Hello and HAPPY HOLIDAYS!!
Hopefully you've enjoyed the Dark Chocolate Peppermint Toffee recipe and shared it with others so they could enjoy it as well. (hint hint wink wink nudge nudge!)
Today's recipe was another of my holiday creations, but this one was somewhat of my own invention.
Thanks to Emmy for making them with me, and to all my Turmanators for indulging :)
The Recipe:
- 1 cup flour
- 3/8 cup sugar
- 1/4 cup peanut butter
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 1/2 stick butter
- 1 bar Dark Chocolate
The Process:
- Mix all ingredients except chocolate.
- Melt chocolate in a microwave safe container in 30 second bursts, stirring after each burst. Should take at most 1 minute total.
- Ball dough and dip in chocolate.
- Freeze to harden.
- Indulge and share!
The Calories:
Flour: 578 calories
Sugar: 93 calories
Peanut Butter: 379 calories
Vanilla Extract: 12 calories
Chocolate: 605 calories
Butter: 405 calories
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TOTAL: 2072 calories
Okay, so that sounds bad. But this recipe makes 24 truffles, making each truffle only 86 calories. Much better!
What went right:
These are freaking amazing and took almost no time.
What went wrong:
So, they're not super healthy...oops! Workout to follow.
What I would do next time:
Nothing! When making Christmas treats, calories are no matter.
Overall, an amazing recipe that I plan to make over and over again :)
The Workout:
Just to be safe, let's do a 100 calorie workout!
Thanks to SparkPeople for this list of ways to burn 100 calories:
- Biking: 23 minutes of casual cycling
- Cardio dance class: 15 minutes
- Elliptical: 8 minutes
- Jumping rope: 9 minutes at a moderate intensity
- Lifting weights, vigorously: 15 minutes
- Pilates: 24 minutes
- Rowing machine: 13 minutes
- Running stairs: 6 minutes
- Running: 9 minutes of running at a 6 mph pace
- Swimming: 15 minutes moderate intensity
- Walking stairs: 11 minutes
- Walking: 20 minutes of walking at a 3 mph pace
- Water aerobics: 23 minutes
- Yoga: 20 minutes
- Zumba: 11 minutes
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