Black Bean Fudge Cookies

Yes I am on a roll with these black beans: burgers, brownies, bites...
 and why not, they are awesome!

I feel so adventures and somewhat edgy when I pour beans into baked-goods batter;

So let's just say its the foodie adrenaline rush that keeps me going.

And a good thing, eh?

 Fudgy, Chocolate, Healthy, Cookies.

 Nothing more needs to be said. 

Ingredients: 
makes 24 cookies
 
1 can black beans
1/4 cup apple sauce
1/4 cup honey or agave
1/2 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
1/4 tsp salt
1 tsp vanilla
3 packets truvia (or 1/4 cup sugar or agave/honey)
1/2 tsp baking powder

Directions: 
Preheat oven 350 F. 
Line a 2 baking sheets with parchment paper
Pour everything into a food processor and and blend until smooth and creamy.
Spoon ~1tbs of wet mixture onto parchment paper and smooth out into a cookie shape. Repeat until pans are full.

Bake for 8-10 min.
Let cook on pan for 3 min--helps firm up.

The recipe is gluten and dairy free but if you don't have those dietary restrictions I encourage you to melt some chocolate on top  of them to experience ultimate chocolate bliss.

ENJOY!!!!

 Nutrition Information

 Serving: 1 cookie

29 cal * 7 carbs * 0g sat fat * 1g protein *1g fiber

Oat Drop Cookies

 

No sugar, No eggs, No butter. 

When I saw the recipe for these on Shape magazine I was all for it! 

They have 10 delicious healthy and easy-to-make cookies for the healthy-minded foodies--ME!

You can find them all HERE.

I decided to make these for last minute Downtown Abby watching party and they were a perfect pair for the tea! 

I took the original recipe and made two different types of cookies in one batch: Sweet Cranberry Oat Drops, and Cinnamon Raisin Oat drops. All I did was make the base*, cut it in half, and add the "extra" ingredients I wanted to make them unique.

These are healthy enough to eat for breakfast---no joke.

Easy bake, no mistake. 

Ingredients
*Base
2 cups rolled oats
1/3 cup applesauce
3 very ripe bananas
1/2 tsp salt
1tbs ground flaxseed
1 tsp vanilla extract

Sweet Cranberry
2-3 tbs dried cranberries

Cinnamon Raisin
2-3 tbs raisins
1 tsp cinnamon

Directions:
Smash bananas in a small bowl. Add vanilla and apple sauce and mix well. Add in oats,salt, and flaxseed and mix until well incorporated.
Divide dough in half--I just pushed half of the dough to the side of the bowl.
Fold in dried cranberries to one half of  dough.
Fold in 1 tsp cinnamon and raisin in the other half of the dough.

On a parchment lined baking sheet, press out drops of dough into cookie shapes.

Bake for 20 min-until edges are golden brown.

ENJOY!!!!

Healthy Oatmeal Raisin Cookies

These are my husband's favorite kind of cookies. Ever since I turned healthy foodie I have tried many different recipes for these loved cookies, and of course some yummy hits and some major misses. 

These ones are adapted from Nick Malgieri's cookies and are one of my favorite. 

Chewy, soft, and healthy. Need I say more?

Ingredients: 
1/2 cup wheat flour
1/2 cup white flour
1 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 cup brown sugar, packed
2 tbs butter (I used parkay)
1 large egg
1/2 cup applesauce
1 tsp vanilla
1 1/3 cup oats
1/2 cup raisins, packed

Directions:
Preheat oven 375 degrees
Line a cookie sheet with parchment paper

Option 1
Whisk flour, baking soda, baking powder, salt in a small bowl

In large bull cream butter and sugar together then add egg, vanilla, and applesauce. 

Blend dry into wet ingredients and blend in oats and raisins. 

Option 2 (I did this one) 
In a stand mixer cream butter an sugar. Then add egg, vanilla and applesauce and blend well. 
Add in 1/2 cup white flour. Blend well. Add 1/2 cup wheat flour, baking soda and powder, and salt. Blend well. 

With a spatula fold in oats and raisins.

Spoon our cookie dough 2 inch apart from each other. gently press down with a fork.

Bake for 10-12 min. Lightly golden. 

Cool then enjoy!!!!

 Nutrition Information:

Making 22 cookies; serving size: 1 cookie

70 cals * 15 carb * 0 sat fat * 2 g protein * 1 g fiber

Healthy Cheesecake Pudding Cookies

Hubby LOVES anything Cheesecake flavored. I had Cheesecake flavored pudding. So I made cookies! Healthy ones!

Ingredients

• 1/2 cup wheat flour
• 1/2 cup white flour
• 2/3 cup sugar
• 1/8 tsp salt
• 1 pkg SF/FF cheesecake flavored pudding
• 1/4 cup butter (I used parkay)
• 1/4 cup unsweetened apple sauce
• 1 tsp vanilla extract
• 1 large egg

*optional: 1/4 cup dried cranberries.

Directions

Preheat oven to 350

Mix dry ingredients in medium bowl. Mix wet ingredients in small bowl. Blend wet ingredients into dry.
Spoon out dough (about 1 tbs) and place on baking sheet.

Bake for 8-10 min, or until cookies have golden edges.

ENJOY!!!!

p.s. I like the dried cranberry ones better, but both were SUPER fluffy and delicious! :)

Nutrition: 76 cal * 15 carbs * 0 fat * 1g protein *