Wednesday, November 18, 2015

What Liv wants Liv gets...

This morning Sloan shared that her class will be spending most of the day preparing for their school-wide Thanksgiving feast by making "150 pumpkin cups." Liv was so excited by the idea of pumpkin cups (truthfully, Liv get's super excited about ALL food) and asked if I could make her some for home. Sure thing kid!

Now I must say that I gave these babies a taste before putting them in the refrigerator and it took all my will power not to gobble them all up!!! They were so rich and creamy! No grainy chia seed texture in these beauties!


Pumpkin Chia Seed Pudding Cups
Serves: 6
Recipe adapted from: wwww.wholenewmom.com

Ingredients for pumpkin pudding:
1 cup of nondairy milk (I used flax seed milk)
1 cup of organic pumpkin (get a BPA lined can)
1 tsp. pure vanilla extract
½ cup chia seeds
1 ¼ tsp. pumpkin spice*
1 drop of vanilla stevia
1/8 tsp. sea salt

Ingredients for coconut whipped cream:
1 can full fat coconut milk, kept in refrigerator overnight
1-2 tsp. honey, or other choice of sweetener like stevia

Instructions:
1. Place all the ingredients in a blender and blend until pureed.
2. Distribute pudding into 6 ramekins or cups.
3. Using a spoon scoop the hardened coconut fat from the can and place in a bowl.
4. Using a handheld mixer, whip the coconut fat until fluffy.
5. Add 1-2 tsp. honey and whip with handheld mixer.
6. Add scoops of coconut whipped cream to your pumpkin pudding cups.
7. Sprinkle with a dash of pumpkin spice.
8. Place pumpkin pudding cups in refrigerator until ready to eat.

*Instead of buying pumpkin spice I mix my own at home:
3 Tbs. ground cinnamon
2 tsp. ground ginger
2 tsp. ground nutmeg
1 ½ tsp. ground allspice
1 ½ tsp. ground cloves
Mix together and store in airtight container in a cool dark space…like your pantry or spice drawer.