Healthy Wacky Cake

Recipe submitted by Bobbi A.
1 1/2 cups whole wheat flour
3 Tbsp Cocoa or carob powder (prepared with cocoa)
1/2 tsp sea salt
1 tsp baking soda
1 cup honey
6 Tbsp unsweetened applesauce
1 Tbsp apple cider vinegar
1 tsp vanilla
1 cup cold water, rice milk, or skim milk (prepared with skim milk)

Mix dry ingredients together. Add wet ingredients and stir until smooth. Bake in an 8x8-inch pan at 350 degrees for 30 minutes. Frost as desired using canned low-fat frosting, whipped cream apple butter, etc.

Chocolate Peanut Butter Dip

Recipe submitted by Paige G.
1 8-ounce brick cream cheese, softened
1 cup creamy peanut butter
1 tsp cinnamon
3/4 cup chocolate syrup
6 Tbsp milk (3/8 cup equivalent)

In a large bowl, beat together cream cheese, peanut butter and cinnamon until smooth. Gradually add chocolate syrup and milk. Mix until well-blended. Serve with fruit, cookies, marshmallows, pretzels, etc.

Pumpkin Dessert

Recipe submitted by Brittany H.
1 3/4 cups flour
1/3 cup brown sugar
1/3 cup sugar
1 cup butter, cut into small pieces
1 cup nuts, chopped
2 cups canned pumpkin
1 (14 oz) can sweetened condensed milk
2 eggs
1 tsp cinnamon
1/2 tsp ground allspice
1/2 tsp salt

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. In a medium bowl combine flour, brown sugar, and sugar. Cut in butter until crumbly. Stir in nuts. Reserve 1 cup of crumble mixture; press remainder firmly on bottom and halfway up sides of 9x13 baking dish. In a large bowl combine pumpkin, condensed milk, eggs, cinnamon, allspice and salt. Pour into baking dish. Top with remaining 1 cup crumble mixture. Bake 55 minutes or until golden brown. Cool. Serve with whipped cream.

Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookies

Recipes submitted by Paula E.
Made-from-Scratch Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookies
1 cup shortening
3 cups sugar
3 eggs
2 cups pumpkin
2 tsp vanilla
5-5 1/2 cups flour
2 tsp cinnamon
2 tsp nutmeg
2 tsp baking powder
2 tsp salt
2 tsp baking soda
1 pkg chocolate chips
1 cup nuts (optional)

Cream together shortening, sugar, eggs, pumpkin and vanilla. Add flour, cinnamon, nutmeg, baking powder, salt and baking soda. Mix well. Fold in nuts and chocolate chips. Bake at 350 degrees for 13 -14 minutes.


Quick & Easy Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookies
1 spice cake mix
1 (15 oz) can pumpkin
2 eggs
1 cup chocolate chips

Mix cake mix, pumpkin and eggs together. Fold in chocolate chips. Bake at 350 degrees for 10 minutes or until done.

Yellow Cake with Pumpkin

Recipe submitted by Stephanie B.
1 (18 oz) box yellow cake mix
1 cup canned pumpkin
1/4 cup water
2 Tbsp vegetable oil
2 large eggs
1 large egg white
6 oz nonfat lemon, banana, or vanilla yogurt

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Coat a 9-inch cake pan with cooking spray and flour lightly. In a large mixing bowl, combine cake mix, pumpkin, water, oil, eggs, egg white, and yogurt. Beat until smooth, 1-2 minutes. Pour batter into cake pan and bake until an inserted toothpick comes out clean, about 20 minutes. Serve as-is or frost with cream cheese frosting.