Healthy Desserts for Christmas

This Christmas, impress your guests with delicious and healthy desserts with our healthy Christmas dessert recipes. From Christmas cookies to Christmas cake recipes, we have a healthy version for all of them. Try these healthy desserts for Christmas and thank us later＃?

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*Recipes Courtesy: Priya Jain,Dietician, P D Hinduja National Hospital & MRC, Mahim, Mumbai

*Images courtesy: ? Thinkstock Photos/Getty Images

Popcorn Fudge -?Ingredients:

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500 g semisweet chocolate

400 ml sweetened condensed milk

2 tablespoons butter

4 cup popped popcorn

? cup mixed roasted nuts

1 tsp vanilla essence

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Method:?Line a 9 ?" x 13 ?" pan with butter paper and keep it aside.?Melt chocolate chips, condensed milk and butter in a saucepan on low heat. Continue stirring until smooth. Remove from heat.?Add popcorn, nuts and vanilla; and stir.?Transfer the mixture evenly in the lined pan. Chill until it sets. Un-mold and cut into small pieces to serve many.

Falooda Fruit Custard -?Ingredients:

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6 cups Skimmed Milk

3 tablespoon vermicelli, cooked

3 tablespoons Vanilla Custard powder

10-15 Red grapes, halved

2 Bananas (elaichi)

1 medium Apple, diced

8-10 Orange segments, peeled

8 tablespoons Sugar

6-8 strands Saffron

For Garnish 每 Few Pomegranate pearls

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Method:?Take custard powder, sugar in a bowl; add 1 cup cold milk and make a uniform paste.?Heat a pan. Add remaining milk and let it come to a boil. Add the custard powder mix, reduce heat and stirring continuously until it thickens. Add saffron, mix well and refrigerate.?Add all fruits into the serving bowl and top it with vermicelli. Pour the cooled custard over them. Garnish with pomegranate pearls and serve.

Apple Delight -?Ingredients:

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4 Apples

100 g black currants

150 g walnut

4 tablespoons butter

4 tablespoons honey

1-2 pinch Cinnamon powder

For Baking 每 400 ml Orange Juice

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Method:?Preheat oven to 350? F.?Peel and core all apples.?In medium-sized mixing bowl, combine black currants, walnuts, honey and butter. Stir until blended. Divide mix equally and stuff it into the apples.?Place apples in baking pan and pour orange juice over them.?Bake apples for about 45 minutes. Remove from oven and let cool.?Garnish with cinnamon powder over each apple. Serve warm.

Minty Watermelon -?Ingredients:

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4 cups watermelon balls (scooped out)

1 cup cornflakes

1 tablespoon lemon juice

1 tablespoon honey

1 teaspoon ginger juice

Chopped fresh mint leaves

For Garnish 每 1 teaspoon castor sugar

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Method:?Mix all ingredients except cornflakes, in large bowl.?Refrigerate for at least 20 minutes.?Spoon the mixture into dessert goblets and mix it with cornflakes.?Garnish with castor sugar and serve immediately.

Choco-Marie Slicecake - Ingredients:

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20 Marie Biscuits

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400 ml Skimmed Milk

? cup Sugar

3 tablespoon Vanilla Custard powder

3 tablespoon Cocoa powder

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For Coffee Decoction:

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1tsp Instant Coffee powder

? cup water

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Method:?Take custard powder, cocoa powder and sugar in a bowl; add 100 ml cold milk and make a uniform paste.?Heat a pan. Add remaining milk and let it come to a boil. Reduce heat, add the custard powder mix and stir continuously for a minute. Remove it off the flame.

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Dip a marie biscuit in the coffee decoction for 2 seconds and place it on a butter paper. Spread a layer of chocolate sauce over it. Cover it with another marie biscuit treated with coffee decoction like the first one. Continue stacking marie biscuits over each other alternating with the chocolate sauce layer, until the last marie biscuit is covered with sauce. Coat the entire stack with the remaining sauce.?

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Roll the stack in butter paper and close the ends. Freeze it for an hour.?Place the stack horizontally and slice it diagonally. The slicecake is ready to eat.

Christmas Cookies -?Ingredients:

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1 cup oatmeal

1 cup whole wheat flour

1 teaspoon cinnamon

? cup raisins

? cup chocochips

1 cup sugar

? cup butter

1 teaspoon baking soda

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Method:?Preheat the oven at 180? C. Line baking tray with butter paper.?Combine flour, oats and baking soda and sieve twice.?Cream the butter and sugar in a separate bowl. Add dry ingredients to the creamed mixture and mix.

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Stir in raisins and chocochips. Mix until distributed homogeneously.?Form dough into balls and flatten each slightly and place on the baking tray.?Bake 180? C for 18-20 minutes or until edges are golden brown.

Honeyed Noodles with Frozen Yogurt -?Ingredients:

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200 g Bambino Vermicelli

2 tbsp oil

Salt to taste

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For honey sauce:

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1 tablespoon sugar

2 tablespoon honey

1 tsp sesame seeds, toasted

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To serve: 4 small scoops of Frozen Yoghurt

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Method -?For noodles: Boil 4 cups of water and add 1 tablespoons of oil. Add the vermicelli while stirring occasionally and cook until they are parboiled. Drain well.?Spread the vermicelli on a muslin cloth and allow to dry for a couple of hours.?Grease the noodles with 1 tablespoon oil and microwave them until crisp.

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For honey sauce: In a small vessel, combine the sugar with 1 teaspoon of water and heat over a slow flame. When the sugar melts, add the honey and sesame seeds and mix well. Keep warm.

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To proceed: Place the crispy noodles on a large serving plate.?Reheat the honey sauce and pour over the noodles.?Serve immediately with the frozen yoghurt.

Bread Pudding -?Ingredients:

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6 wheat bread slices, cut into pieces

1? cup skimmed milk

? cup sugar

2 tablespoon sugar for caramel

1 teaspoon vanilla essence

Nuts for garnishing

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Method:?Add milk to bread pieces, mash them well. Mix vanilla essence and sugar and keep aside.?Heat a pan with sugar and 2 teaspoon water. Tilt the pan frequently for even heating. Stop when the sugar turns golden yellow, and transfer the caramel into a vessel and tilt to coat the bottom and a bit to the sides. Let it set for 2 minutes and pour the bread-milk mixture to it. Cover the vessel with perforated aluminum foil.

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Steam cook for 20-25 minutes. Cool down and keep it in refrigerator for at least 3-4 hours and then turn it upside down in a plate.?Garnish it with nuts and serve.

Quick Nutty Bars -?Ingredients:

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1 cup almonds

1 cup black currants

? teaspoon cinnamon

5 dried apricots, chopped

5 dried dates, chopped

? cup shredded coconut

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Method:?Place the almonds, currants and cinnamon in a food processor. Grind to make into a smooth almond paste.?Add the chopped apricots, dates and pulse for less than a minute. Add coconut and again pulse lightly.?Place the dough over a plastic wrap on a flat surface. Pull up the plastic on either side and press it to form a uniform layer. Wrap it up and place in the freezer for ? an hour. Cut it into smaller squares. And again refrigerate the bars in an airtight container.