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 St. Patty's Day Recipes
Leprechaun Treats
Eat Your Vegetables
Low Carb Sacher Torte
The Perfect Pedicure
Hoodia Love?
St. Patty's Day Chuckles
Kitchen Tips
Not Losing Weight?
Fat is Not the Enemy
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Lucky Mint Cheesecake
Give this yummy mint-and-chocolate cheesecake a St. Patrick's Day touch
by piping a melted low carb chocolate bar into a shamrock shape on each piece.
Crust:
- 1/2 cup almond flour
- 2 Tablespoons Splenda
- 3 Tablespoons butter, melted
Filling:
Preheat oven to 350°F.
Mix the crust ingredients and press into bottom of pie plate or cheesecake pan.
In small saucepan, melt chips with 1/3 cup of the cream. Stir in vanilla.
Spread on bottom of pie crust. With mixer, beat cream cheese with Splenda in large bowl
until fluffy; gradually beat in remaining cream, DaVinci Syrup, mint extract
and green food coloring.
Add egg; beat on low speed just until combined.
Place pie crust on baking sheet; place on oven rack. Carefully pour mint
mixture over chocolate layer in pie crust.
Bake 25 minutes or until center is nearly set. Cool. Chill at least 3
hours. Store leftovers covered in refrigerator.
*NOTE: Use 1 (8-ounce) package plus 1 (3-ounce) package cream cheese.
Makes 8 servings — 6.5 net grams of carbohydrate per serving.
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Shamrock Cookies
- 1 cup butter
- 1/2 cup Splenda
- 1/2 cup erythritol
- 1 egg
- 1 cup almond flour
- 1/2 cup oat flour
- 1/2 cup Carbquik
- 1 teaspoon grated lime peel
- 1 cup pistachios, chopped
Lime Icing
- 1/4 cup butter
- 1/4 cup softened cream cheese
- 2 1/2 cups powdered erythritol
- 2 tablespoons heavy cream
- 1/2 teaspoon grated lime peel
Cream butter, Splenda, and erythritol; beat in egg. Stir in almond flour,
oat flour, bake mix, and lime peel; mix in pistachios. Refrigerate dough 1 hour.
Roll dough 1/4 inch thick; cut shapes with shamrock-shaped cookie cutter*.
Place on ungreased baking sheet. Bake at 375°F for 8 to 10 minutes or until lightly
browned; cool.
Using a pastry tip or a paper cone pipe icing to outline cookies.
Lime Icing:
Beat butter and cream cheese with sifted powdered erythritol, heavy cream and grated lime peel
until smooth. If frosting is too stiff, beat in a few drops of water; if too soft, beat in
more powdered erythritol. Makes about 1 cup.
Note: if desired, make up an additional half-batch of icing, color it green using green food
color and pipe with fine tip inside white icing outline.
* If shamrock-shaped cookie cutter is not available, cut out shamrock pattern from a piece of
heavy paper and cut cookie dough using pattern and sharp knife. Or cut dough with 2-2 1/2 inch
round cookie cutter and pipe icing in shamrock shape on cookies after baking.
Makes 16 cookies — 3.5 net grams of carbohydrate per cookie.
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Irish Coffee
Pour Irish whiskey into a coffee mug. Fill with coffee.
Garnish with whipped cream and a drizzle of DaVinci Sugarfree
Crème de Menthe Syrup.
Makes 1 coffee — 1 net gram of carbohydrate per serving.
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