HEALTHY RECIPES by Audrey Choate and Katie Choate
Pumpkin Spice Collagen Iced Coffee This recipe is dairy-fee, vegan, gluten free
Ingredients: 2 tsp pumpkin spice 1 tbsp maple syrup (keto option: monk fruit) 8oz coconut milk (milk of choice) 1 tsp vanilla extract 1 scoop (unflavored) collagen powder (I use “Orgain”) 8oz coldbrew coffee Directions: Mix pumpkin spice and maple syrup until combined in a blender or shaker cup. Then add collagen and milk by shaking/or blending until combined. Put ice into a cup and fill with coffee. Pour in milk mixture:) stir and enjoy! (Option to make it hot... Make with hot coffee instead of cold, mix your hot coffee with maple syrup and pumpkin spice, then pour milk combined with collagen, over top)
Pumpkin Apple Spice Bread Ingredients: 1 ¾ cups pumpkin puree (from 1 pie pumpkin) 3 med apples 3 ½ cups of flour 1 tsp cinnamon 1 tsp nutmeg 1 tsp salt 2 tsp baking soda 1 ½ cup sugar 1 ½ packed brown sugar 1 cup butter (or coconut oil) substitute ½ cup apple sauce 4 eggs Directions: Pumpkin and Apple prep: Slice on medium pie pumpkin in half then quarter. Remove the seeds and the pulp from the pumpkin. Lay on a cookie sheet and bake at 350 for 40 min. To prepare apples: Peel, cut, core, and dice apples into small pieces and set to the side. Remove pumpkin from the oven, let cool, then core the pumpkin away from the skin. Add pumpkin into the blender and puree the pumpkin until it is a soft texture. In a separate bowl add flour, baking soda, salt. Add butter,sugar,eggs,applesauce,pumpkin puree. Mix until it is all blended together. Add cinnamon and nutmeg into the wet mixture. Start to add Flour ⅓ cup at a time, until all is blended evenly. Add apple pieces and fold into the batter. Prepare a bread pan or muffin pan by coating the outer rim with coconut oil and flour and pour batter into the pan. Bake at 350 for 55 minutes for bread. Bake at 350 for 30 minutes for Muffins.
To make this low-carb, substitute sugar with monk fruit, coconut sugar, stevia, or erythritol. To make this gluten free, substitute flour with almond flour, gf flour, coconut flour, “bobs red mill” paleo baking flour.
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