What’s a girl to do when her clean cooking partner-in-crime is 200 miles away?

Skype, of course.

Chelsea & I love new healthy recipes. (**By the way, she launched her own blog! —–> seasunseasmiles.wordpress.com**) Being in different cities calls for creativity. We “baked” together via Skype and the result was these unbelievably-delicious-not-to-mention-super-clean cups.

With our laptops in the kitchen, we threw together coconut oil, cacao powder, peanut/almond butter, bananas, honey and a little bit of salt. The recipe was inspired by The Whole Pantry app. If you use cupcake wrappers or mini candy wrappers, they come out looking like a perfect peanut butter cup with rippled edges and everything :)

Chelsea’s batch came out significantly better than mine because I decided to add Greek Yogurt, which seriously disturbed the texture. I threw the batch out and made another. 50x better.Peanut butter and coconut oil are clean, yes, but also very calorie-dense.I decided to add a fat slice of banana to the middle to make each cup more substantial without adding another 100+ more calories.

The Recipe:

• 1/4 cup melted coconut oil
• 1/4 cup unsweetened cocoa powder or cacao powder
• 2 tsp salt
• 1 Tbs honey or pure maple syrup
• 1 Tbs Stevia
• 2 Tbs peanut butter, almond butter, or any nut butter of your choice
• banana, sliced
• cupcake or candy wrappers

1.) Mix the coconut oil, cocoa, salt, honey and stevia together.

2.) Spoon 1/2 tablespoon of chocolate into each wrapper (makes 4) and freeze for 5 minutes.

3.) Spoon 1 tsp peanut butter onto the chocolate. Top with a slice of banana and add another spoonful of chocolate mixture.

4.) Allow to completely freeze, about 30 minutes.

There’s your clean dessert! A perfect serving-size indulgence free of any chemicals, preservatives, additives and processed sugars.

I’m eating one for dessert right now while I catch up on Grey’s Anatomy :) Sound like a low-key Friday night? Well that’s because I’M RACING A 5k TOMORROW MORNING!

My first “race” since the marathon. It’s just a local road race put on by my school’s ROTC but I’m excited do something competitive again and see what kind of shape I’m in. Plus I really want to see how many army boys I can outrun ;)