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Strawberry and Coconut Cake

 

  • Ingredients

  • 50g coconut flour
  • 6 eggs, seperated
  • 2 tbsp sweetener
  • 1 tsp baking powder
  • 1 tsp vanilla esence
  • 3 tbsp sugar free jam
  • 15g dessicated coconut
  • 2-3 tbsp water

Method

  1. Preheat oven to 180*
  2. Line and spray a 7 or 8″ square cake tin
  3. Sift flour and baking powder together
  4. Add egg yolks, sweetener, vanilla essence and water
  5. Mix well
  6. Whisk egg whites till stiff
  7. Fold whites into mixture and mix well
  8.  Pour into cake tin
  9. Bake for 35 mins
  10. Cool on  a wire tray
  11. When cool, spread the top with jam and sprinkle coconut flakes over
  12. Cut cake into squares, you should get 20 squares, each one 1 syn.

 

1 syn Jaffa Cakes

Ingredients

  • 2 eggs
  • 4 tbsp sweetener
  • 50g self raising flour
  • 1 tsp vanilla essence
  • Half sachet Hartlys sugar free orange jelly
  • 10g dark chocolate drops

Method

  1. Heat oven to 180*
  2. Make up the jelly in quarter pint-150 ml boiling water
  3. Pour into 12 silicone muffin moulds
  4. Put in fridge to set
  5. Put eggs and sweetener in a bowl and whisk till thick
  6. Fold in flour and vanilla esence
  7.  Spray muffin tray with Frylight and divide mixture between the moulds
  8. Bake for 10 mins till sponges are golden brown and springy to touch
  9. Leave on wire tray to cool
  10. Place the jelly on top of  each cake and drizzle with the melted chocolate.

You will get 12 cakes from this recipe and at 1 syn each it’s not too bad. Enjoy

 

 

Ferrero Roche

Ingredients

  • 8 Ryvita crackers, original
  • 4 tbsp nutella
  • 1 tbsp water

Method

  1. Blitz the ryvita in a food processor
  2. Put nutella in a bowl and microwave for 30 seconds
  3. Mix all ingredients together
  4. Divide into petit four or small cake cases
  5. Leave in fridge for half hour to set

These are the next best thing to the real thing and at 1 syn each are truely yummy.

 

Banana Split

Ingredients

  • 1 bananas, split in length
  • 2 Mueller lite yogurt, any flavour of your choice
  • Handful of frozen fruits, defrosted

Method

  1. Place 1 pot of yogurt in the freezer for 2-3 hrs
  2. Put the banana, lenghtways on a serving dish
  3. Scatter the defrosted fruit between the 2 halves of the banana
  4. Run the pot of frozen yogurt under hot water for a few seconds, to make it easier to remove
  5. Scoop out the yogurt asnd place it over the fruit
  6. Pour the other pot of yogurt over and enjoy !

I love this desert and use the banana and custard yogurt and a vanilla yogurt. Fresh fruit can be used. The reason I use frozen fruit is when it is defrosted there is a lovely syrup and really tastes delish !!!

choc Sweets

Ingredients

1 sachet Belgian options lite chocolate

1 light yogurt, flavour of your choice

Method

Mix together and pour into moulds or ice cube tray

Freeze till solid

Couldnt be simpler. 2 syns for whatever you make. 2 syns for the lot !!! these sweets must be kept in fridge or they will melt. Enjoy !

Summer Fruits Sundae

All you need for this yummy treat is a handful of frozen summer fruits and a Mueller light flavoured yogurt.

Get a wine glass ( if you want to be posh ).

Then layer the fruit and yogurt alternatively in the glass.

Leave in fridge until ready to eat.