Favorite "healthy" dessert recipe?
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Here's mine from Cooking Light:
(Yield: 8 servings)
Ingredients
Cooking spray
2/3 cup sugar
1/4 cup stick margarine or butter, softened
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 large egg
1 1/3 cups all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/4 teaspoon baking soda
1/8 teaspoon salt
3/4 cup low-fat buttermilk
1 cup blueberries
3 tablespoons sugar
3 tablespoons all-purpose flour
1 tablespoon stick margarine or butter, melted
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
Preparation
Preheat oven to 350°.
Coat a 9-inch round cake pan with cooking spray; line bottom with wax paper. Coat wax paper with cooking spray.
Beat 2/3 cup sugar and 1/4 cup margarine at medium speed of a mixer until blended (about 5 minutes). Add vanilla and egg; beat well. Lightly spoon 1 1/3 cups flour into dry measuring cups; level with a knife. Combine 1 1/3 cups flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt. Add flour mixture to creamed mixture alternately with buttermilk, beginning and ending with flour mixture. Stir in blueberries.
Pour into prepared pan. Combine 3 tablespoons sugar and remaining ingredients in a bowl; stir until mixture resembles coarse meal. Sprinkle sugar mixture over batter. Bake at 350° for 40 minutes or until a wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool on a wire rack.
Nutritional Information
Calories:264 (28% from fat)
Fat:8.2g (sat 1.7g,mono 3.4g,poly 2.5g)
Protein:4.3g
Carbohydrate:43.7g
Fiber:1.5g
Cholesterol:28mg
Iron:1.4mg
Sodium:193mg
Calcium:75mg
Here's mine from Cooking Light:
(Yield: 8 servings)
Ingredients
Cooking spray
2/3 cup sugar
1/4 cup stick margarine or butter, softened
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 large egg
1 1/3 cups all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/4 teaspoon baking soda
1/8 teaspoon salt
3/4 cup low-fat buttermilk
1 cup blueberries
3 tablespoons sugar
3 tablespoons all-purpose flour
1 tablespoon stick margarine or butter, melted
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
Preparation
Preheat oven to 350°.
Coat a 9-inch round cake pan with cooking spray; line bottom with wax paper. Coat wax paper with cooking spray.
Beat 2/3 cup sugar and 1/4 cup margarine at medium speed of a mixer until blended (about 5 minutes). Add vanilla and egg; beat well. Lightly spoon 1 1/3 cups flour into dry measuring cups; level with a knife. Combine 1 1/3 cups flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt. Add flour mixture to creamed mixture alternately with buttermilk, beginning and ending with flour mixture. Stir in blueberries.
Pour into prepared pan. Combine 3 tablespoons sugar and remaining ingredients in a bowl; stir until mixture resembles coarse meal. Sprinkle sugar mixture over batter. Bake at 350° for 40 minutes or until a wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool on a wire rack.
Nutritional Information
Calories:264 (28% from fat)
Fat:8.2g (sat 1.7g,mono 3.4g,poly 2.5g)
Protein:4.3g
Carbohydrate:43.7g
Fiber:1.5g
Cholesterol:28mg
Iron:1.4mg
Sodium:193mg
Calcium:75mg
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Replies
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i had :bigsmile:
1-dessert shell
3 -strawberries
2-tbsp of marshmallow dip (this is so good has nothing in it)
2-tbsp chocolate syrup
this was so good and only had about 220 in calories0
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