Blueberry Chocolate Chip Cookies

Dang sweets. Ok... not really.I love sweets. I decided to try these lovelies. Being as they have fresh blueberries in them and all. They were pretty good! I admit- I ate about 90% of them. I'm weak, don't judge me. 

This would be a fun dessert to make with kids! It comes out purple!

PS- I'll have a fish taco recipe tomorrow. I would eat desserts all day and everyday, if they wouldnt hate me in return.. Check back tomorrow!

Prep: 15 minutes

Cook time: 25 minutes

Total: 40 minutes

Serves: 15 (Mine made 17) 

INGREDIENTS

2 cups blueberries

1 cup walnuts (I didn’t have walnuts in the house so I used pecans)

2 tablespoons walnut oil (or almond or coconut oil- I used walnut oil- since I bought it special for this recipe- but then found out I didn’t have any walnuts when I got home. Doh.)

1.5 cup almond flour

1/3 cup dark chocolate chips

3 tablespoon maple syrup

1 egg, whisked

1 tablespoon cinnamon

1 teaspoon vanilla extract

1/4 teaspoon baking soda

Dash of salt

DIRECTIONS

Preheat your oven to 350 degrees 

Place the two cups of blueberries in a saucepan over medium heat and cook for 6-8 minutes, make sure to stir often  

While your blueberries cook, toss your walnuts (pecans) to your food processor and puree until they are turning into a thick nut butter 

While your food processor is still running, add your walnut oil to make a walnut butter 

Add your blueberries to your food processor with your walnuts. Puree until they are completely mixed together (careful those blueberries are hot!)

2 TBS will make big cookies!

Pour your batter into a large bowl and add the remaining ingredients and mix well

Use a spoon (I used a TBS measuring cup) to scoop out 1-2 tablespoon sized blob of batter. Place each blob on a parchment paper lined cookie sheet

Bake for 23 – 25 minutes. Your cookies will be soft, so they may not look done- but they will be! 

Let cool. Mine stuck a bit when I tried to move them to a container. Try using a soft flipper or spatula

 Enjoy!

-- All the Best!

Recipe: www.paleomg.com (LOVE this blog!!)

Banana Maple Soft Serve Ice Cream

Soft serve ice cream is perfect for these hot days! This is a great, quick dessert for get-togethers. They won’t even know its Paleo. So if you have friends like we do who ask us if we are still doing that “Paleo diet thing”- this will go over great!

Back in February, I posted a story about Yonanas! (Check it out HERE) This kind of fits in with that concept- except you use a food processor instead of the Yonanas! contraption.

I usually double all of the recipes- even if I am the only one eating. Leftovers are awesome.

Prep: 5 minutes

Total: 5 minutes

Serves: 1  

INGREDIENTS 

1 banana, peeled and put in freezer until frozen

1-2 tablespoons maple syrup

1 tablespoon sunbutter (I used almond butter)

1 teaspoon cinnamon

Splash of coconut or almond milk 

DIRECTIONS

This is a lighter color version. Yours may come out darker.
Thats ok!

*Peel your banana(s) and freeze- It won’t work if you don’t freeze them!

Break your banana into pieces - toss that - and the rest of your ingredients into your food processor 

Blend until smooth  

Top with nuts or unsweetened shredded coconut (or whatever you would like). I tossed a couple dark chocolate chips in with it.

I ♥ dark chocolate!

*It will be stupid hard to peel after you freeze the banana(s). Remove the peel before freezing! 

Enjoy!

-- All the Best!

Recipe: www.paleomg.com

Paleo Chocolate Chip Cookies

Yes. It is 8:56 a.m. and I am having one of these amazing treats. Don't judge me.

I would never lie to you. These are seriously some of the best cookies I've had. They taste just like "normal" chocolate chip cookies. Add a small glass of coconut milk and it will take you away on whatever dream world you want to go on. Or at least it will make you smile and solve your sweet tooth.  It's the simple things that make us happy. This is a very simple recipe = me happy!
 
PREP: 10 minutes

Cook time: 15 - 20 minutes

Total: 25 - 30 minutes 

Makes between 24 - 36 cookies. If you do the TBS scoops, it'll make closer to 36!

INGREDIENTS  

Pictures never do justice!

1 tsp Baking Soda

1 tsp Salt

1 tsp Pure Vanilla Extract

1 ½ cup Dark Chocolate Chips

1/2 cup Coconut Oil, Organic, unrefined

1/2 cup Maple Syrup, Grade B

2 whole Eggs

3 cup Blanched Almond Flour 

DIRECTIONS

Preheat oven to 375°F

In a medium-sized mixing bowl combine dry ingredients

In a small mixing bowl beat eggs, maple syrup, and vanilla extract with a hand mixer (I used a spoon on my second batch- worked just fine)

Pour wet ingredients into dry and beat with hand mixer until combined (again, used a spoon and it worked)

Melt coconut oil, pour into batter, and continue to blend (stir) until combined

Stir in chocolate chips. It may seem like there are way too many chocolate chips with how much dough there is - but it is the perfect amount. Besides, is there really ever a scenario that there's too many chocoate chips?? If so. We may not be friends anymore

On a parchment-lined baking sheet, drop balls of cookie dough, about a tablespoon in size

Bake for 15 - 20 minutes. Keep watch. I set the oven for 15 then bumped it up 4 more minutes just to get a nice crisp on the outside

Let cool and don’t forget the small glass of coconut milk!

Enjoy!

-- All the Best

Recipe from: http://beta.primal-palate.com/recipe/chocolate-chip-cookies/