Low Fat Gingerbread Cookies

It's the most wonderful time of the year! Christmas!! That means cold weather, snow, and lots of treats. That also means, you have to watch your portions too. I was really in the mood to decorate some cookies, but I didn't want each cookie to be over 100 calories. Thanks to one of my favorite food blogs, I was able to find these perfect low fat gingerbread cookies.

I went to the store and bought some festive icing. The icing recipe below was great, but I didn't want only white cookies.

Happy Holidays everyone! I hope this Christmas is the best, and this New Year is great for all of you!

Fresh Pumpkin Puree

Okay, I know that fall is pretty much over; but if you are like me, then you will cook with pumpkin as long as you can. I discovered last year that fresh pumpkin is definitely worth the effort. Up until then, I had always used canned. Then I decided to take the plunge and try roasting a pumpkin and making my own puree. After all that I made myself a pumpkin pie. Oh. My. Goodness. That was the best pumpkin pie I had ever had (up till then of course). After that I have went the fresh pumpkin way if I could, or had the energy.

It's really easy converting a recipe from canned to fresh.