Happy Friday friends. It’s a good feeling. Even though I still work weekends, there’s just something about that Friday feeling. Anyway, today I have something very special to share. I sound like Mr. Rogers, but I promise you’ll like it.
Today I have my DEAR friend ABBY sharing a recipe (yes, I’m referencing the Dear Abby columnist. Clever, eh?). Abby is my fantastic neighbor I also gush about. You know the one that makes me delicious foods, shares my love of wine, kombucha, and running. Plus she will help me roll healthy bites if needed. Yep, that one of a kind neighbor. I highly recommend you get yourself one of those. 
Well my DEAR ABBY is also a Holistic Nutrition Consultant and I’ve finally convinced her to write a recipe and post for me. Okay I bribed her with wine, but it worked!
Now… go read DEAR ABBY!
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Well hello there blog world! First of all, many thanks to my dear neighbor Lindsay, for gracing me with the honor of guest posting on her beautiful blog. According to her, it is high time I stop being a creepy blog stalker, and introduce myself.
My name is Abby Bounds and I am a newly certified Holistic Nutrition Consultant, specializing in diet analysis, meal planning, and general nutrition support. I believe God created food for more than sustenance alone, it is meant to be enjoyable as well as healing. My dream is to use my certification to first, help others achieve health and lifestyle goals, and second, to be an added financial support for our household.
I absolutely love food, working out, and spending time doing pretty much anything with my best friend, who also happens to be my husband.
Speaking of husbands… “someone” we all love and admire just celebrated 5 years with her best friend/husband! 😉 I decided last week a romantic dark chocolate based dessert was in order to celebrate properly! Rum Chocolate Macaroons. I stumbled across this recipe and happily discovered a fabulous new blog in the process! I’m not a huge peppermint fan and know Lindsay isn’t either, so I replaced it with real spiced rum. Yum!
Wedding Anniversaries require the real stuff no rum extract here. But you can feel free to add any extract or flavor you like. I’ll definitely add more rum next time–a little extract goes a long way, but real rum…meh, not so much. Oh well they were still tasty!
Chocolate Rum Macaroons
Gluten Free _ Dairy Free (except for the egg)
{adapted from Danielle at www.againstallgrain.com }
- Ingredients (makes 2 dozen)
- 3 cups shredded coconut
- ½ cup cacao powder
- ½ cup honey
- ½ cup coconut milk
- ½ teaspoon rum extract or ¼-1/2 cup spiced rum (or to taste)
- ¼ teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 egg white
- dash of sea salt
Directions
Preheat oven to 325 degrees F.
Combine the first 6 ingredients in a bowl.
In the bowl of a stand mixer, or using an electric mixer, beat the egg white with a small pinch of salt. Beat for 1-2 minutes until soft peaks form when you lift the mixer out.
Fold the egg white into the coconut mixture and mix gently until fully combined.
Using a cookie scoop or tablespoon, scoop out balls of dough and pack them together tightly either by lightly knocking the scoop onto the side of the bowl or pushing it down with your fingers.
Place the dough on a parchment lined cookie sheet and bake for 30 minutes, rotating the tray half way through.
Cool on a wire cooling rack for 1 hour. Store in an airtight container at room temperature for up to 1 week.
Optional – dip the bottoms of the macaroons in melted dark chocolate for an even more decadent treat!
Enjoy!
Anyone in need of Nutrition support or simply interested in returning the favor and stalking me:
- Promenade Wellness FB Page
- Instagram: http://instagram.com/abby_g_bounds/
- Or email me: [email protected]
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Stalking her is quite fun! Just sayin.
Okay, who’s your dear Abby in your life? Neighbor, sister, friend, both?
Cheers!
LC
oh these macaroons look amazing! such a good idea to dunk them in chocolate 🙂
They look amazing! I do love peppermint, so might have to try both recipes. Thank you Ms. Abby for sharing and for being such a great neighbor to my cyber sister, love that Linds, so it’s nice to know that if I can’t take care of her, someone else is! xoxo
Oh it is definitely my pleasure! ; )
I seriously cannot stand how good those look!! YUM!!
Thanks so much for posting these!! I’ve just made them, but using Kahlua instead of the rum. They are amazing and so easy to whip up. x
thats sounds heavenly too!
I love the whole Dear Abby thing you did here. VERY clever! That card addressed to “the Crunches”? So flipping cute. Again, more clever! I can see why you two are pals. Any dessert that involves RUM is fine by me. Mmm these look and sound amazing! Lucky lady getting to eat these!
hehe i know, i am spoiled by her and her witty nature. Wish you could come be part of the fun!
These sound amazing! I want to live next to you both! 🙂
i want you to too! or maybe we move to Australia!
These look great! What a fantastic neighbor!! Can I move in next door???
yes please! or at least come visit, k? I need an update from ya soon too!
I’m stealing your neighbor 🙂
I would love to have someone I could consult about my nutrition. I’m always full of questions.
I guess my Dear Abby would be two people. My fiance is someone who I can always talk to about anything. But my bestie Hannah is someone I can gab with and just be very honest with at all times (because sometimes you just need a woman’s opinion).
feel free to email either one of us friend. And i totally agree, sometimes we need that girl time. although lucky to have great men in our lives!
Even though she’s about 20 minutes away, I would have to say that the fabulous Miss Marney is becoming my Dear Abby. A heart full of giving; always smiling; and there whenever you need her. PLUS she fuels me with goodies all the time. Love her!
i hope i get to meet you both soon! abbys unite!
PS: I always get asked for a username/password when I try to comment & when I click off, it will not take my commentluv link – not sure why but I thought I would mention… have a great weekend!get asked
really? Oh i need to fix this. Thank YOU! sorry about that too.
OMG – these are tooooooooooooo good. I am afraid to even try – portion control may not be possible!!! YUM!!!!!!
How wonderful to have such a fantastic neighbor–both of you!!!
i know, so lucky! wanna join our street? please!!!!
Those look so dangerous! Have a great weekend!
they are dangerous and we gone in less that 24 hrs.
Mmmm….I wonder if these would work with Ener-G egg substitute? I’ll have to test that out, purely for the sake of science, of course. 😉
i think they would! or a flax egg?? Try it! hey any luck with the healthy bites yet?
I haven’t seen them yet, but we have to go get the mail (there’s a central box down the street). I’ll check it tonight!
Oh and check your twitter DMs – I need to book my flight. 🙂
Oh man, that looks delicious! Thanks for sharing Abby!
I’m not a huge cookie fan…but I have to say – macaroons are my favorite (behind chocolate chip). I have zero willpower when it comes to them!! =)
Thanks for the awesome recipe and for the new instagram to follow! YAY!
I’ve never made macaroons but love coconut and dark chocolate, there’s always a first for everything 😉 These look divine! And I suggest y’all don’t move, there aren’t that many Abby-like neighbors around haha…
if we move, i’m taking her with me!
wow these look so good and i love your neighbor!
aww!! I love this and love that she made this recipe for you! I am now following YOU Abby, you seem wonderful 🙂
Yay! Right back at ya! Let the stalking begin! ha!
Abby,
Oh my…..you are in print! I asked Martha about you last weekend. Hear you have a job and still enjoying life. I can’t believe 5years!
Randy and I are eating mostly gluten and carb-free. (Wine doesn’t count) I feel much better without carbs. Randy goes along with me to keep his weight down.
Live Life Outloud!
Kiss Kiss
Beverly,
Thats great! Glad you are doing what works for you.
Andrew and I celebrated our fourth, it was Lindsay Cotter and her hubs who had the whopping fifth anniversary 😉
And I agree, wine NEVER counts : )
Holy cow those look amazing! I wish I had a neighbor like that. Honestly I wish I had someone (besides my husband) to share my fitness/nutrition interests with. You are lucky girl!
i am very lucky! and i bet you’d be my abby too if you lived closer. sigh.
These look fantastic! I need a neighbor like Abby in my life. Have a great weekend, Lindsay!
Our dear Abbey in our life — each other 🙂
good things about being twins!!!
and rum in macaroons – yes please!!!
Being your neighbor has been THE highlight of living in ATX.
Thanks for sharing the LOVE Mrs. Crunch! xoxo ; )
yummy, although I think I’d change the rum to vanilla or almond. Not quite a fan of rum…;) I’ll have to try these soon.
i think you need rum right about now, yes? hugs.
haha tue story! although I’ve moved closer to the straight tequila at this point 😉 think I could put tequila in them?? 😉 hehehe
I just made these for a group of friends that are coming over for a girls wine night 😉 I’m sure they are going to love them as much as I do.. I may have to lock up the other half of the batch so I don’t eat them all before they get here.. 5 hours shouldn’t feel like too long right? I skipped the rum and the peppermint since I didn’t have either and just did extra vanilla- yum and yum!
well you must report back when they try them!
um those look fabulous! my dear abby is usually my brother or nate. also, i live a few minutes from mr. roger’s old house haha. i love that fact!
okay now i want to come see mr. rogers house! i’ll bring macaroons.
YOU are my Abby:) for sure!
What a great profession, good perspective as well.
Ridic yummy recipe, ooh.
have a good weekend:)
oh you just made my day. I wish you lived closer. xxoo
oh my…these are going to need to be made. SOON!
Yep. Abby is amazing, because those Macaroons look swoon worthy. (Saving this recipe and going to put it to good use. I LOVE macaroons. Not like, LOVE.)
I have a few Abby’s in my life. My friend Esther (who also happens to live in my neighborhood. Lucky right?) is always there when I need her. I nicknamed her My Rock. She is in Africa for the month of January doing mission work and I feel like I have a hole in my heart from missing her! But I know that she is putting her skills and heart to good use, so I will survive 🙂
oh but i bet she can feel you praying and thinking for her! that is a true blessing and support team!
I’m with Laura – why can’t we all live closer?
i know. way more fun and we’d definitely be fed well! haha
My dear Abby would be my dear mum. I couldn’t help but laugh at your comment that Abby helps you roll your Healthy Bites, because my mom came over last night to make cookies and I somehow convinced her to do the messy rolling job while I ‘cleaned up’ 😀
you are lucky! what a mama!!! i think my mom would have done that same. bless them! haha
I want to be your neightbor! Pass the boozy desserts! 😉
i want you to too! but i say that all day every day! gah
I know the French style macaron is all the rage right now, but the coconut deliciousness, ‘spelled with two Os like a kangaroo,’ that I grew up knowing about is still my favorite. YUM!
yep, me too! two o’s makes everything more fun too. 😉
Wow – those look SO good!!
These sound perfect! What a sweet friend! Good luck on your new venture Abby!
Amazing! Love Abby and this recipe! So fun to have such a wonderful neighbour!
I have great neighbours too…that and a very dear Abby in my life too.
So grateful!
I love macaroons. As soon as my 21 sugar detox is over, I am totally making these!
i bet you could nix the honey and make them sugar free!
Chocolate Rum Macaroons?? Sounds amazing!!!
i know, unreal goodness!
I’m not a huge macaroon fan, but I’ll take that leftover rum off your hands. 😉 Happy Friday!
how about we share it? come on over! maybe it will cure your sickness. hehe