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Chocolate Covered Strawberry Donuts

February 14, 2012 by 2 Comments

I’m don’t these need an introduction.  They’re that good.  Heart shaped.  Strawberries.  Chocolate.  Enough said.

Love is in the air y’all!

 

Chocolate Covered Strawberry Donuts

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by Sarah Collins Chapman

Prep Time: 5-10 min

Cook Time: 10-12 min

Keywords: bake dessert vegan vegetarian strawberries Chocolate whole wheat pastry flour donuts

 

Ingredients (12-16 donuts depending on pan)

    For Donuts:

    • 1 cup whole wheat pastry flour
    • 1 cup all purpose flour
    • 1/2 cup sugar
    • 1/2 T baking powder
    • 1/2 t salt
    • pinch each of cinnamon and nutmeg
    • 1 cup frozen strawberries, defrosted and mashed up (I just used a fork to lightly mash them)
    • 1 cup nondairy milk
    • 1/4 cup applesauce
    • 2 T Earth Balance (or butter), melted
    • 1 t vanilla extract

    For Chocolate Glaze:

    • 1/2 cup powdered sugar
    • 2 T cocoa powder
    • 2 T nondairy milk

    Instructions

    Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Spray donut pan with nonstick spray.

    In a medium bowl, combine flours, sugar, baking powder, salt, cinnamon and nutmeg.

    Add milk, applesauce, mashed strawberries, Earth Balance (or butter), and vanilla. Stir until just combined.

    Pipe batter into donut pan using a piping bag or a Ziploc bag with the corner snipped off. You can spoon it in but they look better after being baked if you pipe it in.

    Bake for 10-12 minutes until lightly brown.

    While donuts are cooling prepare the chocolate glaze by combining the powdered sugar, cocoa powder, and milk in a small bowl.

    Dip the top of each donut into the chocolate glaze and let them hang out on a cooling rack until the glaze firms up.

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    How cute is this heart shaped donut pan?!

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    Love at first bite!!

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    P.S. Don’t fret if you don’t have a donut pan- just make them into muffins in your muffin pan and drizzle the tops of each muffin with some of the chocolate glaze!

    Happy Valentine’s Day!

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    Weekly Wrap-Up: 1/29-3/4

    February 4, 2012 by 2 Comments

    I’ve decided I really like the weekly wrap-up posts!  I’m going to try to make them a regular thing- I like being able to post random things without making a whole post about them specifically. 

    This week was so weird for me.  I was tired, grouchy and just felt really off all week.  I kind of felt like I was just going through the motions this week.  But this week officially starts over today and I declare next week awesome!

    Weekly weigh- in!

    Last week’s weight: 174.6
    This week’s weight: 175.2

    Change this week: +.6
    Total weight lost:  34.8 lbs!!

    Meh.

    Haircut!

    I was about 3 months overdo for a cut and color(yikes!) and I was sporting some major white trash roots.  I also hadn’t realized how long my hair had gotten because I’ve been wearing it in a ponytail pretty much every day since November.  But we cut off 5 inches I think?  And it’s still a few inches below my collarbone.  It was just starting to become completely unmanageable with the length and it was always one big mass of knots.  Anyway here’s the new do.  I didn’t do anything new with my color this time, just took some length off!

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    Let’s talk about shoes…

    I love them.  I don’t love fashion and I would rather have a tooth pulled than talk about clothes.  I’m just not into it.  But shoes.  Shoes are the only reason I don’t wear wind pants or yoga pants and tees every day.  Can’t wear insanely cute shoes with either of those items unfortunately.  Well I guess you could but it would look pretty weird! Winking smile  Here are just a few of the shoes I wore this week!

    Boots!  I love boots!  Cowboy boots?  Yep!  Riding style boots?  Of course!

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    Chucks are always appropriate.  As are a new pair of peep toe wedges.

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    Recipe Roundup!

    Recipes I posted this week!

    Spicy Black Bean Dip

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    Southwestern Salads

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    I didn’t really make any other recipes- we had a lot of leftovers this week.  Hopefully I’ll do better with this next week!

     

    Workouts…

    I was an epic failure on my number of workouts this week.  I have lots of great excuses but I’ll spare you.  But the workouts that I did do were good!

    I can’t remember if I posted my long run with last weeks workouts or not, so I’m going to post it again.  (I’m still having some breathing issues.  Dislike.  I think it’s the weather).

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    My legs are STILL sore from these sprints- they were killer!  But I think they’ll really help me in the long run!

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    Yeah that’s all.  Totally lame.

     

    Like I said I wasn’t really feeling like myself this week.  Hoping next week’s wrap-up is a little better!  See ya next time!

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    Spicy Black Bean Dip

    February 3, 2012 by 6 Comments

    Hey everyone!!  One of the appliances I love most in my kitchen is my food processor.  Hands down.  But really great food processors are pretty expensive.  We were very blessed to receive ours as a wedding gift.  Also it’s sometimes too big to do the job I need it for, like making small batches of dips and chopping small quantities of veggies.  Enter my new toy…

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    The mini food chopper!  This bad boy was on sale at Target this past weekend- I think I paid $30 for it.  I had been thinking about getting one and as I saw this one on sale I knew it was the one!  I’ve had a super cheapy one before but it didn’t work well and I ended up throwing it away.  Spend a little money if you’re going to get something like this.  It’s worth it, I promise! 

    This little food chopper is absolutely PERFECT to make the dip recipe I’m sharing with you today!  Also I hear there’s some kind of football game this weekend, and that it’s kind of a big deal.  So maybe you should make this to snack on during said game!

     

    Spicy Black Bean Dip

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    by Sarah Collins Chapman

    Prep Time: 10 min

    Keywords: food processor appetizer dip vegan vegetarian black beans Super Bowl

     

     

    Ingredients

    • 1/4 small onion
    • 1 jalapeno, seeded
    • 1 clove garlic
    • 1 can black beans, drained and rinsed
    • 1 t salt
    • 1/4 t ground black pepper
    • 1 T nutritional yeast (optional but it adds a lovely flavor!)
    • 1/2 t chili powder
    • 1/4 t ground cumin
    • 1 T cilantro
    • big squirt of lime juice
    • 1-2 T water

    Instructions

    Place onion, jalapeno, and garlic in a food processor and pulse it until finely chopped.

    Add black beans, salt, pepper, nutritional yeast, chili powder, cumin, cilantro, and squirt of lime juice and process until the dip starts to come together.

    Stream in water until the dip meets desired consistency (I used 1 T).

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    Sooooooo good!!

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    And not too shabby in the caloric department either!

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    Delish!  Enjoy!

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