From choccie puds to tiramisu – six sweet treats from Slimming World to help you lose a stone for Christmas

GONE are the days erstwhile ­losing value meant giving up each your favourite treats.

With Slimming World, you tin inactive bask yummy desserts similar the ones connected this page.

From cocoa puddings to ­bakewell trifles, and crumbles to cheesecakes, these mouthwatering fancies volition let you to indulge portion staying connected track.

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Apple and blackberry crumble (serves 2)

Preparation time: 10 minutes

YOU NEED:

• 2 apples, peeled, cored and chopped
• 150g blackberries
• 4 level tsp sweetener granules
• 35g Jordans Simply Granola With A Hint Of Honey
• ½ tsp crushed cinnamon, positive a pinch to serve
• Fat-free earthy Greek yoghurt oregon fromage frais, to serve

METHOD: Mix the apples, blackberries, sweetener and 2 tbsp of h2o successful a 1-litre microwaveable vessel oregon ­container.

Cover and ­microwave connected precocious for 3 minutes.

Stir well, apical with the granola and cinnamon and cook, uncovered, for 30 ­seconds.

Divide betwixt bowls, adhd dollops of yoghurt oregon fromage frais and sprinkle with the other cinnamon to serve.

Orange tiramisu (serves 6)

Preparation time: 20 minutes, positive chilling

YOU NEED:

• 150ml freshly squeezed oregon unsweetened orangish juice
• 600g fat-free earthy Greek yoghurt
• 30g icing sugar
• 18 sponge fingers
• 2 ample oranges, peeled with pith removed, past divided into segments
• 10g plain acheronian chocolate, grated

METHOD: Put the orangish foodstuff successful a dish. Mix unneurotic the yoghurt and sweetener successful a vessel until smooth.

Dip six sponge fingers into the orangish juice, past put successful the bottommost of a serving dish.

Top with one-third of the orangish segments, followed by one-third of the yoghurt mixture.

Repeat doubly more.

Chill successful the fridge for astatine slightest 1 hour, oregon up to 12 hours.

When you are acceptable to serve, scatter evenly with the chocolate, past disagreement arsenic betwixt six bowls.

Blueberry cheesecake pots (serves 6)

Preparation time: 40 minutes, positive chilling

YOU NEED:

• 200g frozen blueberries
• 2 level tbsp sweetener granules
• Finely grated zest of ½ citrus and a compression of its juice
• 3 reduced-fat digestive biscuits
• 1 level tbsp low-fat spread
• 50g plain extra-light brushed cheese
• 450g fat-free earthy Greek-style yoghurt

METHOD: Tip the blueberries into a small, non-stick saucepan with fractional a level tablespoonful of sweetener and a compression of citrus juice.

Put implicit a medium-low vigor and navigator mildly for 15-20 minutes, stirring from clip to time, until the ­blueberries person mostly collapsed and their juices are reduced and syrupy. Set speech to chill completely.

While the ­berries are cooling, enactment the biscuits successful a sealable nutrient container and bash it with a rolling pin until they are a sandy texture.

Melt the dispersed successful a small, non-stick saucepan implicit a debased vigor past disturbance successful the biscuit crumbs.

Divide the crumbs betwixt six tiny tumblers oregon ramekins, past dispersed the substance evenly with the backmost of a spoon.

Beat the remainder of the sweetener, cheese, yoghurt and astir of the citrus zest with an electrical manus whisk until smooth.

Add two-thirds of the blueberry ­compote and mildly ripple it through.

Divide the substance implicit the biscuit bases, past apical with the leftover ­compote and the remainder of the citrus zest.

Chill successful the fridge for astatine slightest 2 hours, oregon ­overnight, past serve.

Bakewell trifles (serves 4)

Preparation time: 30 minutes, positive cooling and chilling

YOU NEED:

• 2 mean eggs
• 1 level tsp sweetener granules
• 2 level tbsp self-raising flour
• 1 tsp almond extract
• 1 level tbsp raspberry jam
• 10 caller cherries, halved and stoned, positive 4 full cherries to decorate (or usage raspberries)
• 11.5g sachet sugar-free raspberry jelly crystals
• 4 tbsp plain quark
• 250g low-fat custard from a tin oregon carton
• 160g cookware fat-free, nary added sweetener cherry yoghurt
• 10g flaked almonds, toasted, to decorate

METHOD: Put the eggs and sweetener successful a vessel implicit a cookware of boiling h2o and whisk with an electrical manus whisk for 5 minutes oregon until the eggs person ­tripled successful volume.

Take the vessel disconnected the vigor and sieve the flour implicit the top.

Using a metallic spoon and a figure-of-eight motion, fold the flour and the almond extract into the ­mixture, past spoon it into a tiny non-stick loaf tin.

Bake for 10 to 12 minutes oregon until golden, past permission to chill successful the tin.

Halve the sponge lengthways and dispersed with the jam, past chopped the sponge into tiny cubes and put successful 4 gangly glasses.

Divide the cherries betwixt the glasses, too.

Make up the jelly with 300ml of boiling h2o and acceptable speech until it has cooled to country temperature, making definite it doesn’t commencement to set.

Divide betwixt the glasses, past chill for 1 hr oregon until wholly set.

When the jelly has set, disturbance the quark done the custard, spoon the custard implicit the jelly and apical with the yoghurt.

Add the cherries and evenly scatter implicit the almonds to serve.

Lemon curd crème brûlées (serves 6)

Preparation time: 45 minutes, positive chilling

YOU NEED:

• 400ml skimmed milk
• 1 tsp vanilla extract
• 1 lemon, zest peeled into heavy strips
• 2 mean eggs, positive 2 yolks
• 2 level tsp cornflour
• 55g caster sugar
• 2 level tbsp citrus curd
• You’ll besides need:
• 6 x 150ml ramekins

METHOD: Put the beverage successful a saucepan with the vanilla and citrus zest, and vigor to ­steaming.

Take the cookware disconnected the heat, leaving the zest to infuse for 15 minutes, past region the zest.

Preheat your oven to 170C/150C fan/gas people 3½. Whisk the eggs, yolks and cornflour with 30g of sugar.

Add the citrus curd, whisk again, past determination successful the beverage and premix briefly.

Put the ramekins successful a heavy roasting tin and disagreement the ­mixture arsenic betwixt them.

Pour just-boiled h2o into the tin to travel astir halfway up the sides of the ramekins.

Bake for 30-35 minutes until the brûlées are conscionable acceptable with a wobble.

Allow to cool, past chill successful the fridge overnight.

Just earlier serving, evenly scatter the remainder of the sweetener implicit the brûlées.

To caramelise the sugar, popular them nether a precise blistery grill oregon usage a chef’s blowtorch,

Serve consecutive away.

Chocolate pudding (serves 6)

Preparation time: One hr and 40 minutes

YOU NEED:

• 90g self-raising flour
• 2 level tbsp cocoa powder, positive 2 level tbsp for the sauce
• 2 level tbsp sugar, positive 4 level tsp for the sauce
• 3 ample eggs
• 100ml skimmed milk
• 1 tsp vanilla extract
• Fresh cherries oregon raspberries, to serve

METHOD: Sift the flour and 2 level tbsp of cocoa into a mixing vessel and disturbance successful 2 level tbsp of sugar.

Mix unneurotic the eggs, beverage and vanilla, past determination them into the adust substance and bushed for 1 infinitesimal until creaseless utilizing an electrical manus mixer.

Tip it each into your dilatory cooker.

To marque the sauce, determination 300ml of boiling h2o into a measuring jug and premix successful the remaining cocoa and sweetener until dissolved.

Pour the condiment implicit the barroom substance successful the dilatory cooker and popular the lid on.

Cook connected precocious for 1½ hours oregon until the sponge is cooked and the condiment has thickened nicely.

Divide evenly betwixt bowls and service with the fruit.

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