Thanksgiving Dessert

[nobodyknowsme]

Hey everyone...

I'm looking forward to a nice thanksgiving meal. I promised myself I would skip the pasta and enjoy the turkey and the vegetables. However, I would also like to make a low-carb dessert for myself and anyone else in my family who is interested.

Just wondering...what are the rest of you planning to make for low carb dessert-if any? Suggestions? Recipes?

[not2late]

Re: Thanksgiving Dessert

I'm not much of a dessert person (I'm a potato-rice-pasta carb junkie).

But you can make a pumpkin flan. http://www.texascooking.com/recipes/pumpkinflan.htm

You can follow that recipe, but substitute the sugar, substitute a 3:1 mix of heavy cream and water for the milk and don't bother with the caramel.

[Labarum]

Re: Thanksgiving Dessert

Neither of these is induction frendly.

1. Chocholate naughtyness.

1.5 oz very high quality chocolate (I Use Lindt Excelence 70% 0r 85%)
2 or 3 fl oz cream (UK double or single - US Heavy?)
1 oz (or less) butter

optionally a teaspoon of splenda - I need it with 85% but not with 70%

Microwave on defrost (about 2 minutes) and stir till you have a smooth mixture. May need more time in microwave if mixture appears granular)
Cool for a few hours in fridge.

This makes a lovely chocolate fudge - serve with cream or whipped cream if you like.

Carbs - about 14 in the chocolate - not much elsewhere.

2. Creamy Yogurt and Berries.

5 oz weight full fat Greek strained yogurt
(I use Total from Greece and available in US)
Mix in a teaspoon of splenda and vanilla extract.
I use Kays - US Brand, expensive UK, but excellent.
1 teaspoon of Kays, but less than half of cheaper vanilla essence.

On top 2 oz strawberries, rasberries, blueberries, blackberries, blackcurrents, redcurrents --or a mixture

Yogurt 5g carb, berries 7g carb

Happy thanksgiving.

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[MotherOfGizmo]

Re: Thanksgiving Dessert

Look in the chit chat section under a similar thread, Sadie 147 posted a pumpkin cheesecake recipe that looks devine!

[higgies]

Re: Thanksgiving Dessert

My mom made this awesome low carb pumpkin pie last year. It was soooo good! I wish I knew where to find the recipe. She got it out of one of those small recipe books you get at the check-out in the gorcery store....hmmm....

[Rooster for U]

Re: Thanksgiving Dessert

Mincemeat pie??????

[Rooster for U]

Re: Thanksgiving Dessert

That was a joke, I think. LOL

[ttdriver]

Re: Thanksgiving Dessert

Crustless pumpkin pie, of course!

Betty