Soon after Easter I started watching my diet again but reading blogs all the day, there are some times I am really tempted to make some of the recipes I see. Being on diet doesn’t mean that you can’t eat a dessert once in a while or a snack. Instead of eating anything else in …
Desserts
This healthy, low fat Anthotyro-cream cheese strawberry Jelly is made with real strawberries and anthotyro, a low fat cheese, similar to ricotta.
Roxakia are Greek vegan, bicoloured, yeasted dough cookies, which after being baked are drenched in syrup. The original recipe is not vegan as it requires eggs and milk in the dough. I have made my own Lenten version with no milk and no eggs and they were even better than the original ones.
This Christmas Chocolate Wafer Coconut Roulade is made with a biscuit base crust and is filled with pastry cream, topped with chocolate ganache.
Delicious and velvety Greek Yoghurt was combined with whipped cream and pomegranate juice to make this mousse with a very light and airy texture.
Tiramisu is an Italian dessert made from ladyfingers that have been lightly soaked in espresso coffee, layered by a cream made from whipped egg yolks, sugar, and mascarpone cheese. The last layer is topped with cocoa powder or grated chocolate.
Lemon curd is a dessert spread and topping like a velvety custard, usually made with citrus fruit, zest and juice of lemons or even limes, oranges or tangerines, butter, eggs, corn flour (starch) and sugar. It can be eaten as it is, or served as a spread on bread or biscuits or as a filling for pies, tarts or cakes.
This cake is made with Genoise sponge, filled with cream cheese, whipped cream, white chocolate and decorated with caramelized bananas.
“Tyler’s” Ultimate Caramel Apple Pie is a scrumptious twist on a classic dessert with a buttery, flaky crust, filled with apples and sweet red wine caramel sauce, made by chef Tyler Florence.
Kariokes is a Greek dessert made with sponge cake, chocolate and lots of walnuts (karydia in Greek) from which it takes its name.