LEGALLY APPLE-LIOUS PECAN DESSERT

HAVE DESSERT EVEN IF YOU'RE

W. Y. W. (Watching Your Waistline)

You won't have to "wish you hadn't indulged" with this recipe because it's fat free legally. It delicious and nutritious made with  1 Honeycrip Apple:

• 1 Medium Honeycrisp Apple: Sweet & hold their shape when cooked
• 1 T. Chopped Pecans, or and/or 1 T. soaked Craisins or Raisins covered in hot water - set aside
• 1/16 t. cinnamon
• 2 t. 100% Maple Syrup (or other sweetener)
• 1 T. shaved coconut

Instructions:

• Core apple leaving apple intact about 1/2 - 1/4 inch from bottom
• Remove a strip of peel from around the top of the cavity of the apple
• Place in microwave safe dish or bowl
• Sprinkle inside with 1/16 t. cinnamon
• Fill with pecans and the drained raisins if desired
• Drizzle the 2 t. maple syrup over mixture

Microwave uncovered on high until apple is tender 3-5 minutes...test with fork after 3 minutes

Allow to cool for 5 minutes before serving (the apple gets very hot inside)

If you prepare more than 1 apple add 1-minute cooking time extra per apple

Top with 1 T. shaved coconut

Photo shown with pecans and craisins

This is a completely healthy non-fat dessert that cures the sugar need at the end of a meal

and

makes you happy you didn't indulge in something with more calories

72 calories in one Honeycrisp Apple

0 Fat

18 calories pecans about 1 T. 

50 calories in 1 T. 100% Maple Syrup

25 calories in 1 T. Craisins

Total of about 165 calories

352 Calories = 1 piece of cake

196 Calories = 1 large choc chip cookie

300 Calories = 1 small piece of apple pie

Your choice of using the Honeycrisp Apple Dessert made without butter, without white flour, without fat, and with your health in mind. 

If you're a Weight Watcher: no points for an apple!

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Bon Appetit