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Chocolate Chocolate Chip Muffins

Chocolate decadence. Chocolate overdose. Chocolate chocolate. This recipe is my new favorite. I made it yesterday as muffins, but you could also bake it like a cake in a 9 x 9 pan. I topped mine with fresh whipped cream, raspberries, strawberries, and blueberries and served it for dessert. It could have been serve all by itself, and I think the crowd still would have cheered. Yum yum yum.

• 2 cups of baking mix (sweet, salty)
• 1/2 cup cocoa powder (bitter)
• 2 TBS stevia powder (sweet)
• 1/4 cup unsweetened coconut flakes (sweet)
• 1/2 cup of dark chocolate chips (bitter, sweet)
• 1 cup yogurt (sweet, sour)
• 1/2 to 1 cup cream (or soy milk, half and half, or water) (sweet)
• 2 eggs (sweet)
• 1/4 cup of oil (sweet)
• 2 tsp vanilla (sweet)

1. Heat oven to 375 degrees.
2. In a large bowl, combine all dry ingredients. Set aside.
3. Gently beat eggs in a medium bowl. Add yogurt, oil, vanilla and 1/2 cup of cream and combine.
4. Add to dry ingredients and mix. Add more milk if it seems too thick (it shouldn’t be runny like most cake mixes, but it should flow).
5. Fill lightly oiled or papered cupcake tins with batter.  Place in oven for 20-25 minutes, or until the center of a muffin springs back when touched lightly.
6. Cool in tins for 5 minutes, then remove to cooling rack.
7. Enjoy with whipped cream sweetened with a few drops of stevia and vanilla.

GWF Baking Mix is available at the Heavenly Bodies Clinic and through our online store.

“I heart U” Chocolate Chunk and Walnut Oatmeal Cookies

According to TCM food energetics, the Bitter flavor drains and counters dampness, and benefits the heart.  We have your heart in mind as we get ready for Valentine’s Day!  If homemade is your style, try this recipe.

• 8 TBS of butter, room temperature (sweet)
• 1/2 cup GWF Baking Mix (sweet, salty)
• 1 1/2 cups of oats (sweet)
• 1 large egg, slightly beaten (sweet)
• 1 tsp vanilla extract (sweet)
• 1/2 cup chopped walnuts (sweet, bitter)
• 3 ounces of bittersweet chocolate, chopped (bitter)

1. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.
2. In a medium bowl, mix butter, egg, vanilla.
3. Incorporate GWF baking mix and oats; stir in walnuts and chocolate.
4. Drop by spoonfuls onto a lightly greased baking sheet.  Bake for 12-15 minute until the tops are golden.

Cream Cheese Chocolate Chip Christmas Cookies

Cookies, cookies, cookies!  They are everywhere this time of year.  Get it together, WLCers, you know you can’t eat just any old cookie.  Here’s a recipe for a batch that you’ll love, and they won’t kill your weight loss plan.  In moderation, of course.

• 1 package of cream cheese, room temperature (sour, sweet)
• 2 sticks of butter (1 cup), room temperature (sweet)
• 2 TBS stevia powder (sweet)
• 2 large eggs (sweet)
• 2 cups of GWF Baking Mix (sweet, salty)
• 1 package of as-dark-as-you-can-get-em chocolate chips (bitter, sweet)
• 2 tsp grated orange zest (bitter

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.  With an electric mixer, beat together butter, cheese, & stevia powder until light and fluffy.  Add vanilla and eggs, one at a time and beat on high until well mixed.  Add chips and orange rind and stir until just mixed.
2. Drop teaspoons of dough onto an ungreased cookie sheet about 1 inch apart and bake for 12-14 minutes, or until golden brown and firm to touch.
3. Transfer to a cooling rack.  Can be stored for 1 week in an air tight container in the refrigerator.

Really, the hardest part of the holiday office parties are the baked goods: the cakes, cookies, candies that remind us of Grandma’s house.  If you bring a few of these with you, eat the privately if you want to, you will be able to resist the rest!

You can get GWF Baking Mix at the Heavenly Bodies Clinic or by ordering online.

Chocolate-Pistachio Biscotti

These little biscotti cookies are great with an early morning coffee or crumbled on some yogurt and raspberries for dessert.  However you enjoy them, remember they are full of protein, not sugar.

• 1 cup GWF Baking Mix (sweet, salty)
• 1/3 cup cocoa powder (bitter)
• 2 eggs (sweet)
• 20 drops of stevia liquid (sweet)
• 1 tsp vanilla (sweet)
• 1/4 cup canola (or other light) oil (sweet)
• 1/2 cup pistachio nuts (sweet, salty, sour, bitter)
• 1/2 cup dark chocolate chips (sweet, bitter)
• 1/4 cup chopped crystallized ginger candy (optional) (pungent, sweet)

1. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees and line a baking sheet with parchment paper.  In a medium bowl, blend together the GWF baking mix with the cocoa powder and set aside.
2. In the large bowl of an electric mixer, beat the eggs, then add stevia liquid and beat until frothy.  Mix in vanilla and oil.
3. With the mixer on low, add the cocoa baking mix and combine well.  Add nuts, chocolate and ginger and mix (it may be easier to use a spatula at this point to mix).
4. With moistened hands, shape the dough into 2 9-inch logs about 2 inches in width.  Bake until set, about 15 minutes.  Remove from oven and let cool for about 10 minutes.  Reduce heat to 325.
5. Transferred cooled logs to cutting board and slice (serrated knife works well) into 16 slices each, about 1/2-inch thick.  Return to baking sheet/parchment paper and bake for another 10 minutes on each side.  Cool for 5 minutes on the baking sheet, then move to a cooling rack.  Store in an airtight container for up to 1 week.

GWF baking mix is available at the Heavenly Bodies Clinic or our online store!