For those of you in the Owatanna, MN area, I am holding a Maximize Your Metabolism class on Wednesday November 7th from 6-8pm. To sign up please email: DKARAUS@owatonna.k12.mn.us
I will be bringing treats!
This was the first time the boys experienced carving pumpkins! It was so fun watching their reactions of the whole process of digging out the guts. I was right about my assumptions... Kai loved it (and wanted to eat it!) and Micah wanted to wash his hands after every scoop!
My dad's favorite Christmas cookie is the Italian Wedding Cookies. I thought... hmmm, we can make these into cute little pumpkins!
"HEALTHIFIED" PUMPKIN BALLS
3/4 cups butter or coconut oil
1/2 cup powdered Swerve (or erythritol powdered and 1 tsp stevia glycerite)
1 1/2 cups blanched almond flour
1/2 cup powdered Swerve (or erythritol powdered and 1 tsp stevia glycerite)
1 1/2 cups blanched almond flour
6 TBS coconut flour1/4 tsp Celtic sea salt
1 tsp pumpkin pie spice
1 cup chopped pecans
2 tsp vanilla
Natural orange food coloring
Pepitas (shelled pumpkin seeds)
Beat butter with powdered sweetener, add flours, salt, pumpkin pie spice, nuts and vanilla and mix well. Roll into balls about a tablespoon in size. Place a pepita into the top of each cookie for the "stem". Bake at 300 for 15-20 minutes. Makes 48 cookies.
NOTE: Not all coconut flours are created equal. My suggestion is to bake one cookie first. If the cookie flattens too much and doesn't look like a pumpkin, add 1 TBS more of coconut flour and try again until you get a nice round pumpkin shape.
NUTRITIONAL COMPARISON (per cookie)
Traditional Cookie = 74 calories, 6.2g fat, 0.6g protein, 5g carbs, trace fiber (5 effective carbs)
"Healthified" Cookie = 65 calories, 6.2g fat, 1.1g protein, 1.4g carbs, 0.8g fiber (0.6 effective carbs)
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