Diet Dessert Recipes: Chocolate-Covered Strawberry Pudding Cups

Diet dessert recipes can add just enough decadence to your healthy eating plan to keep you on track for your weight-loss goals. Being able to indulge in a sweet treat now and again without blowing your diet gives you a new lease on a lower-calorie lifestyle - one you can stick to permanently.

Reducing sugar in your diet is not only a sure-fire way to reduce calories, but it's also a good long-term healthy eating strategy. Decreasing the amount of sugar you eat lessens your risk of developing diabetes. If you have diabetes, cutting sugar is the best thing you can do to keep your diabetes under control.

Cake Recipes

Sugar-free instant puddings are a cornerstone of diet dessert recipes. They're rich, creamy and delicious, and contain a fraction of the calories found in their full-sugar counterparts.
In this diet dessert recipe, satin-smooth chocolate pudding envelops a light strawberry cream for a decadent taste sensation. It's the perfect fusion of chocolate-covered strawberry flavor and creamy pudding goodness. To pretty your desserts up a bit, you can garnish them with fresh mint leaves, or halve four strawberries and place them atop the finishing dollops of light whipped cream.

Ingredients:

1 4-serving-size package sugar-free instant chocolate pudding mix
2 cups low fat milk or soymilk
1 1/2 cups frozen light whipped topping, thawed
1/2 cup fresh strawberries, chopped (optional)
1 teaspoon strawberry-flavored extract
Few drops red food coloring
Additional frozen light whipped topping, thawed

Directions:

Prepare pudding mix according to package directions using the two cups of milk and set aside. In a small bowl, combine the dessert topping, strawberry extract, optional strawberries, and as much food coloring as you'd like.

In eight small dessert cups, layer half the pudding, followed by the strawberry-blended dessert topping. Top off cups with the remaining pudding. Cover the cups with foil or plastic wrap and chill for at least two hours, or until set. When ready to serve, uncover cups and top each with a dollop of the remaining whipped topping.

Diet Dessert Recipes: Chocolate-Covered Strawberry Pudding Cups

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Black Forest Pudding Cake Oven Toaster Recipe

Preparation time for this cake: 15 minutes
Cooking time for this cake: 35 minutes
This cake yields: 9 servings

Ingredients:

Cake Recipes

1 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
1/4 cup unsweetened cocoa
1/2 cup chocolate syrup
2/3 cup milk
3/4 cup sugar
3/4 cup water
1 tbsp. baking powder
1/2 cup maraschino cherries, quartered
1/4 cup maraschino cherry juice
1 tsp. vanilla
1/4 cup butter, melted
Whole maraschino cherries, optional

For this black forest pudding cake, you will also need 1 8-inch baking dish.

Directions for this black forest pudding cake:

Step 1
Preheat toaster oven to 350 degrees F.

Step 2
In a bowl, combine sugar, flour, cocoa powder, salt, and baking powder. Stir in milk, vanilla, and melted butter. Add 1/2 cup cherries.

Step 3
Meanwhile, combine chocolate syrup, hot water, and cherry juice.

Step 4
Spread the batter into a greased baking dish and pour the chocolate and cherry juice mixture evenly on top of the butter.

Step 5
Put into oven and bake for 35 to 40 minutes or until the edges began to pull away from the pan or the center has set. Remove from oven and let stand for about 15 minutes. Top with maraschino cherries.

Mocha Almond Pudding Cake Recipe:

Follow the instructions above, omitting the cherries and the cherry juice. Instead, stir 1/2 cup chopped almonds into the batter. Spread the batter into an non-greased pan.

Combine 4 teaspoons instant espresso coffee and hot water. Stir in 1/2 cup chocolate syrup and pour mixture over the batter. Bake according to the instructions above.

Black Forest Pudding Cake Oven Toaster Recipe

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How to Make a Delicious Lemon Cake With Lemon Pudding Frosting

Cake and lemon; a great combination for a terrific dessert! This Lemon Poke Cake with its Fluffy Lemon Frosting is a special dessert anytime. This cake is great for family meals, pitch-in meals, office parties, or anywhere you have a cooler or refrigeration. This is not a good cake to have out in the sun. This cake is easy to make using a boxed mix and the frosting uses instant pudding mix and frozen whipped topping. Even beginning bakers can produce a beautiful and tasty cake with this recipe.

LUSCIOUS LEMON POKE CAKE & FLUFFY LEMON PUDDING FROSTING

Cake Recipes

1 box of your favorite white cake mix, baked in 2 9-inch layers
2 cups boiling water
1 large pkg lemon flavored gelatin or 2 small pkgs

Allow cake layers to cool on wire racks. Wash pans and return cooled cakes to the clean pans. Pierce cake with a large 2-tine fork at about 1/2-inch intervals.

Stir the boiling water into the gelatin in a mixing bowl with a pour spout. Stir at least 2 minutes or until the gelatin is thoroughly dissolved. Carefully pour half the mixture over one cake layer. Pour remaining gelatin over the second cake layer. Refrigerate for 3 hours. Remove from refrigerator and dip one pan into warm water for about 10 seconds to loosen. Unmold onto the serving plate. Spread with about 1 cup of the frosting (recipe below). Unmold the second cake layer same way as the first and place atop the frosted layer. Frost the top and sides of the cake with the remaining frosting.

Refrigerate cake for at least an hour before serving. Store any leftover cake in the refrigerator.

FLUFFY LEMON PUDDING FROSTING:

1 cup cold milk
1 pkg (4-serving size) Lemon flavored instant pudding mix
1/4 cup powdered sugar
8-oz frozen whipped topping, thawed

Pour milk into a large bowl and add the pudding mix and powdered sugar. Beat with a wire whisk for 2 minutes. Fold in the whipped topping. Use as frosting for the above Lemon Poke Cake.

Enjoy!

How to Make a Delicious Lemon Cake With Lemon Pudding Frosting

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