Here's a Halloween treat you can make in five minutes in your blender. Open a can of coconut milk. You can find coconut milk in your supermarket on the Asian foods aisle. One brand might be Thai Kitchen coconut milk because the only ingredients listed on the label are coconut milk and guar gum instead of the usual preservatives usually found in canned foods put there to preserve the color.

Add your spices to the blender. Choose all or single spices. Recommended spices are 1/4 teaspoon each of cinnamon, ginger, cloves, 1/8th teaspoon of nutmeg (optional) and a dash of cardamom. You can use pumpkin pie spices or a 1/4 teaspoon of allspice instead of the other spices. Spice to your taste.

Just pour one can of the coconut milk in your blender. Open a can of pure pumpkin such as Libby's pumpkin, not the pie filling with the sugar, but the pure pumpkin with no other ingredients added. Put the pumpkin in the blender.  Now add one to three tablespoons of raw, organic creamy-style honey. You can use any other sweetener of your choice or one or two small mashed bananas instead of honey.

Blend all the ingredients, pour into containers, and freeze. Serve as you would serve ice cream. Eat small portions. The coconut milk is fatty, but those are medium-chain fatty acids, not the long chain fatty acids you get from animal fats or butter.

This is a once every Halloween treat, and not for everyday. If you want to serve this to grownups, add some rum flavoring, about a 1/2 teaspoon. If you have the canned ingredients in your cupboard, it only takes 5 minutes to put every item in your blender and liquify.

What takes a few hours is actually freezing the dessert in those little dessert bowls or containers. If you don't want to freeze this mixture, drink it as a pumpkin shake or smoothie.

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