Healthy Desserts

Ms.Sunshine

Is there such a thing? I am making a dessert for a health concious person at the weekend and I would usually makes sponge cakes but something like that won't suit.

Any suggestions for me?:)

dee_mc

Homemade meringues, fresh fruit and natural yogurt? I know meringues are pure sugar but you could make small ones!

bluecherry74

+1 for the fruit and yogurt. You could make a lovely fruit salad with pineapple, melon and strawberries. Scoop out some passion fruit and mix with the natural yogurt to make it sweet and tasty.

If you want to bake something, try this banana "bread" (cake). I've made it loads of times and it's so tasty and moist, but uses wholemeal flour is quite low in sugar:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/you/article-1241405/Recipe-Wholemeal-banana-bread-poppy-seeds.html

Or you could try these chocolate muffins - they don't contain any flour and are very low in sugar. (I haven't tried them myself yet though.)
http://greenlitebites.com/2013/06/09/flour-less-chocolate-cupcakes/

Dizzyblonde

Another nice alternative to cream with meringues is mascarpone - you just need to add a little milk to loosen it and then beat it. It's particularly good with raspberries.

Ms.Sunshine

Some really nice ideas there, thanks everyone . I love the sound of the banana bread Bluecherry74 & there is no butter! I think I might consider making that with a nice fruit salad on the side with natural yoghurt. I'd say it will go down a treat..

pwurple

What kind of health-conscious are they? Trying to lose weight kind of health conscious, or likes local natural products like eggs and dairy and avoids artificial substitutes kind of health-conscious?

I cook for a diabetic member of our extended family the odd time. I usually do something with a sugar-free jelly for her. It's a sugar substitute though.

Layered jelly mould with fruit.

Pavlova is ok too, it comes in under her sugar allowance.

Sorbet or frozen yoghurt sundae with sprinkled nuts can be fun.

Or cheese and crackers.

bluecherry74

bluecherry74 wrote: »

Or you could try these chocolate muffins - they don't contain any flour and are very low in sugar. (I haven't tried them myself yet though.)
http://greenlitebites.com/2013/06/09/flour-less-chocolate-cupcakes/

I just made these to bring in to work tomorrow and they're delicious. Not as sweet as a regular muffin but lovely and moist. You'd never know they weren't made with flour.

Stheno

What about a cheese board?

Ms.Sunshine

pwurple wrote: »

What kind of health-conscious are they? Trying to lose weight kind of health conscious, or likes local natural products like eggs and dairy and avoids artificial substitutes kind of health-conscious?

I cook for a diabetic member of our extended family the odd time. I usually do something with a sugar-free jelly for her. It's a sugar substitute though.

Layered jelly mould with fruit.

Pavlova is ok too, it comes in under her sugar allowance.

Sorbet or frozen yoghurt sundae with sprinkled nuts can be fun.

Or cheese and crackers.

The person is health concious in the way they are trying to just eat natural foods with not much added to them & he is trying to lose weight but that is not the main reason to his diet, just wants to be eating more fibre etc than anything fatty. So I think that a cheese platter etc would not be good. I like the sound of the layered jelly moulds. What kind of moulds did you use for that?

pwurple

Any non stick cake tin would do.. I use a silicone mould.

Tricky bit is getting the jelly out of an intricate mould. I make it up with less water than it recommends, and dunk the mould in hot water for a few seconds to release on to a plate.

You could do ones in little muffin size pans though. Orange ones would be supercute topped with berries on plates! Like little fat free sugar free wobbly pannacottas.

Might need to lightly oil pan first.

Just adding this... Could do two different colours, in nice glasses... Check out the pic here.
http://www.123rf.com/photo_15473952_fruit-jelly-with-berries-in-glasses-on-wooden-table-on-pink-background.html

pwurple

One more, cos pears are yummo this time of year.

Poached pears. Mmmmmm.