Recipes
Flying Saucers
Ingredients:
• Baking sheet, lined with waxed paper
1 package (1½ oz / 40 g) fat-free instant chocolate 1
pudding mix, sweetened with aspartame
1½ cups cold 1% milk 375 mL
1 cup lower-fat non-dairy whipped topping 250 mL
36 plain chocolate wafers 36
Instructions:
1. In a medium bowl, add chocolate pudding mix to milk. Beat for 2 minutes, until thickened and smooth. Fold in whipped topping.
2. Arrange 18 chocolate wafers in a single layer on prepared cookie sheet. Spoon chocolate pudding mixture onto the wafers. Top with remaining wafers, pressing lightly and smoothing around the edges with a knife, if necessary.
3. Freeze for at least 3 hours, until firm, or in an airtight container for up to 1 month. (If they are too hard to eat, let sit at room temperature for 10 minutes before serving.)
Notes:
Nutritional Analysis per Serving: Calories 74, carbohydrate 12g, fiber 0 g, protein 2g, total fat 2g, saturated fat 1g, sodium 108 mg, cholesterol 2 mg.
Canada’s Choice per Serving: 1 Carbohydrate, 1 Fat
Recipe reprinted with permission from Canada’s Best Cookbook for Kids with Diabetes, Colleen Bartley, Robert Rose Inc., 2005, http://www.robertrose.ca