FESTIVE

Cookbook

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 Welcome to Team Empower's

FESTIVE
Cookbook

where we have lovingly created some festive recipes to help to keep you inspired

this festive season! We want to show you that eating mindfully doesn't mean

having to miss out on delicious food and festive flavours - you can still eat tasty

treats and stay focused on your health and fitness goals!

There's something for everyone! From sweet to savoury, gingerbread to chocolate

orange, pizza to pastry - there's so many fun festive flavours to try! Whether you're

cooking for your family or hosting a party, we've got you covered!

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TABLE OF

CONTENTS

03 Brie and Cranberry Pastry Wreath

05 Leftover pizza

07 Cranberry, Brie and Mozzarella Swirls

09 Boxing Day Quesadillas

11 Christmas Tree Bites

Gingerbread Cookie Layered Overnight

14
Oats
16 Chocolate Orange Protein Donuts

18 Gingerbread Protein Pancakes

20 Chocolate Orange Brownies

22 Christmas Pudding Protein Balls

SAVOURY
Quick and Easy Festive Feasts
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BRIE &

CRANBERRY

PASTRY
WREATH
A great recipe for sharing or for

when you're hosting this festive

season!
Directions

Ingredients 1 Preheat your oven to 180°C

Roll the pastry out until flat, then cut a star

2 shape in the centre

100g Cranberry Sauce
Then spread your cranberry sauce around the

150g Brie 3 edge of your pastry and top with your Brie
275g Reduced Fat Puff Pastry
Pull each point of the star to the edge then

Egg Wash 4 brush your pastry with egg wash, then bake for

20 minutes or until golden

Nutritional Info 5 Serve and enjoy!

*Recipe makes 10 servings

Per serving-

Calories: 173
Protein: 5g

Carbs: 18g

Fat: 9g

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 LEFTOVER PIZZA
The perfect Boxing Day recipe - a great way to use up your Christmas dinner

leftovers as a perfect pizza treat!

Ingredients Directions

1x Flatbread
1 Preheat your oven to 180°C

Cover your flatbread in tomato purée and top with the

30g Tomato Purée 2 mozzarella

20g Reduced Fat Mozzarella Then add all of your favourite Christmas dinner leftovers and

70g Cooked Turkey

3 pop into the oven

Once your pizza is golden, remove from the oven, top with

30g Potato
4 your gravy and enjoy!
1x Pig In Blanket

10g Carrot
Nutritional Info
10g Peas

20g Stuffing
Calories: 463
2x Tbsp Gravy
Protein: 36g
Carbs: 49g

Fat: 13g

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 CRANBERRY, BRIE AND

MOZZARELLA SWIRLS
You'll be surprised at how easy yet DELICIOUS this recipe is!

Directions Ingredients
1 Preheat your oven to 180°C

120g Self Raising Flour

Mix your flour with the baking powder. Then add the greek

2 yogurt and mix to create the dough (if it’s too gooey - just

add a little more flour)


150g 0% Fat Greek Yogurt

1 Tsp Baking Powder

3 Roll dough out on a floured surface to avoid it sticking

40g Lighter Mozzarella
Once you have a nice big rectangle, add grated mozzarella,

30g Cranberry Sauce

4 chunks of brie and cranberry sauce and spread evenly over

the dough
 30g Brie

Slice into even lines from the top - it should make 6 nice

5 sized swirls!
Nutritional Info
Roll up each individual roll and place into a baking dish and

6 bake for around 15ish minutes or until golden

If you want to make the tops of the swirls crispier & more

Per serving-
7 golden, add some melted butter Calories: 117
*Recipe makes 6 servings Protein: 6.3g

Carbs: 17g

Fat: 2.4g

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BOXING DAY

QUESADILLAS

A fun way to use up your

Christmas dinner left overs -

smothered in cheese!
Directions

Ingredients 1 Preheat your oven to 180°C

Lay out one tortilla and spread over your

2x Tortillas
2 cranberry sauce, then shred up and place your

turkey on top
30g Cranberry Sauce
Slice the camembert into thin slices spread out

150g Cooked Turkey 3 evenly over the turkey and sprinkle over some

chopped thyme
100g Camembert
A few springs of thyme
4 Then top with your final tortilla

Place onto an ovenproof tray and pop into the

oven for 10 minutes or until golden and crispy.

Nutritional Info
5 Once removed from the oven, cut into wedges

and sprinkle with thyme and enjoy!

*Recipe makes 2 servings

Per serving-

Calories: 412
Protein: 33g

Carbs: 40g
Fat: 12g

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 CHRISTMAS

TREE BITES
Become a hostess with the

mostest with this recipe! A great

way to impress your guests and

super simple to make - what

more could you want?!

Ingredients
Directions
25g Reduced Fat Green Pesto
Preheat oven to 200°C and line a baking sheet

1 with baking paper 30g Reduced Fat Grated Mozzarella

Combine the pesto and mozzarella in a small

30g Reduced Fat Grated Cheddar
2 bowl & stir (leave some pesto for the top)
2 Tbsp Cranberry Sauce

3 Unfold & roll out the puff pastry and cut out 12*

tree shapes
2 50g Sheets of Puff Pastry

1 Egg; beaten
Spread a very thin layer of pesto mozzarella

4 mixture onto the pastry shapes and then add a

little sprinkle of cheddar cheese on top

Oregano + Parsley

Christmas Tree Stencil/ Cookie Cutter

Roll out the 2nd puff pastry sheet, and cut out

5 another 12* tree shapes and layer over to match

first cut outs

Nutritional Info
Brush the tree cut outs with the beaten egg and

6 bake for about 20 min till golden brown

Per serving-
Make an indent in the top of each tree. Add a

7 little bit of cranberry sauce & green pesto on

top. Enjoy!
Calories: 57
Protein: 2g
*Recipe made 12 with a mini cookie cutter - the

number of servings will depend on the size of

Carbs: 4g
your ‘cookie cutter stencil’ Fat: 3.5g

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 SWEET
Festive favourites to satisfy your sweet tooth!
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 GINGERBREAD

COOKIE

LAYERED

OVERNIGHT

OATS
The ultimate festive breakfast

for busy gals...

Directions Ingredients

*Note - prepare the recipe the night before* 50g Rolled Oats
In a bowl, mix your oats with your protein
50-60ml Almond Milk
1 powder and almond milk with a dash of nutmeg,

cinnamon & ginger 200g 0% Fat Greek Yogurt

Make sure there’s just another liquid so that it’s

20g Vanilla / Speculoos/

2 covering the oats. Leave in the fridge for a

minimum of 4 hours (best left overnight!)

gingerbread Protein Powder

2 Mini Gingerbread Cookies

Mix your yogurt with a teaspoon of cinnamon

3 and optional zero calorie flavouring (we used

vanilla)
Zero Sugar Maple Syrup

1 Lotus Biscuit
Add a large tablespoon of the overnight oat

Optional addition of

mixture to the bowl/ glass, followed by a

4 teaspoon of the yogurt. Layer this on top of each

Nutmeg, Cinnamon and

other until you’ve used all of the oats & yogurt

Ginger
Crumble up a lotus biscuit & sprinkle some

5 nutmeg & cinnamon over the top

Nutritional Info
Drizzle with sugar free syrup or maple syrup and

6 add your gingerbread men and enjoy!

Per serving-

Calories: 504
Protein: 44g

Carbs: 61g
Fat: 10g
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CHOCOLATE ORANGE PROTEIN DONUTS
You do-nut want to miss out on this sweet treat!

Ingredients Directions

60g Blended Oats 1 Preheat oven to 160°C

30g Vanilla Protein Powder Add your dry ingredients into a bowl then stir in your wet

2x Tbsp Cocoa Powder

2 ingredients until smooth

Spray your doughnut moulds with some zero calorie spray

1x Tsp Baking Powder 3 and pour in the mixture evenly into your doughnuts moulds
1x Medium Egg
Bake 15 minutes or until a fork comes out clean and then.

1x Tsp Vanilla Extract 4 remove from the oven and allow to cool

70g Fat Free Greek Yoghurt When serving, top with your strawberry and use your

30g Lindt Dark Chocolate

5 whipped cream to create your Santa hat!

Orange *Recipe makes 6 servings

Donut mould Nutritional Info

Toppings - Per serving-

6x Strawberries Calories: 100

Reduced Fat Whipped Cream Protein: 8g

Carbs: 8g

Fat: 4g
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GINGERBREAD

PROTEIN

PANCAKES

The festive breakfast you'll make

all year round!

Directions

Combine all of the wet ingredients in a bowl

Ingredients
1 and then gradually mix in the dry ingredients

until you have a smooth consistency

70g Banana Heat a large pan/skillet and spray with Frylight,

1x Egg 2 then spoon your mixture onto the centre of the

hot pan
70g Fat Free Greek Yoghurt
Flip half way through cooking, and once golden

50ml Almond Milk 3 on both sides, pop onto a plate

20g Plain Flour Repeat that process until you have used up all of

25g Protein Powder

4 your pancake batter

Lastly, place your gingerbread man in the

1x Tsp Baking Powder 5 centre, and top with your icing sugar!
1/2 Tsp Ground Ginger

1/2 Tsp Cinnamon

Nutritional Info
1x Tbsp Black Treacle

Calories: 432
Toppings - Protein: 35g
1/2 Tsp Icing Sugar Carbs: 52g
1x Mini Gingerbread Man
Fat: 8g
biscuit

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CHOCOLATE
ORANGE

BROWNIES

Great for sharing or for your

cosy night in treat! Directions

Preheat your oven to 170°C, spray an 8 inch

Ingredients 1 square cake tin with low-calorie cooking spray

and line with non-stick baking paper

Put the lighter butter, granulated sweetener,

100g Self Raising Flour baking powder, self raising flour, eggs, cocoa,

50g Lighter Butter

2 orange zest and chocolate syrup/ sauce into a

large mixing bowl and mix until combined

4 Eggs
Chop up the chocolate orange segments and add

3 Tbsp Chocolate Cocoa

3 half into the brownie batter

Powder Pour into the cake tin and sprinkle over the

3 Tbsp White Granulated

4 remaining chocolate orange pieces. Place in the

oven for 16 minutes until slightly risen and set

Sweetener
Leave to cool in the tin for a few minutes and

20g Sweet Freedom

5 then transfer to a wire rack. Cut into 12 squares

and serve!
Chocolate Sauce/Syrup
*Recipe makes 12 servings
1 Tsp Baking Powder

3 White Chocolate Orange

Nutritional Info
Segments

3 Milk Chocolate Orange

Per serving-
Segments Calories: 99
Zest of an Orange finely
Protein: 3.4g
grated Carbs: 10g
Low Calorie Cooking Spray Fat: 5g 20
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 CHRISTMAS PUDDING

PROTEIN BALLS

A perfect protein snack to

Directions
get you into the festive

spirit! 1 Add all of your ingredients to a bowl and mix until fully

combined

Using your hands, mould the mixture into small evenly-sized

Ingredients
2 balls. Then place them onto a plate and put them into the

fridge for 6 hours to set

50g Porridge Oats After 6 hours, remove them from the fridge and top each

60g Crunchy Peanut Butter

3 protein ball with melted white chocolate and holly icing

decorations

25g Vanilla Protein Powder Pop back into the fridge for 1 hour for the toppings to set,

15g Honey
4 then enjoy!

25g Sugar-Free Syrup *Recipe makes 6 servings

20g Flaked Almond

Nutritional Info
25g Raisins

Per serving-
Toppings - Calories: 110
15g White Chocolate Protein: 6g
Festive Holly Icing
Carbs: 8g
Decorations Fat: 6g 22
 We hope you love these fun, festive recipes and that these give you a nice taster into the

Empower approach to nutrition - fun, and delicious meals that will tick all the boxes both

taste wise and nutritionally!

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