Weight Watchers (3 POINTS recipes)

Weight Watchers (2 POINTS recipes)

Balsamic Strawberries

Course: desserts

(PointsPlus™ Value: 2)

Servings: 4

Preparation Time: 5 min
Cooking Time: 0 min
Level of Difficulty: Easy

Strawberries with vinegar and pepper may sound unusual, but the sweet-tart combination is delicious. The balsamic marinade tints the strawberries a deep red.

Ingredients


* 4 cup(s) strawberries, halved or quartered
* 2 Tbsp unpacked brown sugar
* 1 Tbsp balsamic vinegar
* 1/8 tsp black pepper, freshly ground
* 1/2 cup(s) fat-free vanilla yogurt
* 1 Tbsp mint leaves, optional

Instructions

Combine strawberries, sugar, vinegar and pepper in a bowl. Marinate in refrigerator for at least 1 hour, stirring at least once.

Serve in 4 small glasses or bowls and top each with 2 tablespoons vanilla yogurt. Garnish with mint sprigs, if desired.

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Blue Cheese Dressing Recipe
* 4 cups plain fat-free yogurt
* 5 ounces blue cheese
* 2 tablespoons balsamic vinegar
* 2 tablespoons Grey Poupon Country Dijon Mustard
* 2 clove garlic cloves

Mince garlic, then mix all ingredients in bowl and pour back into yogurt container.

Refrigerate until needed.

Makes 33 servings - 2 tablespoons per serving.

(1 WW point)

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* Cucumber Salad
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* Thai Cucumber Toss
* Thyme-Roasted Turnips
* Tomatillo Salsa

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Cucumber Salad
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Hawaiian Papaya & Cucumber
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Mustard-Chive Cream Sauce

* 1 tablespoon coarsely chopped fresh chives
* 2 tablespoons low-fat sour cream
* 2 tablespoons stone-ground mustard
* 1/2 teaspoon Dijon mustard
* 1/4 teaspoon sugar
* 1/8 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper

1. Combine all ingredients in a small bowl.  Cover and chill until ready to serve.

Yield: 1/4 cup (serving size: 1 tablespoon)

Fat: 1.1g
Carbs: 2.6g
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Roasted Tomato Salsa
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Thai Cucumber Toss
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Thyme-Roasted Turnips
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Tomatillo Salsa
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{Kentucky Butter Cake}

You just gotta love the description of this one!

- Kentucky Butter Cake. Proudly Clogging Arteries Since 1963.

- Kentucky Butter Cake is a cake for grown-ups. It doesn’t have sprinkles. It doesn’t have frosting.

- It isn’t cute.

- But, Baby, this cake has flavor for days. You expect a butter cake to be buttery, but this one goes above and beyond with the real draw: its glaze.

- This magical glaze (made of, yes, more butter, more sugar and more vanilla or rum extract) is poured into holes poked in the cooling cake, so you don’t see any hint of it from the outside. But when you take that first bite, it’s the best kind of surprise – moist, buttery and sweet. The taste of an old-fashioned cake with a swing in its hips.

- Perfect for sharing, unless you’re interested in getting a stent.

Kentucky Butter Cake

Adapted from Nell Lewis, Bake-Off® Contest winner, 1963

Ingredients

•1 cup (2 sticks) butter
•2 cups sugar
•4 eggs
•3 cups unbleached all-purpose flour
•1 teaspoon baking powder
•1/2 teaspoon baking soda
•1 teaspoon salt
•1 cup buttermilk
•2 teaspoons vanilla or rum extract

Glaze:

•3/4 cup sugar
•1/3 cup butter
•3 tablespoons water
•2 teaspoons vanilla or rum extract

1. Preheat oven to 325 degrees F. Grease a 10-inch bundt pan with a nonstick spray that contains flour (like Baker’s Joy® or Pam® Baking); set aside.

2. In a medium bowl, combine the flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt. Set aside.

3. In the bowl of a standing mixer fitted with the paddle, beat the butter and sugar for 3 minutes at medium speed.

4. Lower mixer speed and add eggs, one at a time. Continue to beat for 1 minute.

5. Alternate adding the flour mixture and buttermilk, ending with the flour.

6. Add vanilla or rum extract. Beat on medium-high speed for 20 seconds.

7. Pour batter into prepared pan, and bake for about 60 minutes, or until a wooden toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean.

8. To make the glaze: In a small saucepan, combine sugar, butter, water and vanilla or rum extract. Do not boil.

9. When the cake comes out of the oven, prick it with a wooden skewer or fork. Pour the glaze slowly over the cake.

10. Let the cake cool completely before removing it from the pan.

(Source: EzraPoundCake.com)

{Kentucky Butter Cake}

Oh-so-good!...If you prefer your cake with more sauce , just make a double batch. It is heavenly!

Cook time: 1 Hour/Difficulty: MEDIUM

Prep time: 25 Min Serves: 12

Ingredients

- 3 c all purpose flour
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 1 tsp salt
- 1/2 tsp baking soda
- 1 c real butter
- 2 c sugar
- 4 eggs - 1 c buttermilk
- 2 tsp vanilla extract

BUTTER SAUCE

- 1 c sugar
- 1/4 c water
- 1/2 c butter
- 1 tsp vanilla extract

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 350. Grease and flour bundt pan. Sift together flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt, set aside. Cream: 1 cup butter, 2 cups sugar, and then blend in eggs, mix in buttermilk, and vanilla, adding alternately milk and flour mixture into creamed mixture. Pour in bundt pan and bake for 1 hour.

2. Butter Sauce: In medium sauce pan on medium heat mix sugar, water and butter, bring to low boil , stirring until sugar is dissolved, add vanilla, When cake is still very hot, leave in bundt pan, poke small holes in top and drizzle butter sauce over cake, Transfer to dish and dust with powder sugar.

(Source: justapinch.com)

{Karen's Kentucky Butter Cake}

Karen says..."Kentucky Butter Cake is basically a VERY moist & extra calorie pound cake. It is basically the definition of delicious. Geesh... haven't had one in a long time!"

Here is a recipe for it...

Ingredients

* 3 cups unbleached all-purpose flour
* 2 cups white sugar
* 1 teaspoon salt
* 1 teaspoon baking powder
* 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
* 1 cup buttermilk
* 1 cup butter
* 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
* 4 eggs
* 3/4 cup white sugar
* 1/3 cup butter
* 3 tablespoons water
* 2 teaspoons vanilla extract

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 325 degrees F (165 degrees C). Grease and flour a 10 inch Bundt pan.

2. In a large bowl, mix the flour, 2 cups sugar, salt, baking powder and baking soda. Blend in buttermilk, 1 cup of butter, 2 teaspoons of vanilla and 4 eggs. Beat for 3 minutes at medium speed. Pour batter into prepared pan.

3. Bake in preheated oven for 60 minutes, or until a wooden toothpick inserted into center of cake comes out clean. Prick holes in the still warm cake. Slowly pour sauce over cake. Let cake cool before removing from pan.

4. To Make Butter Sauce: In a saucepan combine the remaining 3/4 cups sugar, 1/3 cup butter, 2 teaspoons vanilla, and the water. Cook over medium heat, until fully melted and combined, but do not boil.