Help - Low carb desserts?

I made an easy one recently....

I ground .75 cup cashew. Added .75 cup sesame seed. and mixed with almost .75 cup (about 3 teaspoons left in the cup... )

Mix it all together well, then scoop about a tablespoon worth into mini-cupcake wrappers...

top each one with a whole cashew and a sprinkle of sea-salt. Refrigerate until serving.

My batch made 19 cups... although a few were fuller than others and it could have made 20...

94 calories, and 13 carbs. It's a perfect little treat with hot tea. Sweet, with a bit of a bitter quality from the sesame seeds - and the sea-salt to balance it out.

Honey. Sorry. My brain sometimes works to fast, and my fingers forget to type in the rest...

SnuggleSmacks wrote: »

Mix sugar free pudding mix with almond milk (use half the amount the directions tell you since almond milk won't set the same as cow's milk) and top with Cool Whip Free.

Halve and core a pear, bake or poach til soft, top with goat cheese or blue cheese and almonds or pecans.

I had nothing but problems trying to use almond milk when I had my tonsils removed, but I found greek yogurt worked well (half greek yogurt, half water to thin it). Don't know how that measures up carb-wise though.

RoseyDgirl wrote: »

0.75 cup(s), Seeds - Sesame seeds, whole, dried
0.75 cup(s), Raw Cashews
0.70 cup(s), Honey
Nutrition Facts
Servings 19.0
Amount Per Serving
calories 94
% Daily Value *
Total Fat 5 g 7 %
Saturated Fat 0 g 2 %
Monounsaturated Fat 2 g
Polyunsaturated Fat 2 g
Trans Fat 0 g
Cholesterol 1 mg 0 %
Sodium 1 mg 0 %
Potassium 33 mg 1 %
Total Carbohydrate 13 g 4 %
Dietary Fiber 1 g 3 %
Sugars 11 g
Protein 2 g 4 %
Vitamin A 0 %
Vitamin C 0 %
Calcium 6 %
Iron 6 %
* The Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet, so your values may change depending on your calorie

---- Only thing is - I used roasted cashews instead of Raw. the recipe ap here wouldn't allow me to find the roasted/salted cashews and kept giving me Raw... so, some of the nutritional elements may be off from them being treated.

I'm glad you did this because I couldn't figure out how nuts and salt in a cup was supposed to be a dessert. LOL!

there are lots of recipes for low-carb cakes too... I attempted a chocolate cake, but I hadn't put in enough sugar - so, after the first slices ... the rest was turned into chocolate toast.

it was actually pretty yummy even without the sugar. Very intense chocolate. ... and probably would have been to die for with a drizzle of godiva liquor over it & a little whipped cream.

Let me know if you want to go so far as to bake - I have the recipe on here.

grain-free chocolate cake
Servings 8
calories per serving 171
10 Ingredients Edit Recipe
1.00 cup(s), Almond Meal/flour- Net Carb (3)
4.00 Tablespoons, Coconut Flour
3.00 large, Eggs - Whole, raw
1.00 cup(s), Cottage cheese - Lowfat, 1% milkfat
4.00 tbsp(s), Cocoa - Dry powder, unsweetened
6.00 tsp(s), Organic Blonde Coconut Palm Sugar
1.00 tsp(s), Baking soda
0.50 tsp(s), Baking Powder
1.00 tsp(s), Vanilla extract
0.50 cup(s), Almond Milk - Original - Unsweetened Vanilla
Nutrition Facts
Servings 8.0
Amount Per Serving
calories 171
% Daily Value *
Total Fat 10 g 16 %
Saturated Fat 1 g 4 %
Monounsaturated Fat 1 g
Polyunsaturated Fat 0 g
Trans Fat 0 g
Cholesterol 80 mg 27 %
Sodium 487 mg 20 %
Potassium 102 mg 3 %
Total Carbohydrate 13 g 4 %
Dietary Fiber 4 g 15 %
Sugars 5 g
Protein 10 g 20 %
Vitamin A 3 %
Vitamin C 0 %
Calcium 9 %
Iron 10 %
* The Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet, so your values may change depending on your calorie needs. The values here may not be 100% accurate because the recipes have not been professionally evaluated nor have they been evaluated by the U.S. FDA.

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It's not sweet at all. - so a drizzle of chocolate liquor would kick it up a notch, and some whipped cream to top so it doesnt just look like a single layre unfrosted cake...

I'm intending to make this one again. because I loved it as toast...

PwrLftr82 wrote: »

Need2Exerc1se wrote: »

Does anyone have any tried and true low carb dessert recipes that would taste good to someone not used to eating low carb? Artificial sweeteners are okay. High fat is not, but it doesn't have to be low fat.

If it has to be low carb and can't be high fat...chicken breast topped with some sugar free chocolate sauce?

Yeah. I don't know how to make dessert low carb and not high fat.. I lose.