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Chocolate Peppermint Crinkle Blossoms (Gluten-Free, Dairy-Free, Nut-Free)

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December 22, 2018 By Laura Ligos, MBA, RD, CSSD 1 Comment

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Move over chocolate chip cookies & snickerdoodles there is a new cookie in town. These Chocolate Peppermint Crinkle Blossoms are here to stay. These delicious & easy to make cookies might be my new favorite. They have to contend with my pizzelles BUT they are a nice change of pace. 

chocolate peppermint crinkle blossoms

I’m not a baker. Granted, I started my love for cooking by baking but I just got out of the routine of it. For me it’s easier to ad lib cooking then have to follow a recipe for a baked good. However, when 88 Acres sent me their new seasonal seed butters, I had to try to find a way to use them. While normally I would just eat it by the spoonful or top a rice cake with it, I decided to get fancy this year.

Christmas Cookies

I mentioned on Instagram that I love cookies. This time of year I welcome them in my home. The rest of the year I try not to bring them in the home because they’re a food I have no control over. If they’re in the house, I’ll eat them. So, this time of year, I enjoy some balance. Balance to me means eating a well balanced diet but ALSO eating some cookies. The best part is? I have no regrets.

The only thing I ensure is that they are gluten-free as I know gluten does not make me feel good. I also try and find ways to make dairy-free cookies as JJ is lactose intolerant. Other than that I open up the sugar and get to baking. I try my best to use less sugar than normal as I’m still conscious of how sugar can make us feel, but it’s the holidays and I’m looking forward to enjoying myself a bit. 

Sunflower Seed Butter

Someone asked me on Instagram why I recommended sunflower seed butter and if it had any benefit over peanut butter or other nut butters. The thing is that each food you eat has it’s own profile of nutrients. I found 88 acres a few years ago and fell in love with the company AND their food. There seed butters are my favorite and I love that they also appeal to those that have food allergies, it’s a win-win.

Sunflower seeds, however, are nutrient dense and rich in b vitamins, phosphorus, magnesium, iron, calcium, potassium, vitamin E & some protein. So, if you’re into nutrition, it’s a good idea. You can even get a discount on your first order using code Sassy, so go ahead and treat yo self! 

Chocolate Peppermint Crinkle Blossoms 

So, fun fact, one of my favorite cookies growing up was the mint chocolate crinkle cookie from Panera. I used to LOVE going there after swim practice, getting a bread bowl filled with broccoli cheddar soup and a side of a crinkle cookie. I loved the flavor, texture, and the reminder that it was the holiday season. 

I haven’t had one of those cookies in YEARS so I decided when I saw 88 Acres Chocolate Peppermint Sunflower Seed Butter that I was going to give it a go. I also have to admit I love Candy Cane Kisses so I thought, why not make these cookies OVER THE TOP and turn crinkle cookies into crinkle blossom cookies. I mean, what could go wrong?!

Absolutely nothing, these cookies are amazing and JJ loves them too which is always a win in my book! Check out the notes below in case you can’t snag this seed butter in time for the holidays! 

Pro Tip: feel free to make these without any kisses if you don’t have any or don’t feel like unwrapping 32 of them! 

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gluten free chocolate peppermint krinkle blossoms

Chocolate Peppermint Crinkle Blossoms

  • Prep Time: 5 minutes
  • Cook Time: 10 minutes
  • Total Time: 15 minutes
  • Yield: 32 1x
  • Category: Dessert
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Ingredients

  • 1 cup chocolate peppermint sunflower seed butter
  • 1/3 cup sugar
  • 1/3 cup brown sugar (light)
  • 1/2 tsp baking soda
  • 1/4 tsp salt
  • 1 egg (large)
  • 32 candy cane kisses (unwrapped)
  • 1/2 cup powdered sugar (more as needed)

Instructions

  1. Preheat oven for 350°F & line a baking sheet with parchment paper
  2. In a large bowl, mix together sunflower seed butter, sugar, baking soda & salt
  3. Add in egg and mix until combined, refrigerate for 10 minutes
  4. Add powdered sugar to a medium bowl
  5. Form dough into 32 golf size balls and roll in powdered sugar, place balls on parchment lined baking sheet and bake in oven for 8-10 minutes
  6. Remove from oven, and allow to cool for 2-3 minutes then place one candy cane kiss into each cookie, place cookies on cooling rack and allow to cool until hardened (if you can resist that long 😉 )

Notes

If you don’t have Chocolate Peppermint Sunflower Seed Butter you can use: chocolate flavored nut/seed butter with 1/4 tsp peppermint extract mixed in! 

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gluten free chocolate peppermint krinkle blossoms

If you try these let me know and don’t forget to tag @thesassydietitian & @88acres on Instagram. 

What are your favorite Christmas/Holiday cookies?! 

xoxo,

Sassy

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  1. Gingerbread No-Bake Cookies (Gluten-Free, Dairy-Free, Nut-Free) - The Sassy Dietitian says:
    December 23, 2018 at 7:39 am

    […] what I was going to make with them. I decided it was the time of year for cookies so I made the Chocolate Peppermint Crinkle Blossoms yesterday and now the Gingerbread No-Bake Cookies […]

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@thesassydietitian

We’ve made it over a week together and it feels We’ve made it over a week together and it feels like it’s always been this way.

Motherhood is a wild ride & it’s only getting started. I have never been so tired & simultaneously so fulfilled in my life. That’s not to say it’s not filled with tears, worries and doubts but what fun would it be if it were all sunshine and roses anyway?

Going into this all I have felt so supported by friends going through this with me BUT I felt so unsupported by the general public. It seems like we want to fear and shame moms because misery loves company, right?!

The focus quickly shifts from mom to baby (still shocked that I only have an appointment at 6 weeks even though my body went through the biggest event of its life) and there also seems to be this shift from joy to shame & guilt.

Here’s some of what I heard from people:

😕Sleep when baby sleeps. You’ll never sleep again.
😕Don’t let baby sleep in a car seat, or a bouncer, or anywhere but their crib EVER. 
😕You’ll never have time to shower again, enjoy it now. 
😕Cry it out is cruel and harmful to the baby. 
😕Get baby on a schedule/never put baby on a schedule.

These are all things I heard and that truly led me to believe I was going to lose all sense of who I was and my life as I knew it.

What I wish people had said instead were:

🥰Your heart will grow bigger than you could imagine.
🥰You’ll cry the happiest tears you’ve ever cried.
🥰You’ll feel like a giant hole was filled that you didn’t even know was there.
🥰You won’t feel guilty about cleaning your house, it just won’t matter anymore.
🥰Babies pooping will make you laugh so hard you will feel like a kid again.
🥰You will have time to eat and shower and you don’t have to neglect yourself.

We need to do a better job of building each other up, supporting one another and our decisions while refraining from offering unsolicited advice and opinions. 

So for all you future mamas and new mamas out there, I see you, I’m proud of you and I cannot wait to share our stories with one another and the world.

Let’s stop fear mongering (just like the diet world) and start building one another up.

Xoxo,
Sassy & lil sassy man
🌈Some things truly are worth the wait. It’s b 🌈Some things truly are worth the wait. It’s been a long year of loss, unknowns and worry but it’s all been worth it to get to meet my lil man🥰
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Now time to introduce this sassy human who is already so well loved to the world...
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Introducing 

💙 Connor James Ligos 💙
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After an almost 24 hour labor, Connor joined us over a week past his due date on 2/12/21 at a whopping 9lb2oz & 22.5 inches long with a full head of hair and lungs to scream hello to us with.
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We are so in love already and cannot wait to share him with the world. Thank you for all the love and support from friends and family and to all those that helped us in the hospital. Holy cow labor & delivery teams are truly magical and I cannot imagine doing it without all of their support.
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Now back to snuggling this human of mine and trying not to cry at every last thing he does 🥰 
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Mom, Dad & Bode are all doing well!
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I get it, we all eat so we all then want to talk t I get it, we all eat so we all then want to talk to others about what worked for us. That's great!
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What's not great is when we push our nutrition and eating behaviors onto others ESPECIALLY when we are not qualified to do so.
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So often when people meet me for the first time they are worried to eat around me and/or buy groceries around me. My friends can attest I am not judgemental around food and will gladly eat that cake, queso dip or sip on that glass of wine right alongside of you. I am not the food police and do not offer unsolicited nutrition advice unless it's a client who is paying for my help OR on Instagram and other social media platforms where my goal is to educate.
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Why do I share this? 
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Because I see far too many people diving down diet rabbit holes, finding success & then claiming to be nutrition experts purely because something worked for them. 
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I've also seen this alot being pregnant, everyone wants to tell you what worked for them. IF you use that stipulation of "this worked for me" then fine, share away but if you start doleing out advice please pause, take a breath and think about NOT doing it.
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People are OVERWHELMED by diet culture and some so badly want to change but YOUR way is not the only way and it most likely is not what will work for your friend/coworker/cousin/neighbor so please, stop trying to be an expert in something you aren't.
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Got it!?! 
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Ok, carry on.
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xoxo,
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Your nutrition does NOT need to be all or nothing. Your nutrition does NOT need to be all or nothing. I'm not saying you have to find perfect balance (does that even exist?) but I am saying that we shouldn't feel like either we have to eat perfectly or that we might as well give up.
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Instead we should look to the grey area in between for our nutrition guidance. 
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I mean that we need to realize that we can still eat cookies but we probably should throw some veggies in there. 
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We can have a glass or 2 of wine but we should probably also drink some water. 
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We can take rest days but we should also find ways to move our bodies regularly.
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And the list goes on.
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It's not about all or nothing it's about doing something daily to help your health and nutrition without it feeling like a set of rules or a free for all.
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How do we find that grey area in between?
👉🏻 stop hopping on and off fad diets
👉🏻listen and trust your self, not your coworkers and cousins 
👉🏻focus on the simple things (ie drinking water instead of worrying about supplements)
👉🏻work to remove guilt and shame around food & body
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Where do you currently fall Right now?!
🤪 all
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🙅🏻‍♀️ nothing 
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Xoxo,
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