Flourless Chocolate Chip Blondies

When I heard about using beans as the base of clean brownies and bars I was a bit skeptical. I’m not a huge bean person in general and I just couldn’t imagine how beans could transform into something so delicious and decadent. I am however, a HUGE brownie, bars and desserts in general person!

Thankfully I didn’t listen to my skeptical side and I’m glad I didn’t because these garbanzo bean/chickpea chocolate chip blondies came out UH-MAZE-ING. It definitely felt like magic when I pulled these out of the oven and tasted them for the first time.

I’ve made these twice now - once without the egg in the batter and once with the egg. Skip the egg if you want a thicker fudge-like bar. Keep the egg if you like your blondies more cake-like. I personally liked it with egg because it was less dense and the batter was much easier to handle.

These are awesome by themselves and taste even better with some nice cream on top! They were also approved by the entire family and will definitely satisfy your sweet tooth!

Peanut Butter Banana Chocolate Bites

A lot of people on Instagram have been discussing the urge to refrain from snacking or binging on unhealthy food. I am a total snacker and have a major sweet tooth, which isn’t helpful at all when it comes to being healthy.

However, instead of eliminating snacking and sweets from my diet I’ve found different healthier versions to replace the so good but so bad for me stuff.

One snack I recently played around with are these peanut butter banana chocolate bites. I was so happy with the way they turned out and the whole family loved them.

I refrigerated them after they were complete, but next time I will freeze them since hubby had mentioned more than once that they’ll probably taste even more better that way.

This is also a great snack for kids. Baby boy couldn’t get enough!

                         Banana slices topped with peanut butter. Trader Joe's peanut butter is my go to brand. It contains peanuts and salt - nothing else.

Chocolatey goodness. I used a Trader Joe's dark chocolate bar - 85% cacao