Dee Mess (healthy version of Eton Mess) Core +1 pt

This is a deliciously healthy version of the Eton Mess classic which is cream, berries and meringue.
If you like pavalova, you must try this!

Photo coming when I get a glass serving dish :)

Serves: 4

Difficulty: Very Easy

Ingredients:

• 2 cups of thick nonfat yoghurt, plain or flavoured
• 4 passionfruit
• 1 1/2 cup frozen berries
• Powdered Sweetener (like Splenda)
• cinnamon
• * 4 mini meringue nests (0.5-1pt each depending on brand).
  Alternatively, use meringue kisses.
• 1/2 punet of strawberries to decorate

Method:

Put about a cup of yoghurt in glass bowl, top with good handful of frozen berries, pulp of 2 passionfruit and some powdered sweetner to equivilent sweetness of a few TB, sprinkle with cinnamon.
Repeat yoghurt and fruit layer.
Cover and fridge for about 20-30 mins to let flavours develop and berries thaw.
Put a mini meringue shell in serving bowl and smash, top with spoonfuls of the yoghurt and fruit mix.
Top with a sliced strawberry.

On Core you'll need to count the meringue at 0.5-1 pt each depending on brand

Blackberry and Apple Strudel ~ 2pt (not Core)

Serves: 16 individual strudels, scale up and down as needed

Difficulty: Easy

Ingredients:

• 500g frozen blackberries (or other berry), defrosted.
  Reserve some if doing the custard side
• 1 can Ardmona pie apples (Or make your own dryish stewed apples)
• 250g tub extra light ricotta (perfect Italiano)
• 16 sheets filo
• Few sprinkles of cinnamon
• 4 tsp arrowroot or cornflour (optional - makes it thicker)
• 16 tsp of raw sugar (the chunky "cafe" style granules - adds an unexpected crunch in the creaminess)
• Spray oil
• 50g Slivered almonds

Method:
Mix fruit, ricotta, cinnamon and thickener together to form filling
Get first sheet of filo, spray half lightly with oil, fold in half, smooth over and repeat so it's folded in quarters.
Add almost 1tsp of sugar, followed by 1/3 cup of the fruit mix.
Fold filo over topping, fold in edges, squeezing shut and roll up
Put on tray with join downwards.
Repeat

Spray tops very lightly with oil
Sprinkle with a few slivers of almonds and a few sugar crystals
Bake 180*C for 15 mins until lightly brown

Caution - Filling is hot

Each filo is 2 pts

Note - the pastries should be prepared and baked without huge delay. If allowed to sit more than about half an hour, the wet filling may make the pastry soft and leak out of seams when it bakes.

The custard side:

Pour 100ml of Lite Pouring Custard into a little bowl or ramekin (I used Dairy Farmers Lite Pouring Custard)
Top with a few drained berries.
Get a teaspoon and collect about 1/8 tsp of berry juice.
Touch to side of bowl to get the lovely ring.
Can sprinkle with cinnamon

The side is an extra 1 pt each. Very impressive when entertaining

Chocolate Fudge Cake ~ 1.5pt/slice (not Core)

This is a moist, fudgy chocolate cake.
Sharon's recipe.

Sorry, no picture. It disappeared too quickly :)

Serves: 8

Difficulty: Easy

Ingredients:

• 3/4 cup SR flour
• 1/2 cup cocoa
• 2/3 cup spoon-for-spoon artificial sweetener (Splenda or Equal)
• 1 egg
• 1 x 200g nonfat diet vanilla yoghurt
• 3 TB apple sauce

Method:

Mix everything with a wooden spoon
Spray oil into small loaf tin
Bake at 180*C for 25-30 mins.
Serve cold

Keep left overs in fridge if you have any

Each Slice (1/8th) = 1.5 pt

Whole recipe = 11.5 pts

Apple and Orange Cakes ~ 1 pt each (not Core)

These are not Core, but they are quick and easy to make,

very yummy and are only 1 pt each.

So enjoy without guilt.

Serves: 10 cakes

Difficulty: Easy

Ingredients:

• 3/4 cup SR flour
• 2/3 cup spoon-for-spoon artificial sweetener (Splenda or Equal)
• 3TB apple sauce
• 1 egg
• 1 tsp cinnamon
• rind of one small orange, finely grated
• 1/2 can Ardmona pie apples
• 200g nonfat natural yoghurt (or diet vanilla), I used Jalna Fat Free Natural

Method:
Mix everything apart from apples with a wooden spoon
Spray oil into 10 1/2 cup muffin cups.
Divide mixture into the 10 holes.
Put 1 or 2 pieces of the pie apple on top of each mound of batter (you may need to cut big pieces in half)
Gently push the apple down into the batter so it is only slighly higher than the batter (try not to hit the bottom).
Sprinkle with cinnamon.
Bake at 180*C for 25-30 mins.
Serve hot, plain or with ice cream or custard (low fat of course)

Each Cake = 1 pt

Whole recipe = 11.5 pts