Apple tart galette is a gala event with Gala Apples like these… or any organic red apples you can get your hands on apple picking!
Below is an easy apple galette pastry recipe that’s low sugar and needs no proofing. And the proof is when you make them (…and in photos below 😊).
They are made even more tasty sweet tart good with baked lemon.
If you’ve never had a baked lemon, you’re ready to be taken to a whole new lemon experience from the juicy bright citrusy one to a cooler weather vibe… but still prepare to pucker up! 🍋
So this occasion is a zesty candied lemon and apple event all-in-one. 🎉 And once-upon-a-time I spent my entire week dreaming up event tables with clients… and now I’m doing the same for you.
You can lean into the stuffed candy apples that are fun, easy, and healthy snacks to make that take less effort than apple bobbing… that’s an old apple water in a barrel game like juggling🤹
For this snack apple making craft, be sure to source organic apples for these desserts with the skin-on… where the skin stays on and you get all the fiber and anti-inflammatory vitamin benefits.
…Plus, there’s no waste to handle that’s good for our world that isn’t daily compostable just yet (Debby-Downerwah-wah-wah).
…But hopeful it’s in the works… I believe. 🙏 And we have workarounds today like eating all the edible parts that’s not hard to do.
Which btw, you can do this sustainability move with fresh homemade juice too.
And for these apples, add some cinnamon to your apple-lemon (sweet and sour) for an irresistible zingy pairing. Add a douse of cinnamon that’s good for warming down anxious energies. And cardamom if you want energy-energy. ⚡️
And when it comes out of the oven baked and spiced, you get to be transported a happy nostalgic mood through your senses. 💭
…Do you remember your first apple pie? I remember the apple pie 🥧 store where I grew up. It was out a ways that’s now a bustling town and part of the area I grew up in.
And in those happy memory vibes, you can make your own apple tart galette dessert in the shape you like 🥧, comfort of your kitchen and do no traveling… and have a cozy home and enjoyable experience no matter what the weather is outside.
If you want to lean into apple vibes with sweet and tart, then this is a good easy bake.
Author Brandy @ Healthy Happy Life Secrets
Ingredients
organic medium apples (red)
cinnamon
1cupflour of choice
1-1/2cupdry oats
lemon, cut in wedges
lemon curd
honey or maple syrup to shine
2tbspcold butter
cold water
Instructions
This will make a galette for 3 rows of medium sized apples.
Prepare lemon curd on the stove. I low heat warm two eggs, lemon juice and zest, 1 tbsp butter and 1 tbsp flour stirring constantly for a few minutes until flour is fully blended in. I purposefully leave out sugar, but you can add some if you choose. Honey can be added at the end as shine. Let curd cool and refrigerate to help thicken while you prepare the rest of the steps. Save 2 thinly sliced lemons cut in half moons for decoration and taste.
Prepare oat flour: pulse or grind oat into fine flour.
Make the pastry shell: hand blend flours, cold butter, and add enough cold water to create a dough disc. Roll out onto your baking pan and create the pastry shape you like.
Cut two sides of the apple up to the core so you get the arch sides. Cut into thin strips and keep each side intact. Add to the pastry shell along ith lemon slices.
Add cinnamon on top and brush lemon curd throughout your galette.
Bake at 325°F/165°C for about 75 minutes or 350°F/180°C for about an hour until deep golden brown. I usually turn the oven off around the hour mark and leave in oven another 15 minutes.
About 15 minutes before turning off the oven heat, brush honey or syrup on pastry top and sides for additional shine and sweetness.
Microgreens have been around longer than our modern culture. 🌱
It was a way of food survival during the winter months of the oldest civilizations on our planet… a lot like how modern squirrels have preserved the foraging acorn traditions.
Baby arugula microgreens are tasty additions to a salad 🥗
Which btw… is outdoor entertaining to watch Rocky the flying squirrel in his purposeful scurrying meal prep moves. 🐿️
How they actually feel about their work we’ll never know, but it has kept their species around.
…And to keep ours going, modern food planning is something we do.
In human life, that’s how it can look with us daily running around in our busy lives… and for me, that’s how it sometimes looked behind-the-scenes as a food service professional in organized chaos prepping and planning weekly catered event challenges in hotel ballrooms and for restaurant parties celebrating Mediterranean food styles.
And even with all the variety of food available to our planet we can be bored with our food sourcing options. 🥬
Daily, we open the fridge and pantry cupboards thinking: “what’s for dinner?” or “what can I have for a little snack?”…sometimes coming up short for a good answer. 🤔
Microgreens can be part of the answer as a healthy and tasty choice.
Here are 5 points that make microgreens a smart choice:
Point #1: Microgreens are food like-able and tasty good.
…Because if they weren’t, why bother?
Children seem to love them as some of the pickiest green eaters on earth.
Many microgreens are smaller, cute kid-size bits and bites like baby arugula, so it’s easier to get a handful of the finger foods than the adult version.
The young greens also add interest, taste, and texture to any plate.
…And why they’re not more commonly known today is unknown. Maybe like their shape-forms, they still have a wild-like reputation… 🌿
Like, I remember alfalfa sprout microgreens from a school age where I once saw the jungle wild-looking tangly-fine weeds in a friend’s lunch box that made me curious…
And now as an adult, thinking it’s a good idea. 🎉
You grow into new perspectives and healthy ways and today is a great way to spruce up 😋 and vertically beef up a light protein mustardy salad sandwich or the like (…einkorn finger sandwich idea below 🧡). Or to garnish a bowl of beets…
Point # 2: Microgreens are less bitter.
Microgreens have the reputation of being less bitter that is good news for some people’s tongues who avoid the taste.
That reminds me of green tea…
If you don’t love bitter green tea tastes that can grow stronger if brewed too hot or you picked the wrong flavor for you, then you probably don’t lean toward preferring many bitter tasting superfood veggies and plant greens.
And that’s why certain veggies 🥦🥬 don’t end up on the plate (like green tea in cups)… or in a diet despite their healthy goodness.
…Green teas 🍵 come from the same Camellia Sinensis plant as common black, white, and oolong teas but differ in process where they’re not oxidized like common black teas.
And what makes the difference for microgreens (and similar to green teas) is the process from the same plant.
Microgreens are harvested early, coming from the same plants as the adult version we see mostly on shelf space in grocery stores. 🌱
So they’re fresh and have different tastes worth trying, often more mild tasting and welcoming to all.
Point #3: Young greens are replenishable, sustainable, and abundant.
…Just like other foods from the soil, nature provides and delivers over and over again..
When we think “fresh” we immediately think of the produce aisle in a supermarket, farmers market, or our backyard garden that produces fastly perishable foods that the soil can replenish.
If you’re a green thumb growing your own mini-market, you can have microgreens planted, harvested, and eatable within foreseeable weeks (and not months or seasons that is the time most produce take). 🧑🌾
That makes microgreens more productive… and where you can have more than what you know what to do with! A good problem to have. ✔️
That would be too easy for getting a meal on the table.
And that ideal IS microgreens.
When you choose the micro-world of microgreens, you too help our community and local farmers.
…Those are baby plant little steps that you can take for your health and to support the world. 🪴
Point #4 – Microgreens are often organic without pesticides.
So much of our plant-based foods are exterior sprayed with pesticides to deter mostly bugs, and that offsets the healthy goodness of the healthiest skin parts of the food.
We throw away the skin that could have been healthy edible parts.
And today, reusable composting ways are not yet available for the common household.
So then we end up creating more waste that adds more plastic bag waste that also attracts unwanted critter nuisances to our community. But what if composting machines were as common as house dishwashing machines? 💭
But that not being today’s standards, with organic microgreens we can eat those problems away as the end consumer. And our bodies are healthier for our choice.
Point #5 – Microgreens are low calories and high in nutrition.
There are few (if any) green plant-based foods 🌱 that aren’t low in calories compared to plant-based (as in factory) foods. 🏭
Fresh microgreens from nature come packed with vitamins and minerals, along with some eat-from-the-rainbow 🌈 polyphenols that make you excited to color your plate and palette with anti-inflammatory food ideas! 🎨
And, mighty microgreens can have 4x (and up to 40x!) more nutrients than their full-grown version.
🎯 Final Points:
Microgreens fit in our consumer micro cultures where we are becoming more customizable specific in food diet preferences that impact food growing ways, and where our farming culture impacts our world.
Sustainable food and young microgreens are sprouting interest in our fast climate changing world searching for longevity answers where eating anti-inflammatory foods fit.
One way you can be part of the anti-inflammatory solution is by growing your own portable microgreen micro garden that can be indoors (good for those with outdoor allergies or without garden space).
Plus, so many viable options to bring in more microgreens from dream to life… yasss!
…That’s something to be excited about today. If this resonates with you, could you PLEASE HELP share this message with others so they can join the MICROGREEN movement that’s healthy here to stay.🎉
Go micro GREEN 🌱
Oh, and heres’s an easy whole wheat or einkorn (ancient wheat) sandwich in a modern recipe you can use to make finger sandwiches that was an idea I grew up with in the catering party world… and you can use for lunch, brunch, or an afternoon party.
To gain smiles, simply add delicious microgreens like baby lettuce, cucumber, radishes, carrot, and tarragon.
I have fond memories of tea sandwiches from catering menus, and that are part of English afternoon tea events and traditions. Tea sandwiches are usually bite-size and made of spongey-soft bread where the crust is cut off. And flat crunchy bread like these add plate variety. They work well to celebrate the sandwich ingredients in the middle that can be light and/or all veggies.
Course Breakfast, brunch
Cuisine American, british
Author Brandy @ Healthy Happy Life Secrets
Ingredients
einkorn flour, salt, and water for the sandwich bread.
cottage cheese
cucumber
scallions
carrots
beets or radishes
lettuce
asparagus or favorite veggies
spices: dill, tarragon, black pepper
Instructions
Prepare the sandwich bread. You can make the bread in advance. Let dough proof: develop air pockets and double in size for for at least 2 hours. Then bake dough in oven in a small sheet pan about 1/4" thick until toasted. Tip: Einkorn wheat flour is not a high gluten (rise) flour, so it won't rise much and will lay more like a flat bread when baked. You need not knead long and can omit yeast. Let bread cool and slice the toast with a serated or bread knife.Alternatively if you use regular whole wheat flour, knead a few minutes longer and add about 1/4 tsp of instant yeast (easiest) for a bread that rises. You can cut horizontally into the vertical bread about 3-4 slices to get a similar flat bread effect. Optional: You can turn this into paninis by grilling or baking on a grill pan.
Prepare the raw veggies. Thinly slice into flat or close to flat pieces.
For the sandwich paste, mix cottage cheese, dill, tarragon, and black pepper. You can processor blend the cottage cheese if you would like a smoother paste.
Add paste to the bottom of the sandwich and then layer lettuce, cucumbers, carrots, and others veggies. Add the sandwich bread top. For catering-style zhugh, you can add a toothpicked cucumber slice, or radish and beet and then plate. These easy, new old-fashioned touches show you put in extra detailed care.
Stuffed cherry tomatoes are a healthy dream snack.
When you add a filling with a great flavor pairing, that’s all you need for a moment of delicious joy.
These are good low calorie bites that you can snack on daily. You can pop or stuff in your mouth, a cherry tomato without feeling stuffed.
They flavor burst squirt the tomato juice so effortlessly and why kids can love them so easily because they’re a form of eating entertainment.
And if that’s mouth-entertainment you avoid, when you stuff them, you remove the squirt effect because you remove the inside juices.
The juicy inner parts are also the most sour tasting that you can save for a tomato sauce. An easy way to remove the center is to use a large round baker’s piping tip with open jaws or a star-shape one. ⭐️ Twist and scoop out the inside.
And then in its juicy place, add cooked quinoa (or cous cous would work and is even quicker).
Here with quinoa you get a nice bite that’s also a pseduo-grain that will help make it a filling protein snack.
Because quinoa is filled with the essential amino acids that are building blocks of protein.
And then add a small dollop cottage cheese topping (or your fave healthy creamy cheese) if you want to keep the healthy bite vibes.
You gotta love the micro healthy bites that help keep you tied over until dinner (instead of chocolate or salty bag snacks)!
And then finally to top it all off, add a green, fresh earthy bite that balances the acidic sweetness in tomatoes. 🍅
You can add asparagus or leafy herbs like mint or basil work well to give a 3rd dimensional taste. It’ll also give a color pop to the plate. 🌱
That’s what makes these stuffed cherry tomatoes, appetizer worthy: unique shapes, colors, and textures 🌿
There are a variety of tomatoes each season to deliver on their promised natural abilities. And maybe you experienced their abundance in your garden this year or discovered a new tomato in your store.
Another variety that’s similar in sweeter taste and juicy-ness is a plum tomato.
You can substitute cherry tomatoes with plum tomatoes if you want to do more stuffing as they’re larger. They look like new deviled eggs.
These below are filled with cous cous and gorgonzola creamy blue cheese protein.
You can make these snacks in minutes and I like that they look homemade and not like perfect little catering appetizers.
They’ll get gobbled up in seconds in a delicious and healthy way.
Tomatoes are full of Vitamin C, A, some B vitamins, fiber, and lycopene that’s anti-inflammatory (and even good for sunburns).
…Well, when you put it that way! 😊… maybe you’ll give them a try too.
Between carrots and tomatoes, you can have your healthy, low-calorie orange snack anytime of day. 🧡
Btw, you can take any tomato seeds and grow a plant. I started one a week ago and it has a green sprout 🌱 about 2 inches tall. Maybe growing tomatoes are the easiest produce plant to grow… as I’ve been told, have seen from others, and who knows?… maybe will see my own. 🤞
These are like mini build-a-snack bites that delight.
Course Appetizer
Cuisine American
Author Brandy @ Healthy Happy Life Secrets
Equipment
jumbo jaw piping tip
Ingredients
cherry tomatoes
cottage cheese
asparagus or fresh green herb
Instructions
Cut cherry tomatoes in half with a serated knife so they cut cleanly without squirting juice. An easy trick to remove the seeds is to use an open jaw or star piping tip. Swirl around and put the seeds aside and save them for a sauce. Or grow a tomato plant.
Joy is used and experienced in many ways in life. And spiritual joy is one of life’s mysteries that doesn’t have to stay a secret to you, to help your life now.
Seeing a painted sky through a window can be a joyful experience that brings us closer to spiritual joy. 🌄
“Things and conditions can give you pleasure, but they cannot give you joy.” – Eckhart Tolle
But in our lives, most of the daily joy is not lasting as we get bored or the scenery changes, such as the season we’re in or a pretty sunset. 🌅
Daily joy is a common calm feeling we can have when we sip on a nice comfort tea… or get reminded of something that puts a smile on our face… or have a good outlook about the future days ahead.
I had one of these joyful days yesterday with a cinnamon chocolat-y flavored rooibos tea… that’s good anytime for Ayurvedic balance, and especially great in season and life transitions that’s life now and always for all of us. 🌿
I can always tell my daily balance state by my tea and spice desires.
Feeling calm is joyful. And feeling warm and fuzzy inside is where joy and happy feelings meet…
Joy is the new happiness.
Joy is used more often in trending media channels associated to describing general things in specific life seasons like: “I felt a sense of joy for…”
These descriptions are usually external triggers that are situation-based.
…Something in our surroundings prompted the joy.
These common joy ways are acceptable and often more surface fleeting feelings (if a deeper purpose or meaning context isn’t added).
“Joy” in daily word usage can often get tossed around like word salad and is not the same as the deeper joy that’s spiritual rooted, where the deeper meaning is often missed… and this article is about the spiritual joy you tap into.
But it’s good to know that daily joy can help you more easily get into spiritual joy.
It can be the primer or vehicle to get you there.
By contrast, someone or something at any moment can ruin your fleeting daily joy, peace, and pleasant feeling with a piece of sad or irritating news as quickly as the joyful feelings arrived.
“Stopping to smell the roses” 🌹is a good self-care practice that initiates or resets daily joy that’s good for calming and mental health.
…In a more relaxed headspace like out in calm nature, this can help prep you to look deeper for your spiritual joy that’s within and anywhere you go.
…Or you can miss the spiritual joy messages.
Spiritual joy is the kind of joy you don’t experience unless you’re intentional to tuning in.
The spiritual joy source is the higher world channel that’s inside you (spirit).
You can look up to the sky or Universe if you need a visual reminder.
Or it’s where you search inside you for ad hoc bright ideas and higher possibility inspiration. 🎨
In this spirit acknowledging realm, you are internally connected to the Universe.
You can do this in prayer, or just simple quiet acknowledgement that you are not alone.
With your spirit, you’re never alone because the spirit is another energy source inside you.
Acknowledgement helps you to unleash spiritual joy that gives a deeper satisfied feeling about understanding this Universe and that you matter to more than just the people you know.
It’s a higher way of thinking or a knowing like a gut instinct.
An example is when you feel goosebumps when seeing a solar eclipse in-person that has deeper profound meaning that makes us wonder about our existence, who we actually are inside, and why we’re here on earth.
It’s heartfelt, and we feel the outer ripple effect as sensations on the body and skin.
How to experience spiritual joy (or more of this deeper feeling):
Tap into your quiet spiritual inner being channel.
One way is you do mindful active listening for the quiet whispers inside you.
It’s not woo woo if you don’t make it about that as our lives zoomed out are big woo-woo miracles from the start 🎉🎉… and so you make your spirit about higher purpose living and your personal growth… while keeping level-headed and your feet on the ground for most your waking hours.
This can become your everyday healthy life as it is for me, as much as daily cooking and reaching out in community. 🌱
You can do this out walking in nature or sitting in a quiet spot indoors.
And to go back to your daily living, you shut out the spirit whispers that is subtle like daily wind.
You get back to your busy headspaces and to-do lists, listening to your thoughts and the noises of the external world… or simply get back to the work in front of you.
That’s the frequency most of us are on during our awake hours, unless we’re intentional to carve out time for something else higher.
If you’re in a loud restaurant or sports arena with friends, it’s unlikely you’ll hear your spiritual joy calling there.
But, spiritual joy can happen even if you’re not purposefully trying…
Maybe a wave of emotion strikes you in the air, or you blurt out impromptu somethings that feel right at the moment as the spirit inside you tries to help lead you to your better purposes in this life.
But at the time that happens, you don’t know why you did or acted out that way that was harmless, but curious to you.
Your spirit inside you knows better because it’s prophetic.
And you can be in ordinary circumstances like a concert or conference and a speaker that comes on discussing a topic or mission in the world that you’re aligned and passionate about that strikes your spiritual joy… or you meet The One (your person) at a grocery store and you feel instant chemistry without saying a word in the smoothie drink aisle.
The alive-in-you spirit can show up at any time without invitation to give you clues to help you.
This is the essence of the joy of the spirit.
There are also times when some people get spiritual awakenings for longer than moments or a day.
Those are not as common, but it’s the same spirit source creating spiritual joy.
Many wonder if they have a spirit inside them…
There’s a spirit in each of us that’s gentle and quiet if we listen.
To be clear, this is the same as the Holy Spirit living in us as defined by the Bible for Christians who understand what that means.
The Holy Spirit (or Spirit) is a heavenly being living daily and inside you ready to do life with you when you choose to invite this being into your life.
Believe me, a decade ago I didn’t know this.
…And like former-me, everyone is not aware of this spirit presence, but everyone still has a spirit inside them.
Depending on actions and how they choose to live their life, the spirit can be the good and effective influence in their life.
How you choose to live is your personal willpower choice.
You can purposefully invite in your good spirit.
It’s 24-7 operating inside you like a quiet and invisible angel… ready to help you (and other lives around you that you encounter) if you’re willing to be helped.
Helping includes suggesting with higher thoughts and sudden reminders, and guiding you to make the next best steps that you can choose to listen to (like a passing gut instinct), or ignore and listen to your louder thoughts.
Unlike people, our good spirits don’t hurt people. Only we or other people have the ability to do that as we have an ego in us.
The good spirit can’t create any harmful situations because it comes from the heavenly perfect good realm that isn’t earth bound.
It’s easier to explain this to anyone as the Universe looking out for you.
And now you know better how unleashing spiritual joy works inside you if you didn’t before.
This can be a part of your daily way when alone or finding quiet time.
You can give praise and gratitude for the daily favors and blessings you experience to re-center, get back to calm and daily joy, and remind yourself of the spirit in you.
With more favor comes joy (like the common happy-joy kind) because you deeper know you’re cared for.
You also naturally get better answers in life that are higher truths if you tune in regularly.
You’re less likely to make a wrong turn when you keep your steps close to tuning in consistently (and not taking a busy season off that can easily happen in our cultures).
This is where you gain wisdom and get better aligned perspectives.
You can get epiphany that it’s not about the things you do or acquire, but who you are and are becoming that matters most.
People, things, and situations are an integral part of our lives and they help move us along for our purpose discovery, and so we can help the world we’re in.
With the help of your spirit and developing more faith, you can trust the future and believe in what you don’t see in your life but believe all will work out for good (that fear and ego can shut out).
And if you’re new to spiritual joy and finding faith, one of the biggest challenges is tuning into the quiet frequency in a noisy world, and deliberately tapping into your spirit for answers vs. culture’s comments.
These ideas can be intriguing to a curious beginner (that was also once me)…
But like anything else new, it takes intention and practice.
The first habit step can be to set an intention or goal if that works better for you, to invite in your spirit in your life. A goal example could be you measure the number of days you do this.
You can achieve this in meditation, yoga, or in any quiet time.
Learning to relax and repress the mind’s loud ego thoughts also work to quiet the noise that internally competes and drowns out how the spirit softly communicates (that’s as different in us as each of us is).
Even if we’re listening to relaxing instrumental music, that can crowd out our spirit if we’re day dreaming on something else or focus-thinking about the music itself.
There’s a time and place for that if we’ve had a long day or just wanting to relax.
But remember, coming back at least once a day to your higher channel helps us in so many life aligning productive ways! 🌅
Without our spirit’s quietly working in us, our planet would be a hopeless, chaotic mess.
But our world is not this way… it’s organized under the hood with the help of our spirit working in us.
It’s not perfect or perfectly good and never will be, but there’s more quiet good than bad.
…Just look at all the productive and buzzing actions going on in nature daily. 🌱
And when you unleash your spirit outward (that’s the only one you’re responsible for), then you feel a sense of deeper joy and positive outlook living on this planet.
It’s life changing and life-giving as connection.
You’re never alone.
…And you’re fully loved.
And when you go out in the world doing your daily rounds and business, you can keep your head up and appreciate the kind people and the favor their spirits are greeting you with.
It’s a positive energy, and if we send our joyful spirit out, then that’s usually what we get back. And if we don’t get that, we still celebrate how we showed up.
With new insight about yourself and your spirit that’s with you always (and always has been even before you knew), you’re a better person.
You keep growing in ways you couldn’t have imagined before, and the way you started isn’t where you end up!
Finding out what that is, is everyone’s bread crumb journey. It’s a life adventure that’s exciting (and not boring).
Having lived both sides fully, starting out in my 20s thinking I had to make everything happen on my own and then evolving into relying on my spirit to guide me decades later, I would never go back to the old ways. 100% never.
With accumulated wisdom and new insights, comes purpose and meaning in a transformed life that optimizes the one life we live.
We get transformed inside and that brings joy and higher self-perspectives as veils are lifted. That’s the opposite of self-suffering that when you look back was survival existence.
You no longer have to deal with past self-hangups in phases of life created by former beliefs and perspectives.
You wisely let go and grow out of former patterns and Imposter Syndrome.
Your spirit of joy helps to grow and transform your healthy mindset, attitude, and insecurities. That’s something to celebrate. 🎂
I celebrate with food like a balanced delightful bowl. How do you celebrate?
Pumpkin mousse is a healthy dessert that’s so easy to make in 5 minutes with no baking!
Is it delicious? …Of course! Especially when chocolate is added for a delightful pairing.
But make no mistake this is a luscious creamy dessert scoop THAT NEEDS NO added sugar. Recipe below. 🧡
You can use anti-inflammatory unprocessed cocoa and pumpkin from a can or 100% pumpkin that’s pureed in with A-B-C vitamins and fiber. 🎃
Pumpkin is one of those holiday ingredients that reminds us of fall when we see PUMPKIN EVERYTHING.
Plus, this chocolate pumpkin mousse dessert snack has almond and coconut flours that are gluten-free.
If you want, you can make your own almond flour easily with whole almonds that you add to your chopper tool or food processor.
Almonds are a food kind of healthy fat, so you can have synergistic nutrition absorption with the pumpkin-almond healthy duo (since pumpkin’s Vitamin A is a fat-soluble vitamin that btw, is good for eyes).
…And is a tasty duo with pumpkin-chocolate flavors, using cocoa for the recipe.
Or cacao that’s not a typo for cocoa. 😊
It’s the raw, unprocessed version of cocoa.
But if you can’t find 100% cacao that’s anti-inflammatory healthy, you can use any unsweetened cocoa that’ll be almost as good.
Besides pumpkin that’s the star ingredient for this mousse, another fall flavor incorporated is tart cranberry… thanks to another later American holiday where you can give more thanks to the feast on the table.
And cran-pumpkin together is a glorious pairing in both sweet and sour taste, and punchy fall vivid colors.
Dried cranberries (or Craisins) that are commonly used in salads, are low calorie and high in Vitamin C.
You could use juicy whole cranberries for flavor, but they would make this recipe too wet, and then we would have to add more dry ingredients or flours.
With mostly dry ingredients, you don’t need much flour.
You can adjust the coconut flour based on the creamy perfect mousse texture you want… even though you can’t go wrong here!
After you pull together and hand mix all your ingredients, take an ice cream scooper (or spoon) and test the texture thickness of your choc-pumpkin mousse that can be like soft ice cream scoops.
Your eyes can get big because you’ll want a bite. 👀
And when you get the textures to liking, you can let the glorious and healthy flavors melt in your mouth.
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