10 healthy fruit desserts

10 healthy fruit desserts

Wrap up any meal with a healthy alternative to chocolate, caramel and cream -- sweet, juicy fruit.
Updated:
2010-03-09 15:42
Published:
2010-02-24 13:33
By 
Adrienne Brown and the Homemakers Test Kitchen

10 best fruit dessert recipes

Trying to avoid heavy, fattening desserts? The natural sweetness of fruit packed into a dessert will leave you just as satisfied as a sugar cookie and you'll get some extra vitamins out of it, too!

Best of all, you won't feel like you need to run a marathon after dinner to work off your last course.

Try some of our healthy fruit desserts tonight:

Enjoy the pleasure of cheesecake with far fewer calories and less fat. This lightened-up mousse is also delicious when it's made with fresh raspberries or fresh or frozen strawberries. 

Use ripe but firm pears in this delectable, low-fat dessert. Quark is a tangy, low-fat, fresh cheese, but you can use low-fat cottage cheese or ricotta if you like. Dark-hued buckwheat honey adds a touch of molasses flavour, but you can substitute any other type of honey.

The most difficult part of this recipe is getting the kiwis all to the right stage - ripe, but not mushy. As kiwi is the key ingredient here, be sure to buy good quality ones, such as the Zespri brand from New Zealand. Nobody grows them quite like the Kiwis.

Oats, nuts, apples and pears make a very healthy combination, especially when sweetening is kept to a minimum.
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