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A healthy holiday treat: Chocolate and peanut butter cups
Photo credit: Newdsay / Leema Thomas
I have a penchant for turning sinfully delicious (aka sugar- and fat-laden) snacks and desserts to healthy treats. I substitute whole wheat flour for all-purpose flour, apple sauce for oil and honey for sugar, for instance, much to my kids’ chagrin. Often they’ll turn up their noses in disgust, like they did at my homemade pumpkin butter concoction, and cry out, “Can’t you just buy us the real stuff.”
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