Whole Wheat Chocolate Chip Pumpkin Bread

Servings: 12
Preparation Time: 15 minutes, plus baking time

Ingredients:

• 3 1/3 cups whole wheat flour
• 1 1/2 cups whole cane sugar
• 2 tablespoons pumpkin pie spice
• 2 teaspoons baking soda
• 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 4 eggs
• 2 cups pumpkin puree
• 1 cup coconut oil, melted
• 12 ounces chocolate chips

Directions:

In a large bowl mix flour, sugar, spices, baking soda, baking powder, and salt together thoroughly.

In a small bowl, combine pumpkin puree, coconut oil, and eggs. Mix thoroughly.

Add wet ingredients to dry, slowly stirring until well combined. Add in chocolate chips and combine.

Coat bread pans with coconut oil before baking. Slowly pour the mixture into the pans.

Bake at 350 degrees F for 60 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the middle comes out clean.

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Coconut Milk Cherry Chocolate Ice Cream

Servings: 4
Preparation Time: 5 minutes

Ingredients:

• 4 cups frozen cherries
• 2 frozen bananas
• 1/4 cup coconut milk*
• 10 dates
• 1 tablespoon cocoa powder

Directions:

Put all ingredients in a high-powered blender, using the blender’s accelerator tool to press the ingredients into the blades, until ice cream consistency is reached.

Homemade Coconut Milk

*For the freshest coconut milk, make homemade coconut milk. (See video at this link.)

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Black Bean Brownies

Servings: 9–12
Preparation Time: 30 minutes

Ingredients:

• 1 1/2 cups organic black beans (1 15-ounce can drained beans)
• 2 tablespoons cocoa powder
• 1/2 cup whole grain rolled oats
• 1/4 teaspoon Himalayan Salt
• 1/2 cup raw honey
• 1/4 cup Gold Label Virgin Coconut Oil, melted and cooled
• 2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract
• 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
• 1/2 cup chocolate chips or chocolate pieces broken from bar, mixed-in
• 1/4 cup chocolate chips or chocolate pieces broken from bar, pressed into top before baking

Directions:

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.

Mix beans, cocoa powder, oats, salt, honey, coconut oil, vanilla, and baking powder in food processor. Blend until very smooth.

Stir in 1/2 cup chocolate chips.

Pour into oiled 8 x 8-inch pan.

Sprinkle 1/4 cup chocolate chips on top of brownies and press in slightly.

Bake for 18–20 minutes. Serve warm or chilled with a glass of fresh farm milk or homemade nut milk.

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