Replacing that bad "food" day 5~dessert

Sorry this is a couple of days late!

So dessert it's what calls to us in the middle of the night! Especially when you decide not to have it at all! There is no point in depriving yourself from having dessert as long as you are not having it every day! Once at most twice a week should be sufficient.
Here's the thing about dessert those candy bars, candy, and baked goods at the store are packed with some crazy stuff. You really need to learn to make your own desserts and it's really not that hard. You can find easy recipes for everything from pudding to cake to pies and cookies. It does not take much to make your favorite desserts and you control what goes into them. You can cut the sugar down and you know there are no chemicals or junk in them.
Now if you are trying to cut back on dessert because you've been enjoying it too much I suggest keeping a stash of fruit(which you should have anyway) to help with some of these cravings. One good thing I like to do is either make crepes or even use tortillas spread with cream cheese top with strawberries and enjoy. Super delish and it feels like dessert without too much sugar!
Now sometimes you just have to have chocolate and I have a great recipe just for that it's chocolate snack cakes and they taste just like those little cupcakes with the cream inside and the squiggles on top you know what I'm talking about. The difference is these are not filled with cream(although I have topped them with homemade whipped cream before) and you know exactly what's in it!
I got this recipe out of my Betty Crocker cook book and it's one of the few that I have not changed much about it except I make it in cupcakes instead of a cake and the original recipe calls for vegetable oil which I don't use! Beware there is a lot of sugar in this you could cut it down but I don't with this one however this is not an invitation to have this every day this is a once a month at most recipe!

Chocolate Snack cake
1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
1 cup sugar
1/4 cup baking cocoa
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/3 cup olive oil
1 teaspoon white vinegar
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 cup cold water

DIRECTIONS
Preheat oven to 350
line muffin pan with liners or grease well and dust with cocoa
mix vinegar oil vanilla well
mix all dry ingredients together
add vinegar mixture and water to dry ingredients mix
pour into prepared muffin tin
bake 15-20 minutes or until toothpick(or cake tester) comes out clean
Enjoy these do not need to be topped with anything but they are great with cream cheese icing and strawberries yum!

Also see day 2~snacks for more ideas on how to deal with dessert

Remember you can do this! You and your family are worth it!!!