Dessert Recipes

It’s The Berries! Seasonal Recipes Featuring Fresh & Ready Ingredients

CarbSmart Magazine June 2013

It’s The Berries! by Dana Carpender from CarbSmart Magazine Issue 4. They're low sugar! They're delicious! They're loaded with antioxidants! Discover exciting new ways to use everybody's favorite super-fruits.

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Eat An Extra Low Carb Dessert For Eat An Extra Dessert Day

CarbSmart Espresso Chocolate Chip Brownies

According to the Hallmark Channel Ultimate Holiday Site, today is Eat an Extra Dessert Day. I think we can all get behind - if we choose an extra low carb dessert.

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Make Your Own Low Carb Coconut Butter by Dana Carpender

Folks, I'm sorry I've been so spotty about posting to CarbSmart recently. I'm on deadline for this paleo cookbook (Pre-order at Amazon.com: 500 Paleo Recipes), and I'm cooking and writing like a maniac. Quite honestly, Its hard to think about anything else. However, in an attempt to make it up to you, I will now tell you how to save a pile of money.

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Cinnamon Spice Pork Rind Cake Recipe by Dana Carpender

If you look back through the Ask Dana archives, you'll see I have written, in the past, about pork rinds, the fact that they are not, as some assume, egregious junk food, but actually the most nutritious thing in the snack aisle. In that article, I mentioned that once, years ago, an outraged online detractor of low carb diets threw in my cyberface the accusation that I ate pork rind cake. That accusation is now true.

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