Hi all!
I hope you took a little time to be in the NOW this weekend!
Oh, & Happy Monday!
Not very often do we combine those words into a phrase, right?
Well let’s look on the bright side..
It’s a short work week & Thanksgiving is just a few days away!
To kick off this week of food lovin’ I thought I’d share with you a new recipe.
I have been loving the “cookie” idea for breakfast;
which are basically mini powercakes!
So I couldn’t help but share with you a healthy alternative to cookies
which combine the spices of thanksgiving with the POWER of a balanced meal!
Cacao Carrot Pumpkin Spice
POWERCOOKIES
Loaded with fiber, protein, healthy fats, & clean carbs!
Gluten free, dairy free, egg free, & nut free!
Hence the POWER! 
Wet Ingredients:
3/4 cup grated carrots
3/4 cup pumpkin
2 Cups of Coconut Milk (or other nut milk)
1 Cup of water
2 tsp vanilla extract
zest of one small orange
juice of 1 small orange
1 TB Raw Apple Cider Vinegar
A few drops of liquid stevia
& vanilla liquid stevia
(you can also add 2 TB sweetener of choice)
Dry:
1/2 Cup Coconut Flour
1/2 Cup of Rolled Oats
1/4 Cup Flax Meal
1 TB psyllium husk powder
(or a chia seeds)
2 tsp Cinnamon
2 tsp Pumpkin Pie Spice
1 tsp baking powder
1/4 tsp sea salt
Optional Add-ins-
Which I highly suggest adding in
1/4 cup Raisins
1/4 cup Cacao Nibs
(or chocolate chips of choice)
Mix & Let sit to thicken.
Spoon onto a greased cookie sheet
*I spray my sheet with coconut oil spray from whole foods.
Bake at 350 for about 35 minutes.
Let sit to cool for a good 15-30 minutes
– they will get more FIRM while they sit!
I also suggest letting them sit in the fridge
for about 30min - 1 hour to let cool and set.
I usually make mine in advance and once cool,
I store them in containers in the fridge!
I stacked a few up with protein powder frosting
(protein powder mixed with water and chia seeds to make thick)
for my post workout breakfast!
Why not make these thanksgiving morning to POWER UP for your day!?
Enjoy!
Be True To You,
Powercakes
*As always, if you haven't’ yet, you can use my coupon code XUG228
at www.iherb.com for a discount on these products and more!
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What a great recipe! This will be perfect for some baby carrots that need to be used up!
Seriously awesome, I need to give that recipe a go. Thanks
These look awesome!!! I love that there’s veggies mixed into your cookies!
Looks delish! My goal is to add some clean, healthy baked goods to my Christmas baking list this year. This one is going to my parents for Christmas morning for sure
mmmm! I love the idea of cookies for breakfast too
Today I actually had vegan brownies from the Sweetest Vegan for breakfast haha! Yumm! And I can’t wait to try these cookies!
OMG. I need to make these! They look so good! Thanks for sharing your awesome recipes!
Definitely going to try this recipe out! looks so good! what kind of protein powder did you use for the protein powder frosting?
HOLY YUM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
You’ve been coming up with some AMAZING new uses of pumpkins, love it!
These sound amazing! Think I’ll make them tonight!
I was so excited to try this recipie out when I read it. It’s everything I like. I used nothing but the best quality ingredients and I’m sad to say they turned out a mess. Did anyone have success with this recipe or an experience like mine? So bummed.
When I made them they came out of the oven-and cooled-a gooey, sticky mess.
Here’s how I fixed it:
Heat oven to low(around 160.) Put a cooling rack on a cookie sheet, put the cookies UPSIDE DOWN on the rack(the cookie bottoms were the biggest mess.) Put them into the warmed oven. TURN OFF OVEN. I left them in the oven overnight. In the morning the cookies had dried out but still soft. They were really yummy with a drizzle of Agava Nectar over them. Perhaps increasing the flour, oats, psyllium husk would also work but, like you, I had a batch already made and wanted to salvage them.
Hope this helped!
hi ladies! So sorry for the mis-hap! I suggest that you let them sit to COOL for a while after they cook! The psyllium husk is know to be gooey (especially out of the oven) until it sets up. I also suggest putting them into the fridge for about an hour and they should set up great! That’s how mine usually work out :] I hope this helps you both!!! <3 I like to make mine in advance and store them in the fridge!