Dessert Recipes

Arturo asked:


Eating a low fat diet can give you so many health benefits. You will enjoy increased energy, weight loss as well as a host of other health benefits. Many people think that eating low fat will mean a loss of taste. It all depends upon you and how much creativity and effort you want to put into your low fat cooking.

Low fat dessert can also be a part of a new and improved way of eating. You can find many recipes for low fat dessert if you are determined to find them. Many low fat dessert recipes can be created from existing recipes using low fat substitute ingredients. There are many delicious foods that can be consumed when you are on a low fat diet.

Low fat dessert will be something you look forward to eagerly when you discover new ways to make old favorites. Once you begin to eat a low fat diet, sticking to it will become easier over time and making a low fat dessert can help you stay the path.

You can find magazines that have so many menu suggestions for low fat meals and low fat dessert. You can also purchase a book, or do your research online concerning low fat dessert. There are so many tasty ways to make low fat living fun and easy.

Any health care professional will tell you that your diet has a lot to do with your health. You should incorporate a low fat diet along with eating real food and exercise. It will also help when you drink at least eight 8-ounce glasses of water a day.

Once you begin eating low fat dessert and other foods, you will be surprised at how much more pep and vigor you feel. Exercising will be a pleasure once you feel energetic. You will eliminate the heavy foods that were keeping you feeling tired and sluggish all the time. This is especially true for people who eat plenty of fast foods. This kind of high fat diet can surely end your life sooner than it should.



Dodson

Jill Seader asked:


Some interesting history about chocolate and strawberries: The ancient Mayans and Aztecs considered chocolate an aphrodisiac. Strawberries have been considered an aphrodisiac since ancient Rome. But the history of these two delectable treats hardly matters. All you need to know is that the combination is sure to please your lover on Valentine’s Day.

Chocolate Strawberry Cake Squares

The decadent chocolate fudge combined with the sweet flavor of strawberries in this recipe will have your lover wanting more. And the best part is that it’s quick and simple to make. It serves two so it is a perfect treat for Valentine’s Day.

2 slices pound cake

1/4 cup plus 2 tablespoons hot fudge sauce

2 tablespoons Amaretto

8 strawberries, sliced

2 tablespoons hot fudge sauce, melted

toasted slivered almonds

vanilla ice cream

In a microwave-safe bowl, combine the 1/4 cup plus 2 tablespoons hot fudge sauce and Amaretto. Microwave on high for 30 seconds. Put half of the sauce on one dessert plate and half on another. Put the cake slices in the fudge sauce. Put the strawberries in even layers on top of the cake. Microwave each cake square on high for 30 seconds. Top with the 2 tablespoons hot fudge sauce, slivered almonds and ice cream.

Chocolate Strawberry Ice Cream Dessert

A delightful treat for your valentine with Oreos, chocolate and strawberries. A perfect chilled dessert to help steam up your romance.

50 Oreo’s, crushed

4 tablespoons butter, softened

1 package (8 ounces) cream cheese, softened

1 cup chocolate syrup

1 package (8 ounces) whipped topping, thawed

1/2 gallon strawberry ice cream, thawed slightly

1 pint strawberries, sliced

chocolate syrup

In a small bowl, mix the crushed Oreo’s and butter. Put 1/3 of this mixture into a 9 x 13-inch pan. Beat the cream cheese with an electric mixer until smooth. Add the chocolate syrup gradually to the cream cheese. Fold the whipped topping into the chocolate mixture. Put the chocolate mixture on top of the crumbs and then add another 1/3 of the crumb mixture over this layer. Slice the strawberry ice cream into 1 inch thick slices and put over the chocolate layer. Top this layer with the remaining crumbs. Freeze at least overnight. Allow the dessert to sit out for about 15 minutes before cutting it into bars. Put the sliced strawberries on top of a bar and drizzle with chocolate syrup.



Lavern

Before we begin “dishing” out some Christmas dessert recipes, let us talk about Splenda.

What is Splenda?



Splenda is a sugar substitute. It gained popularity in 1998 when the United States Food and Drug Administration approved it for use in commercially prepared baking products. Sixty other countries have followed the initiative of the American FDA.

Rose Reisman, who wrote Secrets for Permanent Weight Loss (Whitecap Books, 2005) describes Splenda as a better choice sweetener. It contains sucralose which is the only sweetener made from sugar and the only sweetener that is not associated with health problems. It is not digested as a carbohydrate, so diabetics need not worry about experiencing a surge of insulin levels.

People who have used Splenda say that one advantage it has over other sweeteners is that it retains its sweet taste even when heated.



Christmas Desserts Using Splenda

You may come across recipes that don’t say Splenda; instead they will say “sucralose.” They’re one and the same. Splenda is available in most stores and come in tiny, yellow packets.

Recipe # 1: On a cold Christmas Eve morning, what better way to wake up sleepy heads with the aromatic smell of Pear Muffins coming straight from the oven?

Pear Muffins

Preparation Time: 15 minutes

Cooking Time: 20-25 minutes

Servings: yields 12 muffins

Ingredients:

Canola oil

2 cups self-rising flour

2 tsp baking powder

¾ cup sucralose

2/3 cup skim or low fat milk

2 eggs

2 ripe pears

Procedure:

Peel and mash the pears and set aside.

Prepare your muffin pan by greasing them with canola oil. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.

Combine self-rising flour and baking powder in a large mixing bowl. Gradually add the sucralose. In a separate bowl, blend together milk, oil and eggs. Combine this mixture with the flour mixture. Add the mashed pears. Blend all ingredients well. Spoon the batter into 12 individual muffin holes.

Bake for 15-20 minutes.

These muffins can be stored at room temperature and eaten the next day, but they are best eaten the same day!

Recipe # 2: Who doesn’t love New York-style Cheesecake? It is such a popular dessert that food stores and supermarkets now sell it frozen, but why spoil the spirit of Christmas by serving frozen food? Make this recipe and turn it into a labor of love. The children, grandchildren, cousins and uncles will love you for this New York-style cheesecake made from scratch!

New York-Style Cheesecake

Preparation time: 15-20 minutes

Cooking time: 20-25 minutes

Servings: 12 individual servings (recipe is not for a whole cheese cake)

Ingredients:

1-3/4 cups Ricotta cheese

3 oz light or low-fat cream cheese

½ cup sour cream

1 egg

1 tsp vanilla extract

1 tsp lemon zest

2/3 cup Splenda

3 tsbp lemon juice (preferably fresh)

3 tbsp all purpose flour

For garnish: your favorite berries (blueberries, strawberries, raspberries, gooseberries) and icing sugar.

Procedure:

Line your muffin pan with muffin paper cups. Pre-heat oven to 350 degrees F.

Soften the cream cheese and combine with the ricotta cheese in a food processor. Add the sour cream, egg, vanilla, lemon juice (and zest), flour and Splenda. Make sure mixture is smooth and creamy. Pour into individual muffin holes.

Put the muffin tin in a larger pan containing hot water. The hot water must come up to 1/3 or halfway up the sides of the muffin tray. Put in oven and bake for 20 minutes.

After 20 minutes, take out the muffin tray from the larger tray. Set aside and let cool. Refrigerate for an hour or two. Top with garnish before serving. You can use the berries as they are, or you can mash them so they cover the top and glide on the side.

Recipe # 3: Spent the whole day in the mall for Boxing Day specials and forgot about dessert tonight? Here is a recipe for a chocolate cake. Most of the ingredients are probably already in your cupboard so no need to dash out again.

Simple & Quick Chocolate Cake

Preparation time: 20 minutes

Cooking time: 30 minutes

Serves: 6

Ingredients:

1-1/2 cups flour

2/3 cup sucralose

Pinch of salt

1 tsp baking soda

3 tbsp hot chocolate powder mix (any hot chocolate mix will do)

1 tbsp vinegar

8 tbsp canola oil

1 tsp vanilla extract

1 cup water (or 1 cup skim milk, if you prefer)

Procedure:

Sift the flour, baking soda, sucralose, salt and hot chocolate powder together. Add the rest of the wet ingredients. Blend well. Pour into an 8 inch round baking pan. Bake at 350 degree F for 30 minutes. Let cool and serve with your favorite topping.

Note: Instead of icing, you can use English devonshire cream. Spoon a few tablespoons into the dessert platter, enough for a slice of cake to sit on. Also, if you have left over slivered almonds or crushed walnuts, you can throw them into the batter.



By: mike cole

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Irwin

Reginald Ross asked:


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Lester

Ingredients for the Apple Layer:

6 medium apples sliced very thin, a mandolin or food processor may be used.

¼ Cup of dried apricots, chopped

1/4 cup Sugar

1 teaspoon Cinnamon

Mix all in a bowl, and set aside

Ingredients for the Cake batter:

3 medium or large Eggs, you will need to separate the yolks from the white and hold the whites until you are ready to whip, this is done to give the cake lift.

3/4 cup Matzo Cake Meal

3/4 cup Sugar

1/3 cup Oil

2 teaspoons Vanilla

2 teaspoons Lemon zest, fine

1/8 teaspoon of salt

Ingredients for the topping of the Cake:

1/3 cup of Walnuts, finely chopped

2 teaspoons Cinnamon

1/2 Cup of Sugar

You will toss the sliced apples in with sugar and cinnamon. You will then set apples and apricots aside. In another bowl you will combine egg yolks, sugar, vanilla, lemon zest, matzo meal and oil. You will blend all of these ingredients until smooth.

In a separate bowl you will whip the egg whites with 1/8 teaspoon of salt until stiff peaks form and a glossy sheen is seen. You will begin to add or gently fold 1/3 of the egg whites to the batter. Make sure you do this very gently if you want to get the maximum lift, you do not want the cake to be too dense. You will do this 3 times, until all egg whites are combined into the batter.

You will now take half of the batter and put it into a greased 9 inch spring form pan. You will add the apple, apricot, sugar and cinnamon mixture on top of the first layer of batter. Now you will cover the fruit mixture with the remaining batter. The batter will be thick and sticky so do the best you can to get it evenly spread. For the last step you will add the topping ingredients and sprinkle over cake batter. You will add to a preheated oven of 350 degrees and cook approximately 45 minutes to an hour depending on your oven. Remove and let cool. Serve.

Chef Shelley Pogue, a *** Laude, Le Cordon Blue graduate and Executive Research and Development Chef, for Vertical Sales and Marketing, San Ramon.



By: Chef Shelley R. Pogue

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Geoffrey

Abdrew Krause asked:


Turn on any food show today and you’ll find a huge assortment of ethnic offerings. From Chinese and other Asian cuisines to French, German and even British cooking, every corner of the globe where people put food to fire is represented. Most of these are relative newcomers to the global food scene, whereas Italian food has been on every cook’s slate for decades. This explains why there are so many free recipes for Italian desserts around: they’re delicious, and there is a dizzying variety available.

Cheesecake, of course, is by far the most popular Italian dessert. That’s curious, as it actually is not terribly Italian in its composition. It’s an American invention, although Italian-Americans are most often credited with both finding and perfecting the recipe and preparation methods. No reputable Italian restaurant would ever be caught without at least one cheesecake on the menu, and very often you’ll see competitions within a city between the top-tier Italian joints to build the highest, richest and best creations. It’s no surprise that some of these recipes make it into the vaults of free recipes for Italian desserts available online.

The true heart of Italian desserts, however, are the gelatos, those ice cream-like creations that come in an insane variety of flavors and top the finest efforts of frozen treat confectioners from around the world. In Italy, gelato shops are almost as common as Starbucks coffee houses are here in United States, and the sweets they purvey are like no others. From the classic hazelnut or chocolate to more exotic flavors like mango, lime and graham cracker, you’ll find something for every palate.

My personal favorite Italian dessert, however, is the cannoli. There’s a reason why “Leave the guns, take the cannoli,” is one of the most identifiable quotes from the “Godfather” movies. This mystical synergy between a crunchy pastry shell and a lightly sweet pastry cream, sometimes with nuts or a drizzle of chocolate added, is simply unbeatable to many Italian food connoisseurs.

All of these have made it into the archives of free recipes for Italian desserts. With a little hunting, you can find whatever you seek!



Mclean