I’m kind of a copycat. These are pretty dang close to my Sweet Potato Brownies, minus the sweet potato. Just trust me ok? I honestly don’t think they are QUITE as good as the sweet potato brownies, but still pretty damn delicious. And I love them right now because they have no nuts in them. And I’ve said goodbye to nuts for the time being. We’ve parted ways. I do shed some tears at times thinking about it.
Ok, I have some big things to talk about. BIG things.
First and foremost, I need to introduce you all to an awesome guy. His name is Ben, or you can call him ‘That Burpee Guy’. He is trying to raise money for Children’s Hospital Foundations Australia (CHFA) and is doing so by doing a burpees every single day. Each day of the year he adds one burpee to the previous day’s total until the 31st December 2012 when I will complete 366 burpees to finish the Challenge. Well, being the awesome guy he is, he did burpees in honor of PaleOMG. 165 to be exact! Check out his video on YouTube and check out his cause! I asked if he would do dancing burpees. And he did. What a stud! We gotta support what this guy is doing! Please check out his stuff!!
Now onto the second big thing!
Today, Wednesday June 20th, I will be speaking on the radio station Primal Diet – Modern Health with Beverly Meyer at 11am CST. We will be chatting about how to cook without starches or dairy! Should be fun chat. I’m so excited to be invited on her show, especially since she has chatted with people like Sarah Fragoso from Everyday Paleo, who was one of my inspirations to start a blog! You’ll be able to listen live on Voice America or be able to download it on itunes later! Be sure to check it out. You can hear how weird my voice is.
Now for the last exciting news. Don’t stop reading now, you’re almost there.
If you are a woman AND in the Colorado area, this news is for you! At CrossFit Jai in the Highlands, I will be hosting an All Women’s Lifting Seminar on Saturday June 30th from 12-2pm. We will be reviewing the clean & jerk and snatch and learning a ton of progressions of the movements. If you were intimidated by lifting or just want to get better at these lifts, this is the perfect class for you. This environment will be provide an encouraging atmosphere to learn and become more efficient with your CrossFit and lifting skills. Check out the link above to sign up! Any woman is welcome!
Ok I’m done with big things. These brownies are delicious. That’s pretty big.
Dark Chocolate Cherry Brownies
- Yield: 3-6 1x
Ingredients
- 1 banana
- 1.5 cups fresh cherries, cut in half and seeds removed
- 3 eggs, whisked
- 1/4 cup coconut oil, melted
- 1/3 cup raw honey
- 1/2 cup Enjoy Life Chocolate Chips
- 3 tablespoons Coconut Flour
- 2 tablespoons unsweetened cocoa powder
- 1/4 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/4 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1/4 teaspoon cinnamon
- pinch of salt
Instructions
- Preheat your oven to 350 degrees.
- Add your banana and 1 cup of cherries (leave out 1/2 cup of cherries for the filling) to your food processor. Puree banana and cherries until completely broken down.
- Add wet ingredients to a bowl: coconut oil, honey, vanilla, and whisked eggs then pour in your pureed banana and cherries. Mix thoroughly.
- Then add your dry ingredients: coconut flour, cocoa powder, baking powder, cinnamon, salt and chocolate chips.
- Fold in your leftover diced cherries.
- Pour into an greased8×8 glass baking dish.
- Bake for 30-35 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean when you poke at it.
- Let rest to cool a bit.
- I repeat, let rest to cool you stubborn food lover.
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I love that he’s wearing all your gear 🙂 And for serious, I wish I was in Colorado because that all-women lifting seminar sounds awesome!
Oh frick! it is 9:30 am and I already am having chocolate attacks. I usually am able to keep them away until later in the evening. You are evil Julie. 🙂
I tried to make the sweet potato brownies and the finished product was extremely mushy. I substituted the coconut flower with almond meal/flower, however. Would that make a difference?
Definitely use the coconut flour next time. The consistency of coconut flour vs almond flour is VERY different. You would need almost 1 cup-1.5 cups almond flour to be accurate to the 3 tablespoons of coconut flour
Ahh…makes sense. I am a noob when it comes to paleo cooking. I still ate the mooshy sweet potato brownies and so did a couple folks at my box, so I still did something right I suppose. Coconut flower is on the grocery list. Thanks for the responses!
alex, i doubled the amount of cocoa powder and used almond flour for the coconut flour–3T. mine came out fantastically! try that…they’re so worth the effort!
I went to a 3 hours oly clinic this weekend and LOVED it. I was really nervous about going because I thought I would be shunned for being such a noob. But CrossFitters aren’t like that – duh. It was awesome. I am so glad I went! Too bad I can’t go to yours too…
@ Alex, coconut flour sucks up liquid like crazy in a recipe, so it will produce much different results if sub’d 1:1 in a recipe for any other kind of flour. It typically takes much less coconut flour than if you had an identical recipe with almond four.
waiting to hear your weird voice, girl! don’t suck! just kidding–i’m a big fan!
your voice isn’t weird! it’s beautiful! can’t wait to hear more!
OMG!!! Chocolate and Cherries….My Favorite!! Darn it!! Why am I out of eggs!!!
Juli- Why did you give up nuts, out of curiosity? I gave them up a on June 1st, hoping that it would help with my acne, I’m seeing a little improvement actually. Are you also giving up almond flour?
A bunch of different reasons. I don’t feel very good when I eat nuts, usually bloated, and trying it for acne reasons as well. It hasn’t changed anything with acne though sadly. And yes, almond flour as well
Juli–Have you tried Cod Liver oil for your acne issues? I’ve suffered from acne all my life and thought that going paleo would help clear it up. It didn’t…but Cod liver oil did. I use one from Green Pasture. It tastes gross but its worth it to have clear skin.
I’ve heard of that and actually just went to the store to look at some the other day. Just nervous for some reason haha
The Green Pastures cod liver oil\butter oil blend TOTALLY helped with my acne issues. I would definitely recommend it. I don’t think you’ll find it any stores the you have to order it from their website.
Your food porn is getting legit…
K, kinda disappointed cuz I was thinking Ben was going to be “That Crush Guy” not “That Bupee Guy”. Way to let me down hard Juli.