Schnack Attack

You know that time......that comes.....when you REALLY need a snack and you want it to be everything: sweet and salty AND crunchy? Yep, me too! These babies are perfect! So YUM!

Chocolate Dipped Almond Butter Pretzel Sammiches

Ingredients:
Glutino Gluten-free pretzels
1 cup almond butter
3 Tbsp. maple syrup
1 to 1 1/2 cups chocolate chips


Directions:
Line a cookie sheet with parchment paper. Fill bottom with one layer of pretzels. Whip almond butter and maple syrup together with handheld mixer. Grab a very small portion and form into a ball. (It's not easy to roll between the palms of your hands, but you can kind of form it with your finger tips.) Place ball on pretzel. Place another pretzel on top and smush it down. Repeat until almond butter mixture is gone. Place in freezer for about 20 minutes to harden. Melt about 1 cup of chocolate chips in double boiler on stovetop. Dip half of almond butter pretzel sandwich into melted chocolate. Place on cookie sheet to firm up. Enjoy! :)

Coconut Ice Cream in a Bag

What do you do when it's 9:00 at night and you realllllly need some ice cream? Well, if you're me, usually you're out of luck because the only ice cream I eat is dairy-free Coconut Bliss and the only one store in town that carries it closes at 8 PM. However, on Pinterest lately (LOVE that site!), I've seen ice cream in a bag pins popping up all over the place. I was skeptical at first, but I decided to give it a try.

Coconut Ice Cream

Ingredients:

1 can coconut milk (about 3 2/3 cups)
1/3 cup Sugar in the Raw cane sugar
1 tsp. vanilla

Directions:

Blend all the ingredients together with a hand mixer. I think I added a little too much sugar, because I felt it was too sweet. I'm not used to eating sugar. :) Pour ingredients in a pint-size ziploc bag. Seal tightly. Fill a gallon ziploc bag half full with ice; add in 6 tpsp. rock salt. Put smaller bag in gallon bag; seal tightly (suck the air out). Shake until mixture becomes ice cream, anywhere from 5 minutes on up. Enjoy!

The verdict? Delish! I ate mine with a microwaved mixture of almond butter & chocolate sauce. Yummmmm.....