Recipes and Posts Tagged dessert
Baklava
Most Americans associate baklava with Greek cuisine since baklava is on the dessert menu at many Greek-American restaurants. Baklava, like marzipan, originated in the Middle East and eventually made its way to Europe. There are hundreds of recipes for baklava, this recipe is my favorite and popular with my friends. At ...
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Simple Bite Size Napoleons
Napoleons are a crispy, light French pastry made with layers of puff pastry, a cream filling, and topped with a white glaze decorated with streaks of dark chocolate. This deliciously light pastry can be made at home using prepared puff pastry available from most supermarkets (usually found in with other frozen doughs ...
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Caramel Apple Dessert Or Side-dish
Caramel Apple Dessert provides a bit of sweetness to any meal without the calories and saturated fat of apple pie and other high calorie desserts. I originally came across this recipe while filming an episode of Fast Food OR for my YouTube Channel featuring a frozen meatloaf meal included caramel apples. ...
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Easier Than Apple Pie
Americans love pie. Pies are part of America’s British roots. But instead of kidney pies, Americans crave sweet fruit pies made with apples, strawberries, cherries, and blueberries, and for the holidays pumpkin and mincemeat pies. Pies take healthy, low calorie fruit, add lots of sugar to make the filling, and then ...
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Easy Apple Strudel
If you are tired of store bought apple strudel that’s more pastry than apple filling try this Easy Apple Strudel recipe that is packed with fresh apples and has no preservatives or artificial ingredients. Some supermarket bakeries enhance the color of their strudels, turnovers, cakes, and pies by adding artificial colors. ...
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Lemon Tea Bread
If you like lemons or limes, this simple Lemon Tea Bread is bursting with lemon flavor and perfect with tea or coffee. Lemon Tea Bread is an easy sweet bread using grated lemon zest. The glaze is made using lemon juice adding more lemon flavor but glazing the bread is ...
Read moreDid You Save Room For Dessert?
Americans are asked this question every time they dine at a casual or formal restaurant. It doesn’t matter if the diner has eaten over a days worth of calories. Americans love concluding a meal with calorie ladden sweet dessert’s, and each dessert sale is revenue for the restaurant and additional ... more
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Fresh Strawberries with Ice Cream
Fresh Strawberries with Ice Cream is a refreshing dessert for about 300 calories per serving. Restaurant desserts can provide 1,000 calories or more; as many or more calories than their entrees. Many diets restrict or eliminate desserts claiming they are high in calories, sugar, and fat. Using sweet, ripe fresh fruit ...
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