Healthy Chocolate Chip Muffins

Chocolate chocolate chip muffins are BIG winners in this house. Sometimes it's nice when things you want to eat aren't things that are terrible for you...

• 3/4 cup unsweetened applesauce
• 1/4 cup Truvia baking blend
• 1/4 cup honey
• 2 large egg whites (or 1 large egg)
• 3/4 cup plain yogurt
• 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
• 1 cup all-purpose flour
• 1/2 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 1/2 cup mini chocolate chips, plus a few more for sprinkling on top

You mix the wet ingredients. Mix the dry ingredients with a whisk to break up any clumps. Blend the wet and the dry but don't over mix. 

I used a greased 6 large muffin tin and Baked @ 400 for 15 min 

Amazingly Simple Nutella Cookies

If you've been anywhere near the Food and Drinks tab on Pinterest you've probably seen this recipe about a trillion times. It could not be easier and makes me feel slightly less bad about my eating habits than eating the Nutella off a spoon like I usually do.

I buy my Nutella and BJs so I had the industrial size jar in my cabinet, so I figured why not make a double batch (the fact that the first round out of the oven didn't even make it to the cooling rack confirmed this as an awesome idea).

2 cups Nutella
2 eggs
2 cups flour
*the original recipe calls for a half cup of sugar, or 1 full cup in this case. But as someone with a pretty wicked sweet tooth I can tell you it's totally unnecessary

Mix all the ingredients together. I rolled mine into about 1 inch balls and pressed them with a fork. I baked them at 325 for 7 minutes ( the original recipe calls for 350 for 5-6 min but my oven runs pretty hot).

These ended up so delicious with these fudge centers. Im sure if they ever had the chance to cool they'd be pretty yummy then too.

Coconut Rice Pudding

One of the many cravings I've been having lately is for the rice pudding my Grandma Frances used to make. Though I hesitate to call what she made pudding, it was more like sweet rice floating in a creamy soup. Now of course my grandma never really wrote down her recipes so I've got to come up with a version all my own. I had an open container of coconut milk, so that's where we started.

Coconut Rice Pudding
2 cups coconut milk
2 cups water
1 cup arborio rice
2 tablespoons vanilla extract
2 tablespoons brown sugar
2 tsp nutmeg

Combine the milk, water, and rice and bring to a boil in a covered saucepan. Reduce the heat and let the liquid cook down.

Remove the pan from the heat and add the vanilla, brown sugar, and nutmeg.

If you're like me (and I suspect Delia) you won't want to wait and will want to eat this while its still warm. It's very yummy this way, but its even more amazing once it has chilled in the fridge for an hour or two.