Going to a “This dessert can’t be light/sugar free” party. No idea what to bring.

[Anonymous]

For a surprise twist, try the following with the traditional recipe instead of the American recipe:

1. Italian tiramisu, EGG WHITE version, instead of whipped cream version. You can choose to add a step to pasteurize your egg whites, it's relatively simple. It makes the tiramisu significantly less caloric.

2. British scones instead of American scones: WAY LESS butter, cake flour instead of regular, more baking powder, practically no sugar (essentially it relies on baking powder to raise dough instead of fat). Again, fewer calories due to less butter.

[Anonymous]

Well, most of the suggestions sound disgusting. (Splenda in anything is disgusting). Some suggestions:

-- a fruit pie. There's fat in the crust, but you could do an open top to cut down on the fat, and you don't actually need much sugar if it's good fruit.

-- a fruit crisp or brown betty. Crisp uses oats (healthy!) and brown betty uses old bread (can be whole wheat) -- both need butter but this is actually a place where you can sub in the Smart Balance Olive Oil based fake butter and it works well. I used to do that for my FIL with heart issues. Now I just use butter.

-- This isn't low fat, but a chocolate tort that uses ground nuts in place of flour is really pretty healthy and has surprisingly little sugar when compared with a traditional iced cake -- but there's a lot of butter and eggs for richness, plus of course the ground nuts are full of nut fat.

-- I made vanilla pudding last night with low fat milk because it's all I had and it was totally delicious and tasted like it had been made with full fat milk. I put sliced bananas into it -- so yummy. It had about 1/3 of a cup of sugar in it for about 3 cups of pudding (so maybe 6 servings, a little less than a T of sugar per serving, and probably 4-5 grams of fat per service. So that's not terrible for a dessert.

-- THer'es probably something to be done with Greek yogurt, but I can't think what it would be. Maybe frozen greek yogurt popsicles -- could do greek vanilla yogurt with cocoa powder and maybe some extra sugar and make fudgicles, I bet.

[Anonymous]

I occasionally buy jars of chocolate pudding that are made with coconut milk instead of milk. I don’t avoid dairy at all but these are so good I buy them anyway.

I haven’t made it yet, but I have been planning to make this recipe because it looks similar:

https://www.thekitchn.com/dreamy-dessert-recipe-coconut-chocolate-pudding-168054

[jsteele]

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