Apple Desserts

A grew up enjoying my mom’s recipe for Apple Crisp Ozark Pudding. This quick little apple dessert is easy to throw together when you are craving something sweet.

Ozark Pudding

• 1 egg
• 3 /4 cup sugar
• 2 Tablespoon flour
• 1 1/4 teaspoon baking powder
• 1/8 teaspoon salt
• 1/2 cup chopped nuts (I use pecans)
• 1/2 cup raw chopped apple (I add a little more)
• 1 teaspoon vanilla

Beat egg and sugar together until smooth. Mix flour, baking powder and salt. Stir into egg and sugar mixture. Add apples, nuts and vanilla. Bake in buttered pan at 350° for about 35 minutes. Do not double recipe.

Makes 2-3 servings. Extra delicious served with a scoop of vanilla ice cream. The egg, sugar, and pecans blend together into a gooey pecan pie taste. I bake this in a 1 liter dish.

 

This past year I discovered a recipe for Apple Nut Bars in a Taste of Home diabetic cookbook. The end result tastes similar to my mom’s apple dessert. This one called for egg whites and less sugar. So try them both, and compare.

Apple Nut Bars
Karen Nelson, Sullivan, Wisconsin

• 2 egg whites
• 2/3 cup sugar
• 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1/2 cup all purpose flour
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 2 cups chopped unpeeled tart apples (I peel mine)
• 1/4 cup chopped pecans (I add more)

In a bowl, whisk egg whites, sugar and vanilla for about 1 1 /2 minutes. Add flour and baking power; whisk for 1 minute. Fold in the apples and pecans. Pour into an 8 inch square baking pan coated with nonstick cooking spray. Bake at 350° for 25-35 minutes or until the bars test done. Cool. Yield: 1 dozen

Now the trick here is to not eat the whole pan, because then it’s no longer diabetic.

Exchange: 1 starch Serving size: 1 bar Calories: 92 Sodium 29 mg Cholesterol: 0 mg Carbohydrate: 19 gm Protein: 1 gm Fat: 2 gm Fiber: 1 gm