How can I make a healthy dessert everyone will love?

Question

I'm sick of making brownies, cookies, and cakes. I want something fruity and filling. Something that children will eat.

Answer 1

Strawberry Pie

INGREDIENTS
1 (9 inch) pie crust, baked
1 quart fresh strawberries
1 cup white sugar
3 tablespoons cornstarch
3/4 cup water
1/2 cup heavy whipping cream

DIRECTIONS
Arrange half of strawberries in baked pastry shell. Mash remaining berries and combine with sugar in a medium saucepan. Place saucepan over medium heat and bring to a boil, stirring frequently.
In a small bowl, whisk together cornstarch and water. Gradually stir cornstarch mixture into boiling strawberry mixture. Reduce heat and simmer mixture until thickened, about 10 minutes, stirring constantly. Pour mixture over berries in pastry shell. Chill for several hours before serving. In a small bowl, whip cream until soft peaks form. Serve each slice of pie with a dollop of whipped cream.

Answer 2

How about apple crisp? Ok it's not the healthiest dessert but in my opinion it's a lot more exciting than jello and it is healthier than brownies and cake. Also, it's REALLY GOOD! It tastes especially good with vanilla ice cream or whipped cream but its perfect on its own as well. I highly reccomend this recipe:
5-6 tart apples
2 tablespoons sugar
2 tablespoons lightly packed brown sugar
1 1/2 teaspoons cinnamon
2 tablespoons butter, melted
Topping
3/4 cup flour, plus
2 tablespoons flour
6 tablespoons oatmeal
7 tablespoons sugar
7 tablespoons lightly packed brown sugar
12 tablespoons butter, cut in small pieces

Preheat oven to 375 degrees F.
Put apples, sugars, and cinnamon in a 1 1/2 quart casserole dish.
Stir to combine.
Let sit about 20 minutes until some juice is released from the apples.
Combine flour, oatmeal and sugars.
Mix in the butter until it resembles coarse crumbs.
Pour melted 2 tbsp butter over apple mixture in the casserole.
Sprinkle with topping mixture.
Bake 30-40 minutes until topping is golden and filling is bubbling.
Serve warm or at room temperature.

Answer 3

Heres some ideas:

Fruit Pizza
1 roll sugar cookie dough
Spread sugar cookie dough onto pizza pan and bake as directed.
Mix together:
8oz pkg cream cheese
1 pint jar marshmallow cream
After cookie is done, spread mixture on top evenly after it is cool. Arrange any kind of fruit on top of mixture. Examples are bananas, mandarin oranges, strawberries, blueberries, or pineapples.

No Cook Ice Cream
4 eggs
2 t vanilla
2 cans of condensed milk
1 C sugar
1/2 pint whipping cream
1 1/2 quarts milk
Combine eggs, cream, sugar, and vanilla and mix with mixer. pour into ice cream freezer can. Add condensed milk, stir well and freeze. makes four quarts.

Caramel Sauce and Bananas
1/4 C butter or oleo
3 T corn starch or flour
2 t vanilla
1 C brown sugar
1 C milk
1 egg
mix all together. cook till thick. cool. make layer, bananas, sauce, crushed peanuts. top with whip cream and nuts.

All these are yummy!!

Answer 4

Here's a deseert that is so simple and everyone will love.

BBQ fruit

Get your favourite fruits like Mango, lychees, apple, oranges...etc Put it on foil (don't wrap it up completly) let it cook for a bit on a BBQ then add some pure honey to give it flavor and moist and allow the fruit and honey to Cameralise a bit.

So simple and much more healthier than other deserts.

Also, a bit of can passionfruit juice with it gives it a tropical taste!

Answer 5

how about using apples peaches or any kind of canned fruit and put into a 8x8 baking dish.
make a topping with a mix of oatmeal, cinnamon brown sugar. and margarine.no exact measurements required. maybe 1/2 cup of the oatmeal. 1/4 c b sugar. 1/8 c margarine and 1/2 t of cinnamon.
put that on top and you have a fruit crumble bake at
350 30 min.

Answer 6

PHILADELPHIA® Fruit Pizza

Prep Time: 25 min
Total Time: 2 hr 25 min
Makes: 12 servings, 1 wedge each

1 pkg. (20 oz.) refrigerated sliceable sugar cookies, sliced
1 pkg. (8 oz.) PHILADELPHIA Cream Cheese, softened
1/4 cup sugar
1/2 tsp. vanilla
Assorted fruit, such as sliced kiwi, strawberries, blueberries and drained, canned mandarin orange segments
1/4 cup apricot preserves, pressed through sieve to remove lumps
1 Tbsp. water

PREHEAT oven to 375°F. Line 12-inch pizza pan with foil; spray with cooking spray. Arrange cookie dough slices in single layer in prepared pan; press together to form crust. Bake 14 minutes; cool. Invert onto serving plate; carefully remove foil. Invert on large serving plate or tray so crust is right-side-up.
BEAT cream cheese, sugar and vanilla with electric mixer on medium speed until well blended. Spread over crust.
ARRANGE fruit over cream cheese layer. Mix preserves and water; brush over fruit. Refrigerate 2 hours. Cut into 12 wedges to serve. Store leftover dessert in refrigerator.

KRAFT KITCHENS TIPS
Size-Wise
Sweets can be part of a balanced diet but choose an appropriate portion.

How to Soften Cream Cheese
Place completely unwrapped package of cream cheese on microwavable plate. Microwave on HIGH for 10 to 15 seconds or until slightly softened.

Answer 7

Get half a watermelon and scoop most of the flesh out. Fill the melon with a selection of fresh fruits (including the watermelon) such as mango, grapes, peaches, nectarines & bananas. But don't add the bananas until you're ready to serve.
Serve it with a scoop of icecream

Answer 8

fresh rasberries tarts:

these are sweet alone or can be sweet & sour, adjusts to everyones tastes .....sweeter with cream added, sweeter than strawberries actually and yes you can use wild rasberries from the backyard with thorns nothing wrong with them !


for 8 RASPBERRY TARTSyou'll need:

dont need any butter/
3 tbsp. confectioners sugar/
Mellissa's eggroll wrappers

press rasberries into middle of a wrapper, adding a some flavored syrup to 1 tbsp. of cottage cheese or whipped cream added inside be optional. Heat a pan half filled with extra virgin olive oil to be quite hot & fry these rolled up in wonton wrappers until golden brown. fill with fresh raspberries.
sprinkle on powdered sugar & top with cream

Answer 9

fruit pizza: sugar cookie crust made in a pizza pan or other large pan. use a mixture of cool whip, cream cheese and crushed blueberries as a base for the fruit. slice up you favorite fruits and top decoratively. i like to use strawberries, kiwi, pineapple, blueberries and other berries. it's always a hit no matter how old they are. and the kids will love to help make it too. could make individual-sized ones too. that way they can put their own faves on top and decorate how they like.

Answer 10

Try using clear glasses or dessert cups and layering
there favorite fruit with either fat free pudding or low fat yogurt. It customizes each dish and makes it look like you spent hours preparing it. With just a sprig of mint for garnish...

You can use
fresh or frozen fruit.
Yogurt, pudding, ice cream, jello etc

Parfaits are inexpensive and very versatile.