Healthy Cookies, TWO versions!

I've been watching my calorie intake for two weeks now. I LOVE sweets. Its very hard for me to say no. If its in the house I eat it. I was browsing FB the other day and saw a banana and oatmeal 'cookie', and thought hey that sounds good, and then a day later saw that a friend had made them and she said they were good.

So I went off to make them.

The kids LOVED them. 'Mommy these are so good, you have to make these everyday!'

This was the recipe I found online.

Today I didn't have banana's and was craving something sweetish. So I went to see what I could find.
I found a can of pumpkin puree and some cinn applesauce. And then I started mixing.

This is the recipe I came up with:

Pumpkin Oat Cookies

1 cup quick oats
1 cup pumpkin puree
1/2 cup cinnamon applesauce
1/8 tsp maple flavoring
1/8 tsp vanilla extract
a dash of cinnamon
a dash of nutmeg
1/2 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips, mini....see note below for other alternatives

Mix together and place on a greased cookie sheet, smash a bit down in small circles about the size of golf balls.

Makes 15 cookies.

Nutrition info per cookie
Calories: 69.3
Fat: 2.6
Sugar: 6.3
Carbs: 11.3
Protein: 1.5
Fiber: 1.3
Sodium: 6

This is a great alternative to the normal cookie. Can be used as breakfast also. Very healthy. Can use just about anything in them, raisins, craisins, nuts...

If you try these, come back and let me know how you like them!

ROTW: ReeRee Pockets, Dessert Style!

Morning Everyone! Hope all is well where ever you are. Its very dreary out here today....

I made ReeRee Pockets again this week, only I put a dessert in them instead of a main meal! They were pretty good, not as good as what I had thought in my head they were going to taste like, but for a quick simple small dessert, this will do!

I used peaches, because that is what I had in the fridge, this would be really good with apples, or even a mix of berries....maybe even a cream cheese filling with some simple vanilla beans, and a berry sauce. There really are just so many options when it comes to making this!

You can find the original recipe here, and its variations are also in that post as well!

Take a peach, skin it, slice it thin.

Add in some brown sugar, cinnamon, and a tiny bit of flour, this shouldn't be runny, more like a paste.

Take your crescent roll and flatten it out...

 Top with about three to four slices of your peach mixture and add a tiny slice of butter.

Roll them up and pinch sides...

 In your bowl that had the peaches in it and the 'paste' of b. sugar and cinn. and flour....add in some more brown sugar, melted butter, and some heavy whipping cream, mix together.

Pour mixture over top of pockets...and bake at 330 degrees for about 25-30 minutes, or until golden brown.

Don't these look divine?

I served mine with ice cream....yummy!


Imagine a yummy vanilla bean cream cheese filling with a warm berry sauce, or an apple filling-like apple dumplings (Pioneer Woman has a recipe very similar to this it uses mountain dew, OMG is it ever good!) or a berry filling, with a caramel sauce.....Oh the possibilities!

Cake Pops anyone?

Remember my post a few days ago? Well I said I would give you the recipe for it. Here it is.
Make a cake, any flavor. I chose Red Velvet. take it out of the oven, let it cool for about 30-45 minutes, or until you think you can handle it without burning yourself.

Crumble the cake into a bowl, making sure there are no large pieces....I trimmed off the edges of the cake before 'crumbing' it. Add in about half a can of frosting, or the equivalent if you make your own, about 1 cup probably.

Mix up. Should be moist, but not too too moist...the fluffier the mix the better it will ball up and the lighter it will be, so it doesn't fall down your pop sticks, creating 'stripper' cake pops, as my friend Whitney called them.

I found it easier and less messy to refrigerate the mix before balling it up. roll them into ping pong size balls and stick them with a pop stick. set on wax paper. I made mine like golf balls....bad idea, the more weight they are the heavier they will be, and then you'll end up with stripper balls, lol....

Then throw them in the freezer...I left mine in overnight.

I then dipped them in WHITE ( I can't color this font or you won't see it, lol) almond bark, that I melted in the microwave, and dipped them in Blue sprinkles, ran out of the blue sprinkles so then i used red and mixed what was left of the blue in....

Red, White and Blue cake pops for the Fourth of July!

Some combo's that I think will be awesome, are German chocolate cake, and the pecan coconut frosting with chocolate almond bark and some chopped pecans...

Funfetti with white frosting with chocolate almond bark and sprinkles....

Strawberry cake with strawberry icing, and tinted pink white almond bark (or white chocolate candy melts that are pink, because i don't think you can add any liquid to the almond bark) and some dried strawberries...

the combos are endless, really....

If you try these, send me the pictures.....I want to see them!

And here a little boy who thought they were delicious:

My neighbor stole the rest of them while cleaning up, His wife told on him, she said he ate one every morning till about a week afterwards, lol....