I'm all about healthy eating. You'll find organic dairy products and produce in my kitchen. Grass fed beef and organic poultry in my freezer. I have a vegetable garden and an orchard. I even order organic wheat berries by the 50# bag so I can grind our flour.
However, I live by the 90/10 rule.
90% of the time we eat healthy so the remaining 10% of the time, we can have a treat or two. Yes, occasionally, we eat donuts and go to the ice cream shop and (sometimes) we even, GASP, eat fast food.
It's all about moderation.
But, buy treats? No way! Make them yourself! When you make them, YOU control the ingredients. Here are a few simple changes that will help your treats become a tad bit healthier...
Use aluminum free baking powder
Change from regular white flour to unbleached to cut back on unwanted chemicals in your food.
Add part whole wheat flour to dense cookies, bars and cakes, it's hardly noticeable.
Use butter instead of margarine, it really is healthier!
Buy farm fresh free range eggs instead of eggs from the grocery store.
Make fruit filling and pie filling from fresh or frozen fruit or use homemade jam.
Make your own frosting, don't buy the canned stuff! Who knows what they put in that junk.
More healthy tips later...
Now for the recipe.
An easy, quick summer BBQ dessert.
However, I live by the 90/10 rule.
90% of the time we eat healthy so the remaining 10% of the time, we can have a treat or two. Yes, occasionally, we eat donuts and go to the ice cream shop and (sometimes) we even, GASP, eat fast food.
It's all about moderation.
But, buy treats? No way! Make them yourself! When you make them, YOU control the ingredients. Here are a few simple changes that will help your treats become a tad bit healthier...
Use aluminum free baking powder
Change from regular white flour to unbleached to cut back on unwanted chemicals in your food.
Add part whole wheat flour to dense cookies, bars and cakes, it's hardly noticeable.
Use butter instead of margarine, it really is healthier!
Buy farm fresh free range eggs instead of eggs from the grocery store.
Make fruit filling and pie filling from fresh or frozen fruit or use homemade jam.
Make your own frosting, don't buy the canned stuff! Who knows what they put in that junk.
More healthy tips later...
Now for the recipe.
An easy, quick summer BBQ dessert.
- 1 cup plus 1 T oil
- 1 3/4 cup sugar
- 4 eggs
- 1 tsp vanilla
- 3 cups flour
- 1 1/2 tsp baking powder
- 1/2 tsp salt
- approx 5 cups (canned if desired) pie filling. I used cherry, use whatever your taste buds desire
* Cream sugar and eggs. Add oil and mix until smooth and oil is distributed evenly. Add flour, baking powder, salt and vanilla, mix well. Reserve 1 1/2 cups batter. Spread the rest over the bottom of a greased jelly roll pan. Spread pie filling over batter. Drop remaining batter, 1 T at a time, over pie filling. Bake at 350* for 30 - 35 minutes. Cool. Drizzle with powdered sugar icing*.
*Icing
2 cups powdered sugar
vanilla extract
enough milk to make a thick drizzle-able consistency
*Icing
2 cups powdered sugar
vanilla extract
enough milk to make a thick drizzle-able consistency
3 comments:
This looks yummy Annika, and like something Steve would like. I'm going to have to try it!
Sarah, it is yummy! We had someone bring these with a meal when I was sick those 6 weeks over the winter and they were the one thing that I could eat and loved!
Greg thought they were so great that he had me call the gal and get the recipe!
It does look good!! Since moving back to the states I am finding it so hard to convert here. In the UK we are so much more used to organic, which is so much cheaper there than here and to be honest I have been so shocked by how unhealthy the food is here. The bread seems like it lasts forever, so the first thing I bought was a bread machine to make our own. But there are so many things I miss from home. I am grateful to you for these tips to help me along the way because you give me hope that you CAN eat healthy here, I just have to search more than I would at home!
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