Nutella Cookies

Heyo

I found a recipe online for no-bake nutella cookies, but they were full of sugar. Which sounded like a challenge: make some healthy nutella cookies. now nutella isn't that healthy to begin with. Despite its health-food status, it's really just fudgy, frosting. But you can't have nutella cookies with out nutella(literally, you can't) so I vowed to make it as healthy as I could.

Normally the first thing I would do is substitute splenda for sugar, but because no-bake cookies are mixed on a stove-top(I find it ironic that no-bake recipes almost always require a stove) that was out. So what to put in instead? tru-via? agave? I had options but I was leery about substituting a liquid for a solid... Unless I reduced the amount of butter.... less butter is good. So agave it was.

The second thing to is get rid of some butter... but wait, we already did! Problem solved!

Healthy Nutella No-Bakes: 
     (makes 12 cookies)
3T agave
2T milk
1t+1/2t cocoa( you can try subbing chocolate protien powder if you wish)
2T peanut butter
3T nutella (I cut the original recipes amount in half)
1c rolled oats

In a saucepan mix the agave, milk and cocoa powder over medium low heat and mix until combined. stir in peanut butter and nutella until melted, then stir in the oats. mix thoroughly and reduce heat to low. quickly spoon cookies onto a parchment paper lined cookie sheet. Refrigerate for 30 min.

These cookies came out even fudgyer then the original

Nutrition Info:
Calories: 67 per cookie
Fat: 3g
     saturated fat: >1g
Carbs: 8g
     sugar: 3g
Protien: 2g

Question of the Day:
What do you like to do on your days off?
Today is NEOEA day so no school for me! I get to spend it baking :) I'm even taking a vegan cooking class later today!

Banana Peanut Butter Pie

Hello cookie crumbs

 Bananas and peanut butter and chocolate and peanut butter and chocolate and bananas and deliciousness. The best part? you don't have to bake it! No wait! The best part is my mom hates peanut butter(the weirdo :P) and banana (double weirdo!) and my dad thought it looked weird so wouldn't try it, which means this beauty was all mine!

Peanut Butter Pie :

as baked by Chocolate-Covered Katie

     (Can be gluten and sugar-free)

Crust (its chocolate):
     (gluten-free!)
1 tbsp cocoa powder (or cacao powder)
1/4 cup raw cashews (or almonds, walnuts, pecans, or macadamia nuts)(I used almonds)
1/4 cup shredded coconut (unsweetened )(I subbed in extra almonds)
1/16 tsp salt
1/4 cup pitted dates(or prunes or raisins) (4 small dates/prunes)

Combine all ingredients in a food processor and blend. Then transfer to a 7-in baking dish or aluminum pan. Using a piece of wax or parchment paper(or a spoon, cause I'm to lazy to get out wax paper), smush into the pan and pour desired filling on top or refrigerate until ready to use. Feel free to increase recipe size for a bigger pie.

Filling:
1 cup peanut butter (Or another nut butter, or Sunbutter)
3 medium bananas (
2 tsp pure vanilla extract
1/8 tsp salt
1/4 cup virgin coconut oil, melted (Can sub with 1/4 cup canola oil) (or extra pb; the texture will just change)
3-4 tbsp powdered sugar, or liquid sweetener (such as pure maple syrup)

Blend everything together very, very well. If you want a deeper-dish pie, use: 1 1/2 c peanut butter, 4 1/2 bananas, 1 tbsp vanilla, a little over 1/8 tsp salt, 1/4c plus 2 tbsp coconut oil, and 5 tbsp powdered sugar.

Freeze until firm. (If not using the coconut oil, just chill in the fridge instead.) Pie should be kept cold; I kept it in the fridge(no coconut oil here) but you can put it in the freezer. Just thaw before eating, and the mousse-like texture will come back. WARNING: I kept my pie in the fridge (I omitted the coconut oil) and because of the banana what was open to the air did turn brown, but it still tastes the same. a.k.a delicious.

I bet you could even put some chocolate chips in if you wanted! the original nutritional info I had for this pie incorrectly calculated it at 170 calories and I didn't notice until just now that it was wrong. But hey, this is still good for you. It has peanut butter, and happiness, how is that unhealthy?

 Calories: (for 12 slices) 230
 Fat: 18g (mostly healthy fats from the nuts)
 Carbs: 15g
     sugar: 7g
Protein: 6.5g

Question Of The Day:
Do you have dessert often, or just on special occasions?
 I find so many recipes that there's usually one around.