Chocolate for Breakfast

Today was one of those days. I woke up with a great idea and knew I actually had the ingredients to give it a go. Sunday mornings are when I want to bake and actually make something for breakfast. For me it's usually something sweet. I have a HUGE sweet tooth. It's hard to find something sweet that is actually too sweet for me. This was no exception. I didn't find these to be overly sweet or overly chocolatey. The icing on top was really good too. The only thing you might say was "wrong" with them, was that my hubby said they looked like little ham steaks - which he shared with everyone on Facebook. He also said they were delicious so I can deal with the ham comment.

Red Velvet Pancakes with Cream Cheese Icing
Serves 5 at 7 WW points plus each

Ingredients:

	2 cup(s) Betty Crocker® Fiber One® Pancake Mix Complete pancake mix
	1 1/4 cup(s) water
	3 Tbsp Hershey's Cocoa - unsweetened baking cocoa
	2 Tbsp vegetable oil
	1 oz food coloring, RED coloring to desired color
	1 1/2 oz Weight Watchers Reduced fat cream cheese spread, 1 1/2 small WW cream cheese cups
	3 Tbsp powdered sugar
	1 Tbsp I Can't Believe It's Not Butter! Light Soft Margarine

In medium bowl combine pancake mix, water, cocoa, oil and food coloring. Mix thoroughly. Using scant 1/4 cup batter each make approx. 15 small pancakes.

For icing: combine cream cheese spread and butter spread. Heat gently (10 second intervals in microwave) until easy to mix. Combine with powdered sugar. Place cream cheese mixture in zip top baggie and drizzle over pancakes as they are served.

Make yourself a big pile 'o pancakes sometime and let me know if you like them! They don't look like ham, do they?

Baked Donut Balls

A week or two ago I came across a recipe on the Weight Watchers message boards for Baked Donut Balls. They sounded interesting and I happened to have everything I needed to make them.

Pretty simple ingredients. I thought I would help myself by using mini cupcake papers in the mini muffin pan, but that wasn't the best idea. While the donut balls did taste good, I think they would have looked better had I followed the directions and sprayed the pan with cooking spray.

They were hard to remove from the cupcake papers, but they came out light and airy and were delicious! I will be making them again - soon!

I had a little more batter than would fit in my mini muffin pan so I made about 5 little pancakes with the left over batter. Equally delish!







Baked Donut Balls
Adapted from WW community message boards

1 cup plus 2 Tbsp Bisquick reduced-fat baking mix
1/4 cup Splenda granular (sugar substitute)
1/2 tsp ground cinnamon
1 egg (or equivalent in egg substitute)
2/3 cup skim milk
1 tsp vanilla extract

2 Tbsp Splenda granular (sugar substitute)
1/2 tsp ground cinnamon

Directions
Preheat oven to 350° degrees. Spray a 12 hole mini muffin pan with butter flavored cooking spray.
In a medium bowl, combine baking mix, 1/4 cup Splenda and 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon. Add egg, skim milk and vanilla extract. Mix well to combine. Drop by spoonfuls into prepared muffin pan. Bake for 14 to 16 minutes. Place muffin pan on a wire rack and cool for 10 minutes.

Remove balls from pan. In a ziploc plastic bag, combine sugar coating ingredients and place warm donut balls in 2 or 3 at a time and shake to coat.