Chocolate Shakeology Truffles

Believe it or not I actually HATE baking. Everything I make only ever turns out "so so" and I always make a huge mess of the kitchen. Cooking I am fine with, baking not so much. Very rarely will you find me making baked goods. 

The other day I challenged my clients in my challenge group to create some Shakeology recipes that were not just drinks rather desserts and treats make with these yummy superfoods. I decided I couldn't offer up the challenge and not try it myself so I put together some chocolate truffles. 

Oh man did they ever turn out great!! This one was easy. Didn't make a mess of my kitchen and lasted for a few weeks in the fridge. Give it a try if your craving something sweet but don't want to fall off the clean eating wagon completely. 

Ingredients 

• 1 scoop Chocolate Shakeology
• 1/2 scoop Beachbody Performance Recovery (or chocolate protein powder)
• 1/4 cup almond flour
• 1/4 cup coconut flour
• 3 TBSP pure maple syrup 
• 3 TBSP almond milk
• 1 TBSP coconut oil
• 1 TSP vanilla extract
• 1/2 cup dark chocolate chips 

Directions

Mix first 8 ingredients together in bow

Heat last ingredient (chocolate chips) in pot on stove until melted (or in microwave- approx 2 min)

After first 8 ingredients are mixed, make balls about 1 inch in diameter. Place on cookie sheet on parchment paper

Put balls in fridge for 15 minutes

After chocolate is melted, take balls out of fridge and dip using spoon or toothpick so the chocolate covers a light layer around ball and place back on parchment paper. 

Put balls back in fridge for 10 minutes

If you have remaining chocolate, you can drizzle lightly across balls to make it look pretty.

Put back in fridge for 5 minutes

Serve and enjoy!!

Pumpkin Cream Cheese Muffins

Just In Time For Thanksgiving - Pumpkin Cream Cheese Muffins 

To this day I still get excited when Starbucks has the pumpkin cream cheese muffins on hand. I LOVE THEM. I'd be lying if I didn't say I treated myself to one earlier in the season. But you see the thing about them is they are not so good for you. It packs a punch with 420 calories. Thats a lot for one serving. What's almost as worse is that it has 47 grams of sugar in it. YIKES. This recipe only has 161 calories per muffin and 3 grams of sugar. Much better in my book. This one isn't as sweet as the Starbucks muffins but it won't give you a muffin top like the Starbucks one will either. 

Here is what you will need:

2 oz of cream cheese 

1 tbsp pure maple syrup 

1 large egg, lightly beaten 

1 cup canned pumpkin puree 

1 tsp of vanilla extract 

1 1/2 tsp of cinnamon 

1 1/2 cups of almond flour 

3/4 tsp of baking soda 

1 dash of pink himalayan salt 

Instructions 

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees 

Prepare nine muffin cups with muffin liners

Combine cream cheese and maple syrup in a small bowl. Mix well then set aside 

Combine egg, pumpkin and vanilla in a medium bowl. Mix well then set aside. 

Combine almond flour, baking soda, salt and cinnamon in another bowl. Mix well 

Add almond meal mixture to egg mixture, mix until blended. 

Spoon batter into each prepared muffin tin cup, filing a little less than 1/2 full 

Spoon 1 teaspoon of cream cheese mixture into the center of each muffin. Evenly fill muffin cups with the remaining batter. 

Bake 16 - 18 minutes or until golden brown. 

Cool on a baking rack.