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The Moderation Diet

Desserts
(Numbers in parentheses indicate calorie value.)

 

Meringue Shells (50), 243
While these are available at most bakeries, the recipe is included in the event they are hard to find. The shells are attractive filled with frozen strawberry yogurt and drizzled with sliced strawberries. Chocolate frozen yogurt, a drizzle of chocolate sauce and a sprinkle of toasted sliced almonds is also beautiful. Meringue shells are basically not baked but dried in the oven. Don't allow them to brown.

3 egg whites, at room temperature
3/4 cup sugar

In the large bowl of an electric mixer, at medium speed, beat whites until they are foamy. Start adding the sugar, a tablespoon at a time and increase speed to high. Keep beating while adding the sugar slowly, until meringue is stiff and shiny.

Line a cookie sheet with parchment paper and drop meringue by the heaping tablespoon onto the paper. With the back of a spoon, indent the center and build up the sides. Bake at 225-degrees for 1 hour, turn oven off and allow meringues to dry for several hours in the oven. Shells should not brown. This will yields 12 meringue shells.

(About 50 calories per serving)

 

Meringue Kisses (12), 243

To Make Meringue Kisses:
Follow instructions as above, but drop meringue by the teaspoonful onto parchment-lined pan. Yields 48 kisses.

(About 12 calories per kiss)

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