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Healthy Banana Bread

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Learn how to make this Easy, Healthy Banana Bread! This is the best ever healthy banana nut bread recipe! In this video Karen Breyer will show you step-by-step how to make this Easy, Healthy Banana Bread recipe! Looking for healthy bread recipes that you can make for breakfast or a delicious snack or dessert? Look no further!

This delicious whole wheat banana nut bread just happens to be vegan, low-fat and sugar and dairy free so it can be enjoyed by almost everyone! If you are looking for easy baking recipes for adults or kids you found it! Watch this video and make this this best ever Healthy Banana Bread today!

Yield: 1 loaf

Healthy Banana Bread

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Ingredients

  • 1 cup whole wheat flour
  • 1/2 cup flour, unbleached
  • 1 teaspoon salt
  • 1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
  • 1/2 cup walnuts, chopped
  • 1/2 - 3/4 cup bananas, ripe (mashed)
  • 1/2 cup coconut milk
  • 1/3 cup honey
  • Water (as needed)
  • Cooking spray

Instructions

  1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Spray loaf pan with cooking spray.
  2. Mix dry ingredients together. Mix in walnuts.
  3. Mix mashed bananas, coconut milk, and honey together.
  4. Add enough water to make 1 1/2 cup total liquid and mix together.
  5. Briskly stir the liquid mixture into the dry ingredients.
  6. Pour mixture into pan and bake 40 to 45 minutes or until the bread is golden brown and a knife inserted in the center comes out clean.

Notes

I like Kosher salt the best.

I prefer aluminum-free baking powder.

See a cooking demonstration of this Healthy Banana Bread recipe on the Cooking Lessons for Dad YouTube channel.

© Karen Breyer

 

Healthy Peanut Butter Cookies

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Learn how to make this amazing Healthy Peanut Butter Cookie recipe! In this video Karen Breyer will show you step-by-step how to make these easy healthy peanut butter cookies. These peanut butter cookies only have 5 ingredients and will be the best healthy peanut butter cookies you have ever tried!

If want to learn how to make cookies, this simple peanut butter cookie recipe is perfect for you! Watch this video and try this easy, Healthy Peanut Butter cookie recipe today!

Healthy Peanut Butter Cookies

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Ingredients

  • 2 cups roasted peanuts, salted or unsalted
  • 1 cup whole wheat pasty flour
  • 1/2 - 1 teaspoon salt, Kosher (to taste)
  • 1/2 cup honey, warmed
  • 1 1/2 teaspoon vanilla

Instructions

  1. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.
  2. Add peanuts and flour to a food processor or strong blender. Blend until the flour and peanuts are the same texture.
  3. Add the salt (to taste) and blend to mix. Add less salt if the peanuts are salted and more if they are not salted.
  4. Warm the honey in the microwave until it is a liquid consistency (about 30 to 60 seconds).
  5. Add the peanut mixture to a bowl with the vanilla and warmed honey. Mix together.
  6. Pinch off pieces of dough and roll them into walnut size pieces. The dough should be soft, but not too sticky to roll in balls. If the dough is too dry mix in a little water (about 1 tablespoon). If the dough is too wet, mix in a little more flour until it is a soft consistency.
  7. Place the dough balls on a baking sheet and press them flat with your hands.
  8. Next press them down flatter with a fork in a criss-cross pattern. Dip the fork in water as needed to keep it from sticking to the dough.
  9. Bake for about 10 minutes or just until the cookie edges start to brown. Let them cool before removing them from the pan.

Notes

You can use a different type of salt if you do not have Kosher salt.

Use a microwave safe container when warming the honey in the microwave. Heat it until it is liquidy.

Be careful not to burn these cookies. Check them a minute or two early just in case they cook more quickly.

The honey needs to be warmed enough so it will pour like water.

The dough consistency should be similar to pie crust dough.

See a cooking demonstration of this Healthy Peanut Butter Cookie recipe on the Cooking Lessons for Dad YouTube channel

© Karen Breyer

 

No Roll Pie Crust

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Learn how to make this super easy No Roll Pie Crust with only 4 ingredients! In this cooking video Karen Breyer will show you step by step how to make this easy pie crust. This is a very easy, healthy pie crust recipe that you do not need to roll out!

If you are looking for new healthy dessert recipes this easy pie crust recipe is perfect for your favorite pie filling! I make this simple whole wheat pie crust with my favorite Vegan Pumpkin Pie recipe. You can find that recipe at Cookinglessonsfordad.com.

If you want to make a homemade pie crust without the trouble of rolling out the pie dough, this easy No Roll Pie Crust is the pie crust recipe for you! This is perfect recipe for beginners who have never made a pie crust before. Try this easy, delicious, healthy No Roll Pie Crust recipe today!

 

Yield: 1 9-inch pie crust

No Roll Pie Crust

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Ingredients

  • 1 cup whole wheat pastry flour
  • 1/2 teaspoon salt, Kosher
  • 1/4 cup oil, vegetable
  • 2 tablespoons water

Instructions

  1. Preheat oven to 375 degrees.
  2. Combine flour and salt in a pie pan.
  3. Add 1/4 cup oil to measuring cup. Add 2 tablespoons of water and whisk together with a fork until the oil is emulsified.
  4. Pour the liquid mixture over the flour. Stir the liquid into the flour with a fork. Mix well.
  5. Press the dough into the pie pan with your fingers. Cover the bottom of the pan and up the sides.
  6. Prick the dough on the bottom of the pan a few times with a fork.
  7. Bake for 20 minutes or until the pie crust just starts to brown.

Notes

If you do not have Kosher salt, you can use another kind.

You can add a little more water if the dough is too dry.

See a cooking demonstration of this No Roll Pie Crust recipe on the Cooking Lessons for Dad YouTube channel.

© Karen Breyer

 

Vegan Pumpkin Pie

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Looking for a healthy pumpkin pie? Check out this Vegan Pumpkin Pie cooking video!  This pie is easy to make and super delicious! In this video Karen Breyer will show you how to make this easy, healthy Vegan Pumpkin Pie recipe. I think it is the best pumpkin pie recipe ever! Watch this video and try this easy, healthy, delicious Vegan Pumpkin Pie recipe today!

Yield: 8 servings

Vegan Pumpkin Pie

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Ingredients

  • 1 - 15 ounce can pumpkin
  • 1 - 13.5 ounce can coconut milk
  • 1/2 cup dates, pitted
  • 1/3 cup honey or agave
  • 1/4 cup cornstarch
  • 1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla
  • 3 tablespoons maple syrup
  • 1 teaspoon cinnamon
  • 1/2 teaspoon nutmeg
  • 1 teaspoon salt

Instructions

  1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
  2. Blend all the ingredients together until smooth.
  3. Pour the mixture in an unbaked pie crust.
  4. Bake pie for 50 - 60 minutes until the crust is golden.
  5. Set the pie on the counter until it is completely cool (a couple hours).
  6. Next chill the pie in the refrigerator for about 6 hours until it is firm and cold.
  7. Serve!

Notes

This vegan pumpkin pie is delicious topped with whipped cream!

You can use a blender or food processor to blend the pumpkin pie mixture.

If you find that the crust gets brown too early, before baking you can cover the edge of the pie crust with foil and bake for 30 minutes. Then remove the foil and continue to cook for 20 - 30 more minutes.

You can also take the pie out a few minutes early if the crust is starting to brown too much.

When the pie is finished cooking it may be a little jiggly. This is fine as it will firm up in the refrigerator.

It is normal for this pie to have a few cracks on the top after baking.

You may want to set the pie on a baking sheet in the oven in case it spills over while cooking.

See a cooking demonstration of this Vegan Pumpkin Pie recipe on the Cooking Lessons for Dad YouTube channel.

© Karen Breyer

 

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