low carb desserts

[blackcat]

Hi all

My boss has asked me to look into low carb desserts. Can anyone reccomend a book? For the short term I put a low carb vanilla cheesecake with an almond crust on the menu. I serve it with a strawberry sauce. I'd like to come with something a bit more creative.

Thanks

[Gifted Gourmet]

Low Carb Dessert collection of recipes

Perhaps this might be a good beginning and inspiration?

[rcarter]

I ran across that site on a random internet search and made the flourless chocolate cake for a co-worker's birthday party. It was pretty good. I have also seen a lot of recipes for ricotta sweetened with Splenda and lemon zest or chocolate.

[helenjp]

One thing that's worth considering is how thirsty high-protein diets make you. And maybe you'd miss the fragrance of fruit, so herbs, spices, flowers, citrus??? Especially something for that bad mouthtaste that people talk about.

I don't follow Atkins, so I hope I've got it right, but how about a lemon and lemon thyme sorbet alongside or layered with those creamy items? Or by itself...or just extra-special sugarless long, tall drinks and iced teas?

I used to make a soft creamy cheese scented with rose geranium leaves, but after 20 years, don't recall details. It's a classic though, so should be around somewhere.

Nut cakes, definitely - I used to wonder why anybody bothered with wheatflour when I first discovered European nut tortes!

Would some non-Atkins low carb dieters be tempted by small portions of weird and wonderful fruits? People mainly want to be uplifted and excited by dessert -- how about a plate with a lapel-ready flower (or something else portable), a twig or a tendril or two, and a few small fruits with stem and leaf still attached.

Starfruit and small polished worrystones (you know, the semiprecious or nonprecious type sold in dishfuls in shops that sell crystals etc) ?

I'm taking this too far, I know...

[NulloModo]

This is a website affiliated with a website which I help moderate:

http://www.lowcarbrecipes.org/

It has a ton of low-carb recipes, some are desserts. Most were developed by amateur low-carbers, so could use some tweaking to be restaurant quality, but they will give you a good base from which you can expand.

This link:

http://www.atkinsdietbulletinboard.com/viewforum.php?f=51

Has a bunch of articles written by our in-house cooking guru/foodie, and some deal with desserts and baking, again a great way to get some info for LC diets.

Fruit _is_ allowed on Atkins, but only certain fruits, and only in the later stages. South Beach I believe allows more fruits sooner, but severly limits your fat intake, so cream cheese and butter might be out...

Some sugar alcohols tend to have a strong laxative effect (malitol is the biggest offender), but there are others (Ethrytol) can be used more safely. Be warned however that low-carb dieters trying to do it right frown upon the use of excessive amounts of sugar alcohols (they can cause more of a glycemic impact that some companies want to let on) as well as the excessive use of sugar. Also let it be known that once someone has been on a plan such as Atkins for a while where sugar intake is virtually nothing, their tastebuds become super-sensitive towards sweet, so you may not want to sweeten your LC desserts as strongly as your regular.

[blackcat]

Thanks for the leads on information. The websites should give me a good head start on coming up with some low carb desserts. I have to admit I'm a bit skeptical on the whole carb thing but the cheesecake I have on the menu now is hugely popular.

Thanks for the help

blackcat