If anything can rival salads for sheer variety, it's fruit desserts of every kind. There are as many of them as there are fruits, really. And once you factor in all the possible combinations, the number comes out with a whole lot of zeros))
The five most commonly used ingredients in fruit dessert recipes:
| Product | Calories per 100g | Protein g per 100g | Fats g per 100g | Carbohydrates g per 100g |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sugar | 398 | 0 | 0 | 99.7 |
| Apples | 47 | 0.4 | 0.4 | 9.8 |
| Bananas | 89 | 1.5 | 0.1 | 21.8 |
| Gelatin | 355 | 87.2 | 0.4 | 0.7 |
| Strawberries | 30 | 0.6 | 0.4 | 7 |
In general, fruit dessert recipes are built around the presentation — that's what they hinge on. And you can serve them in all sorts of ways: on skewers, in tartlets, as canapés, in wine glasses, tumblers, dessert bowls or cups, portioned onto plates, shaped into patterns or fun little creatures, as cakes, cupcakes, layered or tossed salads, or as puddings, jellies, creams, pastries and so on.
The simplest and most common way to serve fruit desserts is as a salad — when all the ingredients are cut into pieces and mixed, dressed with yogurt or whipped cream, or left plain. It's just as easy to make a fruit dessert on skewers, short or long. The short ones are served as canapés, the long ones as fruit kebabs.
The next simple dessert is jelly with pieces of fresh or canned fruit. It can be multicolored and many-layered, very pretty and eye-catching. By the way, one of the prettiest summer cakes, called Broken Glass, can be made with bright, colorful fruit.
Another fun dessert idea is chocolate fondue, where fresh fruit and berries are dipped instead of pieces of bread. Simple and beautiful, and especially nice for a romantic dinner or a girls' night in.
The five lowest-calorie fruit dessert recipes:
| Name of the dish | Cooking time | Calories per 100g | User Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jelly in an orange | 15 min | 18 | +72 |
| Emerald gooseberry jelly | 2 hours | 22 | +35 |
| Salad with celery and cucumber | 30 min | 26 | +54 |
| Berry jelly with gelatin from frozen berries | 3 h 30 min | 27 | +41 |
| Sweet watermelon slices | 4 hours | 27 | +63 |
If you buy ready-made tartlets at the store and fill them with fruit slices, you'll get a dessert you barely have to spend any time on. You can do the same by baking fruit in puff pastry as turnovers or filled envelopes.