Banana Chocolate Chip Oaties

All you need is 5 ingredients and 25 minutes for these cookies. Ready, set, and go. These aren’t your usual cookies, well, not my usual cookies. There is no added sugar (not counting the chocolate chips), no flour, no eggs, and no added fat like butter or oil. So what’s in them? Bananas, oats, cinnamon, vanilla extract, and chocolate chips. I was interested in trying this recipe because they sounded “healthy.” I don’t use that term loosely anymore because my husband clued me into how a lot of people misuse the term by making things that are exactly as bad …

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Flourless Chocolate And Peanut Butter Fudgy Brownies

It’s Friday AND a long weekend for the Memorial Day holiday so we should celebrate with, what else, food.  How about some brownies?  They are a crowd pleaser and easy to make.  Oh yes, they will do just fine.  I’ve got a couple of kick butt recipes already, but these are different from what I’ve done.  These brownies are gluten-free! These brownies are loaded with chocolate fudgy goodness and have a hint of peanut butter flavor. Flourless Chocolate And Peanut Butter Fudgy Brownies Recipe (About 16 servings) Ingredients: 1/2 cup butter (equivalent to 1 stick) 2 and 1/2 cups semi-sweet chocolate chips, divided …

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Flourless Peanut Butter Cookie Sandwiches

Last week I posted about these delicious Flourless Peanut Butter Cookies.  I made them for our neighborhood Easter potluck dinner.  While I knew they’d be a huge hit with the adults I wanted to do something a bit more fun for the kids so I turned some of those cookies into these cookie sandwiches.  Who am I kidding, these were fun for us adults too.     😉  You know what the best part about these cookie sandwiches is?  Well, aside from the fact that they are awe-sooooome, they are still gluten-free! These flourless peanut butter cookies are filled with a layer …

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Flourless Peanut Butter Cookies

The rules for following a gluten-free diet are easy to understand, right?  Simply don’t eat anything with gluten (i.e. wheat, barley, and rye).  As it turns out, what seems like simple rules are actually a total pain in the butt.  Almost everything seems to have one or more of those ingredients in it.  Better still, sometimes they are hidden in things like “natural ingredients” and you just get blind-sided by them.  If you are choosing to avoid gluten because you want to, then usually that’s okay, but if you have celiac disease that can result in a very uncomfortable couple of …

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