And Valentine’s Day is upon us!!  💖Bring on the chocolate!!

Do you have any special traditions you & your family look forward too?? I’d love to hear!

This year we get to enjoy a cousin’s wedding! I’m looking forward to seeing extended family we haven’t seen in a while!!🤗

Are you in the baking mood?? 

Today, I want to share 3 FREE recipes of our favorite healthy treats!  

• Chocolate Chip Cookies

• Raspberry Tarts

• Cream Cheese Brownies

And guess what?! No sugar!!!!😍

Ya know, just because we know sugar is bad for us, doesn’t mean we can’t have baked goodies!

I have started baking with raw honey & whole white wheat flour for quite a few years now.  And we love it!🍯

I did break us in slowly, doing half sugar & half honey for a while, & then doing all honey,

but more then the recipe asked for since we still all had a pretty sweet tooth.  Yes, it took a bit…

But now… my children wince when they eat something very sweet elsewhere!!! Score for mom!!💃

I am always so grateful when they master another good eating habit!!

And likewise, with the flour, I did half white, & half wheat for a long time. And now, baked goods with only white flour don’t have much flavor!

It always amazes me how we train our taste buds! 

Hint: If at first your family doesn’t like, try, try, try again!!  Eventually, their taste buds change & you have helped them become wise in healthy eating!!😋

My first recipe is our favorite chocolate chip cookies:🍪

Chocolate Chip Cookies🍪

Ingredients:

• 1 1/2 cup Borntrager Dairy Honey

• 3 1/2 cup whole white wheat flour

• 1 1/4 tsp. baking soda

• 1 1/2 tsp. baking powder

• 2 large pastured eggs

• 1 1/2 cup Borntrager Dairy butter, cold & cut into small cubes 

• 2 tsp. Vanilla

• 1 1/2 tsp. sea salt

• 2 cups dark chocolate chips (Lily's are great)

Steps:

1. Mix together all ingredients except choc chips.

2.  Mix very well for several minutes.

3. Add choc. Chips.

4.  Mix till blended!

5. Preheat oven to 350. 

6. Grease a baking sheet. 

7. Scoop 12 mounds of dough onto baking sheet.

8. Bake until light brown, a little underdone is best. approx. 11 minutes. 

9. Let cool. 

10. Pour a glass of Borntrager Dairy milk & enjoy your cookies!🥛

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Now for the second recipe…

The other week, I wanted to take something fun to my sister’s coffee break☕… and I procrastinated…. The morning of, I woke up not knowing what to take… 😏

I was hungry for something raspberry, but of course, I didn’t have fresh raspberries… 

So I google raspberry tarts… & I get all these amazing cheesecakes,🍰 I was drooling...but of course, I knew I had no time to make them.

I keep scrolling suddenly remembering ...I do have frozen raspberries. And I came upon these sweet looking little tarts, just right for a party!!🧁

It asked for sugar cookie dough, but I decided choc chip cookie dough would do just as well!

That way, I could make some extra cookies for my family as well.  So I quickly mixed together 2 batches of choc chip cookies minus the chocolate chips.

And the rest is explained in the recipe!! Needless to say, they were the cutest little tarts & oh, so yummy! 🤤

Oh & yeah, my husband ate like 4 of them right off the bat. 😎

They’d be perfect for a Valentine’s Party & no sugar!! Score!!✔

Raspberry Tarts

Ingredients:

• 1 cup Chocolate Chip cookie dough (without the choc chips added)

• 1 cup Borntrager Dairy Honey & Vanilla Greek Yogurt

• 1 sm. cont. Fresh Raspberries

Steps:

1. Grease a small size muffin pan.

2.  Preheat oven to 350.

3.  Roll a Tbsp of cookie dough with your hands & then press & mold into each muffin tin. Bake for 10 min. 

4. Gently press the center down with your thumb or a spoon. 

5. Cool. 

6. Fill the center with greek yogurt. 

7. Garnish with raspberries. 

Treat yourself!!😋

Needing something chocolate??

A friend recently requested this cream cheese brownie recipe, so I thought I’d add it to my “Valentine’s collection”

...cause you just can’t do Valentine’s without chocolate!!💖

I’m starting to switch to Lily’s dark chocolate chips, so you’ll have to ask me in a few months how that’s going!

Try these & let me know what you think!!

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Amazing Cream Cheese Brownies

Ingredients:

• 1 cup Borntrager Dairy Honey or sugar

• 2 tsp. Vanilla

• 3/4 cup cocoa

• 2 cups Borntrager Dairy milk

• 3 cups whole white wheat flour

• 2 tsp. Soda

• 2/3 cup Borntrager Dairy butter

Cream Topping Ingredients:

• 1 cup Borntrager Dairy Honey & Vanilla greek yogurt or cream cheese

• 1 Borntrager Dairy pastured egg

• 2 Tbsp. Borntrager Dairy Honey or sugar

• dash of salt

• Lily’s dark chocolate chips to sprinkle on top

Steps:

1. Preheat oven to 350.

2. In a large mixing bowl, combine all brownie ingred.

3. Blend well. 

4. Pour into a greased 12 x 17 sheet pan.

5. Mix filling ingred. (except for choc. chips) together in a small mixing bowl.

6. Drop filling by Tbsp onto brownie mixture.

7. Use a knife to swirl the filling thru the batter.

8. Sprinkle with 2 cups dark chocolate chips.

9. Bake at 350 for 20 minutes. 

10. Cool and enjoy!

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There you have 3 fun recipes to bake with!💃

 Which will you try?

 Be sure to let me know which you liked the best!😍

I wish you a lovely Valentine’s Day!

Take time to Bless your loved ones!!
Give them an extra hug! 🤗

Make it a fun, memorable day for your children!🤸‍♀️🤸‍♂️

Do that extra thing for your spouse!🥰

For some of you, I know it will be hard… I pray especially for you… you are near & dear to my heart.

I pray that God Almighty will give you a peace & that you know you are loved with a LOVE far greater than we can ever imagine!!🙌

“Behold what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God…” 1 John 3:1

Happy Love Day!

-Arlene💖

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