Do you eat many sweets? Have a favorite?

Marie5656

Marie5656

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I am trying to cut back, for health, weight loss and other reasons. But every once in a while I like to indulge. Nt sure if it is considered a "sweet", but I do like having a jar of Nutella on hand. I make Nutella and cream cheese sandwiches. If out, I may go for a Twix bar or 3 Muskateers.
I ask because I had something different today, a friend had "cotton candy filled Twinkies" . She brought them to our coffee hour last night. People often bring snacks. I am not a Twinkie fan, but had to try. The filling had an interesting strawberry like flavor. Did not really taste like cotton candy, but it was different.

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I don't eat a lot of sweets, but I do have a sweet-tooth. I make shortbread cookies sometimes and once in a while I add something a bit weird, like a tablespoon of herbal tea. They were really good! When the g-kids are here I've added "normal" stuff, like crushed almonds or crushed hard candies.

Also I make this desert called Cherry Crunch that's very sweet, super yummy, and easy-peasy to make - just takes a can of cherry pie filling, a white cake mix, and a cube of butter.

I like dark chocolate so once in a while I buy a Mounds bar or a Milky Way Midnight. But usually I satisfy my sweet-tooth with blackberries or peaches or some kind of melon.
 
I make room in my diet for a few treats.

My latest kick is no sugar added Kozy Shack Simply Well tapioca or rice pudding cups.

I also enjoy Breyer's CarbSmart vanilla ice cream with a drizzle of sugar-free maple-flavored syrup and a few walnuts.

For cookies, it is usually individual packs of Lorna Doones or Barnum's Animals Crackers in the little box.

During the holidays I usually pick up a package of Atkins peanut butter cups or m&m style peanuts.

My only rule is one treat in the house at a time.
 
Murrmurr said:
I don't eat a lot of sweets, but I do have a sweet-tooth. I make shortbread cookies sometimes and once in a while I add something a bit weird, like a tablespoon of herbal tea. They were really good! When the g-kids are here I've added "normal" stuff, like crushed almonds or crushed hard candies.

Also I make this desert called Cherry Crunch that's very sweet, super yummy, and easy-peasy to make - just takes a can of cherry pie filling, a white cake mix, and a cube of butter.

I like dark chocolate so once in a while I buy a Mounds bar or a Milky Way Midnight. But usually I satisfy my sweet-tooth with blackberries or peaches or some kind of melon.
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I remember making this version of CRUNCH back in the day!

CRUNCH
1 cup AP flour
1 cup oatmeal
1 cup brown sugar (1/2 cup is more than enough)
1 stick of butter or margarine
1 can of pie filling

Mix flour, oatmeal, and brown sugar. Melt butter and add to the dry ingredients.
Use half of the mixture on the bottom of a pie pan or small casserole. Add a can of pie filling. Top with remaining crumbs. Bake at 350 for 30 to 45 minutes. Serve with vanilla ice cream.

You can add some cinnamon, nutmeg, nuts, etc. It depends on your taste and the type of pie filling.
 
Aunt Bea said:
I remember making this version of CRUNCH back in the day!

CRUNCH
1 cup AP flour
1 cup oatmeal
1 cup brown sugar (1/2 cup is more than enough)
1 stick of butter or margarine
1 can of pie filling

Mix flour, oatmeal, and brown sugar. Melt butter and add to the dry ingredients.
Use half of the mixture on the bottom of a pie pan or small casserole. Add a can of pie filling. Top with remaining crumbs. Bake at 350 for 30 to 45 minutes. Serve with vanilla ice cream.

You can add some cinnamon, nutmeg, nuts, etc. It depends on your taste and the type of pie filling.
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All I do for mine is pour a can of cherry pie filling into a 9"x9" pan, then thoroughly work a cube of room-temperature butter into the white cake mix and sprinkle that evenly over the cherries. It's a pretty thick layer. Then I just bake it at 350 for 30 minutes.

You can also use the large can of cherries, or two of the smaller cans, and use a 9"x13" pan. You still only need 1 box of cake mix and 1 cube butter, and the baking time is the same. I've added chopped walnuts to the topping, but my kids like it best without nuts.

Yours sounds good! Sounds more like a pie than mine. Mine is kind of like a cobbler, and I tried making it with a large can of peaches but it turned out all gloopy and disgusting because the topping absorbed a lot of the syrup.
 
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