Recipes for healthier desserts, including fruit crisp, avocado mousse, and apple nachos.
Not Your Granny’s Fruit Crisp
Ingredients
- 2 apples, cored and diced
- 1 banana, sliced
- 1 pear, cored and diced
- 1 cup frozen or fresh berries
- 1 orange (you will want the zest and the juice)
- 1 inch ginger root, grated
- 1½ cups of rolled oats
- 5 graham crackers
- ¾ cup almonds
- ¼ cup coconut oil
- 5 dates, pitted
- 1 Tbsp. cinnamon
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Directions
- Spray a 9-by-13-inch baking pan with cooking spray. Preheat the oven to 350°.
- In a bowl, toss all of the fruit together including the ginger, cinnamon, and zest and juice of the orange.
- In a food processor, blend the oats, graham crackers, almonds, coconut oil, and dates.
- Pour the fruit into the pan. Sprinkle the newly made oat topping over the fruit evenly.
- Bake for approximately 30 minutes or until lightly browned.
- Serve warm and top with plain yogurt if desired.
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Avocado Chocolate Mousse
Ingredients
- ½ avocado
- ½ banana, preferably frozen
- 5 dates, pitted
- 1 cup cocoa powder
- 1 Tbsp. vanilla
- ½ tsp. sea salt
- ¼ cup cacao nibs
- Unsweetened almond milk or nonfat/low fat milk for thinning
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Directions
- Place all the ingredients except for the cacao nibs and milk in a food processor.
- Blend well, until smooth. If you prefer a less thick texture, add milk, one tablespoon at a time.
- Once you’ve reached the desired consistency, add the cacao nibs. Portion into custard cups and refrigerate for a couple hours before serving.
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Gooey Apple Nachos
Ingredients
- Apples, cored and thinly sliced
- Pumpkin Caramel Sauce (recipe below)
- ¼ cup blueberries
- 1 Tbsp. crushed almonds
- 1 Tbsp. shredded coconut
- ½ tsp. cinnamon
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Assembling Nachos
- Place sliced apples on a plate.
- Drizzle lightly with caramel sauce (keep in mind that one thumb of caramel is one red light).
- Sprinkle with almonds, coconut, blueberries, and cinnamon.
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Pumpkin Caramel Sauce
Ingredients
- 1 cup coconut sugar
- ¾ cup coconut crème
- 1½ tsp. salt
- ¼ cup pumpkin puree
- ½ tsp. pumpkin pie spice
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Directions
- Place ingredients into a small pot and whisk together well.
- Heat until you get a rolling boil, whisking the whole time.
- Allow to boil, while whisking, for approximately 10 minutes until you see it thicken. Stove tops vary so begin checking at 5 minutes.
- Test thickness by taking some out with a small spoon and cooling. It will thicken more as it cools.
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