Dessert or Decadence?

When you want something sweet, you want something sweet.  So, if you can't have sweets, here's a little sweetness for you.  You can have this for breakfast or after dinner. Or brunch. After lunch. Whenever.

Blackberries and Cream

1 cup frozen blackberries
1/4 cup heavy cream
1 6-oz. container plain Greek yogurt or 3/4 cup regular plain yogurt. (The Greek kind has more protein.)
2 drops vanilla creme stevia extract, or to taste

Let the blackberries sit at room temp in a bowl for a few minutes to defrost them a little bit.  Whisk together the heavy cream, yogurt, and stevia.  Spoon over the blackberries.  Eat.  Look over your shoulder to make sure your physician isn't about to take your cholesterol levels. Kidding! You used lowfat yogurt right?


Blueberry Smoothy

1 cup frozen wild blueberries
1 cup yogurt
2  drops lemon stevia extract, or to taste
heavy cream, optional

Put everything in a blender and puree until blueberries are all broken up.  For dessert, spoon it into a sundae dish and lace with heavy cream. For breakfast, put it in a covered tumbler and drink it with a straw on the way to work.  Once you park the car, take the cover off and drink all the stuff that stayed on the bottom.

For a little added kick, garnish either of these with cacao nibs--chocolate-covered cacao nibs if you can!

Hot Chocolate

1 mug full of milk
2 T unsweetened cocoa powder
2 to 3 drops vanilla creme stevia extract

Heat the milk in the microwave for 1 to 2 minutes, depending on how powerful it is.  It needs to be pretty warm, but not scalding.  Stir in the stevia first, then the coca powder.  If you put in the cocoa first, the stevia will cling to the powder and you may end up with sweet spots and bland spots if the mixture isn't completely homogenous.  I like to put extra cocoa and let it settle to the bottom to dig out with a spoon later.  But I don't recommend this unless you like seriously dark, bitter chocolate. 

And don't forget the mock cheesecake from April's post "Who Ate All the Mascarpone?", which you can make with any flavor stevia extract, with or without the flaxseed.  You can drizzle a little heavy cream over that, too! Heavy cream is just plain good.