Pumpkin Snowballs - PCOS-Friendly Recipe
Nutrition per Serving
Ingredients
- 1 roll (16.5 oz) Pillsbury™ refrigerated sugar cookies
- 1 cup ground pecans
- 3/4 cup all-purpose flour
- 1/4 cup canned pumpkin (not pumpkin pie mix)
- 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1/2 teaspoon vanilla
- 1/2 cup plus 1 tablespoon powdered sugar
Instructions
- Heat oven to 350 °F. In large bowl, break up cookie dough. Stir or knead in pecans, flour, pumpkin, cinnamon and vanilla until well blended.
- Shape dough into 48 (1-inch) balls. On ungreased cookie sheets, place balls 1 inch apart.
- Bake 10 to 13 minutes or until set but not brown. Remove from cookie sheets. Cool slightly on cooling rack.
- Roll warm cookies in powdered sugar; cool completely on cooling rack. If desired, roll cookies in powdered sugar again.
PCOS-Friendly Foods in This Recipe
This recipe contains the following foods that may benefit PCOS management: Cinnamon.
Cinnamon is one of the best ingredients that someone with insulin sensitivity can eat. Half a teaspoon of cinnamon per day has been shown to be very effective at normalizing blood sugar levels. Cinnamon contains hydroxychalcone, which is thought to enhance the effects of insulin. It has also been suggested that Cinnamon prevents post-meal blood sugar spikes by slowing the gastric emptying rate - meaning that food digests slowly. (Reference: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11506060).
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