Low Carbohydrate Desserts & Chocolate Treats

Gourmet shops and Low Carb Yummies sell whipped cream dispensers that are a must for those on the Atkins Diet or other low carbohydrate diets.  Believe me, you will still be thanking me several lifetimes from now  :-) Cream is one of the great things we get to enjoy on this diet, and when you can sweeten and flavor it in your own container, it’s heaven. Also, when you whip it, a tablespoon fluffs up with the compressed gas and makes a lot – so you get more “bang for your buck” (or “less carbs for your cream”).

Chef Allan’s Mom’s Dream-Easy Cheesecake

Low Carb Yummies Double Chocolate Peanut Butter Decadence

Chocolate Balls

Low Carb Yummies Chilled Chocolate Pecan Fudge

sugar free Toasted Marshmallow blobs

Chef Allan’s Mom’s Low Carb Yummies Dream-Easy Cheesecake
3.8 grams carbohydrates per serving 

Ingredients:

4 oz cream cheese

3/8 cup ricotta cheese (whole milk preferred)

1/8 t salt

1 egg

4.5 t Splenda granules

2 T water

1.5 t Almond extract  (you can also make different flavored cheesecakes by using vanilla, maple, cinnamon or pumpkin pie spice)

1 T heavy cream  (use the dispenser sold by Low Carb Yummies (nicest) to make Splenda sweetened French Vanilla Whipped cream, or use a blender) 

4 little Pyrex 175 ml baking cups (available at supermarkets)

Pre-heat oven to 350 degrees. Place all of the ingredients into a blender and blend them until smooth.  Pour into Pyrex dishes and bake until firm but still moist (17 to 23 minutes depending on your oven).  I like it really soft and moist-  almost like a custard,  so I pull them out at 17 minutes,  while at 23, they are a lovely toasty-brown on the top,  more firm and a bit drier. Remove from oven and let cool.  Refrigerate immediately.  Serve with a dollop of whipped cream and any of the toppings listed below.   

Tips and variations on this simple, rich dessert. Sometimes I crumble 6 pecan halves and sprinkle them on the top of each little cheesecake before baking.  It adds a negligible amount of carbs to these luscious deserts, and a little crunch.  Your extract will bake out a lot,  so experiment with that to get as much flavor as you like.  You can use any of the wonderful Da Vinci flavored syrups to pour over the top. It gives you a myriad of choices for cheesecake flavors!  One of my favorites is the caramel.  Dreamy!  Also, you can take 4 frozen cherries or strawberries and chop them into small pieces,  and sprinkle them over the top of the whipped cream, or drop 6 blueberries on each.  This will add approximately .4 g carbohydrates to your desserts along with a lot of color and flavor.

Low Carb Yummies Double Chocolate Peanut Butter Decadence

makes 16 little slices, 2.5 grams carbohydrates each, a bit more with whipped cream

1/2 cup water

1/4 cup cream

4 T melted butter

1/2 cup peanut oil

2 caps Da Vinci sugar free chocolate syrup

1 t salt

1 can Keto chocolate cookie/brownie mix

1 T unsweetened bakers cocoa powder (hershey's is what we use)

1 T Low Carb Yummies Maltitol Syrup

2 T sugar free/natural peanut butter 

FOR FROSTING:

8 T softened Cream Cheese

4 T Da Vinci sugar free chocolate syrup

2 T softened butter

1/4 t salt

1 T cream

1 T baker's chocolate

Preheat oven to 350 and add contents of can and all other ingredients and mix well (this is a tough mix - make sure it's thorough). Spoon batter into well greased 10" round  baking pan and cook for about 10 to 15 minutes - less time is more moist.

Mix frosting ingredients, put in ziplock bag with meat mixture, tie with 4 foot string, take into front yard, spin it around head and scream like a chicken.

Top it all with sugar free sweetened French Vanilla Whipped cream

Chef Allan’s Chocolate Balls
1 gram carbohydrates per serving/16 servings

1 oz Baking chocolate

1/3c fresh Sugar Free Peanut butter (available at health food stores)

2T Butter (with English Toffee flavoring to taste for an extra treat!)

1/3c Ricotta (8 grams)

1T Vanilla extract

Sweetener

Mix together first four ingredients so that there are no lumps. Next stir in your sweetener and vanilla to taste. Drop by rounded teaspoons onto wax paper and chill until firm.

Low Carb Yummies Chilled Chocolate Pecan Fudge

1.4 grams carbohydrates per serving/8 servings

16oz Cream Cheese

2 T Butter with English Toffee and Chocolate Amaretto flavoring to taste (Optional but sinfully scrumptious).

1 oz of Baker’s Chocolate

½ c pecans (optional)

sugar free sweetener (we usually use ½ cup Splenda granules, but sweeten to taste with your favorite sugar free sweetener)

1T vanilla extract

Mix all ingredients together well and let chill in refrigerator over night. Keep chilled, even for serving/eating.

sugar free toasted marshmallow blobs

Remember toasted marshmallows? Well, our little treat isn't perfect (which is why we named them after the famous horror-movie star, the blob), but for us "toasted marshmallow fiends" on a sugar free diet, they're wonderful and fun. Get a tub of our Low Carb Yummies sugar free marshmallow creme, and spoon out dopples of it onto a cookie sheet.  Use the broil setting on an oven or toaster oven, and keep a close eye on it till they turn brown.  Let cool a bit, scrape the yummy gooey mess off the tray and enjoy! Let us know if you find a way to keep it from sticking to the pan! 

Nutritional info is important to us because we are diabetics and dieters ourselves. Some carb-counts are from manufacturers, all are "to the best of our knowledge".

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