Brownies
Chocolate
Fudge
Mirengue
Shell
Peanut
Butter Cookies
The "Pop"
Pop
Pretty
Ginger Ale Mold
Strawberry
Lemon Meringue Pie
Unbelievable
Cheesecake
*Brownies
1/2 cup
butter, at room temperature
2 eggs
2 1-ounce
squares unsweetened chocolate
2 teaspoons
chocolate extract
2 tablespoons
water
2 tablespoons
soya powder
1/2 cup
coarsely chopped walnuts
2 tablespoons-equivalents
brown sugar substitute
3 tablespoons
creme de cacao
Preheat
oven to 350 degrees. Cream butter with electric hand mixer. Add eggs one
at a time,
beating
well. Melt chocolate with extract and water in top of double boiler. (if
it gets too thick,
add a
little more water) Add melted chocolate, soya powder, chopped walnuts,
and brown sugar
substitute
to butter. Mix well. Grease a 1 1/2-quart flat baking disk. Pour in chocolate
mixture.
Bake in
350 degree oven for 15 minutes. Do not overcook. Remove from oven. Sprinkle
creme de
cacao
over top. Cool. Cut into at least 30 squares.
*Chocolate Fudge
1 package
diet chocolate pudding (without sugar)
2 tablespoons-equivalents
brown sugar substitute
1/2 cup
heavy cream
1 tablespoon
creme de cacao
3 heaping
tablespoons chunk-style peanut butter
Mix all
ingredients together except peanut butter. Place over low flame and add
peanut butter.
Heat until
peanut butter melts. Stir until well blended. Grease spray a small baking
pan. Spoon
mixture
into pan. Refrigerate until firm. Slice into at least 15 squares.
*Meringue Shell
4 egg whites
pinch
of salt
4 teaspoons
creme de cacao
Preheat
oven to 250 degrees. Place egg whites and salt in bowl. Beat together until
frothy.
Gradually
add creme de cacao. Continue beating until whites are stiff, glossy, and
stand in stiff
peaks.
Grease 6 muffin tins. Fill cups with meringue, hollow out top with back
of spoon. Bake
ion 250
degree oven for 1 hour.
*Peanut Butter Cookies
1/2 chunk
style peanut butter
3/4 cup
cream
1/2 cup
chopped pecans
2 teaspoons
vanilla
2 teaspoons-equivalents
sugar substitute
2 tablespoons
soya powder
1 teaspoon
baking powder
Preheat
oven to 375 degrees. Spray a cookie sheet with grease substitute. Mix all
ingredients in
bowl.
Blend well. Drop on cookie sheet by teaspoonfuls. Bake for about 10 minutes.
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*The "Pop" Pop
1 1/2 cups
sugar-free fruit flavored soda
6 teaspoons
cream
sprinkle
of sugar substitute (optional)
Mix all
ingredients together. Fill plastic molds for popsicles (1 mold holds 6
popsicles)
with mixture.
Insert stick if desired. (It is best to do this when popsicles are partially
frozen.)
Freeze.
*Pretty Ginger Ale Mold
1 envelope
sugar-free lemon flavored gelatin
2 cups
sugar free ginger ale
1 cup
cantaloupe balls
1/4 cup
chopped walnuts
Dissolve
gelatin in 1/2 cup ginger ale. Bring to boil. Stir. Be sure gelatin completely
desolves.
Cool.
Add remaining 1 1/2 cups ginger ale. Chill until consistency of egg whites.
Fold in
cantaloupe
balls and walnuts. Pour into wet mold. Chill.
*Strawberry Lemon Meringue Pie
4 cups
whole strawberries (about 2 cups measured after pureed)
3 egg
yolks
1 cup
boiling water
1 envelope
diet strawberry gelatin
1 teaspoon
strawberry extract
1 teaspoon
grated lemon peel
7 egg
whites, beaten stiff
2 tablespoon-equivalents
white sugar substitute
1 meringue
shell (see above)
Preheat
oven to 450 degrees. Place strawberries and egg yolks in blender and puree.
Boil water
and add
gelatin. Stir until dissolved. Add extract, lemon peel, and strawberries.
Cook for about
2 minutes,
stirring constantly. Cool.
Beat egg
whites with sugar substitute until stiff. Fold half of egg whites into
strawberry mixture.
Pour mixture
into round cake pan. Top with remaining egg whites. Be careful to cover
strawberry
mixture
completely and seal around edges. Cook for 7 to 10 minutes in 450 degree
oven or until
brown.
Allow pie to cool before you refrigerate. Refrigerate at least 2 hours
before serving. (A few
drops
of red food coloring will give strawberry mixture a deeper color if desired.)
Unbelievable Cheesecake
6 eggs
2 tablespoons
lemon juice
1 teaspoons
vanilla
15 packets
sweetener
12 oz.
low fat cottage cheese
cinnamon
Preheat
oven to 350 degrees. Have ingredients at room temperature. Blend all ingredients
except
cottage cheese and cinnamon thoroughly in blender. Gradually add cottage
cheese
cheese
and blend until very smooth. Pour into 9" x 13" glass pan. Top with pure
cinnamon.
Bake for
45 minutes or until cake is firm. Turn off oven and leave the cheese cake
there with
the door
open for 1 hour. Chill overnight.
* indicates recipes taken from Dr Atkins Diet Cookbook