Tuesday, April 22, 2008

Sugarless dessert?

Sunday we had cousins dinner. I needed to make a dessert that had no sugar in it, since Michelle is on Dr orders to avoid sugar. How do you make a dessert with no sugar? I dreamed up this recipe:
Filled crepes with fruit!
Nicole and Erin make crepes ( recipe for 20 had 4 t sugar - only a tiny bit)
I found sugar free white chocolate pudding - 2 boxes and mixed that with 16 oz of spreadable cream cheese and the milk called for in the pudding. This was pretty firm.
I drained two cans of pineapple tidbits for the juice ( just pineapple juice, not heavy syrup). I squeezed two oranges for juice. Then I added 2 T of cornstarch to the juices and cooked it till it thickened. I chilled that. I cut up 1 lb of strawberries and added one can of the pineapple tidbits.
To serve we spread a thick layer of the pudding mix on the crepe, added the fruit which had been mixed with the thickened juice sauce, and rolled the crepe. top with a dollop of Cool whip and more fruit. ( must be some sugar in cool whip?) They were a big hit and not much white sugar for Michelle. She said it was better than a cake - we sang happy birthday to her. Sorry no photos :( they just disappeared too fast. Michelle had hers half eaten before we sang!