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Blackberry-Coconut Cupcakes

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  • Servings: 6-12
  • Difficulty: easy
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I wanted to create a dessert recipe with the Blackberry syrup
I bought from the Middle Eastern store for a while; it is rich
concentrated syrup that is used to make cold icy drink for these hot
summer nights.

However, the first time I made these cupcakes the recipe gave me 9 cupcakes
and I was like what the heck? Where are the rest of the cupcakes?

Do not take me wrong, they were delicious but I had to have my 12 cupcakes, therefore, I had to re work the recipe until I got my 12 cupcakes.

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The hint of the blackberry along with the coconuts gives it
this delicious light and airy flavor.

.1 1/2 stick softened margarine

.1 1/2 cup sugar substitutes

.1 cup self rising flour

.3 eggs room temperature

.1 tsp. baking powder

.3/4 cup unsweetened shredded coconut plus more for the toping

.5 tbsp. blackberry syrup

.1/4 tsp. salt

Preheat oven 355

Line muffin pan with paper and set aside

1-In a stand mixer add margarine and sugar substitutes and mix well.

2-Add blackberry syrup.

3-Add eggs one at a time, mixing well after each addition.

4-Sift flour, salt, baking powder and add coconut to the mixture, on low speed add to the margarine mixture, mix for few seconds.

5- Add milk and mix well on high speed for about 50 seconds.

6-With an ice-cream scope fill the cupcakes paper and bake for 25 minutes.

7- Remove from oven and cool on cooling rack for 10 minutes, remove from the pan and cool completely before icing.

8-Ice the cupcakes with your favorite icing flavor; I used my sugar free icing and top it with coconuts. Enjoy!

Chocolate chip muffins-sugar free

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chocolate chip muffins

  • Servings: 6-12
  • Difficulty: easy
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Chocolate chip is just delicious and heavenly on its own, but can you imagine a muffin filled with ooey gooey melt in your moth chocolaty goodness? it is just amazing.

These muffins are not your average sugar free muffins, one bite and you are hooked on the irresistible taste of the filled morsels.

The dark chocolate morsel were filled with Cherry filling and this was the first time baking with it, and it turned out delicious and added just the right flavor to the muffins. I will be using them again for sure!

I guarantee you will not eat just one or two or three :)!

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.1 bag 9 oz filled baking morsels

.1/2 cup brown sugar substitutes

.1 stick of butter

.1/4 cup low-fat milk

.1 1/2 cup all-purpose flour

.1 tsp. baking soda

.1 tsp. baking soda

.1/4 tsp. salt

.1 tsp. vanilla

.1 large egg

Preheat oven 375

Line muffin pan and set aside.

In a stand mixer bowl, add butter and brown sugar substitutes and cream well until the butter is fluffy and the sugar dissolved.

Add egg and mix until incorporated, add Vanilla.

Sift flour; add baking powder, baking soda, and salt.

On low speed, add flour mix in thirds alternating with the low-fat milk.

With an ice-cream scope, fill muffin liner all the way up and bake for 18 minutes or until toothpick comes out clean.

Cool in the pan for 10 minutes, remove to cooling rack, and cool completely. Enjoy!

Pear Muffins

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pear muffins

  • Servings: 6-12
  • Difficulty: easy
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Who said you could not have a tasty, delicious, sweet muffin
without the calories! These muffins are one of many sugar free, low-fat healthy muffins I have created.

The sugary topping mixed with cinnamon gives warmth and satisfaction for
that moment when you are really craving and must have your sweet fix for
the night without feeling guilty all night long or promising yourself to
hit the gym in the morning.

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.2 cups All-purpose flour

.1 tbsp baking powder

.1 tsp. baking soda

.3 tsp. cinnamon divided

.1 cup sugar substitutes plus 2 tbsp.

.2 large eggs

.1 cup low-fat milk

.2/3 cup virgin olive oil

.3 small ripped pear peeled and chopped to small bite size
( i used Bartlett pears)

.1/8 tsp. salt

Preheat oven 380

Line muffin pan with cupcakes paper and set aside.

Mix 2 tbsp sugar substitutes with 1 tbsp cinnamon and set aside.

In a bowl of stand mixer, add olive oil, 1 cup sugar substitutes
and mix well until combined.

Add eggs one at a time mixing well after each addition.

In a separate bowl sift flour; add baking powder, salt, baking soda,
2 tbsp cinnamon.

On low speed, add dry ingredients in 3 additions alternating with
the milk starting and finishing with the dry ingredients.

Add chopped pears and mix by hand, making sure not to over mix.

With ice cream scoop fill the papers with the batter, sprinkle the
top with the sugar and cinnamon mixture, and bake for 22 minutes.

It should make 12 muffins

Apple-Pecan Cupcakes

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Apple pecan

  • Servings: 6-12
  • Difficulty: easy
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 These delicious cupcakes have the taste of apple pie but in a cupcakes shape for an easy eat on the go!

.2 cups chopped Apples, any kind

.1 tbsp fresh Lemon juice

.2 cups All purpose flour

.2 tsp. Baking powder

.½ cup Light brown sugar substitutes

.1 cup Pecan chopped and divided

.2/3 cup low fat Milk

.1 stick of Butter room temperature

.1 large Egg

.1 tsp Cinnamon

.½ tsp grated Nutmeg

.¼ tsp Salt

.1 tsp Vanilla

Preheat oven 375

Peel and chop the apples to small bite sizes, add lemon juice and set aside.

Line a muffin pan with baking paper and set aside.

In a stand mixer bowl beat brown sugar and butter until it is soft, add egg, vanilla and mix well for about a minute.

Sift flour; add salt, cinnamon, nutmeg, baking powder, chopped apples and half the chopped pecans.

On a low speed add the flour mixture and alternate with the milk starting and ending with the flour, making sure not to over mix.

With ice cream scope, adds the batter to the lined muffin pan, sprinkle the top with the remaining chopped pecans.

Bake for 25-30 minutes or until toothpick comes out clean.

It makes 12 cupcakes.

Banana Nut Bread Muffins – Sugar free

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banana nut bread muffins

  • Servings: 24
  • Difficulty: easy
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This dessert is so easy to make!

I love making banana bread for my husband, the man would eat that every day if he could help it   :):) but this time I decided to make them as muffins instead of the usual loaf.

.1 cup of chopped walnut

.2 cups of all purpose flour

.1 1/2 cup of sugar substitutes

.1 stick room temperature margarine

.1 tbsp. banana extract

.2 tsp. baking powder

.1 tsp. baking soda

.3/4 cup buttermilk

.2 eggs room temperature

.1/8 tsp. salt

.1/8 tsp. freshly grated nutmeg

.1/8 tsp.  cinnamon

.2 medium small diced banana

.1 tbsp. vanilla extract.

Preheat oven 375

In a stand mixer add margarine, sugar and mix until smooth, add vanilla extract, banana extract and eggs one at a time, mixing after each addition.

In a separate bowl, sift flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt, nutmeg and cinnamon, add chopped walnut and mix well.

On low speed add the flour mixture to the eggs mixture in three addition alternating with the buttermilk, mix for few seconds.

By hand mix in the chopped bananas making sure all incorporated.

Line muffins pans with muffins paper, add the batter with an ice cream scoop.

Bake for 30 minute or until a toothpick comes out clean.

Cool in the pan for 10 minutes remove and cool completely on a cooling rack!

Orange Cake with Orange Glaze

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orange cake

  • Servings: 12
  • Difficulty: easy
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The best thing to do in this weather is to bake :), it save on heating the house too hehehehe, and it fills your belly with good food, baking is my favorite thing to do when its  really cold outside and I have no business being outdoors…

I came up with few recipes today and this cake is one of them, I loved the texture of this cake, moist and a little dense and that was just the perfect cake to be glazed with this delouses simple orange glaze!

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.1 3/4 cup all purpose-flour

.1 Tbsps. pure vanilla extract

.1 1/2 cups sugar substitutes

.2 Teaspoon baking powder

.1 1/2 sticks melted butter

.1/2 teaspoon salt

.1/4 teaspoon baking soda

.2 eggs at room temperature

.1/2  cup milk

.1/2 cup fresh orange juice

.1 Tbsp. orange zests

..Glaze

.1/2 cup fresh orange juice

.1 1/8 cups of powdered sugar substitutes

Preheat oven to 375

Spray 9 inch round pan with cooking spray, add parchment paper to the bottom of the pan, spray again with cooking spray, set a side.

In a small bowl sift flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt.

In a large bowl whisk by hand, melted butter, orange zests, vanilla, sugar and orange juice. Add eggs one at a time and whisk well after each addition.

Fold flour mixture in thirds mixing gently after each addition without over mixing the batter.

Bake the cake for 40 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean.

Let the cake cool in the pan for 20 minutes on wire rack, remove from pan and remove the parchment paper. cool for additional 30 minutes.

Prepare the Glaze by mixing the orange juice with the powder sugar until smooth without any lumps.

With a toothpick perk holes in the cake and spoon the glaze over the cake and let it soak in to the cake for 45 minutes before serving.

Enjoy!!

Coffee Cake-Grated-Mabroshi

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Mabroshi

  • Servings: 12
  • Difficulty: easy
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According to a known TV host that she read, this cake is a “Bulgarian cake”!
Untrue…
This cake is a hundred percent middle eastern!!!  its made for every occasion, every birthday, holiday, family get together and I could go on and on!
My mom made this cake hundreds of times growing up and I was 15 years old when I made this cake for the first time, it was my first year in culinary class in high school in Israel, Since then I fell in love with baking and cooking.

I made this cake for years, every time I  make it with a different filling, whatever jam I have in my pantry at that time. the reason it’s called Mabroshi because of the dough is grated with box grater.
Mabroshi is an Arabic word that means Grated in English.

Pumpkin Cupcakes

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Pumpkin cupcakes

  • Servings: 12
  • Difficulty: easy
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You got to love the holiday, the smell of pumpkin and spices sure makes everything nice. I came up with this sugar-free pumpkin Cupcake when I had a leftover fresh pumpkin that I had made for pumpkin pie for Thanksgiving dinner, pumpkin freezes really well. added a secret ingredient to make it taste nuttier. these cupcakes are sweet, delish and definitely this recipe is a keeper.

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Banana Nut Bread

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Banana nut

  • Servings: 8
  • Difficulty: easy
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Nothing tastes quite as delicious as banana nut bread, this recipe full of flavor, healthy, and sugar free.
This one I made for my husband, he is diabetic, and of course, he loves sweet.

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.1 cup of chopped walnut

.2 cups All Purpose flour

.1 Cup Sugar Substitutes or regular sugar

.2 Tsp. Baking Powder

.1 Tsp. Baking Soda

.3/4 Cup Buttermilk

.1/4 Cup Vegetable oil

.2 Eggs

.1/8 Tsp. Salt

.1/8 Tsp. Nutmeg

.1/8 Tsp. Cinnamon

.2 Medium Smashed Banana

.1 Tbsp. Vanilla extract

Pre heat oven to 350

In a stand mixer add oil and sugar substitutes and mix well for few second, add eggs one at a time and beat for a minute or two, add vanilla.
In a separate bowl, sift flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt, nutmeg, and cinnamon.

Add to the eggs mixture alternating with the buttermilk, starting and ending with the flour mixture; gently stir in the smashed banana and Walnut.
Grease a loaf pan and cover the bottom with parchment paper.
Bake for 55 min or until toothpick comes out clean.

Cool completely before serving.

Banana Nut Bread

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Banana nut

  • Servings: 8
  • Difficulty: easy
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Nothing tastes quite as delicious as banana nut bread, this recipe full of flavor and it is sugar free.
I made this delicious banana bread for my husband, he is diabetic and of course he loves sweet…

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.1 cup of chopped Walnuts or Pecans

.2 1/4 cups All Purpose flour

.2 Cup Sugar Substitutes or regular sugar

.1 Tbsp. Baking Powder

.1 Cup Buttermilk

.2 Eggs

.1/8 Tsp. Salt

.1/8 Tsp. Nutmeg

.1/8 Tsp. Clove

.1/8 Tsp. Cinnamon

.2-3 Medium Smashed Banana

.1 Tbsp. Vanilla extract

Pre heat oven to 375

In a stand mixer add sugar substitutes and butter, mix well for few second, add eggs one at a time and beat for a minute or two, add vanilla.

In a separate bowl, sift flour, baking powder, salt, nutmeg and cinnamon.

Add buttermilk to the eggs mixture alternating with the dry ingredient, starting and ending with the flour mixture; gently stir in the smashed banana and Walnut.

Add the batter to a greased loaf pan with the bottom covered with parchment paper.

Bake for 55-60 min or until toothpick comes out clean.

Cool completely before serving.

Enjoy!!

Apple Tart-sugar free

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Apple Tart

  • Servings: 8
  • Difficulty: easy
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Sugar free Apple Tart with sugar free Strawberry preserve glaze was crazy good for the finicky eaters in my house.

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Nut Bars-sugar free

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Nuts bars

  • Servings: 8
  • Difficulty: easy
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Trying to keep everyone away from these scrumptious nutty bars until tomorrow.

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Pumpkin Pie.

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Pumpkin pie

  • Servings: 8
  • Difficulty: easy
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Everyone in my Family is on watch / diet this year, so I came up with this sugar-free fresh Pumpkin Pie recipe and it was outstanding!!!

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Blueberry, Apple, and Cranberry jam

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  • Servings: 2
  • Difficulty: easy
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Tangy and sweet but its sugar free sweet!

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Blueberry, Pecan, and Raisin Muffins

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Blueberry pecan muffins

  • Servings: 16-18
  • Difficulty: easy
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I created this scrumptious muffins recipe today for my older brother Gus, he is diabetic and not allowed to eat sweets anymore, so to satisfies his sweet tooth I made these scrumptious muffins for him and I wanted to share it with you.

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.1/2 Cup Dry blueberry

.1/2 cup white Raisin

.1/2 cup chopped pecans

.1 Tsp. Baking Powder

.1 Tsp. Baking Soda

.1 Tbsp. vanilla extract

.1/2 cup quick oats

.1 Cup all purpose flour

.1 1/2 cup wheat flour

.1/2 Tsp. salt

.1 Cup Butter Milk

.1/2 cup Vegetable oil

.3 Eggs

.1 1/2 Sugar Substitutes

.1/4 Tsp. Ground Cloves

Pre heat oven to 370

In a large bowl mix Eggs, Sugar Substitutes and oil until pale yellow, add vanilla extract, and mix well.

In other bowl combine flours, salt, ground clove, quick oats, baking powder and baking soda, add dry ingredient to the egg and sugar mix alternating with the buttermilk starting and ending with the dry mix.

Add dry blueberry, Raisin and Pecan and stir well, do not over mix.

Scope the batter in to lined muffins pan with an ice cream scooper almost all the way full, they do not rise that much.

Bake for 25 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean.

Makes 16-18 muffins

Whole-Wheat Pancake

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whole wheat pancake

  • Servings: 6
  • Difficulty: easy
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Love this recipe, its a healthy alternative to the original pancake.

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2 Cups wheat flour

1 Cup all purpose flour

2 Cups buttermilk

1/2 Tsp. salt

2 Eggs

12 Tbsp. melted butter divided in half

1/2 Tsp. baking soda

2 Tsp. vanilla extract

1/2 Cup sugar substitutes

In a large bowl, combine the entire ingredient and mix well.

In a large skillet or a pancake pan over medium heat add melted butter a Tsp. at a time, use a ¼ measuring cup to make the pancake.

Cook for 2-3 minutes each side.

Lime cake with Lime and mint glaze-sugar free

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Lime cake

  • Servings: 12
  • Difficulty: easy
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My friend gave me a bag full of fresh limes from his tree and I did not know what to do with all of these limes. I came up with some good recipes today and this sugar free lime cake is one of them. it came out moist and crumbly, it was delicious.

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I toped it with Sugar free Lime and Mint glaze.

Sugar free Carrot Chiffon Cake or Cupcakes

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Chiffon cupcake

  • Servings: 12
  • Difficulty: easy
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I do not think you will be able to eat just one of these scrumptious cupcake they are lighter than air.
If you like, your cupcakes to be sweeter up your sugar measurement but I think they are perfect this way, just the right sweetness when you add the frosting.

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Batter

.1 Egg yolk

.2 Tbsp. Vegetable oil

.1/2 Cup Carrot Juice

.2 Tbsp. freshly grated carrot

.1 1/2 Tsp. Vanilla Extract

.1 1/2 Tsp. Almond Extract

.1 1/4 Cup of flour

.2 1/2 Tsp. baking powder

.4 Egg white

.3/4 Tsp. Cream of Tarter

.1/2 Tsp. Baking Soda

.1/4 Tsp. Salt

.1 Tsp. Nutmeg

Frosting

2 Cups of heavy cream

8 OZ of soften Cream Cheese

2 Cups Sugar Substitutes

2 Tbsp. Sugar Free thick Syrup

Pre heat oven 350

Add egg white to mixer bowl, whisk with cream of tartar until stiff peaks, set aside.

Whisk egg yolk with oil, sugar Substitutes, vanilla extract and almond extract until all mixed well.

Sift flour 3 times with baking powder, baking soda, and salt.

Add grated carrots to the carrot juice.

Add flour mix alternating with the carrot juice starting and ending with flour mix.

Add egg white by folding it carefully in to the batter.

Use an ice cream scoop to fill the cupcake-lined pan and bake for 19 minutes.

For making a cake, divide the batter evenly in two 9-inch cake pans.

Top the cake or cupcake with sugar free cream cheese frosting.

To make the frosting, add all ingredients in to the mixing bowl,and beat until it forms stiff peaks.

Cheese cake-sugar-free

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Cheese cake

  • Servings: 12
  • Difficulty: easy
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This one is a winner, it came out delish and the sugar free berry’s jam is out of this world delish, a match made in food haven :).

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