100 Calorie Pumpkin Pancakes

I really like the pancakes you make with just a banana and an egg  - I tried them last year after I saw the recipe all over Pinterest, they are so easy to make! - But since it's fall I thought I would try making them with Pumpkin!

Pumpkin also has less sugar and calories than bananas so these are an even healthier version of pancakes :) If you are feeling extra festive you could mix some pumpkin pie spice or cinnamon into the batter or sprinkle some on top of the pancakes - 

These are also Gluten Free and Dairy Free and Paleo :)

Recipe:

1/4 cup Pumpkin Puree - 20 calories

1 egg - 70 calories

2 tablespoons Sugar Free Maple Syrup - 10 calories       

= 100 calories total

1. Mix together the pumpkin and egg in a bowl

2. Pour about 1/3 of the batter into a heated and greased skillet (medium to high heat)

3. Flip when bubbles start to pop on the top of the pancake and the edge is solid - cook until both sides are browned

4. Repeat with the rest of the batter - top with syrup :)

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

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

150 Calorie Pumpkin Butter & Maple Stuffed Acorn Squash

I had half of an Acorn Squash left from when I made my 200 Calorie Apple & Chicken Sausage Stuffed Acorn Squash - so I decided to use the other half to make a dessert!

Instead of cooking the squash with butter and sugar I thought I would make it healthy by baking it and then adding my Skinny Pumpkin Butter and Sugar Free Maple Syrup!

This was a great Autumn dessert - it's only 150 calories, and it is gluten free, dairy free & vegan!

Recipe:

1 half of an Acorn Squash - 115 calories

4 tablespoons Skinny Pumpkin Butter - 24 calories

1/8 cup Sugar Free Maple Syrup - 10 calories               

= 149 calories

1. Preheat the oven to 400 degrees

2. Fill a baking dish with about 1/2 inch of water, cover with aluminum foil

3. Bake for 30 minutes at 400 degrees

4. Remove from oven, fill with pumpkin butter and drizzle maple syrup over the top

5. Enjoy while still warm!

70 Calorie Maple Syrup Pancake Sundae

I had a hankering for Pancakes with Maple Syrup - so I made a Maple Syrup Pancake flavored Wink Sundae instead!

This really tasted like pancakes with maple syrup, it definitely did the trick for me!

I also had to go pick up some more Wink today from Tony's Finer Foods - there was only one pint left on the shelf, but I  asked one of the employees if they had any more in the stock room and he brought out an entire tray of 8 pints and handed me one....needless to say I bought them ALL :)

1 Cup Wink Cake Batter Flavor - 50 cal
1/4 Cup Sugar Free Maple Syrup - 20 cal      
= 70 calories total