RECIPE BOOK: Snickerdoodle Blondies

Today's recipe comes from a client at the gym.  After talking about one of my attempts at the Black Bean Brownie which as of this post is still in the development stages, she offered a recipe for Blondies that she had been tweaking.  I took and made one small tweak and personally LOVE it! 

If you know Snickerdoodles, then you know that it has to be based on Cinnamon.  I'm also betting that there's an easy Snickerdoodle cookie recipe not far off from this. 

Enjoy!!

INGREDIENTS

1/2 cup pumpkin, pureed

1/2 cup creamy peanut butter

3 tbsp honey

2 eggs

1/4 tsp salt

1/2 tsp baking powder

1 1/2 (one 15oz. can) cup chick peas (garbonzo beans)

1 tsp vanilla extract

1 1/2 tbsp cinnamon

INSTRUCTIONS

- Preheat oven to 350 F

- Place all Blondie ingredients in the food processor and blend until smooth

- Spray an 8x8 baking dish with a healthy, non stick oil

- Spread blondie batter evenly in dish

- Place in oven and bake for 40 minutes or until an inserted toothpick comes out clean. 

- Remove from oven and let sit for 10 minutes

- Storage tip – Place brownies in a sealed-tight container and store in the refrigerator.  However, the best taste is at room temp, so let them warm back up prior to serving.

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Questions
1.  Don't lie.  Who knew what a Snickerdoodle was without clicking on the link?
I had to look it up!

2.  What's your preference - Brownies or Blondies?


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Cooking Extravaganza!!

As you know, on Saturday I got in a 70 mile ride.  Click HERE to read all about the experience I had with truckers!!

Yesterday (Sunday), I met up with a friend who wanted a push for her 35 mile ride.  We made it 36 and change at a rough18.5 mph average.  My legs were quite resistant in the first ten miles, but they loosened up and I rocked a good 20 miles of that ride while breaking the speed limit twice!

Is it bad that I kind of want to get pulled over for speeding on my bike?  I don't want to pay the fine, but I'd like to have the speeding ticket or warning framed on my wall.

But the bigger portion of my Sunday was spent doing this...

I woke up to the dining room table, love seat, and a plant blocking the hallway out of my room.  Thanks roommie!!  Haha.  Recently we've re-initiated some low-key pranks and each is a bit more than the previous. 

Once the furniture was put back, I made a quick trip to the grocery store for avocados, and I made it to the kitchen, I got the above ingredients out.  A friend of mine had surprised me last night with an incredible batch of cupcakes the night before where she replaced the eggs and oil in a cake mix with dry pudding mix.  They were delicious!!  In thinking ahead to that, I decided to step back and try something a couple of my clients had once made, Avocado Chocolate pudding.

I was quite impressed!  It turned out great and was very simple though our blender is not the best for making pudding.  A lot of it got stuck beneath the blades.  I might have to look into a processor or different blender for future use.

While looking up recipes for the pudding, I was struck by another recipe I happened upon.  I will not be giving out the recipe until I've perfected it (aka, it didn't turn out the way I wanted), but suffice it to say, they're a healthy brownie recipe inspired by the Avocado Chocolate Pudding.

This time I used a food blender (not a processor) and it worked much better for getting all the gunk out of the crevices, but it certainly is not the most adequate tool for the job.  In the end, I had made too many adjustments to the recipe I used and it turned out too moist, so it'll require a retry next weekend with more starch.  It tasted great though!!

And finally, after having a suboptimal try with the brownies, I opted to give this Portobello soup a try.  WOW!!!  It was amazing!  I am personally a big fan of mushrooms and just the smell of the roasting portobellos was enough to make me fall in love.  I have a few things I'd like to try with the recipe, but overall I am pleased to say it will be on the recipe book soon!

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Questions

1.  Have you ever had a prank war?  Any good ones you could suggest?

2.  Any healthy recipe suggestions?  

3.  What did you do this weekend?


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