What are your favorite summer not-too-calorie-laden desserts?

Re: What are your favorite summer not-too-calorie-laden desserts?

chocolate pudding pie

mixed fresh berries with whipped cream

raspberry pie

apple cobbler (maybe more of a fall dessert)

mini-fruit tarts

lemon meringue pie

key lime pie

smores

fresh bananas with banana pudding

sliced strawberries on white cake with whipped cream

watermelon

water based ices

Re: What are your favorite summer not-too-calorie-laden desserts?

Mini fruit tarts! They are stupid easy to make, look really festive, and you can switch up what kind of fruit you use.

Re: What are your favorite summer not-too-calorie-laden desserts?

I bake tons of stuff from Cooking Light magazine. Favorites are the vanilla buttermilk pound cake and I just made the lemonade cake with lemon cream cheese frosting recently - that's definitely a keeper.

Re: What are your favorite summer not-too-calorie-laden desserts?

Any fruit, fruit salad

Grilled pineapple or peaches

S'mores or just roasted marshmallows

A mix of fat free ricotta, fat free cool whip served over fruit

A mix of butterscotch pudding, canned pineapple, fat free cool whip mixed with diced apples

Icebox cakes using fat free pudding, cream cheese, & cool whip & Graham crackers

Pudding

banana, pudding, cool whip, Nilla layered

Re: What are your favorite summer not-too-calorie-laden desserts?

I LOOOOVE granitas. Watermelon is my favorite.. I make it with lime and mint. Coffee granitas are also REALLY refreshing.

Another favorite is frozen lemonade. You make it fresh so you control the sugar. You can do this as a granita too.. but I prefer it as a pop.

I also like trifles. You can make them lighter by using angel food cake instead of pound cake. I actually like to bathe the fruit in a light syrup (you can flavor the syrup with citrus or rose or berry) and then I don't sweeten the whipped cream at all.

And there is nothing better than a strawberry shortcake with freshly picked strawberries. I put half the strawberries in a a bowl with a bit of water and some sugar and let them create a syrup by letting them sit for a bit. Then I spoon them over either homemade biscuits or angel food cake. You could do butter pound cake.. but that's REALLY rich. I like to add some sliced banana and then top with very lightly sweetened whipped cream if using biscuits.. or unsweetened whip if using cake.

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