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Tips and a Recipe for Low Fat Dessert

If you are trying to lose weight, skipping desserts can be a real challenge. The great thing is you do not have to give up eating your favorite dessert in order to lose those stubborn inches. There are plenty of low fat dessert recipes that you can try for a delicious and healthy treat.

Making your own low fat dessert is actually simple. The key is to substitute the fattening ingredients in the recipe for low fat items. For example, if the recipe calls for cream cheese skip the regular one and look for fat free or low fat cream cheese. Likewise, use margarine or applesauce instead of butter. Chill evaporated milk and you have a low fat substitute for whipped cream. When using eggs, just use the egg whites or instead of using whole eggs, try an egg substitute product. Also, replace the sugar with a sugar free sweetener such as the product Splenda.

Another good idea is to use cooking spray to coat your cake pan instead of grease. A cooking spray will have less fat and cholesterol than oil and will cover the pan completely and evenly so your low fat dessert will slide perfectly onto a plate much easier.

If you are thinking that your options in making low fat dessert are limited, you would be happy to know that you can in fact make almost any type of dessert into a low fat dessert. Again, the key is using low fat ingredients, which are easily available from grocery stores. So, you can make your own low fat pudding, cake, cobbler, pie and even low fat ice cream.

To get you started right away in making a delicious low fat dessert, here is an easy recipe for a popular dessert, strawberry cream cheese shortcake. It uses substitutes to make a low sugar, low calorie and low fat dessert.

Beat 8 oz of softened fat free cream cheese and half a cup of powdered sugar. Fold in 8 oz carton of a Cool Whip Free, a fat-free whipped cream substitute. Pour into a 9×13 pan and spread evenly. Cover the pan and chill for 2 hours. While you are waiting, sweeten 5 cups of sliced strawberries with

The Delicious Goodness of Brownies

Brownies also known as chocolate brownies or Boston brownies, obviously named after its color, are small chocolate cake-like bars. Brownies are served as desserts or snacks.
There are different theories as to the origin of brownies but they more likely started from chocolate cakes, only they are shorter and denser.

Brownies are about an inch high and has a thick and chewy texture that contributes to its sweetness. There are various types of brownies with different consistencies and, of course, ingredients. The basic types are the classic fudge brownies, the softer cake-like brownies, chewy brownies, and blondie brownies, also known as butterscotch bars, which are made without using chocolate.

Those who are just learning how to bake usually start with brownie recipes. Kids can also bake these dessert treats, often using a brownie mix, which are available in supermarkets. While the recipe for brownies seems to be fairly simple the results often vary. You may have experienced baking brownies that are undercooked inside or too dry. Generally, if you want fudge brownies, you should remove the pan from the oven when the sides of the brownies have moved slightly away from the pan

Pies: Everybody Wants A Slice

Pies are baked foods consisting of a baked pastry shell that completely covers a filling. Pies for desserts contain sweet fillings such as fruits, creams, and chocolates and other food items that add flavor or texture such as cheeses and nuts. There are also pies that have only a top crust covering a filling, usually fruits, placed on a dish. These pie versions are known as cobbler, crumble or crisps. Pies with a crust only at the bottom have sweet fillings that often do not have to be cooked. These are better known as tarts.

Popular pies for dessert include apple pies, apricot pies, blueberry pies, cherry pies, cream pies, peach pies, strawberry pies and, of course, pumpkin pies for Thanksgiving dessert. It is also common for pie desserts to combine more than one fruit. Some examples are cherry lemon pies and cranberry apple pies. Aside from fruit pies, pies that also make wonderful desserts make use of other sweet and savory ingredients such as peanut butter, meringue, sour cream, flavored creams, coconut, and ice cream.

Ice cream pies are delightful and easy-to-make frozen desserts. Simply spread ice cream and sherbet into the pie crust, freeze, and top with whipped cream and then freeze again. Remove the ice cream pie from your freezer about 30 minutes before you serve it. Lastly, top with fruit slices and coconut flakes. You can use vanilla ice cream and orange sherbet and orange slices for toppings or choose your flavors. Fruit pies that are served with a scoop or scoops of ice cream are known in the United States as

Espresso Coffee

Coffee is one of the most popular beverages all over the world and it comes with different flavors, and types. And, espresso is one of them. The term espresso means pressed-out in Italian, referring to the brewing process. Espresso coffee is a flavorful coffee beverage brewed by forcing very hot, but not boiling water under high pressure through coffee that has been ground to a consistency between extremely fine and powder. It was first made known in Italy back in the beginning of the 20th century, but it was in 1940’s that it became a beverage produced only with steam pressure. The invention of the spring priston lever machine and its subsequent commercial success changed espresso coffee into the very famous beverage that we know of at the present. Coffee lovers or not must have known what an espresso is.

Some people who got so addicted with espresso coffee know the difference between it and the drip coffee. The distinct differences are that espresso has thicker consistency compared to drip coffee; it has higher amount of dissolved solids than drip coffee every relative volume, and a serving size that is measured in shots. Espresso coffee is chemically complex and volatile, with many of its components degrading from oxidation or loss of temperature. Again, those espresso-holic would know that there is a distinguishing factor of a properly brewed espresso and it is the presence of crema. Crema is actually the reddish brown foam, which floats from your cup of espresso coffee. It essentially contains vegetable oils proteins, and sugars. If you have tried a properly brewed one, you must have noticed it.

As the result of high-pressure brewing process, all of the flavors and chemicals in a simple cup of coffee are concentrated. This is why some caffeine lovers prefer one or two shots of espresso coffee instead of one or two cups of plain brewed coffee just to get a quick shot of caffeine. In addition, due to its intense and highly and highly concentrated ingredients, which include caffeine, espresso coffee is also mixed into other coffee drinks, like lattes, cappuccino, macchiatos, and mochas without the need to excessively dilute the resulting drink. All of these various coffee drinks are sold in most coffee shops.

The popularity of different levels of roast in espresso varies significantly. This type of coffee is normally a blend of beans roasted anywhere from very light to very dark with a lot of surface oil evident. Espresso coffee is the most famous type of coffee in Argentina, Brazil, Cuba, France and Southern Europe, obviously Brazil, and to other parts of Europe and North America. It accounts nearly all of the commercial caf

Crab soup recipe

Need an exotic-tasting crab soup recipe that prepares in an instant? Crab soups are renowned for their thick and creamy characteristics but on top of that, crabs have a distinguishing delicious flavor that sets it apart from other seafoods. This scrumptious gourmet, which is a creative combination of chicken stock, clam juice, and spiced with cayenne, will leave you wanting more.

Soups have always had the reputation of warming souls in cold nights but this crab soup recipe called “Cajun Crab Soup” can warm you up even on a sunny day. Serve it with a slice of French bread and you have a meal for lunch, or as a delicious starter for breakfast.

The key for this crab soup recipe is to balance thickness and spice, although that will depend on your preference and of those who will eat it with you. Those who are unfamiliar with this crab soup recipe can imagine tasting a clam chowder. They taste just about the same only that it has its own character. Enough of the talk and take down these ingredients to this crab soup recipe.

Prepare 0.25 cup unsalted butter, 1/2 onion chopped, 1 cloves garlic minced, 0.25 cup all-purpose flour, 1cup clam juice, 1 cup chicken broth, one half 10-ounce package frozen white corn, 0.5 teaspoon salt, a pinch of ground white pepper, little amount of dried thyme, pinch of ground cayenne pepper, 1 cup heavy cream, 1/2 pound lump crabmeat drained, and 2 green onions chopped.

Now, heat a wide saucepan over regular fire and melt butter, then saute garlic and onions until the latter wilts and turns translucent. Next, put in flour for two minutes to make a roux base. Pour the clam juice and chicken broth over the paste and stir, then let it boil.

You can put in corn and the seasoning (salt, thyme, white pepper, and cayenne). At this point, you need to reduce the heat to cook everything gradually by simmering for 15 minutes. After which, slowly stir the cream in along with the crabmeat and green onions. Turn heat at high but make sure not to boil the crab soup recipe once you have stirred in the cream.

To lessen the thickness, it is recommended that you use a half-and-half cream and add in more cayenne for extra spice. One important point to consider is that crabmeat is high in cholesterol and saturated fat as well as the cream. This recipe provides 106% of the recommended daily value of saturated fat and 55% of cholesterol so make sure you don’t indulge in this recipe often.

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Kinds of Doughnuts and Great Tips for Dessert

Doughnuts are sweet pastries that are made by deep frying round pieces of batter or dough.  Doughnuts are often served as breakfast but they also make great snacks and desserts. There are two basic types of doughnuts – ring doughnuts or the ones with the holes and filled doughnuts, which have sweet fillings such as jam, jelly, custard or cream. There are also doughnut holes, originally made from the dough taken out of the center of a ring doughnut.

Yeast-based dough is used for making raised doughnuts. Cake doughnuts use a special cake batter. Yeast doughnuts can be traced back to the method of making doughnuts from leftover scraps when baking. They are light and fluffy with a distinct flavor of yeast. Yeast doughnuts can be baked instead of deep-fried. The heavier cake doughnuts are obviously denser and their texture resembles that of a cake.

After ring doughnuts are fried, they are usually topped with an icing, glazed or powdered with sugar or cinnamon. Jelly doughnuts may also be glazed as well as filled with jam or custard. There are also doughnuts that come in other shapes aside from the traditional round shape including twisted doughnuts, bear claws, rectangular and others.

Doughnuts are quite easy to make at home and it will be fun to have your kids help in making them. You can make doughnuts at home with basic ingredients and without any special baking equipment. Although, large bakeries that produce doughnuts commercially use pre-packed doughnut mixes and more complicated machines.

Doughnuts are one if not the most popular fried dessert in the United States. Even the trendiest restaurants are serving doughnuts for dessert such as Hearth in New York, which offers hot and crisp sugar and apple cider glazed doughnuts topped with maple whipped cream. But you do not have to go to a fancy restaurant for superb doughnut desserts. Try the following ideas:

Add some spice to old-fashioned donuts by adding nutmeg and a bit of cinnamon. Make extra-special honey-dipped doughnuts by dipping them in warm honey then in coconut flakes. Add some twist to good old chocolate doughnuts by mixing in some mashed potatoes and milk. For a dessert that resembles those served in fine restaurants, top a warm doughnut with a scoop of ice cream and add bananas tossed in caramel sauce on top then sprinkle with nuts. Whether you want your doughnuts with coffee or tea, any of these doughnuts make exquisite dessert.

Puddings: Europe’s Surprisingly Magical Treat

Enticing and deliciously sweet, puddings are the household dessert in every European home. With just one look at it, one can expect a tempting treat for the sweet tooth but more surprises are actually in store once you put it into your mouth and taste the hidden treats inside. Born in one of the kitchens in Europe, puddings also have traditional preparation beliefs that could give the awaited surprise in your life.

Majority of the countries in Europe actually used the word pudding to refer to a dessert. The word pudding evolved from the French word boudin through the Latin word botellus, which means small sausage that are used in the original or first puddings during the medieval era.

Puddings are usually defined as any of the various mixes of soft sweet desserts or meat, sausage as mentioned earlier, thickened with flour or any binder encasing or hiding the mixes of indulging ingredients that were baked, steamed, or boiled. In fact, culinary experts class the dessert as those served with meat and those served with fruits. Dessert writers, on the other hand, say that puddings were originally boiled in a bag or cloth then was later steamed where a cloth covered buttered bowl is used and lastly a baked and chilled pudding came in with the procedures.

Culinary innovations were later made in preparing puddings such as the use of instant mixes of sugar or milk and eggs or other thickening agents that resulted to custard or mousse-like smooth and creamy dessert, which is more popular for the Americans. Traditional puddings, on the other hand, are also topped with whipped cream and fresh fruits as another innovation.

Puddings also have an amusing and enchanting practice on how it is originally served. The Christmas holiday plum pudding, for instance, is traditionally served with tiny silver charms either topped or baked in the pudding. The charms could be a silver coin, which is believed to attract wealth or a silver miniature anchor for safe harbor. A wishbone is also used to bring good luck in the family. Another tradition in preparing the pudding is for every household member to simultaneously stir the pudding batter using the wooden spoon and later make a wish.

Europe is known for its dream-like royalties, which are often related to enchanting fairy tales of our childhood. Puddings are just another magical treat of the continent for the rest of the world.