Fantasy Cherry Soft Serve

1 cup ice water
1 small banana frozen and quartered
1 tsp bulk sweet and low
1/4 tsp - 3/8 tsp cherry drink mix powder w/no sugar added
1 TB frozen sugar free pineapple juice concentrate
5 or more regular size ice cubes

Combine first five ingredients plus four ice cubes.
Blend.
Add final ice cube.
Add a few tablespoons of ice water or another piece of ice to get soft serve consistency if needed.

Eat alone or share with up to four people (including yourself).
Perfect with a tall spoon for eating right away.
Could be put in a cone.

The mixture should be about this color by just adding the right amount of powdered koolaide and quite thick similar to a DQ cone that will make slight mounds.


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Cherry Pudding

This is Santa's Pudding:
He is dieting.;)

4 oz. cornstarch- [vs 8 TB.] To make it rich and thick.

I use a postage scale and an empty plastic food or topping tub to measure this from working in a bakery (Hell's Kitchen!!;)], this will be most accurate 1] Most often you will get a thicker product as air or moisture in the dry ingredients causes expansion. 2] If not you will lose the most girth when dieting, it will not sneak up on you.

1 pkg. of cherry Kool-aide
sweetener equivalent to 1 cup of sugar or 6-8 tsp. of sweet 'n low bulk
8-10 cups of water
1 tB. salt
1 tB. vanilla
1 tB. butter or margarine

Dissolve the cornstarch in 1 cup of water
In a 12 to 15 cup skillet put the remaining ingredients except for the butter and vanilla
Simmering for about 4-5 minutes add the corn starch/water mixture and stir with a whisk (wire whisk) until it boils, keep stirring while counting to 130 or so and then remove from heat. Add the butter and stir until melted and it combines with the pudding, then, add the vanilla.

Put in a large 3 to 4 cup bowl or into individual pudding cups. Top with low fat frozen whipped topping to make a red and white Christmas pudding. You could top it with cinnamon, too.