Healthy Nutter Butter Cookies

Happy belated CNY! Made some nutter butter inspired cookies this morning. I still have a few to let my relatives sample tomorrow yay! Peanut flavoured and shaped cookies filled with peanut butter cream! Mmmm. Have not made any successful CNY cookies yet so I guess these'll do :) Peanut is 花生 in Chinese and it represents health and long life! Make these for your friends and family, after all Chinese New Year isn't over just yet.

I'm so proud of these, they really are mega healthy. Dairy free, gluten free, egg free (for vegans), processed sugar free and so cute ~~~ 

I used buckwheat flour but you can also use a gluten free flour blend and leave out the tbsp of water! 

I was actually worried using chunky peanut butter would give me an ugly cookie but it turned out fine :) I still recommend creamy pb though. 

What you'll need 

Cookies:

2 tbsp creamy peanut butter 

2 tbsp honey (vegans: use any vegan liquid sweetener) 

1 tbsp water

1/4 tsp vanilla extract

Juice from a small lemon wedge 

1/4 tsp baking soda

1/2 cup buckwheat flour 

Filling:

2 tbsp peanut flour

Water

How to 

1. Mix wet ingredients together. 

2. Mix buckwheat flour and baking soda together. Pour wet into dry mixture and combine well.

Preheat oven to 180C

3. Form the dough into 16 equal portions. Roll each portion into an oval and flatten. Make the middle part slightly thinner. Squeeze the centre to give it a peanut shape, use a toothpick to make the horizontal and vertical lines across the surface. 

4. Bake for about 13 min and cool. Mix 2 tbsp peanut flour with just enough water to get a creamy peanut butter consistency. 

Tip: Add water a little at a time! 

5. When cookies are cooled spread 1/2 tsp of peanut cream filling on the back of one cookie and top with another cookie :)

Enjoy!!

Reese's Pizza Pockets

Peanut butter and chocolate. I just never get sick of this combination. These Reese's pizza pockets are wonderful if you're like me. Peanut butter chocolate chip deliciousness wrapped up in cinnamon spiced pizza dough, baked to perfection and drizzled with maple sweetened chocolate syrup. 

Delicious fresh out of the oven. But today I had one chilled and it was really yummy too. Although I forgot to add sweetener to the filling, it turned out perfect, to me. If you prefer things sweeter sub the 1 tbsp of water in the filling with 1 tbsp of maple syrup. Also feel free to add more cacao nibs! Cacao nibs can be subbed with dark chocolate chips :) 

Can't take dairy? Sub cottage cheese with something of a similar consistency like mashed banana or something! You can even omit that and just add more peanut flour and pb and water ☺️ 

What you'll need

Pizza dough: 

1/2 cup whole-wheat flour

1/2 tsp quick-rising yeast

1/4 tsp cinnamon

1/3 teaspoon honey/brown rice syrup

5.5 tbsp water,

1 tsp coconut oil

Peanut butter filling: 

1 tbsp peanut butter 

1/4 cup peanut flour 

1/4 cup Cottage cheese

1 tbsp water

1 tbsp water OR maple syrup 

1 rounded tsp cacao nibs

Beaten egg

Chocolate syrup:

1 tbsp maple syrup 

1 tsp cocoa powder 

1. Mix flour, yeast and cinnamon together. 

2. Make a well in dry ingredients and pour 2 tbsp water, oil and brown rice syrup in. Knead. Add the rest of the water in tbsp by tbsp, just enough that you can form a ball of dough. Let the dough proof for 20 minutes. If the dough is sticky add flour, if it's dry and water! 

3. Make filling by mixing all the filling ingredients together.

4. Now roll out dough on some wax paper into a 6 x 6 inch square. Cut it into 6 squares. Then roll each piece out somemore until it's about 0.1-0.2 cm thick. 

Preheat oven to 230C. 

5. Fill up the pieces with the filling. Dampen the inner edges with water, Fold the squares over into triangles, and press down with a fork to seal. 

6. Brush lightly with beaten egg. Bake for 12 min. 

7. Mix sauce ingredients together (takes a bit of stirring) and drizzle over! Then stuff your face. 

P.S don't waste the egg. Please eat it after!

PBJ Twice Baked Sweet Potatoes

So a while back I made these savory twice baked sweet potato. It was absolutely divine. Here is the sweet version of it :) I'm sorry this isn't a very creative flavour haha. Like I said on instagram, this tastes like a PBJ sandwich in a sweet potato! Doesn't that sound good? (you're meant to say yes). Anyway let me know if you guys try this one out :D

What you'll need
1 200g sweet potato (though you only need half)
1 tbsp peanut butter
1 tbsp cottage cheese
1 tbsp strawberry jam (I used st dalfour)
1/4 tsp cinnamon

Chopped strawberries
1 tbsp peanut flour mixed with water (not crucial)

How to
1. Wash and scrub your sweet potato. Poke holes in the skin. Bake in a preheated oven at 190C for 1h.
2. Scoop out the insides and mash with peanut butter, cottage cheese, strawberry jam and cinnamon.
3. Spoon mash back into sweet potato skin.
4. Bake for 15min more.
5. Drizzle with peanut flour sauce and chopped strawberries.

Breakfast "Sushi"

Saw this idea like last year but I'm only trying it out now. This recipe is so easy, versatile and fun to make. It's like sushi except the seaweed is a wholemeal wrap and the fillings are sweet :) I used a classic combination of strawberries, bananas and peanut butter but feel free to change it up and be creative!

What you'll need

1 wholemeal wrap 

1/4 cup peanut flour OR some peanut butter

1/2 banana 

3 strawberries 

How to

1. Slice fruit length wise. 

2. Mix peanut flour with water. Skip step if you are using normal peanut butter.

3. Spread peanut flour butter or peanut butter on to wrap. 

4. Arrange fruit on the peanut butter-y surface and roll up. 

5. Slice and serve with yogurt as "mayonnaise" and chia seeds as um sesame seeds? 

Fluffy Elvis Pancakes

Apparently, Elvis Presley loved peanut butter, banana and bacon sandwiches. So here we have it. Elvis pancakes! Fluffy vanilla maple pancakes layered with turkey bacon and banana coins, drizzled with peanut butter sauce. MMM. I promise you can't taste the cauliflower in the pancakes, plus they make the pancakes so fluffayyyy. I didn't even use baking powder! 

What you'll need

1 egg

1 egg white

1/3 cup oats

1/4 cup steamed cauliflower

1/4 tsp vanilla extract

1 tbsp maple syrup

2 slices reduced fat, low sodium turkey bacon

1/2 banana, sliced

2 tbsp peanut flour 

How to

1. Blend oats and cauliflower together to a paste. Add in eggs, vanilla and maple syrup. Blend everything together into a batter. 

2. Fry the bacon in a non stick pan. Do not use oil as the bacon is already oily. 

3. Use the bacon oil leftover in the pan to fry your pancakes. Over low heat, spoon 3 tbsp of batter onto the pan. Cook both sides of the pancake. Repeat 3 times to get 3 pancakes!

4. Layer pancakes with banana and bacon. 

5. Stir peanut flour with water to get a sauce, and drizzle over pancakes. 

2 Ingredient Peanut Butter Crepes

2 Ingredients?? Oh my goodness it doesn't get easier than this haha. And so versatile. To this basic recipe, you can add cinnamon, a sweetener like maple syrup, cocoa powder, vanilla extract or anything your heart desires ^.^ Please go ahead and try it out I'm sure you have the ingredients in your kitchen! Makes 2-3 crepes.

Ingredients

1 egg 

1 tbsp creamy peanut butter 

2 tbsp water 

How to 

1. Beat everything together well. I suggest beating the egg and water and then working in the peanut butter :) 

2. Heat some oil in a pan over medium heat.

3. Pour some batter on to the pan and spread it out evenly in a thing layer. Cook. Flip. Cook the other side. And repeat for the rest of the crepes! 

 

Peanut butter cup mugcake

Ever wanted to eat a giant peanut butter cup? Now you can! This isn't for my ebook because I don't want everything in there to be peanut butter and chocolate flavoured! Haha. You can taste the apple sauce a little but it doesn't bother me ^^

Ingredients
1/4 cup oats
1/4 cup apple sauce
1 egg
1 tbsp honey
1 tbsp unsweetened cocoa powder
3/4 tbsp peanut butter

Method
1) Blend oats into oat flour.
2) Add apple sauce, egg, honey, cocoa powder and blend somemore.
3) Pour into a mug and drop the peanut butter into the centre of the batter.
4) Microwave 2.5 - 3min and flip out onto a plate.
5) I topped mine with chocolate peanut flour butter :-)

You can probably sub apple sauce with other wet ingredients such as mashed banana, pumpkin purée etc! Enjoy!

Peanut butter s'mores ice cream

Hi guys finally a recipe! Haha. I decided to jazz up my (almost) daily cottage cheese and pb ice cream and I got this! YUMTOWN. Didn't measure so this is an estimation ~

Ingredients
1/2 cup cottage cheese
2 tbs peanut flour
Water
1/2 tbs cocoa powder
1/2 tbs honey
3 sugar free marshmallows
1 tbs chopped pecans

Method
1) Mix all ingredients together. Add the water until you reach your desired texture.

Peanut Butter and Chocolate Stuffed Baked Banana

Hi all! Had this post workout the yesterday and it was delish! Really easy too.

All you need is:

Microwave cake diaries

Hello! Ever since my first microwaved mug muffin, I've made many different variations. The ingredients and steps for microwave cakes are usually really short which is why it seemed pointless to do a post for every one that I made. So in this post I'll be compiling all my successful microwave cake recipes for you guys. & in total (-: I like to make them in different shapes so I use mini baking pans mugs and bowls. That's why I can't call this post the mug muffin diaries ): Basic instructions for all the microwave cakes: Beat egg, add other ingredients and microwave for 2.5-3 min! Sweeteners are optional for all these microwave goodies! Feel free to play around and come up with your own recipes. Loads of fun I promise!

1) Chocolate cupcake

My first microwave cake! Posted this before 

Ingredients: 1 banana, 1 egg, 1 tbs cocoa powder, 1/4 tsp vanilla extract

PBJ French toast dippers

I looove French toast! This is a fun twist on French toast that you can make using the simplest ingredients :)

I use water over milk because I'm trying to take less dairy now (: You can google the benefits of a dairy free diet if you wish. But basically 75% of people are lactose intolerant, calcium in dairy isn't as good for you as you thought and dairy can actually be harmful.

Clean Baked Beans

After a day out shopping with my mum for a Chinese New Year dress, I came home and whipped up some healthy baked beans and served it with pb stuffed cinnamon chicken (to welcome pb back into my life. Lol call me crazy).

Choconana peanut butter foldover

You know when I know something is good? When I take a gazillion photos of it and I'm unable to short list them. Picture spam in this post. I just HAD to capture all the angles of this dark chocolate and peanut butter stuffed, banana pancake fold over.

Coconut crusted stuffed french toast

Here's a random old recipe I never shared! It's coconut crusted French toast stuffed with chocolate peanut flour butter and topped with raspberry compote :) It's really good and I had a foodgasm eating it. Don't know why I never posted it up here lol. Maybe I didn't even have this blog then!! Omg I should post my older recipes up here??

Low carb peanut protein pancakes

Now you can have pancakes on low carb days! Honestly this is my favourite recipe I've ever invented on my own. Couldn't make myself wait till tomorrow to post. 3 ingredients only! It's high protein, low carb, super simple, healthy and tastes amazing :) What more can you ask for? Nutrition facts are as follows.

For entire recipe (2 pancakes)
Calories: 168
Carbs: 8g
Protein: 19g
Fiber: 2g
Sugars: 4g
Fat: 8g
Sat fat: 2g

Ready for the real recipe?

Ingredients
•2 tbs cottage cheese
•2 tbs peanut flour (love peanut flour!)
•1 egg

Method
1) Mix ingredients in a bowl in this order: eggs, peanut flour cottage cheese
2) Fry it like a normal pancake and dig in!

This is me digging in:

Mine was topped with chocolate yogurt sauce and a strawberry!

*please note that this is a fairly small portion*