BellaOnline Forums Food and Wine Low Carb Missing Sweets...Wanna Swap Low Carb Desserts?

I'm missing desserts a lot, so I've been working out some low carb desserts.

So far I'm going to attempt some mock almond ice cream and maybe a mock lemon meringue pie. I've mastered low carb cheesecake. Anyone else have any dessert recipes they want to share and trade for my potential ice cream and lemon meringue recipes? :-)

Or if you just want to try what I have in mind...

For the Lemon Pie, I'm basically going to take my cheesecake recipe and add a packet of sugar free lemon Jell-o to the batter and then make the meringue like this:

In a medium bowl, beat three eggs either with an electric mixer or by hand. Add 1/4 teaspoon lemon juice and a pinch of salt. Begin beating slowly at first, which will produce small, stable bubbles. After a minute or so, increase the speed and beat until soft peaks form. Beat in 18 packets of sugar substitute, 1 or 2 packets at a time until stiff peaks form, which will take 7 to 10 minutes. If you don't have superfine sugar, make your own by grinding granulated sugar in a food processor until very fine. This will make about 4 cups of meringue.

I altered this from another site's recipe to be low carb.

The ice cream:

1 cup heavy cream
1/2 cup sugar substitute (recommended: Splenda)
1 teaspoon no sugar added vanilla extract
1/8 teaspoon no sugar added almond extract

With an electric mixer on high, whip the heavy cream in a bowl just until frothy and add in the sugar substitute and extracts. Continue to whip on high until peaks form. Be careful not to over-whip, or cream will break.

Freeze or serve as a mousse.

I altered this recipe from another site as well. You could probably make strawberry or any other flavor ice cream you can find extracts for that are low carb.

Low carb desert: mix sugar free instant pudding mix with that low arb half & half stuff & low carb cool whip. these are substituted for the milk. i did not measure. i mixed pistachio & chocolate pudding. next time i am going to use chocolate pudding & add some mint flavoring.

another low carb desert from south beach:
mix ricotta cheese with zest of lime (or lemon), vanilla flavoring & sugar substitute.
if you do not like the texture of the ricotta run the mix through a food processor or blender.
my favorite is the lime!
you can also use cocoa powder with the sugar substitue & vanilla.

We've become fond of the sugar free pudding mix with low carb milk, and other than that we eat low carb ice cream most of the time. I have a bunch of recipes here -

http://www.bellaonline.com/subjects/4071.asp

Usually I go for berries (quick and easy), ice cream (super easy to make with an ice cream maker) or the pudding <img src="/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />