Fat To Skinny
Recipe Exchange => Desserts and Sweets => Topic started by: paulachappell on July 09, 2010, 06:51:25 AM
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Just found this, haven't tried them but I wanted to share before I leave for work:
Cocoa-Peanut Porkies
8 ounces carbsmart chocolate chips (or any sugar-free semisweet chocolate)
3/4 cup natural peanut butter
5 ounce bag pork rinds
Put the chocolate and the peanut butter in a microwaveable bowl, and nuke on high for 1 minute. In the meanwhile...
Poke a hole in your bag of pork rinds to let the air out, then smash 'em up with abandon -- I just bash mine all over with my fist. You want them in smallish chunks.
The microwave beeped! Stir the chocolate and peanut butter, and if there are still some unmelted bits of chocolate, give the whole thing 1 more minute on high.
Okay, back to your pork rinds: Dump 'em in a huge mixing bowl. Take a second to spray a 9x13 pan with non-stick cooking spray.
The microwave has beeped again! Stir the peanut butter and chocolate together well, then scrape the mixture into the bowl with the pork rinds. Stir the whole thing up until the pork rind bits are evenly coated with the chocolate-peanut mixture.
Dump the whole thing into the pan, and press it out into an even layer. Chill till set, then cut in bars. Store in the fridge.
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If you get 24 bars, each will have: 129 Calories; 9g Fat ; 6g Protein; 7g Carbohydrate; 5g Dietary Fiber; 2 g usable carb.
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and if you use beanit butter you will cut out more carbs!
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Sounds yummy!
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Paula are you related to Katary??? :D :D :D
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Im beginning to wonder..........
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hey dont laff....the beanit butter cookies i made dont taste too much different than the ones i made from pork rinds ;D get down with your bad self paula :o
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I don't eat pork rinds plain, but I like to use them in combination with casseroles. I think I might even eat these. Going to make them tomorrow. :o
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;D ;D ;D
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These were really tasty! You would never know they are made with pork rinds. Nice, light crispy texture. When I mixed the (I used Beanit Butter) and chocolate together and it was all melted I couldn't help thinking it would make a nice spread for gg crackers for a quick cure for chocolate craving. That got me to thinking maybe we should have a thread just for sharing toppings for gg crackers. :)
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Well now we know where katary's evil twin is living! muahahaha.
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WOW! I made these today and they are so yummy. Stress relief was an added bonus. Smashing up all of those pork skins was good therapy. :D It is very true you can hardly taste the pork skins in them.
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oooh! These sound so good...I need to find sugar free chocolate chips now :)
Thank you for sharing!
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Becky: check out this thread:
http://fattoskinny.net/index.php?topic=1104.0 (http://fattoskinny.net/index.php?topic=1104.0)
There is a recipe to make homemade SF chocolate chips with the recipe for Magic Bars
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I made them last night and they are really good.
I am going to experiment with this. I was thinking of making these only instead of chocolate, using a vanilla/peanut butter flavoring. Kind of like a pork rind pie or tart crust where you could top it with greek yogurt, sugar-free cheesecake, or something like that.
The crunch in these bars really hit the spot and you really couldn't tell it was rinds. If I served it to someone who didn't know they would probably think I made them with crushed Chex cereal or something.
If I come up with anything good I'll let you all know.
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Sansucre how are you doing? :)
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Hi Umpa!
I'm doing great.
I got a little off track due to the holidays but I'm back on strict low-carb. I will be experimenting a lot and if I come up with anything good I'll be sure to post it. I have 25 - 30 pounds to go and I want it off by summer.
Funny, I'm watching all these women at the gym who just started their resolutions and are on low-fat/high carb diets. I feel so sorry for them. They are obsessed with food and suffering needlessly. They don't want to hear "low-carb" and argue that it's unhealthy despite the fact that I've dropped 45 pounds and my bloodwork is great, so I figure I'll just have to wait it out and let them see me lose weight (http://www.fattoskinny.com/) while they stay hungry and fat. That is really the only way to get the point across.
I invited a few of them to go to lunch next week. There is a restaurant out here that makes an awesome wild salmon and green bean entree. One woman said she loved their asparagus but that it was "fattening." I was thinking, what could they do to asparagus to make it fattening, batter and fry it?? She said they cook it in olive oil and butter. The other women nodded their heads in agreement..... Sigh......
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Hi sansucre! :)
It's nice to hear from you again!
When you reach your goal and are in great health, those women won't dismiss what you have to say about FTS.
We'll help you reach your goal by Summer.
Just don't be such a stranger!
Tony
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I have been there Sansucre! My mother in law said to me the other night"There is nothing wrong with rice,have you ever seen a fat asian?"I just came back from San Francisco a couple of months ago and the answer was YES!! but I didn't say anything ;) People do things in there own time and space :)