Cranberry Sauce with Rapadura | Recipes

This is the easiest cranberry sauce you'll ever make, and SO much better than the can stuff that's filled with high fructose corn syrup! The sweetener for this cranberry sauce is rapadura.  Rapadura is a raw, wholegrain cane sugar that is unrefined and unbleached.  It is not separated from the molasses and is not subject to heat at high temperatures and therefore retains many of the natural vitamins and minerals. A friend recently introduced me to rapadura, and it worked as a perfect sweetener in this dish.  

Ingredients:
1 12-ounce bag of cranberries
1/2 cup water
1/2 cup fresh squeezed orange juice
2/3 cup of Rapadura Organic Whole Sugar
 
1/4 tsp cinnamon
1/8 tsp salt

Bring all ingredients to a boil in a saucepan, and then simmer on low heat for 15-20 minutes.  You will notice the cranberries starting to pop open and the sauce will thicken slightly as it cooks.  As it cools, the cranberry sauce will thicken more.  Cool completely in the fridge before serving.  Enjoy!

Chocolate Chip Almond Flour Pancakes | Gluten Free | Refined Sugar Free

I find that gluten free pancake mixes can taste a little gritty. This prompted my search for a simple, better tasting, better ingredient, homemade pancake recipe. We love these pancakes in our house. The syrup is already baked in! I make a batch of these, and then reheat them in the toaster oven throughout the week :)

Yields 8-9 pancakes

Ingredients:
1 cup blanched almond flour (I use Honeyville Blanched Almond Flour)
1/2 tsp baking soda
pinch of salt
1 tsp flaxseed meal (I use Bob's Red Mill Organic Flaxseed Meal)
1/4 cup plain unsweetened almond milk
1/8 cup Nutiva Organic Extra Virgin Coconut Oil

1/8 cup pure maple syrup
3 eggs
1/2 - 1/3 cup Enjoy Life Semi-Sweet Mini Chocolate Chips


Mix the dry ingredients then add in the wet ingredients. Add the chocolate chips last. In a medium high heat non-stick pan, pour in the mix as you would regular pancakes. These take a little longer to cook, and do not bubble up on the top. I like to shake the pan a little to see if the tops are set. When they are set, then flip carefully!