Corn pancakes with cheese (cachapas) puree fresh corn into a silky batter, griddle into golden pancakes, and fold warm around a stick of gouda. A Venezuelan street food classic.
No-bake cheesecake sets on a graham cracker crust, then gets decorated with star-shaped cutouts filled with warm strawberry jam and a border of fresh blueberries for easy July 4th entertaining.
Cranberry-apple Stilton bites on Melba toast with port-braised fruit, creamy blue cheese, and chopped walnuts. A make-ahead holiday appetizer that balances sweet, salty, and funky in one bite.
Sugar-free cinnamon drop cookies made with just 7 ingredients and a sugar replacement. Light, simple, and ready in 30 minutes for diabetic-friendly snacking.
Diabetic-friendly cherry pie with sugar-free custard filling and a lightly browned meringue top. A sugar-replacement twist on the classic Washington's cherry pie that keeps the indulgence.
Experimentation led Mary Ann Zarczynski of Franklin to create this recipe, which she described as "very rich and delicious."
Peanut butter chocolate fudge made smooth and creamy with marshmallow fluff, swirled with semisweet chocolate chips and a full cup of peanut butter. A rich, melt-in-your-mouth holiday candy.
Citrus lovers will like this refreshing crispy cookie from Jocelyn Moritz of Waukesha.
Freezer cinnamon fruit rolls with soft yeasted dough, a rich filling of brown sugar, golden raisins, dried apricots, pecans, and cinnamon, finished with a simple sugar glaze. Make ahead and freeze for up to 2 months.
Airy, melt-on-your-tongue meringue cookies scented with orange oil and fresh zest. Just 4 ingredients, virtually zero calories, and ready in 30 minutes. These diabetic-friendly treats dissolve like cotton candy.
Sugar-free peppermint chocolate cake made with unsweetened chocolate, peppermint extract, and granulated sugar replacement. A diabetic-friendly chocolate cake with a cool mint kick.
We all love this cherry-almond cake, I used whole wheat flour, still very nice, I just always prefer high fibre flour. I will make this cake very often.
A tender buttermilk blueberry cake studded with toasted pecans and scented with orange rind and almond extract. Baked in a springform pan and dusted with powdered sugar.
Strawberry, banana, jam and cream cheese make a creamy, rich and fruity stuffing that's filled into toast. Shallow frying the stuffed toast in butter until golden, brown and oozy. Serve with some freshly made strawberry sauce.
This is a low fat and low calorie recipe, very light flavor, very tasty.
Virginia Lane of Cudahy secured this recipe, with its nice complexity of flavors, in the late '50s or '60s when she lived in Iran.
Grapefruit soju cocktails mix fresh grapefruit juice with chilled soju and a splash of club soda. A tart, low-ABV Korean drink that scales up easily for a crowd.
Moist date cake with a bubbly brown sugar and coconut topping baked right on. Dates simmered in water create natural sweetness, while the toasted coconut layer adds caramel crunch.
Cranberry and lemon star in this winning drop cookie with fluffy frosting from Liz Bannon of Port Washington, which was adapted from a recipe in a Taste of Home cookbook.
Protein-packed cinnamon oatmeal pudding with eggs stirred right into the oats. Topped with dried cranberries and milk, this quick healthy breakfast is ready in 12 minutes.
This wonderfully golden Marmalade is a real treat on scones or used as a tart filling.
These no-sugar peanut butter cookies are delicious. Perfect treats when you are on a diet.
Delicious and nutritious cookies, they are not too sweet, and almost like granola bars that are perfect for grab-go breakfast.
This delicious and silky cheesecake is made with cream cheese, sour cream and silken tofu that helps to reduce the calories and fat while still makes it taste creamy and smooth. Fresh fruit topping adds some fruity and refreshing taste. Satisfy your craving without feeling guilty.
French chocolate raspberry clafoutis with a cocoa custard batter, fresh raspberries, and chopped bittersweet chocolate. Blender-easy and on the table in just over an hour.
This old-fashioned cookie from Gretchen D'Antico of Merton has a nice flavor and is even better dipped in white chocolate.
Pan de jamon is the Venezuelan Christmas bread: a soft, butter-rich dough rolled around ham, smoked bacon, olives, and raisins, then baked into a golden spiral loaf.
Quick and Easy Yummy Desert to keep you wanting more!
A sweet coconut rice cake made with glutinous rice flour, coconut milk, and shredded coconut. This traditional Chinese New Year treat bakes up sticky, chewy, and subtly sweet.
Beet cake with orange cream cheese frosting uses grated fresh beets for a deeply moist, spiced layer cake with a rosy hue. Topped with toasted walnuts, it's a lighter twist on carrot cake.
Sugar-free chocolate fudge, a no-cook cream cheese fudge sweetened with a sugar substitute and melted unsweetened chocolate, studded with pecans. Rich, low-carb, and diabetic-friendly, just chill and cut.
Hallacas are Venezuela's Christmas tamales: beef, pork, chickpeas, olives, raisins, and capers wrapped in cornmeal dough and banana leaves, then boiled. Holiday tradition in every bite.
Challenge Winner, AJ Horst (Test Your Tastebuds, October 2011)
Enjoy this creamy and smooth cheesecake that doesn't have sugar added, but still tastes delicious.
Bonnie Graber of Oak Creek sent this recipe for an old-fashioned kitchen sink cookie that would be good any time of the year.
Cranberries and pistachios are the complementary flavors of this cookie recipe submitted by Jane Bortz of Beaver Dam.