Diabetes Recipes

"Skinny" Orange Pleasures

Very Low Carb

This recipe is wonderful to make for children and adults alike.

Tart A Citron (Lemon Tart)

Low Carb

This dessert is like being in a sidewalk cafe in Paris, without the carbohydrates and cigarette smoke.

Cottage Cheese and Pineapple

Low Fat

Baked Oatmeal

Greek-Yogurt, Blueberry and Banana Creamy Yummy Frozen Treats

Low Carb

These treats are wonderful to eat at the end of a meal or as a healthy snack. The Greek yogurt gives a creamy taste without fat.

Coffee Jelly

Very Low Carb

Flavor plain gelatin with liquid sweetener, espresso and whipping cream. Garnish with more whipped cream if you like and a coffee bean or two.

Carrot Raisin Cookies

Low Carb

Using a combination of flours and sweeteners makes these little treats even richer.

Hearty Healthy Cookies

These cookies have a great flavor and a lot of fiber

Quick Sherbet

Low Carb

The recipe may seem similar to a smoothie, but it really does come out like sherbet.

Chocolate Cookie Crust

Strawberry Fruit Pie

Low Carb

A simple strawberry pie using strawberry flavor sugar free gelatin dessert, ice cubes, fresh strawberries. Very strawberry and VERY good.

Blueberry Crumble

A very simple to make dessert sweetened by the fresh blueberries, which also makes it very healthful! A graham crust filled with the berries and seasoned with cinnamon.

Lemon Cream

Low Carb

This light, airy lemon cream is the ultimate in elegant desserts and is surprisingly easy to make. This tangy lemon dessert holds its shape with the help of gelatin, eggs, and light whipped topping.

Peach Crumble

Low Sodium

Peaches with wonderful spices and the added zing of almond flavored liqueur make this delicious Peach Crumble Diabetic dessert.

Apple Walnut Bread Pudding

Apples and walnuts pair up to flavor up this bread pudding made with low-fat milk, egg substitute and sugar-free vanilla pudding and pie filling.

Frozen Grape Pops

Low Fat

Sugar-Free Fudge Brownies

Low Carb

Best Pineapple Cheesecake

Just enough butter, along with butter flavored cooking spray, flavors a tasty graham crust filled with a wonderful, creamy, pineapple-rich flavor with ingredients that may surprise you.

New York Cheesecake

Low Carb

Tastes so much like the real thing! Sugar is reduced with the use of artificial sweetener and fat is greatly reduced by using reduced fat cream cheese and sour cream. Top with fresh fruit if desired.

Pecan Pie

Low Sodium

Raisin Sesame Cookies

Low Carb

Chocolate Mocha Cream Roll

Low Carb

First you bake up a delicious mocha flavored jelly roll, then fill and roll it with a filling made with whipped cream instant coffee, skim milk, vanilla and chocolate extracts and sweetener. Delicious!

Frozen Strawberry Pops

Low Carb

Mini Raspberry Mousse Parfaits

Low Sodium

Sweet, tart and delicious, this elegant recipe is the perfect finish to a special meal. The parfaits can be made ahead for easy entertaining.

Chocolate Dipped Oatmeal Cookies

Low Sodium

These are as appealing in looks as they are in taste with their cinnamon and oatmeal goodness and half of each cookie dipped in melted chocolate.

Applesauce Raisin Drops

Low Carb

Pear and Apple Sauce

Low Fat

Fresh Fruit Clafouti

Low Fat

Creamy Cantaloupe

Low Carb

Orange Cheesecake

Low Carb

Cheesecake Dainties

Very Low Carb

Yogurt Popsicles

Low Sodium

Chocolate Cream Cheese Frosting

Very Low Carb

Creamy Tapioca Pudding

Low Fat

Animal Crackers

Low Carb

Tropical Snack Cake

Low Fat

Lemon Pound Cake with Strawberries

Snacking Granola

Low Fat

German Apple Cake

Deep Chocolate Coconut Balls

Very Low Carb

Plan ahead...needs to chill at least two hours.

Brownie Sunday Pie

A very tasty pie, lightened up in fat and sugars but not flavor. European style unsweetened cocoa powder gives this an extra special chocolate flavor.

Bittersweet Chocolate Torte

Low Carb

Sometimes chocolate is best when its left bittersweet, and this recipe is one of those times! Rich chocolate flavor with an equally rich Chocolate Glaze topping.

Easy Carrot Cake

Don`t let the long list of ingredients scare you! This is truly easy to make with pre-shredded organic carrots and lots of on-hand spices most of us keep in our cupboards.

Blintzes

Chunky Applesauce

Low Fat

Angel Food Cake with Blueberry Yogurt Sauce

Low Fat

Lemon Chiffon Cake

All the flavor, a wonderful texture and such delicious lemon taste! The only thing missing is the sugar - which you won`t miss at all!

Chocolate Zucchini Cake

A moist chocolate cake that doesn't need frosting. Make two, one for now, and one to freeze for later.

Country Peach Tart

Low Sodium

A tasty, old fashioned flavor in spite of using sugar substitute and skim milk! Apricot preserves and frozen peaches make this a snap to prepare, or you can use fresh when in season for best flavor.

Frozen Fruit Cups

Low Carb

Buttermilk Blueberry Bake

Low Fat

Using whole wheat flour for some of the flour adds nutritional value to this tasty bake flavored with orange juice and bursting with blueberries. The Blueberry Grunt is delicious served with fat-free, no-sugar-added ice cream or frozen yogurt, or with dollops of light or fat free whipped topping.

Toasted Pumpkin Seeds

Low Carb

Yummy Peanut Butter Cookies

Chocolate Silk Mousse

Low Carb

Unflavored gelatin firms up this tasty mousse sweetened with sweetener. Cocoa powder with rum and vanilla extracts lend a rich flavor. Top with strawberries, if desired.

Hearty Corn Cakes

Low Carb

Equal Lemon Meringue Pie

Pineapple Squares

Low Carb

Special Chocolate Ice Cream

Low Fat

Special due to its low fat nature and indulging in chocolate ice cream! Sugar free pudding mix, artificial sweetener, baking cocoa, vanilla, evaporated milk and light frozen whipped topping, frozen into a very ice cream-like treat.

Cranberry Sorbet

Low Carb

A simple sorbet! Low calorie cranberry juice with raspberry flavor sugar free low calorie gelatin dessert and evaporated skim milk.

Butter Rum Candy

Very Low Carb

Unsweetened puffed rice with granulated fructose and egg whites flavored with butter rum flavoring and vanilla to bind into candies. Very tasty.

Peanut Butter Balls

Cornstarch, peanut butter, Rice Krispies, semisweet chocolate chips, Equal and cold water mix together to make these satisfyingly sweet peanut butter balls.

Peanut Clusters

Quick, easy and healthy! Mix melted peanut butter and honey with dry roasted peanuts, raisins, cocoa powder, artificial sweetener and Grape Nuts cereal. Don`t worry about nuts! One study showed that those who ate nuts five or more times a week (almonds, cashews, pistachios, walnuts or peanuts) were half as likely to have a heart attack or suffer from heart disease as people who rarely or never at nuts.

Cream Cheese and Jelly Cookies

Low Carb

Reduced fat cream cheese in the dough helps make it tender and tasty with a dollop of cherry or raspberry spreadable fruit atop each cookie.

Popcorn Drops

Pop unsalted popcorn and put it in a food processor or grinder and grind into kernal size pieces. Beat remaining ingredients, fold popcorn into mixture and drop teaspoonfuls onto baking sheet and bake.

Cinnamon Chocolate Chip Cookies

Low Carb

A very small quantity of ground cinnamon -- less than a half-teaspoon a day -- helped volunteers with type II diabetes mellitus reduce their levels of blood sugar -- and reduce several cardiovascular disease risk factors, as well.

Cotton Candy Cookies

These light and fluffy cookies are made with egg whites, granulated sugar replacement and flavored with orange. Melt in your mouth goodness.

Chocolate Swirl Cheesecake

Low Carb

Vanilla wafer crust, reduced fat cream cheese, Equal Spoonful in place of sugar, egg whites, cornstarch, reduced fat sour cream, vanilla. Swirl unsweetened chocolate and top with chocolate curls.

Chocolate-Filled Cake Roll

Low Fat

No Sugar Sugar Cookies

Low Carb

Thats right, sugar cookies with no sugar! How could that taste? Well, with Splenda Granular they taste pretty good for a sugarless sugar cookie. Try them and decide for yourself.

Out Of Bounds Candy Bars

Very Low Carb

Lemon Cake Roll

Low Carb

A light cake roll base with a sweet lemon filling made with lemon juice, sweetener, egg yolks, lemon peel and Whipped low calorie topping.

Spiced Angel Food Cake

Low Fat

A wonderful blend of spices and a white cake mix makes up this Spiced Angel Food Cake with a delicious Cran Apple Topping Recipe included.

Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies

Low Carb

Delicious peanut butter cookies reduced in sugar using granualted sugar substitute and a nutrition kick from whole wheat flour and a touch of raisins and chocolate chips.

Frosty Grapes

This is a great summer-time treat! Keep these on hand in your freezer year-round if you live in a warmer climate!

Fabulous Fruit Tart

Sweet succulant fruits of peaches or nectarines, strawberries, kiwifruit, raspberries, apricot pourable fruit baked up in a single 9 inch pie crust placed in a tart pan. Pretty and healthy!

Crispy Oatmeal Cookies

A simple but oh so good crispy oatmeal cookie spiced with cinnamon.

Pumpkin Cheesecake

This is a wonderful reduced sugar pumpkin cheesecake with a gingersnap crust. The gingersnap really does make a difference.

Lemon Pie

Pretty simple lemon pie to whip up! Sugar-free pudding, skim milk, Crystal Light Lemonade mix, fat-free Cool Whip and two prepared Graham crusts.

Mock Whipped Cream

Low Fat

Gelatin teams up with nonfat dry milk and vanilla to make a mock whipped cream that tastes amazingly like the real thing

Old-Fashioned Baked Custard

Low Carb

This is a true to form custard made with egg substitute, sugar, salt, nutmeg, fat free milk, pure vanilla extract and a pinch of cinnamon.

Cherries Jubilee

Low Fat

Mini Rice Cake Tartlets

Very Low Carb

Use mini rice cakes with pineapple yogurt spread and assorted fruit of your choice, cut up for a healthful and low calorie, low fat snack packed with nutrients.

Powdered Sugar Replacement

Powdered sugar is most commonly used in frostings. To use powdered sugar to decorate your cakes, brownies, cheesecakes etc., use a stencil or cut waxed paper into 1/4 inch wide strips. Place stencil or strips in a diagonal pattern on top of your cooled dessert. Place confectioner`s sugar in a tea strainer, then tap it lightly to dust your bar surface. Carefully remove the stencil or strips to reveal your pattern.

Apple and Honey Scones

Cherry Pie

This is a one crust cherry pie with tart cherries, vanilla pudding mix and sugar free cherry gelatin sweetened with sugar substitute. Very good and pretty, too. If you enjoy chocolate, don`t miss the bonus recipe for Chocolate Covered Cherry Pie!