Dark Chocolate Pumpkin Mini Muffins

Quick, easy and delicious dark chocolate pumpkin mini muffins are the perfect fall dessert!

TWO INGREDIENTS!

Quick, simple and portion-controlled.

This Chocolate Pumpkin Mini Muffins are so EASY.  Two ingredients:

  • 1 box Dark Chocolate Cake Mix
  • 1 can Pumpkin (100% pumpkin.  Not pumpkin pie filling)

For all the pumpkin lovers out there, this is the perfect Fall dessert.  They are so moist and flavorful and make a great afternoon snack or for breakfast with a cup of coffee.

These are the perfect little snack to satisfy your sweet cravings.
I was able to make 40 muffins, so having 2 mini muffins is a treat but you don’t have the guilt.

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Zucchini Lasagna

Healthy Zucchini Lasagna has layers of ground turkey, marinara, ricotta cheese and mozzarella cheese for a delicious, low carb, low calorie alternative to traditional lasagna!

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This ‘Pasta-less’ Zucchini Lasagna is a healthy alternative to your regular lasagna recipe.
It is packed with flavor – minus the carbs, calories and fat!

This has become a favorite at our house.  We love it and don’t miss the pasta when we’re eating it.

The first time I had this dish was at my sister’s house.  My mother and I had traveled to my sister’s to stay the night and then was leaving the next morning on a flight together to Florida for my 50th birthday.  When we arrived at her house this was in the oven cooking and it smelled wonderful!

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Sugar Free Fresh Berry Trifle

Layers of chocolate cake, cool whip, pudding, strawberries and blackberries in a Trifle dish.

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This sugar free dessert taste so good, you won’t realize you are eating a
sugar free dessert.

We had family visit a few days ago and this dessert was easy to put together before they got here.  It keeps well in the refrigerator for a few days.

My step-father is diabetic and has always stuck to his diet since he was diagnosed years ago.  So when he visits I always try and have a sugar free dessert for him to indulge in.  Since this recipe doesn’t taste like you are eating a sugar free dessert, this is the only dessert I made.  My great nephew and niece were here also and this is definitely a kid-friendly dessert as well.  We all enjoyed it!

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Chocolate Rum Bundt Cake

Chocolate rum cake with dark chocolate chips and walnuts, topped off with a Chocolate Glaze!

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Reinventing the Famous Barcardi Rum Cake…
WITH CHOCOLATE!

This recipe uses a chocolate cake mix which makes it a quick and easy Bundt cake.  You will have this dessert ready and in the oven in no time.  Adding in a few extra ingredients like Dark Rum and chocolate chips take a plain boxed cake mix to another level.  The box of pudding adds a rich and moist taste and texture.

This cake would be great for Christmas or Thanksgiving (PIN for later)…or just any day when you are craving CHOCOLATE.  I’ve noticed most of my dessert recipes I’ve added so far have some form of chocolate:

Chocolate Bourbon Cake,
Blueberry, Dark Chocolate Muffins with a Crumble Topping
Chocolate Cayenne Banana Bread
Chocolate Glazed Chocolate Tart

We Love our Chocolate!

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Blueberry, Dark Chocolate Muffins with a Crumble Topping

Muffins loaded with blueberries and dark chocolate chips and topped with a brown sugar, cinnamon and butter crumble

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Oh boy, these are a treat!

How do you make homemade blueberry muffins taste even better?  Add dark chocolate chips!  This Blueberry Crumble Muffin recipe is ‘some-what-healthy-ish’.  I mean they do have fruit in them and are made with coconut oil….Okay, there is the butter.  And flour. And sugar.  But I can assure you they are more healthier than a coffee shop or store-bought blueberry muffin.

NO preservatives, NO ingredients you can’t pronounce.

Every bite is loaded with blueberries and dark chocolate.  And the brown sugar, cinnamon and butter crumble on top just makes them so much tastier.

And they are really pretty sitting in your cake or muffin display on the counter-top.  But leaving them in site means that they ‘call your name’ each time you walk by them.  Dangerous!

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Mango and Blueberry Smoothie

Frozen mango, blueberries and banana make a quick and healthy to-go breakfast.

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Quick and healthy breakfast!

I love these smoothies.  They are so easy and you can really change it up and add any frozen fruit you like.  Fresh fruit would work also but using frozen makes the smoothies more creamier and thicker.

We use our Magic Bullet to make these.  The Magic Bullet comes with plastic mugs that have a handle on them.  You can make these Mango and Blueberry Smoothies and carry it with you if you are short on time and in a hurry to head out the door.

Always start with a half of a FROZEN banana.  It just makes the smoothie consistency thicker.  I just place the bananas in a Ziplock bag in the freezer as they ripen and are too ripe for our personal taste.  It is a great way to use up bananas and you always have a stock in the freezer for these smoothies.

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