Coconut Kahlua Muffins with Chocolate Chips & Walnuts

Low Carb.  It's a thing.  Coconut flour - also a thing.  Kahlua - always my thing!  This recipe yields a tasty coco-nutty, chocolaty muffin with a hint of coffee flavor from the Kahlua.  I love the added crunch from walnuts too. 

Coconut Kahlua Muffins with Chocolate Chips & Walnuts

Yield: 12 Muffins

Ingredients:

3/4 Cup Coconut Flour

1/2 Teaspoon Baking Soda

1/4 Teaspoon Salt

6 Eggs

1/2 Cup of Butter

1/3 Cup Honey

1/4 Cup Kahlua

1 Teaspoon Vanilla Extract

1/2 Cup Chocolate Chips

1/2 Cup Walnuts

Instructions:

Step 1:  Preheat oven to 350 degrees.  Prepare your muffin tin.

Step 2:  In a small bowl, mix together the coconut flour, baking soda and salt;  set aside. 

Step 3:  In a medium microwave-safe bowl, melt the butter.  Once melted, add in the honey, Kahlua and vanilla.  Mix thoroughly.  Then, add in three eggs and beat until combined.  Add in the other three eggs and and beat until all is well combined.  

Step 4:  Add dry ingredients to the butter/egg batter and mix well.  It will begin to thicken immediately - and that is normal.

Step 5:  Divide the batter among the muffin tin.  I like to use an ice cream scoop to disperse the batter.  Bake for 25 minutes.  

Let muffins cool before serving.  Store in airtight container in refrigerator.

Pasta with Veal, Capers and White Wine

This recipe is originally from here.  I slightly adapted it to what we had on hand:  different shaped pasta and dried parsley.  It is soooooooooooo good.  This picture really doesn't do it justice!

Pasta with Veal, Capers and White Wine

Serves 4

Ingredients:

2 Tablespoons Olive Oil

1 Medium Onion, finely chopped

1 Garlic Clove, minced

1 Pound Ground Veal

Salt and Pepper

1/2 Cup Dry White Wine

1 and 1/2 Cups Chicken Stock

1 Teaspoon Thyme

1/2 Teaspoon Rosemary

2 Tablespoons Small Capers, rinsed

3/4 Pound Small Pasta (I used small shells)

1/2 Cup Grated Parmesan Cheese

1/4 Cup Parsley

2 Tablespoons Unsalted Butter

Step 1:

In a large, deep skillet, heat the olive oil. Add the chopped onion and minced garlic and cook over moderately high heat, stirring frequently, until softened, about 5 minutes. Add the veal, season with salt and pepper and raise the heat to high. Cook, stirring occasionally, until the veal is no longer pink and any liquid has evaporated, about 8 minutes.

Step 2:

Add the white wine to the skillet and boil over high heat until nearly evaporated, about 5 minutes. Add the chicken stock, thyme, rosemary and capers and simmer over moderate heat until the liquid is reduced by half, about 10 minutes.

Step 3:  

Meanwhile, cook the pasta in a large pot of boiling salted water until al dente. Drain the pasta well and add it to the skillet along with the Parmesan cheese, parsley and butter. Cook over moderate heat, stirring frequently, until the sauce is thick and creamy, 1 to 2 minutes. Transfer to bowls and serve right away.

White Russian Cake

Check out this yummy recipe . . which packs a small punch.  It's made with Kahula, but please note - it's kid friendly.  The booze will actually bake out of it.  This is a sweet, moist cake with a coffee flavor that will knock your socks off.  Top with a nice vanilla glaze and viola!  Gives new meaning to coffeecake.

Originally, I googled 'white russian cake'.  Google came back to me with all these chocolate cake recipes with Kahlua in them.  I thought to myself, "Self, White Russian's do not have chocolate in them."

Then I googled 'black russian cake'.  Silly me, I forgot that White Russian's contain cream and Black Russian's do not.  Still, neither contain chocolate.  True story.  Check out the links below in case you don't believe me.

White Russian cocktail = Kahlua, Vodka and Cream 

Black Russian cocktail = Kahlua and Vodka

Now, granted, all those recipes I googled did look delicious . . .but not kid friendly.  I'm all about drenching cakes with booze - but I wanted a simple family-friendly cake.  So here it is, my version of a White Russian Cake.

White Russian Cake

Ingredients:

1 Box White Cake Mix + Ingredients to Prepare It

1 Cup Kahlua

Vanilla Glaze (1.5 Cups Powdered Sugar, 1/4 Cup Half and Half, 1 Teaspoon Vanilla)

To prepare the cake, follow the box instructions except omit the water and substitute Kahlua.  Bake as directed.  Let cool completely.

Once the cake has cooled, prepare the glaze by combining all the ingredients for the glaze in a small bowl.  Mix together thoroughly and then pour over the cake.  Enjoy!