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I LOVE pumpkin and these pumpkin chocolate chip cookies are sooo easy to make and delicious, they are truly a “no-brainer”. In this brainless baking segment, I show you how to vamp up your old chocolate chip cookie mix and create something not only healthier and lower in fat than traditional cookies but a treat that tastes even better too!

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These Gluten Free Coconut Lime cupcakes (VEGAN) were the highlight of my summer creations last year and I couldn’t help but recreate them once the weather started warming up! I’m not sure why I didn’t post the recipe last year but here it is! Over due! Enjoy these Gluten Free and Vegan gems and stay sweet and skinny!

GF/V COCONUT LIME CUPCAKES

1 cup of coconut milk
1 tsp of apple cider vinegar
(Combine both and set aside while mixing the rest of the recipe)
1 1/4 cup GF flour
2 tbsp cornstarch
3/4 cup sugar
1/2 tsp baking powder
3/4 tsp baking soda
A pinch of salt
1/3 cup coconut oil
1 tsp vanilla
Juice of 4 limes

Add all ingredients in your mixer and then add your vinegar curdled coconut milk in last. Fill your cupcake tin about 3/4 of the way as these do not rise as much as typical cupcakes. Bake for approx 10 mins, while continuously checking on them! Enjoy!

For the icing, I simply used the vegan buttercream recipe and mixed in some unsweetened coconut as well as used the coconut to garnish the top! 😉

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These low fat red velvet truffles are so delicious and easy to make you’re going to be making them for every occasion! Please be sure to like and subscribe to my youtube channel after watching!

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Watch me make some delicious vegan peanut butter cream cheese icing in this video and don’t forget to comment, like and SUBSCRIBE! 🙂

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In honor of St. Patty’s day this “Brainless Baking” segment is about how to make a fat free, fun, festive green icing for your low cal funfetti cupcakes! But you can use this recipe for all sorts of different frosting variations! Enjoy!

 

 

 

 

Thanks for watching! I love that Go Sweet and Skinny is your go-to website for healthy living tips, vegan and vegetarian recipes (from everything from appetizers to cupcakes!) and diet advice. I”m committed to helping you get skinny and live the sweet life! Please follow @gosweetnskinny on twitter, like us on Facebook and subscribe to our YouTube channel (youtube.com/user/gosweetandskinny) to keep yourself sweet and skinny 24/7. And as always, feel free to email me at gosweetandskinny@gmail.com and let me know what low fat, healthy recipes you want to see on the site, what diet books your trying and ask any diet questions your little heart desires! I’m here to help you!:)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thanks for watching! I love that Go Sweet and Skinny is your go-to website for healthy living tips, vegan and vegetarian recipes (from everything from appetizers to cupcakes!) and diet advice. I”m committed to helping you get skinny and live the sweet life! Please follow @gosweetnskinny on twitter, like us on Facebook and subscribe to our YouTube channel (youtube.com/user/gosweetandskinny) to keep yourself sweet and skinny 24/7. And as always, feel free to email me at gosweetandskinny@gmail.com and let me know what low fat, healthy recipes you want to see on the site, what diet books your trying and ask any diet questions your little heart desires! I’m here to help you!:)

 

 

 

 

Thanks for watching! I love that Go Sweet and Skinny is your go-to website for healthy living tips, vegan and vegetarian recipes (from everything from appetizers to cupcakes!) and diet advice. I”m committed to helping you get skinny and live the sweet life! Please follow @gosweetnskinny on twitter, like us on Facebook and subscribe to our YouTube channel to keep yourself sweet and skinny 24/7. And as always, feel free to email me at gosweetandskinny@gmail.com and let me know what low fat, healthy recipes you want to see on the site, what diet books your trying and ask any diet questions your little heart desires! I’m here to help you! 🙂

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With Valentine’s Day just around the corner and drugstores stocked with red and pink heart shaped goodies, you can’t help but get in the mood for love, or at least sweets! So of course I immediately thought of red velvet cupcakes! I experimented with a new low fat “brainless baking” red velvet cupcake recipe last weekend and it turned out so yummy I had to share!

This one is for all of you not so kitchen oriented mamas out there or just for the gal too busy to slave over the oven this week! Take a quick trip to the super market and grab these few items for some brainless and delicious low fat red velvet cupcakes!

LOW FAT RED VELVET CUPCAKES

Box of Red Velvet Cake Mix
1 fat free plain greek yogurt

Simply take the cake mix and add your Greek yogurt to it as well as a cup of water. Place in cupcake holders and bake as directed on the box! Yup, that’s it. Crazy easy!

I do caution that my cupcakes did sink in a little in the middle so I got crafty and put a dollup of my cream cheese icing in the center and noone even noticed! They were moist and delicious. If you need an easy low fat frosting you may want to try using some vanilla pudding mix and fat free cool whip or for a lighter cream cheese topping use low fat cream cheese and mix in confectioners sugar till you reach your desired consistency.

 

 

 

 

Thanks for reading! I love that Go Sweet and Skinny is your go-to website for healthy living tips, vegan and vegetarian recipes (from everything from appetizers to cupcakes!) and diet advice. I”m committed to helping you get skinny and live the sweet life! Please follow @gosweetnskinny on twitter, like us on Facebook and subscribe to our YouTube channel to keep yourself sweet and skinny 24/7. And as always, feel free to email me at gosweetandskinny@gmail.com and let me know what low fat, healthy recipes you want to see on the site, what diet books your trying and ask any diet questions your little heart desires! I’m here to help you! 🙂

cookiedoughNope, you didn’t misread that. This is actually a recipe for a HEALTHY cookie dough dip!! Gasp, I know, I’m making all of your little girl slumber party dreams come true right now. If the idea of this grosses you out at all, I apologize, some of us like to embrace our inner fat kid and dig into raw cookie dough from time to time when no ones looking, if this is not you, forward on to the next post about kale chips. For the rest of you guilty pleasure seekers, I experimented with this healthy  ‘cookie dough’ recipe I found on “Chocolate Covered Katie” at the Super Bowl this weekend and it seemed to be quite a success. I’ve tinkered with it a bit to give you something that will have a better consistency and taste but feel free to play around and enjoy! To view the original recipe, you can click here http://chocolatecoveredkatie.com/2011/05/23/want-to-eat-an-entire-bowl-of-cookie-dough/

COOKIE DOUGH DIP

1 can of garbanzo beans
1/4 cup of almond butter
1/8 of tsp of salt
1/8 of tsp of baking soda
2 tsp of vanilla
4 heaping tblsps of oat bran
1/3 cup brown sugar (feel free to use agave/maple syrup but your dip will be slightly stickier)
1 bag of chocolate chips (or vegan chocolate or carob chips)

Combine all of the ingredients excluding the chocolate chips in a food processor till finely mixed. Fold in chocolate chips or vegan chocolate chips (use about half a bag) and pair with some graham crackers or cinnamon sugar pita chips! Voila! You should never ever need to get a stomach ache from eating raw eggs in cookie dough again and your getting some protein while completely indulging! Your welcome, ladies. 😉

 

 

 

 

 

Thanks for reading! I love that Go Sweet and Skinny is your go-to website for healthy living tips, vegan and vegetarian recipes (from everything from appetizers to cupcakes!) and diet advice. I”m committed to helping you get skinny and live the sweet life! Please follow @gosweetnskinny on twitter, like us on Facebook and subscribe to our YouTube channel to keep yourself sweet and skinny 24/7. And as always, feel free to email me at gosweetandskinny@gmail.com and let me know what low fat, healthy recipes you want to see on the site, what diet books your trying and ask any diet questions your little heart desires! I’m here to help you! 🙂

hotchoc cupcake

 

If you’ve been keeping up with my youtube channel http://www.youtube.com/user/gosweetandskinny you’ll notice that I made these for my CBS baking show tape and they came out fabulous! I also got a gluten free request recently so I wanted to post a sample gluten free cupcake! It was really easy for this cupcake because I simply used garbanzo been flour which is gluten free and I was actually much happier with the results than when I just by plain “gluten free flour” at the health food store. I thought these we’re adorable because we’ve gotten quite the cold spell in NYC the past couple weeks and I’ve got hot chocolate on the brain! Slight disclaimer about the picture, marshmallows tend to not be vegan unless you actually by specifically vegan marshmallows! 

 

GLUTEN FREE VEGAN HOT COCOA CUPCAKES!

2 cups of Garbanzo Bean Gluten Free Flour

3/4 cup of unsweetened cocoa powder  (or your favorite vegan hot choc!)

1/2 cup cane sugar

2 tsp of baking powder

2 tsp of baking soda

1 tsp salt

1/2 tsp cinnamon ( I also like to add 1/2 tsp of nutmeg or pumpkin pie spice to give it a little extra kick)

1/2 cup vegetable oil

1/2 cup agave

4 oz of unsweetened apple sauce

2 cups of chocolate soy milk (which you’ll add 2 tsp of apple cider vinegar to)

1 tbs of vanilla extract and 1 tsp of almond extract (optional)

Pre heat your oven to 350 and stick your cupcake liners in your pans. I always bake using mini cupcake pans because I love the portions of the tiny cupcakes!  Next, add your apple cider vinegar to your chocolate soy milk in a separate  bowl/measuring cup and combine all your dry ingredients in your bowl or mixer. Now, add oil, agave, apple sauce and extracts to the dry ingredients. Pour you slightly curdled soy milk in to the bowl and proceed to mix for about 30 second in a stand mixer or a couple minutes by hand till the mixture is the consistency of regular cake batter but not a second longer! You don’t want to over mix if possible. At this point, I have a mini sized ice cream scooper that I use to evenly scoop the batter into the cupcake holders but a tablespoon will work as well.  Watch them while they’re baking – depending on their size will depend how long they need to stay in. Use a toothpick if your unsure if it’s done!

Now for the icing! While they’re cooling, check out my favorite butter cream recipe here — > http://gosweetandskinny.com/?p=348. As I said before, marshmallows are a great little touch if your not concerned about it being vegan or if you can get your hands on vegan marshmallows but if not, I like to just dust a little cocoa powder over the top of the icing. For the baking show video I even piped the icing to look like a dollop of whipped cream! Have fun with it!

 

 

 

 

 

<em>Thanks for reading! I love that Go Sweet and Skinny is your go-to website for healthy living tips, vegan and vegetarian recipes (from everything from appetizers to cupcakes!) and diet advice. I”m committed to helping you get skinny and live the sweet life! Please follow @gosweetnskinny on twitter, like us on Facebook and subscribe to our YouTube channel to keep yourself sweet and skinny 24/7. And as always, feel free to email me at gosweetandskinny@gmail.com and let me know what low fat, healthy recipes you want to see on the site, what diet books your trying and ask any diet questions your little heart desires! I’m here to help you! :)</em>

I’m excited to announce the first of our “BRAINLESS BAKING” segments! Brainless Baking is all about making you look like a healthy baking genius in the kitchen without too much time or effort on your part. As delicious and nutritious as a lot of the recipes on this site are, I understand sometimes life gets a little chaotic and we don’t always have the time to make something with 10 different ingredients. So I give to you a series of upcoming baking segments for those times when your desperately craving a cookie, have to bake something for the office or your kids and want to make something better for you in a pinch! After all, Go Sweet and Skinny is all about living the sweet life while staying skinny!

 

 

 

 

 

Thanks for reading! I love that Go Sweet and Skinny is your go-to website for healthy living tips, vegan and vegetarian recipes (from everything from appetizers to cupcakes!) and diet advice. I”m committed to helping you get skinny and live the sweet life! Please follow @gosweetnskinny on twitter, like us on Facebook and subscribe to our YouTube channel to keep yourself sweet and skinny 24/7. And as always, feel free to email me at gosweetandskinny@gmail.com and let me know what low fat, healthy recipes you want to see on the site, what diet books your trying and ask any diet questions your little heart desires! I’m here to help you! 🙂

 

cookiecupcakesHow cute are these little baby chocolate chip cupcakes?! Can you believe they’re low fat too?! Well not only are they low fat and adorable, they are also part of my kick off into my “brainless baking” segments on our youtube channel! Since I know we’re all not little betty crockers in the kitchen like myself – I’ve decided to spend a little time creating easy peasy LOW FAT recipes that anyone can make from the boxes in their local supermarket’s baking needs section! This way not only are you making healthier versions of your favorite goodies but maybe I can even show you a few things to impress your friends and co workers with your kitchen skills! Don’t worry it’ll be our little sweet and skinny secret! Anyways, while experimenting with some concoctions, I got a little hungry and made these little chocolate chip cookie cupcakes!!

 

LOW FAT CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIE CUPCAKES

All you need is a bag or box of chocolate chip cookie mix from your local supermarket, one egg, a small applesauce cup and half the amount of butter required from the recipe!

Preheat your oven to 375 degrees. Simply place the mix in a bowl, crack one egg and decide whether or not you want to use all applesauce or go half and half and use half the butter! Don’t beat yourself up if you want to use half the butter, in fact, I recommend it if your not used to low fat baked goods. It’s better to ween yourself off the usual stuff then to jump into a drastic change you might be turned off by. Now use all your apple sauce regardless of if you decide to use some of the butter. If your only using apple sauce, feel free to add about 2oz more if you’d like but it’s not necessary. The applesauce is going to make these more cupcake-y than cookie like, FYI.

So mix it all together, it should be a clumpy cookie dough like consistency. Get out your mini muffin/cupcake pan and spray it with a non stick cooking spray or use mini cupcake holders if you prefer. Use a mini ice cream scooper or a tablespoon to spoon the dough equally into the molds. Bake for 5-10 minutes while watching frequently to make sure you don’t over cook them!

I hope you enjoy these yummy baby chocolate chip cupcakes as much as I do, I won’t tell anyone how easy they were to make. 😉

 

Thanks for reading! I love that Go Sweet and Skinny is your go-to website for healthy living tips, vegan and vegetarian recipes (from everything from appetizers to cupcakes!) and diet advice. I”m committed to helping you get skinny and live the sweet life! Please follow @gosweetnskinny on twitter, like us on Facebook and subscribe to our YouTube channel to keep yourself sweet and skinny 24/7. And as always, feel free to email me at gosweetandskinny@gmail.com and let me know what low fat, healthy recipes you want to see on the site, what diet books your trying and ask any diet questions your little heart desires! I’m here to help you!:)