Frozen Fruit Cups from Healthy Diabetic Recipes

Frozen Fruit Cups Recipe

Recipe Ingredients:

1 package fat-free cream cheese - (8 oz)
1 cup fat-free sour cream
2 1/2 tsp Equal for Recipes
= (or 8 packets Equal sweetener
or 1/3 cup Equal Spoonful)
2 tsp lemon juice - (to 3)
1 cup coarsely-chopped fresh or canned peaches
1 cup fresh or frozen blueberries
1 cup fresh or unsweetened frozen raspberries
= (or halved or quartered strawberries
1 cup cubed fresh or canned pineapple in juice
1 can Mandarin orange segments - (11 oz), drained
12 pecan halves, (optional)

Recipe Instructions:

Beat cream cheese, sour cream, Equal and lemon juice in medium bowl until smooth; gently mix in fruit.

Spoon mixture into 12 paper-lined muffin cups, or spread in baking dish, 10 by 6 inches. Garnish with pecan halves and additional fruit, if desired. Freeze until firm, 6 to 8 hours. Let stand at room temperature until slightly softened, 10 to 15 minutes, before serving.

This recipe yields 12 servings. Serving size: 1 fruit cup.

Exchanges Per Serving: 1 Fruit, 1 Very Lean Meat.

Nutrition Facts: Calories 75; Total Fat 0g; Cholesterol 3mg; Sodium 130mg; Carbohydrate 14g; Protein 5g.

Comments: If made in a 10 by 6-inch baking dish, cut into squares and serve on lettuce-lined plates as a salad, or on plates with a pureed strawberry or raspberry sauce for dessert. The fruit mixture can be spooned into hollowed-out orange halves and frozen. Cut thin slice from bottom of orange halves so they will stand; place in muffin tins to freeze.

Source:
"American Diabetes Association at http://www.diabetes.org"
S(Formatted for MC6):
"07-12-2002 by Joe Comiskey - jcomiskey@krypto.net"
Copyright:
"© American Diabetes Association, 1999"

Servings: 12

When the waitress puts the dinner on the table the old men look at the dinner. The young men look at the waitress

~ Gelett Burgess, 'Look Eleven Years Younger' (1937).

 

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