Chocolate Shakeology Lava Cake in a Coffee Mug Recipe

Chocolate Shakeology Lava Cake

Ok, here is a super easy and simple recipe for Chocolate Shakeology Lava Cake in a Coffee Mug, in the microwave, in just over a minutes time.

Ingredients:

1 Egg

1 Banana

1 Scoop of Chocolate Shakeology (Vegan or Regular)

Procedure:

Step 1: Blend all 3 ingredients in a Blender, Magic Bullet, Nutri Bullet, Ninja....(whatever you have)  You don't have to blend for very long, maybe 20-30 seconds.  Just enough so that the banana is crunched up.

Step 2: Scoop out the blended mixture and put into a coffee mug.  (You don't want to fill the mug all the way to the top, leave some room and make sure the mug you choose is big enough to allow for some expanding when you cook)

Step 3: Microwave for 1 minute 11 seconds (just hit the 1 button 3 times)

Voila!  A delicious healthy snack that will definitely stave off your chocolate cravings. (It Tastes A Lot better than it looks in this picture, trust me)

 

*BONUS TIP

Step 4: Add a scoop of Crunchy Peanut Butter after you remove it from the microwave.

 

If you are interested in trying Shakeology please contact me for a free sample.

Sweet Potato Chocolate Chip Cookies

Sweet Potato Chocolate Chip Cookies

1 1/4 cups roasted, cooled, mashed sweet potatoes (from 1 large or 2 small)
1/2 cup (1 stick) butter
2 eggs
1/2 cup brown sugar
1/2 cup maple syrup
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 1/3 cups wheat flour
1 cup oats
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
1 1/2 cups chocolate chips

In a large mixing bowl, beat the sweet potatoes and butter together until smooth. Add the eggs and beat again. Stir in the brown sugar, maple syrup and vanilla.


In another bowl, stir together the oat flour, almond flour, baking soda, baking powder and kosher salt. Add this dry mix to the wet mix and gently stir together. Add the chocolate chips and stir just until mixed.

Preheat the oven 375 degrees. Drop large rounded scoops of dough onto the pan.  Bake for 12-15 minutes, until puffed and lightly brown. Let cool for 10 minutes.

 



 

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Almost Vegan Cheesy Potatoes Recipe

I am not much of a cook. However, I do have a few staple foods that I get the most compliments on and one of them is my cheesy potatoes. Unfortunately my potatoes are not vegetarian or vegan friendly (they include lots of dairy, processed food and cream of chicken soup). So, I went on a quest for a vegan friendly recipe and I fell a little short. I am sharing my vegetarian friendly recipe and my idea of how to make it vegan (I need to try option number two still myself!) Someone out there might have a better idea (if so I would love to hear) but until this I hope you enjoy this recipe!



Vegetarian/Almost Vegan Cheesy Potatoes Recipe

Ingredients:

2 packages of Alexia's Frozen organic hash browns

One bag of "Go Veggie" shredded cheese (you may want to use two bags depending on how cheesy you want them)

1 can "Amy's" Organic Cream of Mushroom soup (the soup contains cream/milk which prevents it from being vegan-however, there are vegan recipes out there if you want to make your own version of mushroom soup without dairy)

1 package Toffuti Sour cream

two cups corn flakes (you can use crackers instead)

a stick of butter (again-prevents it from being vegan but there are butter substitutes out there to use)

Directions:

Pre-heat oven to 375 degrees, I layer the ingredients twice in a pan (put hashbrowns down, spread half of the sour cream and mushroom soup on top and then sprinkle with cheese, repeat)

Melt butter and in a large cup I put the corn flakes and melted butter and use a fork to crush and mix them up-the then spread on the top layer

Bake at 375 for about 40 minutes (may be done a little sooner or longer-you will be able to tell when it is bubbly and warm-just keep your eye on the cornflakes so they don't burn!)

One thing I do want to note-a lot of the ingredients that are dairy substitutes contain processed soy (soy protein, soy milk, soy isolate) which isn't a great alternative but if you can't have dairy it isn't too bad of a replacement-I don't think the normal recipe for cheesy potatoes or this recipe are exactly "healthy" :)

I would love to hear your ideas in the comments section on how to modify this recipe in order to make it vegan.

VEGAN BANANA OATMEAL PEANUT BUTTER COOKIES

 

These things are great.  They are from Rip Esselstyn's new book "My Beef with Meat"  My wife and I have been slowly trying to eat more of a plant based/vegan diet.  We watched Rip's documentary "The Engine 2 Kitchen Rescue" on Amazon Streaming, and he totally convinced us that we need to eat more of a plant based diet. So,we found this recipe on his website and made them today. They were super easy to make and I devoured them very fast because they were delicious.

 

Here is the Recipe.

 

Ingredients

3 ripe bananas, mashed
1 tablespoon vanilla
¾ cup natural chunky peanut butter
3 tablespoons maple syrup
2 cups old fashioned oats
½ cup whole wheat flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
¼ teaspoon salt (optional)
½ cup non-dairy chocolate chips or raisins

*to make gluten free eliminate whole wheat flour

Directions

Preheat oven to 350 degrees

Prepare a cookie sheet with parchment paper

Mix bananas, vanilla, peanut butter and maple syrup into a creamy consistency in a large bowl

In another bowl, combine oats, flour, baking powder and salt

Add the dry ingredients to the wet ingredients and stir until they are well combined -the batter should be slightly sticky

Fold in the chocolate chips or raisins

Place rounded, heaping tablespoon-sized balls of the batter onto an ungreased baking sheet

Bake for 15-18 minutes

 

-Here is what one of ours turned out like-



They are Fantastic while they are still warm but really good after they have cooled off a little bit too.

The Original Recipe link can be found here.