Can anyone give me some good recipes for desserts I can serve to my in-laws?

Question

They're diabetics, and I can't think of what desserts I can serve them...........................please help!!

WOW..........all of these recipes sound so good.....I can't choose a best answer!! I'm putting this question up for voting.

Answer 1

SUGAR FREE APPLESAUCE CAKE

INGREDIENTS
3 eggs
1/4 cup vegetable oil
1 cup unsweetened applesauce
1 cup frozen apple juice concentrate, thawed
2 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
1 tablespoon baking soda
1 teaspoon ground ginger
1 1/2 cups ground almonds
2 Macintosh apples - peeled, cored and finely chopped
1 (8 ounce) package cream cheese
3 tablespoons unsweetened apple butter
2 tablespoons frozen apple juice concentrate, thawed
DIRECTIONS
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease and flour one 9 inch square baking pan.
Beat the eggs until they drop like ribbons from the beaters. Continue beating and add the oil in a thin stream. Beat in the 1 cup applesauce and the 1 cup unsweetened apple juice concentrate.
Beat in the flour gradually until well blended. Add the baking soda, ground ginger, ground almonds and apples, mix to combine.
Pour the batter into the prepared pan and bake at 350 degrees F (175 degrees C) for about 40 minutes or until the cake tests done. Let cake cool on a rack for 15 minutes before turning out of pan. Cool completely before frosting.
Carefully slice the cake in half horizontally with a long serrated knife. Fill and frost with Apple Butter Frosting.
To Make Apple Butter Frosting: Beat the cream cheese until soft and fluffy. Gradually beat in the apple butter and remaining 2 tablespoons apple juice concentrate

Answer 2

Okay how about sugar free cheesecake.

Ingredients
1 8oz box of cream cheese
2 graham cracker pie crusts(thick is preferable)
1 cup sour cream
1 12oz container thawed whipped topping (cool whip)
2 tsp vanilla extract or other
1/2 cup Splenda (optional)
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/4 cup cocoa poweder (optional) Makes it a chocolate cheesecake.

Directions

1. In standup blender or food mixer beat cream cheese until smooth
2. Add vanilla and sour cream and blend
3. Add whipped topping
4.Spoon into graham cracker crusts
5. Chill for 24 hours (but 12 does okay too)
6 If using cocoa powder add the Splenda.

There you go. Simple, easy and no hassle and it tastes great. Good luck.

Answer 3

DIABETIC BROWNIES

1 cup low-fat margarine
2 squares unsweetened chocolate
2 cups flour
1/2 tsp. salt
1 tsp. baking soda
Splenda (or other non-nutritive sweetener equivalent to 2 cups sugar)
4 eggs, well beaten
1 tsp. vanilla extract
1/2 cup nuts, chopped

Preheat oven to 325 F. Melt margarine and chocolate over low heat and set aside. Sift together flour, salt and baking soda. Add sweetener, eggs, and vanilla to margarine and chocolate. Stir in dry ingredients until well blended. Stir in nuts. Pour into a 13" by 9" pan that has been sprayed well with pan coating. Bake 20 minutes and cool. Cut into 1-1/2" squares.

Exchanges per serving: 1 brownie = 1/4 Bread, 1 Fat
Calories per serving: 60
Yield: 48 brownies

DIABETIC BANANA CREAM PIE

1-9” pie crust
1/4 c. flour
1-1/2 c. non-fat milk
1 egg, beaten
1 tsp. lemon juice
1/2 tsp. vanilla extract
Splenda, equivalent to 1/2 c. sugar
1/8 tsp. salt
1 medium banana
Nondairy whipped topping, optional (10 to 15 calories per tbsp.)


Bake and cool the pie shell. Blend flour with 1/2 c. cold nonfat milk. Scald the remaining 1 C. nonfat milk; add flour-milk mixture and egg, lemon juice, vanilla, sweetener and salt. Cook in top of double boiler, stirring until thick. Slice banana into the pie shell and spread cream filling over the top. Cool. Cover with nondairy whipped topping, if desired.

Exchanges per serving: 1 filling = 1/3 bread, 1/2 non-fat milk ; 1 pastry = 1 bread, 1 Fat
Calories per serving: 185
Yield: 6 servings

Answer 4

Hello:

Here are some ideas for you:

Sugar Free Jello

Sugar Free Pudding

There are alot of sugar free products that are specifically for diabetics,just read the labels.

Answer 5

Sugar-free Fruit turnovers were good sellers when I worked in a bakery..


Cherry Turnovers

8 frozen phyllo dough sheets, thawed
1/4 cup butter or margarine, melted
6 tablespoons no sugar added black cherry fruit spread
1 1/2 tablespoons cherry liqueur, optional
1 egg
1 teaspoon cold water

Preheat oven to 400F.

Lightly brush each phyllo sheet with butter; stack. Cut through all sheets to form six 5 inch squares.

Combine fruit spread and cherry liqueur, if desired.

Place 1 tablespoon fruit spread mixture in center of each pile of eight phyllo squares; brush edges of phyllo with butter.

Fold edges over to form triangle; gently press edges together to seal. Place on ungreased cookie sheet.

Beat together egg and water; brush over phyllo triangles.

Bake 10 minutes or until golden brown. Cool on wire rack. Serve warm or at room temperature. Makes 6 turnovers.

Serving size: One turnover
Exchanges: 1 1/4 Starch/Bread, 1 3/4 Fat, 2/3 Fruit
Nutrition: 206 Calories, 4 g Protein, 28 g Carbo, 9 g Fat

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Creamy Peach Dessert

2 cups graham cracker crumbs
1/2 cup margarine, reduced calorie
2 packages Knox gelatin
1 package Koolaid mix, lemonade, sugar free
2 cups boiling water
1 quart ice milk
2 cups fresh peaches, sliced use frozen peaches without sugar

Melt margarine over low heat. Add graham cracker crumbs. Mix well. Press mixture on bottom and sides of 9 x 13 inch pan that has been sprayed with vegetable spray.

Dissolve gelatin in boiling water. Add lemonade mix to gelatin and water.

Fold in ice milk. Add peaches. Pour over graham cracker crust.

Chill 4 hours or overnight. Makes 16 servings.

Exchanges: 1/2 grain (starch); 1 1/2 fat; 1/2 other carbohydrates


Hope I helped =)

Answer 6

fresh fruit salad

Answer 7

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