Low Fat Dessert Recipes

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Bread Pudding

servings | 4
estimated POINTS per serving | 2

Combine milk, eggs, sugar, cinnamon and salt in a 2 quart microwave safe casserole dish. Beat with mixer
Stir in bread cubes, dot with butter
Microwave 26 to 28 minutes on Medium (simmer) or until almost set in center.
Let stand 5 minutes, to serve cut into 4 pieces.

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Cinnamon Crisp Tortillas

servings | 2
estimated POINTS per serving | 2


Preheat broiler. Arrange tortillas on nonstick baking sheet. Brush each tortilla with 1/4 of the margarine and sprinkle with 1/4 of the cinnamon. Broil on lowest rack until margarine is bubbly, 1 to 2 minutes. Combine remaining cinnamon with sugar. Turn tortillas over, brush each with half of remaining margarine, then sprinkle each with sugar remaining sugar-cinnamon mixture. Broil until cinnamon-sugar mixture caramelizes, about 1 minute.
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Apple Dessert for One

servings | 1
estimated POINTS per serving | 2

Place apple slices in a microwave safe dish. Coat each layer with a spray of butter pam, generous sprinkle of cinnamon, raisins, walnuts, and equal. Once all layers are coated, cover dish with lid or cling wrap. Microwave on med for 1 min 30 sec, and on med-high for 1 min 30 sec or until apple slices are tender.
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Pumpkin Fluff

servings | 2
estimated POINTS per serving | 4

Mix together pumpkin, spice and milk until well blended. Add pudding mix and beat by hand 2 minutes. Fold in cool whip. Refrigerate.

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Incredible 1 Point Strawberry Pie

servings | 4
estimated POINTS per serving | 1

Bring water and pudding mix to boil, take off stove, add pkg. jell-o and stir up. Let cool.
Clean and slice the fresh strawberries. Line a pie plate with strawberries. Pour cooled pudding on top. Allow to set in refrigerator for at least one hour or until firm. Top with fat free cool whip.

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Strawberry Cream Cheese Shortcake

servings | 4
estimated POINTS per serving | 12

5 c. sliced strawberries (sweeten with 1/4 c. sugar substitute) set aside
8 oz. fat free cream cheese, softened
1/2 c. powdered sugar
8 oz. carton Cool Whip Free
1 angel food cake broken into pieces.

Beat cream cheese and powdered sugar. Fold in Cool Whip and cake cubes. Spread into a 9x13 pan. Cover and chill for 2 hours. Before serving, spread sweetened, sliced strawberries on top and top each serving with a dollop of Cool Whip.

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Baked Apple Streusel

servings | 4
estimated POINTS per serving | 4


Preheat oven to 350°F.
Stir together apples, 1/4 cup of brown sugar, cinnamon and lemon juice; pour into a 1 1/2 quart baking dish.
Cut flour, oatmeal, remaining brown sugar and margarine together with a pastry blender or fork in a medium bowl; sprinkle over apple mixture.
Bake until apples are tender and top is browned, about 45 minutes. Yields about 1 cup per serving.
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Super Simple Lemon Bars 

servings | 6
estimated POINTS per serving | 2

Preheat oven to 350°. Mix lemon pie filling with dry angel food cake mix in large bowl. Bake in a greased jelly roll pan for 30 minutes.
If desired, bars can be topped with nuts or coconut before baking, but remember to add the points if you add the nuts. Cool and cut into 30 bars.

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Chocolate Chip Bread

servings | 3
estimated POINTS per serving | 12

Preheat oven to 375º F. Spray a 9-by-5-inch loaf pan with butter-flavored cooking spray. In a large bowl, combine baking mix, dry pudding mix, dry milk powder, sugar substitute, chocolate chips and walnuts. In a small bowl, combine eggs, yogurt, water, oil, and vanilla extract. Add the liquid mixture to the dry mixture. Mix gently just to combine. Evenly spread batter into prepared loaf pan. Bake for 45-50 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in center comes out clean. Place loaf pan on a wire rack and let set for 10 minutes. Remove bread from pan and continue cooling on wire rack. Cut into 12 slices.

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Ice Cream Sandwich a La Weight Watchers

servings | 1
estimated POINTS per serving | 2

Allow the Cool Whip to soften so that it can be spread between the crackers to about the thickness of a typical ice cream sandwich. re-freeze and enjoy the taste of a real ice cream sandwich for only 2 points.

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Root Beer Float Weight Watchers Style

servings |1
estimated POINTS per serving | 1


Place the frozen Cool Whip in a tall glass and pour the cold root beer over. Tastes like the real thing!

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Ambrosia

servings | 5
estimated POINTS per serving | 3

Mix it all together in a bowl.

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These recipes have been gathered from all over the Internet and from various recipe books. I do not take credit as the author of any, unless specifically stated in the recipe. 
Revised: March 24, 2003
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