Fruit Shortcakes
Author/Submitted by: Weight Watchers Magazine, May/June 1997, Recipe Card Insert Servings: 4 Categories:
Cakes
/
Desserts
Ingredients: 1 1/4
cups
all-purpose flour 1
tablespoon
superfine sugar 1
teaspoon
baking powder 1/2
teaspoon
baking soda 2
tablespoons
chilled stick margarine,
cut in small pieces
1/2
cup
lowfat buttermilk 1
tablespoon
all-purpose flour
nonstick cooking spray 1/2
cup
plain fat-free yogurt 2
cups
blackberries
--or other berries 1
large
papaya or mango,
peeled and chopped
--and pureed
Directions:
1. Preheat oven to 450 oF.
2. Combine first 4 ingredients in a bowl; cut in margarine with a pastry blender until mixture resembles coarse meal. Add buttermilk; toss with a fork until moist.
3. Roll dough to a 1/2 inch thickness on a surface sprinkled with 1 tablespoon flour; cut into 8 (2-inch) biscuits. Place on a baking sheet coated with cooking spray. Bake at 450 oF for 15 minutes or until golden.
4. Split biscuits. Spoon 1 tablespoon yogurt and 1/4 cup berries over each biscuit bottom; replace biscuit tops. Serve with papaya puree.
Yield: 4 servings.
Selections: 2 B, 1 FR/V, 2 FA
Per serving: CAL 315 (20 % from fat); PRO 8 g, FAT 7 g (sat 1 g); CARB 56 g; FIB 4 g; CHOL 2 mg; sodium 416 mg; CALCIUM 212 mg.
Adapted from Quick and Easy Classics.
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