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    10 Smart Cures for Your Sweet Tooth

    By Emily Fleischaker, Bon Appetit

    It's an unbreakable pattern: Every night 10pm swings around and I crave something sweet. I'm trying to reverse the tolls of holiday indulgence, like everyone else it seems, so I removed all temptations from my pantry. But since the latke- and cookie-filled days of December, I'm tortured by cravings. And when I do succumb, a few cupcakes here and there go down much too easily.

    So I'm giving up. I have a new plan. I embrace my sweet tooth, but I feed it mindfully and in small doses. Keeping a few relatively healthful treats around seems to help. (At least I've stopped maniacally searching for any leftover Hanukkah gelt around the house ... because that just made me feel crazy.)

    Here are some ideas from our recipe archives:

    1. Cranberry and Vanilla Bean Sorbet (pictured upper left corner)
    Here's a clean, bright dessert that makes a great finish to any meal and can be prepared days ahead. Plus, who knew that mellow vanilla would go so beautifully with tangy cranberries?

    2. Chocolate-Dipped Frozen Banana Bites
    These banana bites make a fun snack or end to a meal, and each one contains just 78 calories. Not bad!

    3. Citrus Salad with Ginger Yogurt
    This colorful fruit salad is topped with delicious Greek yogurt and crystallized ginger.

    4. Whole Wheat S'more Cookies (pictured upper right corner)
    Whole wheat flour gives these clever cookie S'mores a graham-cracker flavor.

    5. Slow-Baked Honeycrisp Apples (pictured lower left corner)
    These baked apples are best served slightly warm, but they are also great served cold for breakfast. To make a healthy version of this recipe, top them with Greek yogurt.

    6. Sliced Strawberries with Grand Marnier Zabaglione
    In this elegant dessert, warm Grand Marnier-spiked custard is spooned over fresh strawberries just before serving.

    7. No-Cholesterol Brownies
    These chocolaty brownies are the perfect way to indulge on a low-cholesterol diet.

    8. Raspberry-Lemon Souffles
    This healthy and easy low-fat treat satisfies a dessert craving without the guilt.

    9. Asian Pear and Grapefruit Salad with Sake Granita and Pear Sorbet (pictured lower right corner)
    An exotic fruit salad that comes complete with its own ice cream pairing

    10. Spiced Fresh Orange and Honey Sorbet
    This refreshing, subtly flavored sorbet, is perfect after a spicy meal.

    Photo Credits (clockwise): Togashi Kiyoshi, Con Poulos, Richard Pierce, Jose Picayo

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    103 comments

    • BEEBEE, Willsboro  •  1 year 3 months ago
      Hi to everyone who loves sweets just like me
      If you drink fruit smoothies you WILL NOT crave sweets
      And when I do make one or 2 fruit smoothies a day
      I have NO desire to have any wine:)
    • Matt  •  1 year 4 months ago
      I stopped eatting rich foods like chocolate and lost 15 pounds :3
    • Horse Pucky  •  1 year 4 months ago
      How to cure a sweet tooth? 1/2 pkg. of Oreos,and a big glass of milk!
    • Steven  •  1 year 4 months ago
      stupid
    • omega  •  1 year 4 months ago
      Medjool Dates are better than candy, they're an incredibly sweet and sensuous treat! A couple of those and any sweet tooth would be satiated.
    • Cristina  •  1 year 4 months ago
      SWEETS! These are good ideas! i do want to be a Pastry Chef!!! :D
    • Cristina  •  1 year 4 months ago
      I'd always rather have extra fudge ice-cream! And LOTS of it.
    • Mike  •  1 year 4 months ago
      spot check. #4 the s’mores cookies. making something with whole wheat flour, doesn’t make it "healthy". and what health benefits it would have by using whole grain instead of enriched or bleached four, is quickly swept away in a torrent of brown sugar, butter, molasses and marshmallows.
    • RezChick  •  1 year 4 months ago
      try this: fat-free light vanilla yogurt mixed into freshly peeled, diced pears or apples. yummy, healthy, and very filling :)
    • Maureen  •  1 year 4 months ago
      Face it...there's no cure for a sweet tooth. You have it or you don't. If you have it you learn to sacrifice or pay for it in a myriad of ways. I've tried every remedy known to man to control it. I hear if you go a month without sugar you'll lose the craving but I would have to go to rehab for that to happen. Dr. Hugo Rodier is right. Sugar is as addictive as heroine.
    • Anonymous  •  1 year 4 months ago
      I'm so tired of fat ppl saying "you only live once, so why not?!" ... You all wonder why you get made fun of and treated like tards...

      do you want to die before your time b/c "you only live once". get in shape fattys
    • Stacey  •  1 year 4 months ago
      I have a great recipe for low-fat chocolate cookies! They're made with applesauce and egg whites...they definitely satisfy my sweet tooth!!!
    • Rory  •  1 year 4 months ago
      put down the fork!
    • Becca  •  1 year 4 months ago
      I find that a small handfull of chocolate chips usually do the job......or a couple of gluten free ginger snaps. The best part about Celiac is that some of the cookies are lower calorie, so I can have a couple without feeling guilty......especially the ginger snaps!!
    • Dawn  •  1 year 4 months ago
      I almost always reduce the amount of sugar used in recipes. American's sugar addiction has (in general) gotten out of control. Because I have a tendency to use less sugar when I am making some scrumptious treat for my family, we have discovered that the deserts served in restaurants are often much too sweet for our tastes. The more sugar one ingests, the more desensitized one becomes to sugar and the more sugar one needs to ingest to satisfy that sweet tooth craving. Sugar is a drug. However, I like it too much to become a sugar nazi :) I also still use real butter. I don't trust chemicals and overly proccessed food. I'd rather have a little bit of real sugar and fat.
    • Fine  •  1 year 4 months ago
      Wow, talk about yuppie maggot food. When it comes to my sweets, no one is going to tell me what is best. Pumpkin pie with so much cool whip you can't even find the pie. Then spoonfuls of just cool whip and for dessert my favorite cookie with a container of cool whip to dip the cookies. I will do some cardio to work it off, but leave my sweets alone maggots. You can take this stuff along with carbs are what makes you fat, you have upper and lower abs and there are weapons of mass destruction in Iraq and pitch them all in the garbage. If I ate bowls of these recipes I will get just as fat as overeating anything else.
    • Pamela B  •  1 year 4 months ago
      I have become addicted to the new fiber products that have arrived. When I want a sweet treat, I have a Fiber-One or Fiber-Plus bar. I have been doing this for a year now and have lost an amazing 70 lbs!!!, reaching my goal weight for the first time in 10yrs! An added plus, the fiber help to combat the "middle-aged" "middle" fat. Try the cereals and muffins as well. Before you know it, you'll like what you see. My hubby and sons have also lost between 20 and 55 lbs as well.
    • Rushed  •  1 year 4 months ago
      nothing cures my sweet tooth but total withdrawl. My reaction to sweets, eg. cookies, candies, etc is like the Lay's Potato Chip commercial: "Can't eat just one". If I don't eat sweets at all, I get OUT OF THE HABIT of eating them and want them less.
    • geezer  •  1 year 4 months ago
      I often pour a glass of 2% milk with Hershy chocolate syrup.
      Sip on it and usually does it for me.

      Sometimes snack on cereal that's already a bit sweetened. Fruit.

      If, if, if, I buy candy, and that's seldom, I eat it ALL at one time. Last time I had candy was Christmas. Can't remember before that. Months I'd say.

      At one time I had dessert with nearly every meal. I gained about 40 lbs over time. (New clothes, ugh) I'm down to normal weight. 6'1", 185.

      I might have dessert about 3-4 times a year with my daughter/s. (All overweight)
    • Jen  •  1 year 4 months ago
      I only read the cookie and brownie recipes, but they are NOT healthy! Replacing white flour with WW, but leaving all the sugar, etc doesn't make food healthy.

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