25 Super Bowl Recipes, Part 5: Sweet Treats

Today, we wrap up our Super Bowl recipe round-up.

Yesterday, we were so healthy, goin' all low carb! Today's list is a bit naughtier: it's all about the sweet stuff!

Fruit Salsa and Cinnamon Chips, via Relish.  Still sorta healthy, what with all that fruit. Unlike our next contestant...

Homemade Chocoate Pop-Tarts and Nutella Pop-Tarts. Oh dear, I think you could blow any diet just by looking at these!    

No-Bake Cheesecakes -- This page includes a link to the original from My Baking Addiction, as well as three variations from me. These are especially cute served in little Mason jars. Plus so portable!

Cheesecake-Stuffed Strawberries from The Sweets Life. Strawberries are low-glycemic and loaded with potassium, so if you make this with a sweetener other than refined sugar, these are actually pretty healthy. So you can feel all virtuous as you pig out on them!

If you've just gotta have something themey, here you go: Football Filbert Cookies from Food.com

Recipe review: No-bake raspberry-lemon cheesecake - low-carb version

This pretty photo grabbed my interest, but I was a little disappointed to see that the original recipe on My Baking Addiction included Cool Whip. Not 'cause I'm a snob about that, but we're trying to eat low-carb, and even "No Sugar-Added" Cool Whip has corn syrup in it. (Sneaky, huh?)

But that's easily solved. To make this dessert low-carb:
- replace the sugar with equivalent sweetener of your choice,
- replace the Cool Whip with homemade whipped cream: start w/ 1/4 c. cream, sweetened with a little vanilla and 1 or 2 teaspoons of the sweetener of your choice, then whip it -- whip it good!
- replace the graham cracker crust with chopped pecans.

Yum!

I've also made variations...

Lemon or lime - Leave out the raspberries and add the zest and juice of one lemon or lime. If you like, add a little food coloring to make it more citrusy-looking.

Coffee - Leave out the lemon juice and add 1 teaspoon of instant espresso powder. And, if you like, a couple tablespoons of Kahlua.

Peanut butter - Leave out the lemon and add sugar-free peanut butter to your liking; 2 Tablespoons if you want just a hint of PB flavor; pile it on if you want more. This is especially delicious topped with a bit of shaved chocolate! (Or try my Peanut Butter Pie recipe.)

Also, you can make this lower fat by using reduced fat cream cheese and/or replacing some of the cream cheese with ricotta.