10 Calorie Pumpkin Pie Holes

I sort of just threw these together - they turned out like a cross between pumpkin pie and cinnamon sugar donut holes - and under 80 calories for the whole batch!

These are fairly easy to make, and they are gluten free, dairy free, and vegan :)

Recipe: Makes 8

1/4 cup Pumpkin Puree - 20 calories

2 tablespoons Unsweetened Apple Sauce - 12.5 calories

2 tablespoons Oat Flour - 45 calories

1 teaspoon Cinnamon

For coating:

2 tablespoons Stevia

2 teaspoons Cinnamon

                                                                                       

=77.5 total - makes 8, about 9.7 calories each

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees

2. Mix together the flour, 1 teaspoon of cinnamon, pumpkin, and apple sauce

3. Spoon into a greased mini muffin pan - bake for 15 minutes

4. Remove from pan and roll in the stevia and cinnamon mixture - enjoy :) store in the refrigerator

45 Calorie Pumpkin Donuts

I finally cracked and bought a Donut Pan from Target - for my first experiment with it I made these Pumpkin Donuts :)

These held their shape really well - especially since they don't have any oil/butter or eggs!

These are also gluten free, dairy free and vegan!

Recipe: (makes 2 donuts)

3 tablespoons Oat Flour - 66 calories

1/4 cup Pumpkin Puree - 20 calories

1 tablespoon Unsweetened Apple Sauce - 5 calories

1/4 teaspoon Cinnamon

2 teaspoons Stevia                                                       

= 91 calories, makes 2 donuts - 45.5 calories each

1. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees
2. Mix together the pumpkin, flour, apple sauce, cinnamon and stevia
3. Pour into a greased donut pan (makes 2 donuts)
4. Bake for about 18 minutes - let cool and remove from pan

20 Calorie Apple Oatmeal Cookies

Fall is in full swing, and clearly I have caught Apple Fever - 

I based these cookies on traditional oatmeal raisin cookies, but instead of raisins I used apple chunks!

These cookies are also lower-calorie than regular cookies because of the oat flour, and they do not have any regular sugar or butter/oil

These are also gluten free, dairy free, and vegan :)

Recipe:

1 tablespoon Oats - 32 calories

2 tablespoons Oat Flour - 44 calories

3 tablespoons Unsweetened Apple Sauce - 19 calories

1/4 of a medium Honeycrisp Apple - 20 calories

1 tablespoon Pumpkin Puree - 5 calories

1 tablespoon Stevia

Cinnamon(to taste)                                                          

= 120 calories total, makes 6 cookies - 20 calories per cookie

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees

2. Mix together oats, flour, apple sauce, pumpkin, stevia, and about 1 teaspoon cinnamon - refrigerate for 20-30 minutes

3. Wash and cut up apple into small pieces

4. Spoon the batter onto a parchment paper lines cookie sheet - makes 6 cookies

5. Smooth the cookies out, they do not spread while baking - then top with apple pieces and sprinkle cinnamon on top

6. Bake about 10-12 minutes - remove from oven and let cool, store in an airtight container

80 Calorie Apple Chips

Apple Chips were on sale at the grocery store, so my boyfriend picked out a few bags - I thought they were good but they were very sugary (and 140 calories for 12 chips!) and my boyfriend didn't think they tasted apple-y enough  -  so I decided to try making some from scratch without the added sugar

These weren't difficult to make, but they have to bake for a few hours so these are a good thing to make if you're going to be home for a few hours -  I made them while I finished watching Breaking Bad :)

All you need are Apples and Cinnamon! These are gluten free, dairy free and vegan! There are also only 80 calories in the whole batch!

Recipe:
1 Medium Honeycrisp Apple - 80 calories
Cinnamon to sprinkle on top


1. Wash and Slice up your apple into thin pieces - I did lots of differently shaped pieces, but you could make them more uniform if you are better with a knife than I am :)
2. Spread out the apple slices on a piece of parchment paper on a cookie sheet, sprinkle with cinnamon(you could also sprinkle some Stevia on top if you want them to be sweeter)
3. Bake at 200 degrees for 3 hours - then turn off the oven and leave the apple chips in there for another hour
4. Enjoy! Store in an airtight container :)

160 Calorie Maple Apple Upside Down Cake

This didn't turn out quite as pretty as I wanted it to - but it tasted AMAZING, it is probably one of my favorite recipes so far!

This looks a lot like the new Washington Apple Pound Cake dessert at Starbucks - theirs has 360 calories and looks about the same size - so mine is much healthier! I haven't tried theirs (it has gluten and dairy) but from what it looks like I would imagine it would taste pretty similar

This is only 160 calories - and it is gluten free, dairy free and vegan!

Recipe:

1/4 of a Honeycrisp apple - 25 calories

1/8 cup Sugar Free Syrup - 10 calories

1/8 cup Pumpkin Puree - 10 calories

1/4 cup Unsweetened Apple Sauce - 25 calories

1/4 cup Oat Flour - 90 calories

1 tablespoon Stevia                                           

= 160 calories

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees
2. Peel and slice up the apple - grease the baking dish well, line the bottom with apple slices
3. Pour the maple syrup over the apples
4. Mix the apple sauce, stevia, pumpkin, and flour together
5. Pout batter over the apples and smooth out the top
6. Bake for about 30 minutes - let cool then flip out of the pan, or eat it right out of the pan without removing

125 Calorie Pumpkin Crumble Casserole

I had a half-used can of pumpkin puree in my fridge that I didn't want to go to waste - so I threw this recipe together. I think it turned out pretty well considering I was just winging it - next time I think I would add some cinnamon to the crumble and/or pumpkin mixture - but overall it tasted good, sort of like a cross between Thanksgiving Sweet Potato Casserole and Pumpkin Pie.

This is also just 125 calories, gluten free, dairy free and vegan :)

Recipe:

For crumble:

2 teaspoons Unsweetened Apple Sauce - 5 calories

2 tablespoons plus 3 teaspoons Oat Flour - 80 calories

For the Filling:

1/2 cup Pumpkin Puree - 40 calories

1 tablespoon Stevia
                                                        
=125 Calories total


1. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees
2. Mix together the ingredients for the crumble, do not over-mix - break up the mixture into small crumbly pieces
3. Mix together the stevia and Pumpkin Puree
4. Press about half of the crumble mixture into the bottom of a small(personal size, about the size of a custard cup) greased baking dish to form the bottom crust
5. Spoon the pumpkin mixture on top of the bottom crust layer, smooth out the top
6. Spread the remaining crumble mixture on top of the pumpkin - top with an additional 1/8 teaspoon of stevia and/or cinnamon if desired
7. Bake 15-20 minutes - until the crumble topping is cooked - serve hot, top with Soy Whip or other whipped topping :)

100 Calorie Pumpkin Apple Bundt

Pumpkin and Apple are two of my favorite ingredients to bake with - this recipe combines both of them into a nice little individual fall dessert :)

It isn't a true "bundt cake" per se but I made this in a mini fluted pan so it sort of looks like a bundt cake - the texture isn't really cake-like it is more like pumpkin pie or bread pudding.

This is gluten free, dairy free, and vegan!

Recipe: (makes 2 mini cakes)

1/2 of a Honeycrisp Apple - 40 calories

1/4 cup Unsweetened Apple Sauce - 25 calories

1/2 cup Pumpkin Puree - 40 calories

1/4 cup Oat Flour - 90 calories

1/4 cup Stevia                                                            

= 195 calories total, 97.5 per cake

1. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees

2. Peel and chop up the apple into chunks

3. Mix together the apple sauce, pumpkin, flour and stevia

4. Add the apple chunks to the batter

5. Pour into greased baking pans

6. Bake about 30 minutes or until set

Skinny Shoestring Apple Bake

I promised lots of Apple recipes after I went apple picking - here's another one!

I didn't really know what I wanted to make when I started chopping this apple up into small pieces - like shoestring potato chips

I thought it would be good in a crumble-type bake - so I mixed up some oat flour batter and voila! - you have the Skinny Shoestring Apple Bake!

Since this is under 200 calories for the entire recipe you can easily make the whole thing in a single container and eat the whole thing yourself without feeling guilty :)

This is gluten free, dairy free, and vegan!

Recipe: (makes 3 servings)

1/4 cup Oat Flour - 90 calories

1 small/medium Honeycrisp apple - 80 calories

1/8 cup Unsweetened Apple Sauce - 12.5 calories

2 tablespoons Almond Milk - 5 calories

1/4 cup Stevia

Cinnamon (to taste)                                              

= 187.5 total / makes 3 servings, 62.5 per serving

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees
2. Chop up the apple into skinny shoestring pieces
3. Mix together the flour and almond milk - if it does not mix fully add a little bit of the apple sauce
4. Sprinkle cinnamon and stevia on the apple slices, add the apple sauce
5. Mix the apple mixture and the flour mixture together
6. Divide into 3 greased baking cups (or 2 for 2 larger servings)
7. Bake at 350 degrees for 18-20 minutes - enjoy warm, top with ice cream or whipped cream if desired

145 Calorie Strawberry Cake

I love putting Sugar Free Strawberry Jell-o powder on Apples - so I wanted to see what would happen if I used it in a cake!

This turned out really yummy, it is not very cake-y because of the juice from the strawberries but this would be really good topped with some whipped cream or ice cream - it really has a strong strawberry flavor and it is pretty sweet

This dessert is gluten free, dairy free and egg free!

Recipe:

1/4 cup Oat Flour - 90 calories - 90 calories

1/2 teaspoon Sugar Free Strawberry Jell-O Powder - 10 calories

1/4 cup Unsweetened Almond Milk - 10 calories

1/2 cup sliced Strawberries - 35 calories                   

=145 calories!

1. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees

2. Mix together the Jell-O powder and flour - add the almond milk

3. Pour into greased mini loaf pan, top with strawberries

4. Bake for about 20-25 minutes

67 Calorie Apple Tart

After I went Apple picking I had a huge supply of apples to experiment with in my baking - here is one of the recipes I came up with!

This individual-size apple tart is so low-calorie you could eat 3.5 of them for the same calories as one McDonald's personal apple pie - I think I would rather eat my low-cal and gluten free version anyways

In addition to being gluten free, this apple tart is dairy free and vegan!

Recipe:

For the crust:
2 tablespoons Oat Flour - 44 calories
1 tablespoon + 1 teaspoon Unsweetened Almond Milk - 3 calories
1/4 teaspoon Stevia, a dash of cinnamon and a pinch of salt    

For the Apple topping:
1/4 of a large Honeycrisp Apple - 20 calories
1/4 teaspoon Stevia, 1 teaspoon Cinnamon  
                                                                            
= 67 calories!


1. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees
2. Mix together the ingredients for the crust
3. Spread the crust batter into a greased personal tart pan or quiche pan (it is very sticky but smooth it out the best you can, it will be covered by apples anyways)
4. Chop up and peel the apple, coat with stevia and cinnamon
5. Place the apple on top of the crust
6. Bake for about 25 minutes, until the crust is cooked - enjoy hot!

150 Calorie Pineapple Coconut Cake

Since the 130 Calorie Fruit Cocktail Cake turned out so well I have been thinking about what other fruit cocktail/fruit cup flavors I could experiment with - then I saw Pineapple Coconut Fruit cups at the grocery store and I knew this would be a great combination  - The pineapple and coconut flavor makes me feel like I'm in Hawaii :)

This cake only has 2 ingredients, it is dense, moist and lightly sweet. 

It also is gluten free, dairy free, and vegan!

Recipe:

1 Pineapple Coconut Fruit Cup - 60 calories

1/4 cup Oat Flour - 90 calories                        

=150 calories total!

1. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees

2. Mix together the fruit cup(with the juice!) and the oat flour

3. Stir until completely combined, then pour the batter into a greased mini loaf pan

4. Bake for 12 minutes or until set

Spicy Pumpkin Maple Cookies (30 Calories Each!)

If you can't tell by now, I really like spicy food - and my Dad likes it even more than I do. I used to make Molasses Cookies with chili flakes in them that he really liked - so I thought I would try to make a skinny gluten free version of them.

He didn't think these were quite spicy enough - but for normal people I think they will definitely be spicy enough so be careful with the chili flakes!

This recipe only made 5 cookies but you could easily double or triple it!

These cookies are Gluten Free, Dairy Free, Vegan, and only 30 calories each! You could eat all five for about the same number of calories as a typical cookie!

Recipe: Makes 5 Cookies

1/2 cup Pumpkin Puree - 40 calories

1/4 cup Sugar Free Maple Syrup - 20 calories

1/4 cup Oat Flour - 90 calories

1 tablespoon Stevia

2 teaspoons Red Chili Flakes (or to taste)        

= 150 calories in whole recipe - makes 5 cookies, 30 calories per cookie

1. Mix together all ingredients
2. Chill the dough in the fridge for 1 hour
3. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees
4. Drop heaping spoonfuls of batter onto parchment paper lined baking sheet - this is a very sticky batter but it doesn't spread much while baking so smooth out the cookies as best you can by hand before baking
5. Bake about 13-15 minutes
6. Allow cookies to cool before removing from parchment paper so they don't fall apart - they are very soft!
7. Store in the refrigerator in an airtight container

Chocolate Peanut Butter Swirl Cake (Under 300 Calories!)

Chocolate and Peanut Butter are a classic combination - So I decided to try making a low-cal and gluten free  Chocolate Peanut Butter Cake

This cake is super moist and sweet - I made it in a fluted pan but you could use a loaf pan or small cake pan - whatever you have on hand

This cake is gluten free, dairy free and vegan - and under 300 calories for the entire thing!

Recipe:

For chocolate cake:
3/4 cup Pumpkin Puree - 60 calories
1/4 cup Oat Flour - 90 calories
1/4 cup Unsweetened Apple Sauce - 25 calories
2 tablespoons cocoa powder - 40 calories
1/4 cup Stevia

For Peanut Butter Swirl:
1/4 cup Almond Milk - 10 calories
3 tablespoons PB2 - 68 calories                             
= 293 Calories Total


1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees
2. Mix together the pumpkin, flour, apple sauce, cocoa powder and stevia
3. In a separate bowl mix together the almond milk and PB2 until well combined
4. Pour about half of the chocolate batter into a greased pan
5. Pour the peanut butter mixture on top
6. Spread the rest of the chocolate batter on top of the peanut butter layer
7. Bake 35-40 minutes - remove from oven and let cool before removing from pan