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Strawberries and "cream"

Wednesday, 20 April 2011

Now, I don't know about anyone else but one of my favourite summertime deserts is strawberries with lashings of cream and unfortunately, I know as well as the next person, how calorific cream is but Jo left a comment on Sarah's Slimming World post informing us an alternative which is just as good, perhaps even better than regular cream. I tried out this idea last night and I'm currently tucking into another bowl of strawberries and "cream" right now, and LOOK HOW TASTY THEY BOTH LOOKED:





The first picture is strawberries, greek yoghurt mixed with a splash of vanilla essence and mixed with Options white hot chocolate powder topped with strawberry compote (from one of these yoghurts - more on those in a future post!) and finished with a sprinkling of plain chocolate shavings.

The second is essentially the same but this time I mixed in a regular milk chocolate Options hot chocolate powder and vanilla essence. So good! There's a load of other flavours of Options hot chocolate available too so it's worth trying other flavours to see what happens, plus it makes use of all the powder I currently have in my cupboards seeing as though this recent weather isn't making me want hot drinks!

It's such a good idea and it definitely satisfies that chocolate craving that I tend to get all the time! Obviously the plain chocolate shavings aren't that good but plain chocolate is better than milk, right?!

12 comments:

  1. Looks so good! Definitely trying this x

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  2. Ahhh, this reminds me of my gorgeous summer fool! <3

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  3. mmm, I'm a greek yoghurt addict but ive been mixing sweetner with it... I'll try this tonight. Thanks girls xx

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  4. A few days ago I began with good intentions. What's a nice fruit? I thought. Yum strawberries, next minute they were smothered in nutella. Grrr.
    I need to try this recipe to make sure that doesn't happen again. It looks nice as well.

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  5. After the twitpic you posted I'm sooo glad this made it onto the blog - such a clever idea! x

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  6. I seem to recall Slimming World being daft for something called Quark and popping sweetner in it too. It's some kida cream cheese-esque thing but fat free I believe. Strawbs are good but, frig me, they're expensive just now!

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  7. I make this all the time! Love it!

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  8. Glad you liked it! And in regards to the above comment, quark with the options and vanilla essence is also nice, it's a bit more cheesecakey than this. I used to make little oreo cheesecakes by putting 1 oreo in a fairy cake case (so they were acting as the base) make the quark/sweetner mixture, add an egg to bind and oven bake. Delish and only like 2.5syns for the oreo for the entire thing.

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  9. I'm obsessed with Total 0% yogurt - it's gorgeous! I love it with a sprinkle of cinnamon and a little drizzle of maple syrup. I don't like cream anyway - I'd much prefer to have some yummy thick Greek yogurt!

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  10. Ooh, what a brilliant idea - thank you!

    Great blog, by the way. It's really great to read something like this x

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  11. Clever idea! Looks tasty xx

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  12. Mmmm it looks so yummy! :) I'm hungry now!! xxx

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