Pumpkin!

With fall festooned around me, I have pumpkin on the brain! I whipped up my first Low-Carb Pumpkin Bread by Melissa Sevigny at I Breathe, I'm Hungry. Barry and I adore pumpkin and this loaf did not disappoint. It has a wonderfully soft texture, almost on the verge of being pumpkin pie. I might add a bit more stevia next time; nevertheless, whipped cream was quite complimentary.

Low-Carb Pumpkin Bread

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Low-Carb Earthquake Cake

For at least 2 decades, friends counted on me to bake my rich, sugary Earthquake Cake for special gatherings. It was a hit and I usually returned home with an empty cake pan. I figured that my low-carb lifestyle would put the kibosh on that tradition. Certainly, any low-carb version would be an inferior substitute—or so I thought.

I happened upon the All Day I Dream About Food blog and found a promising LCHF replacement. The revised recipe uses almond flour, whey protein, eggs, butter, Swerve, cream cheese, pecans, cold coffee, cocoa, and unsweetened coconut. It is high in fat and protein, low in carbs, and it even supplies healthy fiber.

An average sized piece was perfect for me. Having eliminated sugar, the sweetness of the stevia was not overpowering. I favored the sections where the embedded cream cheese frosting was plentiful. Was it exactly like the original? No. Nevertheless, my husband and teenage son (neither is a low-carber) raved about it!

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Low-Carb Peanut Butter Cookies

In my pre-low-carb days, I could easily eat an entire bowl of peanut butter cookie dough. It usually happened over the course of a day. (I know I am not alone.) I loved dough and sometimes baking just seemed unnecessary. 

With sugar behind me, finding low-carb cookie recipes has been a challenge. For one, I do not crave sweets like I used to. Further, substitute-sugars will never taste like white table sugar. This is why this recipe surprised me. The cookies look and taste delicious; and it only takes a couple to curb an urge.

NOTE: I prefer them warm, so I heat up cool cookies for 15 seconds in the microwave.

LOW-CARB PEANUT BUTTER COOKIES

Adapted from a recipe by Laura Hickman 

@ Baking Outside the Box

24 cookies

Total time: 25 minutes

Ingredients

• ½ cup coconut flour
• 1 cup powdered Swerve
• 1 cup Smucker's Natural Creamy or Crunchy Peanut Butter (just peanuts, minimal salt, and no sugar)
• 3 eggs
• 1 tsp salt
• 1 tsp pure bourbon vanilla extract (I use Trader Joe's brand)
• Chocolate chips sweetened with stevia

Instructions

1. Heat oven to 350 degrees.
2. Prepare baking sheet with parchment or cooking spray. (I use Pampered Chef Stoneware.)
3. Mix all ingredients in mixer (or with a hand mixer) until well combined and dough has formed.
4. Measure the dough with a tablespoon measure. (I use the Pampered Chef Small Scoop.)
5. Form balls of dough and place them on on your baking sheet or stoneware.
6. Flatten cookies by making a crisscross mark with a fork. (I use a small bamboo fork.)
7. Optional: Add a chocolate chip.
8. Bake for 14-17 minutes till edges are golden brown.

Nutrition Information

Serving size: 1 cookie

Carbohydrates: 4.6

“That’s the way it crumbles, cookie-wise.”

~from the motion picture, The Apartment

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"Low-Carb Holiday Cookies and Bars"

With low-carb-keto bloggers like Carolyn Ketchum, there is no room for boredom. She is the writer and recipe developer behind the success of All Day I Dream About Food. Gestational diabetes became a lifelong challenge, so she created a blog to playfully share her recipes. As her popularity and readership grew, her blogging became a full-time venture. In her own words she is "...a major carnivore and an unrepentant sweet tooth." Unwilling to forfeit her love for cooking and baking, she began to convert her favorite recipes to uncompromisingly flavorful low-carb versions. 

Featured here is Carolyn's Low-Carb Holiday Cookies eBook. I have already purchased and downloaded my own copy. One look at her German Chocolate Truffles and I was smitten! Her eBook can be purchased and downloaded online. It is only $4.99 through Paypal.

WHAT YOU GET IN THIS BOOK:

• 21 of the best low carb holiday cookie and bar recipes from All Day I Dream About Food
• 4 ALL NEW, never-before-seen delicious recipes to make your holidays special
• 1 bonus recipe for sugar-free eggnog (because hey, it’s the holidays!)
• Full color photography
• Nutritional analysis of each recipe
• Advice on stocking your low carb pantry
• My best tips and tricks for successful low carb baking

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