Dessert

EatingWell Flag Cake

Erin McCormick — Fri, 07 Jun 2013 15:14:50 +0000

Though this stunning red, white and blue American flag cake screams “Fourth of July Cake,” it’s such a good dessert you’ll want to make it for Memorial Day and other summer holidays too. We made this flag cake recipe healthy, with less saturated fat and calories than traditional versions, by replacing some butter in the yellow sheet cake with oil. Plus, for the cream cheese frosting, we used reduced-fat cream cheese and low-fat Greek yogurt instead of full-fat cream cheese and butter. And for decorations we used fresh blueberries, strawberries and raspberries dusted with confectioners’ sugar instead of loads of piped-on frosting.

Double Ginger Frozen Yogurt Sandwiches

Nifer — Mon, 06 May 2013 19:53:45 +0000

Double Ginger Frozen Yogurt Sandwiches

Thin, crispy ginger cookies are perfect for making mini ice cream sandwiches. Double the gingery flavor with the addition of sweet and spicy crystallized ginger in the frozen yogurt. It’s hard to eat just one!

Frozen Peanut Butter-Pretzel Pie

Erin McCormick — Wed, 17 Apr 2013 20:55:18 +0000

Frozen Peanut Butter-Pretzel Pie

If you like chocolate and peanut butter together, try this frozen peanut-butter-and-pretzel pie recipe in a chocolate cookie crust. The sweet vanilla frozen yogurt and chocolate cookie crust combine with the salty flavors of pretzels and peanut butter for an irresistible dessert.

Frozen Raspberry-Chocolate Terrine

Erin McCormick — Wed, 17 Apr 2013 20:48:33 +0000

Frozen Raspberry-Chocolate Terrine

Fresh or frozen raspberries work equally well in this quick raspberry and chocolate terrine recipe made with low-fat frozen yogurt. Don’t worry about getting the layers perfectly even in this dessert terrine—the unevenness makes each slice look unique.

Mini Frozen Baklava

Erin McCormick — Wed, 17 Apr 2013 20:37:45 +0000

Mini Frozen Baklava

Try this recipe for frozen mini baklava bites using low-fat frozen yogurt the next time you want to whip up a quick dessert. Shelf-stable mini phyllo cups are widely available, but for this recipe the frozen cups are best.

Pomegranate Float

Erin McCormick — Wed, 17 Apr 2013 20:34:09 +0000

Pomegranate Float

This pomegranate float recipe, which uses low-calorie pomegranate-flavored seltzer, pomegranate juice, vanilla frozen yogurt and fresh blueberries, is a refreshing, fruity twist on a malt-shop ice cream float. Combine ingredients just before serving.

Strawberry-Rhubarb Upside-Down Cake

Erin McCormick — Wed, 17 Apr 2013 20:29:25 +0000

Strawberry-Rhubarb Upside-Down Cake

This strawberry and rhubarb upside-down cake recipe highlights how delicious strawberries and rhubarb taste together. If you can’t find rhubarb, substitute an equal amount of any kind of berry or even fresh figs. This upside-down cake still tastes great the next day when the juiciness of the fruit has had time to marry with the moist olive oil cake.

Very Berry Fruit Salad

Nifer — Mon, 15 Apr 2013 16:08:27 +0000

Very Berry Fruit Salad

This easy fruit salad recipe is a dazzler: a large bowl of colorful berries served with a cool lemon curd sauce. Use room-temperature fruit in this berry salad (or if you are taking the berries out of the refrigerator, set them in an oven that’s recently been on to gently warm them). The flavor of warm or room-temperature berries is so much better, as if they’re fresh-picked and still hold the warmth of the sun.

Vanilla Strawberries with Lemon Ricotta

Erin McCormick — Mon, 15 Apr 2013 15:40:14 +0000

Vanilla Strawberries with Lemon Ricotta

Simple and perfect, this strawberry-and-ricotta dessert recipe dresses up the basic combination of strawberries and ricotta just a bit, but it’s still quite unadorned, so make it when you have great strawberries. Part-skim ricotta is used to keep calories and saturated fat in check in this easy dessert, but for a real indulgence try it with whole-milk ricotta.

Sugar-Free Strawberry Frozen Yogurt

Sarah Hoff — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 16:42:57 +0000

Sugar-Free Strawberry Frozen Yogurt

Create instant frozen yogurt for a healthy dessert in just 10 minutes by blending frozen strawberries with yogurt in a food processor. This healthy frozen yogurt recipe is sweetened with Splenda, making it a sugar-free treat. Use a different favorite frozen fruit in place of the strawberries if you like.

Almond Butter-Quinoa Blondies

Erin McCormick — Tue, 19 Feb 2013 16:13:46 +0000

Almond Butter-Quinoa Blondies

People won’t even notice that these almond butter-chocolate chip quinoa blondies are a gluten-free dessert recipe. This healthy blondie recipe uses quinoa flour, which you can find in natural-foods markets. To make your own quinoa flour, grind raw quinoa into a powder in a clean coffee grinder. (Adapted from “Quinoa Revolution” by Patricia Green and Carolyn Hemming; Pintail Books, 2012.)

Banoffee Pie

Erin McCormick — Tue, 19 Feb 2013 16:05:27 +0000

Banoffee Pie

Love bananas, toffee and whipped cream? Then you’ve got to try this healthy Banoffee Pie recipe—a healthier version of one of Great Britain’s sweetest desserts. It is made with layers of toffee, bananas and whipped cream. Our healthier Banoffee Pie recipe has half the calories, over 65 percent less saturated fat and 40 percent less sugar than the original—but all of the amazing flavor.

Blueberry Squares

Erin McCormick — Mon, 18 Feb 2013 21:45:29 +0000

Blueberry Squares

Inspired by our love of lemon squares, we developed this healthy blueberry squares recipe using juice from fresh blueberries in the filling. We slashed the butter in the shortbread crust for these blueberry bars, but kept the crust light and crisp with heart-healthy canola oil and a little cornstarch. A judicious amount of sugar in the filling lets the natural sweetness of the fruit shine and keeps calories in check.

Lemon Squares

Erin McCormick — Mon, 18 Feb 2013 21:29:18 +0000

Lemon Squares

Lemon squares are so delicious, but classic lemon square recipes tip the scales with their calories and saturated fat. Our healthy lemon squares recipe shaves almost 200 calories and more than 5 grams of saturated fat per lemon square. For a variation, use lime juice in place of the lemon juice.

Raspberry Squares

Erin McCormick — Mon, 18 Feb 2013 21:15:39 +0000

Raspberry Squares

Inspired by our love of lemon squares, we developed this healthy raspberry squares recipe using the juice of fresh raspberries in the filling. We slashed the butter in the shortbread crust for these raspberry bars, but kept the crust light and crisp with heart-healthy canola oil and a little cornstarch. A judicious amount of sugar in the filling lets the natural sweetness of the fruit shine and keeps calories in check.