the second recipe listed).
The current recipe being eaten in the house:
4 tbsp melted coconut butter
4 tbsp speculoos cookie butter
1 package hot cocoa powder
1 pinch of salt (or a few shakes of a slow-pouring salt shaker)
1 very ripe banana
2 packets turbinado sugar
Basically shove all that into a food processor or blender of some sort, and blend on high until well incorporated. Then dump it into a container, stick it in the fridge until it's hardened. (I don't have coconut oil on hand to play with.. but I'd bet near anything taking a 3 tbsp coconut butter and 1 tbsp coconut oil would produce a harder product with some substance to it if you didn't want it so gooey ish and more hardened fudge like. Or just shove that shit in the freezer.)
What I'll be making for Thanksgiving:
4 tbsp melted coconut butter (like 10-15 seconds in the microwave usually does it)
2 tbsp hazelnut spread
2 tbsp peanut butter
2 tbsp cacao powder
2 tbsp cocoa powder
1 very ripe banana
1 pinch salt
A slight dash vanilla extract
1 packet turbinado sugar
a handful of Guittard 63% dark chocolate chips. (These are my favorite chocolate chips in the whole world ever ever.)
Blend it all up, dump it in a small serving container, and sprinkle chocolate chips on top. Stick in the fridge till ready to be served.
More rich chocolate/peanut butter flavor to mask the banana since three people in my household aren't fans of banana. (How?!)
Finally, because ice cream is super awesome, frozen yogurt ice cream without a stupid ice cream maker:
Large gallon ziplock bag.
Literally any recipe you want for ice cream ever. Frozen yogurt flavors abound the internets. I went with egg nog flavor and used coconut milk nog from so delicious and mixed it with plain yogurt and some vanilla beans and sugar. Swish that alllll together nice and blended like, sealing all of the air out of it first!, and then lay it super flat like a sheet of milky creamy goodness. Freeze it for a few hours, until it's rock solid!
Then, without opening it, bend it like you're trying to break apart some scratch off tickets perforated together. Bust it up in the bag into chunks, and dump it into a blender/food processor, and blend those chunks up into a creamy nice soft serve. You can serve it like that, or you can go on and dump it into a container, seal it with plastic wrap (making sure the plastic wrap touches the product top and doesn't leave that air gap over the top.. alternatively, a container that fills up right up to the top with a lid) and stick it in the fridge for just an hour or two. Voila. Ice cream.
One food processor, one ziplock bag, and two recipes later you've got some fancy healthy desserts to eat with that pumpkin pie for pretty cheap.