Desserts

Sherbet? Chocolate? Sounds weird but tastes delicious. It’s something really luxurious for chocolate lovers. Serve garnished with mint leaf, orange peel strips, or strawberries. Ingredients: 1 cup sugar ¾ cup unsweetened cocoa powder 1 ½ cups water 2 tablespoons amaretto (almond flavored liqueur) Directions: In a medium bowl, whisk together sugar, cocoa, water, and amaretto until […]

Papayas stuffed with yogurt, raisins, strawberries, and walnuts are topped with honey. Choose ripe papayas with reddish-brown skin that is soft to the touch; avoid green papayas, as they are not yet ripe. Organic ingredients taste best! Ingredients: 1 cup fat-free plain yogurt ¼ cup walnuts ¼ cup raisins 1 cup chopped fresh strawberries 2

Apple pie with pre-cooked apples Ingredients: 2 (9 inch) pie shell 10 apple – peeled, cored and sliced ¼ cup white sugar 1 tablespoon ground cinnamon ½ teaspoon ground nutmeg Directions: Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Place sliced apples in a large pot. Sprinkle with sugar, cinnamon, and nutmeg. Mix well

Warm apples with a cinnamon glaze on the top. Ingredients: 1 Granny Smith apple – peeled, cored and sliced 2 ½ tablespoons water 1 tablespoon cornstarch 1 ½ tablespoons white sugar 1 pinch ground cinnamon, or to taste Directions: Preheat an oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Spread the apple slices into the bottom of

This recipe is the traditional filling used at Christmas time as a filling for Italian cookies but surely could be used for filling puff pastry. Leftovers can be stored in refrigerator in tightly covered container. This recipe can easily be doubled. Ingredients: 1 pound dried figs 1 orange, zested ½ cup semisweet chocolate chips ¼

Sweet, soft strawberry sorbet that will rival any brand bought in the grocery store. Not being able to find the perfect recipe, I made up my own! Most homemade sorbets resemble an icy slushie, but this one is thickened before freezing, yielding a melt-in-your-mouth treat that will please even the pickiest sorbet lover! Dually great

This is a wonderful dessert as an end of a warm and romantic dinner! Ingredients: 2 pounds watermelon, seeded and cubed ½ cup white sugar 1 cup champagne 4 slices watermelon Directions: Place cubed watermelon and sugar in the pitcher of a blender. Blend for 1 minute. Stir in the champagne. Pour the watermelon mixture

A quick, easy, and tasty strawberry sherbet. Ingredients: 2 cups 2 tablespoons white sugar 1 teaspoon lemon juice Directions: Place strawberries in a food processor and blend until smooth, about 30 seconds. Blend in sugar and lemon juice, about 10 seconds more. Freeze sherbet until solid, about 1 hour. Prep time: 5 mins / Cooking

This is an excellent way to can blueberries for a quick and easy pie. It’s virtually identical to the costly canned pie filling found in the grocery store. Ingredients: 7 quarts fresh blueberries 4 ½ cups white sugar 3 tablespoons lemon juice 1 tablespoon salt 10 cups water, divided 1 cup cornstarch Directions: Place the blueberries,

A sin-free, delicious, and fruity version of the ever-popular carrot cake. The flax seed meal may be omitted, but it can easily be found in health food stores. This cake is best served chilled because of its moist quality. Ingredients: 3 egg whites ⅔ cup white sugar ¼ cup nonfat milk ⅓ cup applesauce 1