Brownies with Chocolate Cinnamon Frosting Plus Giveaway!

Hello happy Thursday to my wonderful readers! To get you all excited for Valentines Day I have ANOTHER giveaway this week If you haven’t entered my NOURISH bar giveaway make sure you do that as well so I can send you all some goodies!

Nu Naturals was kind enough to send me some samples of their products as well as offer to give 4 of my readers a chance to win

one 50 ct box of NuNaturals powder stevia

and one jar of liquid stevia!

To Enter the Giveaway:

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1. Leave a Comment Below telling me what you would make with your stevia

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2. Follow Me on Twitter and Follow NuNaturals on Twitter

3. Follow me on Facebook

4. I am a new stevia user so tell me or link me to your favorite stevia recipe.

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Extra Free Stuff (that has nothing to do with the Giveaway but is fun and free):

1.  FREE SAMPLES program to Continental U.S. readers where you can receive Free Samples of NuStevia Packets by sending a SELF-ADDRESSED, STAMPED, # 10 envelope to us at the following location :

NuNaturals , Inc.

2220 West 2nd. Ave. # 1

Eugene, OR 97402

2. For my readers use the CODE :  BLG228, and you will receive a SPECIAL DISCOUNT of  -15% on their TOTAL ORDER. By ordering from their website they ALSO receive FREE SHIPPING to the Continental U.S. on all orders totaling $35.00, and over, AFTER this special discount.

This offer to your readers EFFECTIVE IMMEDIATELY, ENDS FEBRUARY 28, 2011.

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The Giveaway ends Monday Febuary 14, 2011 and is open to US Residents Only.

4 Winners will be randomly selected.

To get into the Valentine’s day spirit I decided to make my own recipe using NuNaturals stevia.

Brownies with Chocolate Cinnamon Frosting

adapted from trinigourmet

Ingredients:

For the brownies:

1 C walnuts

1 C cashews

3/4 c dates

1/4 tsp salt

1 T chia

1/3 c dark cocoa powder

1 T cacao nibs

For the frosting:

1/2 c cashews soaked

1/4 c agave nectar

1 T NuNaturals Stevia

1 T dark cocoa powder

1/4 c coconut oil

1/4 lemon juiced

1 tsp vanilla extract

1 T cinnamon

1 T coconut shredded

Directions: Soak cashews in water for one hour prior. For the brownies combine cashews and walnuts in a food processor, process until finely ground. Add dates in individually until combined then add in cocoa powder chia and salt. Press into a small pan ( mine is 8.5x 6.5) sprinkle with cacao nibs and pop into the freezer. In a blender or add cashews, agave, vanilla and lemon. Blend until well combined and add in cinnamon, stevia, cocoa powder and coconut oil. Continue blending until creamy. Spread over brownies, sprinkle with coconut, and freeze 1 hour or until firm. Store in the refrigerator!

Gather your cashews, walnuts, cocoa powder, dates, and chia seeds.

I LOVE the different colors of the chia seeds they are soo pretty.

Add your nuts and salt to the food processor

and process until fine.

Add in dates one at a time until combined then add in the cocoa and chia seeds.

Once incorporated your “brownie batter” should look like this.

Lightly grease your dish with coconut oil, press mixture in pan, and sprinkle with cacao nibs! Pop into the freezer and get to work on your deeelicious frosting.

And yes, this dessert will be worth every bit of the giant mess you are about to make, I promise

Measure out all of your frosting ingredients.

Add the soaked cashews, lemon, agave, and vanilla into your blender.

Blend until smooth add the rest of the frosting ingredients and blend again

your frosting should look like this when finished. Restrain yourself from licking the vita-mix

and spread an even layer of your frosting onto the brownies.

Sprinkle with shredded coconut and pop back into the freezer for about an hour.

Once the frosting has firmed up cut yourself a piece and dig in

Silky, rich, and chocolatey, these decadent dark chocolate brownies will make any Valentine’s Day complete.

I’m in love

Alright time to head to the gym to complete week 3 of my 5k training... I need to burn a few calories today to make up for the fact that I licked the entire vita-mix and ate all the scraps that came off the heart shaped cookie cutter, whoops! Have a fabulous night and make sure to enter my NuNaturals giveaway so you can make these amazing brownies too.

Question:

What are your Valentine’s Day plans this year? Ahh I planned our valentines day this year and the plans are top secret so you will have to wait until after valentines day to find out, but i’m pretty excited!

Kate