I called this a "minimalist dessert" because I served it up in the skin of that which it was made from - a nice, ripe avocado. :)
I tweaked my avocado pudding recipe a little and found that when you eat it with a serving cottage cheese it can really sooth a cheesecake craving!
Plus eating an avocado (...the fat in it...) tends to tame my cravings for several hours which is an added bonus.
For the pudding -
Carefully remove the avocado from the skin by cutting it in half, twisting it apart, squeezing a little to loosen it, then with a spoon, scoop it free.
In a small food processor grind up
1 Ripe Avocado
1 Ripe Banana
2 TBS Cocoa
1/4 Cup Powdered Sugar
A splash of water
Serve by loading each skin 1/2 with cottage cheese and 1/2 with the pudding.
The cottage cheese I use is 4% and has 110 calories per 1/2 cup. The pudding has approximately 520 calories per recipe (enough for 4 avocado half-skins), each dessert in the picture below contains approximately 200 calories. It's not light on calories, and it seems a little counterintuitive to be counting calories and eating such a heavy hitter, but I truly find avocado to satisfy and help my appetite stay under control better for the rest of the day.
©Susan Marie May
I tweaked my avocado pudding recipe a little and found that when you eat it with a serving cottage cheese it can really sooth a cheesecake craving!
Plus eating an avocado (...the fat in it...) tends to tame my cravings for several hours which is an added bonus.
For the pudding -
Carefully remove the avocado from the skin by cutting it in half, twisting it apart, squeezing a little to loosen it, then with a spoon, scoop it free.
In a small food processor grind up
1 Ripe Avocado
1 Ripe Banana
2 TBS Cocoa
1/4 Cup Powdered Sugar
A splash of water
Serve by loading each skin 1/2 with cottage cheese and 1/2 with the pudding.
The cottage cheese I use is 4% and has 110 calories per 1/2 cup. The pudding has approximately 520 calories per recipe (enough for 4 avocado half-skins), each dessert in the picture below contains approximately 200 calories. It's not light on calories, and it seems a little counterintuitive to be counting calories and eating such a heavy hitter, but I truly find avocado to satisfy and help my appetite stay under control better for the rest of the day.
©Susan Marie May
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