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I’ll start to bring you more healthy recipes. It’s a bit difficult for me, because healthy food for me it’s just a basic salad…hehe, but I’ll try to find more healthy recipes that please me and I’ll post it. But when I was searching for some recipes I remembered a juice program that I learned to make in a magazine and I made it on my way, each thing working differently in the body. I’ll start with this nutritive detoxification smoothie, with blueberries, blackberries, plum, yogurt, pineapple and yam.

The blueberry contains some of the most powerful anti-aging phytonutrients and antioxidants to help destroy free radicals that age the skin and cause premature wrinkles. The blackberries are antibacterial, promotes healing and are still good for treating diarrhea. Natural yogurt and plum collaborate to keep the intestine healthy. And the yam is great for cleaning the blood and strengthen the immune system. Besides all that, the juice has many other essential vitamins to the body. Well, hope you’ll like it.

Detoxification Smoothie

Ingredients:

1/2 small pineapple
1 handful of blueberry
1 handful blackberries
1/2 plum
1 slice (2,5cm) of yam
200g natural yogurt
4 ice cubs

Directions:

Beat the pineapple in a blender and then add the blueberries, blackberries, plum, yam, yogurt and ice. Beat until creamy.
For a simpler version, discard the pineapple and if it gets too thick add a little water or soy milk.

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christmas cupcakeAs Christmas is arriving, I’m posting this recipe of a delicious Christmas Cupcake that Aninha sent me as a gift, I loved it, it smells great, it’s delicious, the combination of flavors is perfect. But when I was starting to make them my sister asked for to reduce the fruits, so I reduced in half the fruits but I kept the same amount of the others ingredients, it was a delight. But when my parents ate them, they asked me: “Where are the fruits? ”…hehe. So, if you are like my sister, you can reduce the fruits and they will still be delicious, but if you are lkie me and my parents, you can make the entire recipe, it is wonderful. And what I like the most in these cupcakes is that they have two utilities, you can eat them or use them as a room freshener, because they smell so great…hahaha.

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And a great thing of these cupcakes, is that you can decorate them with fondant like a did, and give them as a Christmas gist, they are so cute.

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Christmas Cupcake

Ingredients:
(± 12 cupcakes)

300g dry apricot, chopped
100g dry plum, chopped
100g raisin miscellaneous, chopped
80g crystallized fruits
100g nuts and brazilian nuts mixed, chopped
1/2 lemon zest
200g all-purpose flour
1 tsp ground cinnamon
1/2 tsp ground clove
150g butter
150g brown sugar
3 eggs
1 tsp baking powder

Directions:

Preheat the oven to 350ºF. In a large bowl, beat together the butter and sugar until pale and fluffy. Gradually add the eggs, beating well after each addition. Add the lemon zest. Sift together the flour, the baking powder, ground clove and the ground cinnamon, and stir with the mixture. With a spoon add the fruits and nuts. Drop batter by spoonfuls into the greased muffin tin, filling each cup 2/3 full. Bake for 40 to 45 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted in center of cake comes out clean.

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