Welcome to 2015!! What a crazy end of 2014 we had! You guys loaded us up with orders (thanks!) and we spent most of December baking for all of your holiday needs. Dozens of cookies, cupcakes, and loaves of bread (yes bread!) went out this holiday season, and we couldn't be more humbled by the love and support you have shown us. What a way to end the year!
Aren't Christmas cookies the best, though? So yummy, so sweet...so bad for you! Yeah, we might have eaten a few too many cookies this holiday season. Do the pants feel a bit tight, or is the washing machine mis-set again??
Crazy enough, our New Year's Resolution is to get into better shape. We go to the gym, but our goal is to do it on an increasing basis (not just when Penguins hockey games are on so we can watch the game for once), and to cut all added sugar out of our daily diet. Yes, you read that right....cut sugar out of our diet.
Sanity Police: Ma'am, you do realize you run a bakery, correct?
Me: Yes officer, I'm aware.
Sanity Police: And you do realize most bakeries use sugar in their day-to-day operations?
Me: Wait, what?!?
It hasn't been easy, we'll tell you that. When you cut something out of your life, you begin to realize just how much it was in your life to begin with. Sugar's in EVERYTHING!! And we decided to cut out artificial sweeteners too, which rules out diet drinks (including juice), and even some "healthy" dessert options. If it wasn't naturally found in the product to begin with, we're not touching it. We've been eating a lot of fruit...a LOT of fruit.
Sometimes fruit doesn't cut it, though. Sometimes you need something that you baked for dessert. And we found a fabulous recipe we thought we'd share with you today. It has no added sugar!! And it tastes really yummy!! Seriously, jot this one down!!
Banana Walnut Cookies
(no added sugar. Yield: 12-18 cookies)
- 3 extremely ripe bananas, mashed up
- 2 cups old fashioned oats
- 1/3 cup unsweetened applesauce
- 1/4 cup unsweetened almond milk
- 1/2 cup raisin (optional)
- 3/4 cup chopped walnuts
- 1 tsp vanilla
- 1 tsp cinnamon
Combine all ingredients together in a medium sized bowl. Bake at 350 degrees for 15-20 minutes.
^That, folks, is the easiest recipe you'll see all day. You dirty one bowl. And we mashed everything together with a sandwich baggie over my hand, so we didn't even use a spoon.
We'll be honest, we're not always a fan of banana-flavored things. We trade the banana Runts candy like we're on the stock market floor. But after not having anything sweet for dessert in almost 2 weeks, this was like mana from heaven! So delicious, and really simple to make!
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