What to Eat When You Crave Sweets

What to Eat When You Crave Sweets - Dr. Weil's Daily Tip

It's Strawberry Season!!!!!

Strawberry Cake

My favorite cake for my birthday is mama's strawberry cake with strawberry icing. Like Bubba with shrimp there's all kinds of ways to fix strawberries. Strawberry shortcake, strawberry cake, strawberry ice cream, strawberry jam, strawberry smoothie, etc. etc.!

Strawberry Stuffed French Toast | The Girl Who Ate Everything

Strawberry Delight

Strawberry-Shortcake Cookies

Easy Strawberry Jam

Strawberry Sauce

Strawberry Pops

Chunky Strawberry Sauce

Shoney’s Strawberry Pie
another Shoney’s Strawberry Pie

Bag of Strawberries for table or seat number

Strawberry-Buttermilk Sherbet

Strawberry-Sugar Biscuit Trifle

Get Thinner With Chocolate? - Dr. Weil's Weekly Bulletin

 Godiva Large 72% Dark Chocolate with Almond Bar
one of my favorite ways to get my healthy chocolate!

Get Thinner With Chocolate? - Dr. Weil's Weekly Bulletin

Apple Slices Cookies

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I found another cute idea for sweet treats that's easy to do. It's not apple flavored. All you need is sugar cookie dough, red decorator sugar, a few chocolate chips and string licorice . This is from Pillsbury but you could use any sugar cookie dough homemade or from the store. After all you'll put it together so it will be "homemade"!
Apple Slices Cookies

Prep Time: 35 Min
Total Time: 1 Hr 5 Min
Makes: 32 cookies

INGREDIENTS
2 tablespoons red decorator sugar
1 roll (16.5 oz) Pillsbury® refrigerated sugar cookies
2 tablespoons miniature semisweet chocolate chips
Black string licorice, cut into 1-inch pieces

DIRECTIONS
1 Heat oven to 350°F. Cut 17x12-inch piece of plastic wrap; place on work surface. Sprinkle red sugar evenly over plastic wrap. Roll cookie dough in sugar to coat. Wrap in plastic wrap; freeze 30 minutes. 2 Remove half of dough from wrapper; freeze remaining dough until needed. Cut dough into 1/4-inch slices. On ungreased cookie sheets, place slices 2 inches apart. Place 3 chocolate chips in center of each slice to resemble seeds. To form slice shape, make 2 indentations on 2 opposite sides with fingers. Repeat with remaining half of dough. 3 Bake 8 to 9 minutes or until unsugared edges are light golden brown. Insert 1 licorice piece on top of each cookie to resemble stem. Cool 2 minutes; remove from cookie sheets to cooling racks.
Note: If you make your sugar dough from scratch you could add apple spice, clove, or cinnamon spice along with your vanilla flavoring.

Starbucks Birthday Cake Mini Doughnut

Birthday Cake Mini Doughnut | Starbucks Coffee Company
I just love pink! Idea: You could make or buy mini doughnuts and ice them in pink and sprinkle with white non-pareils.

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Heavenly Pink Doughnuts with Pink Strawberry Glaze Don't forget the sprinkles! Some sparkles would be sweet too!

Mama's Brownies

I found this recipe over 30 years ago. I've made it so many times that the page became worn and smudged with cocoa, butter, etc that it became hard to read! :) This is my spin on the original recipe so now we call it Mama's Brownies.
It's an inexpensive basic recipe with ingredients that most folks keep in their pantry. I've used melted butter, melted margarine, corn oil, or canola oil. Whatever I had on hand. Although, I think it taste best using butter. If you like a chewy fudge taste then this one is for you. Now I've used other Brownie recipes and some have been better but required ingredients that I don't usually keep on hand. So if you need a quick sugery chocolate fix without having to make a trip to the grocery store then this is it!

Mama’s Brownies

6 Tablespoons melted butter, margarine, or oil
1 1/2 cups sugar
7 Tablespoons cocoa
mix by hand and add
2 eggs
then add:
1/2 cup self-rising flour
1 teaspoon vanilla or more if you like
1 teaspoon cinnamon (optional )

spread in 8x8 greased pan (use shortening, butter, or spray on Pam)
bake 350° for about 30 minutes. Let it cool a few minutes before you cut into squares.
Makes about 4-8 according to how big you want them! LOL

Substitutes:
for a self-rising flour substitute use: 1/2 cup all-purpose flour + 3/4 teaspoon baking
powder+1/4 teaspoon salt.

For all or half of the fat (butter,margarine, or oil) use applesauce

substitute all or half of the sugar with Splenda

use a bigger pan if you like thinner brownies. This takes less time to bake so check
in about 15 minutes.

Optionals:
stir in 1/2 cup or more of your favorite chocolate chips
stir in or sprinkle on top 1/2 cup of your favorite nuts.

Note: If I'm giving brownies as a gift I line my pan with a greased or sprayed with Pam foil or parchment paper. After letting the brownies cool for about 10 minutes I carefully pull it out of them pan by the edges of the foil or paper. I let them cool about 30 minutes. I take a clean ruler and lay on top and measure to get even cuts. Then I shake on powdered sugar using a fine mesh sifter. It makes a nicer presentation. Another cute idea is to bake them in a disposable pan and lay a stencil that fits nicely on top of the brownies then then sprinkle on powdered sugar and carefully lift the stencil. Wrap with cling wrap and tie on a bow and label.

I’d like to try these:
http://therecipegirl.blogspot.com/2008/02/chocolate-mascarpone-brownies.html