Cranberry & white chocolate cookies

I love these cookies, they’re so versatile and truly do work with whatever flavor combination ‘regular’ biscuit you want.  You can squash them thinner for a crisper texture (although they are not crisp!) or you can go for the soft, baked oat cookie style I tend to favour.

Low syn cranberry white chocolate cookies

Today I made cranberry with white chocolate chips for a change, they’re sweeter than I normally go for and come in at 2 syns each but that’s ok, served with tart raspberries they really do work well and are going to be perfect with my coffee later this afternoon!

If you want to give them a try, the recipe is here

Enjoy!
Kathy xx

Syn Free Diet Coke Chicken

I’ve been resisting making this for years, no idea why but the other night I found myself with no dinner and wanted to create something from what I had on the house (couldn’t be bothered to go out again!) and looking around for inspiration I saw diet coke and I knew I had frozen chicken, kinda made my mind up for me really!

Syn free diet coke chicken

OK, the jury was out as it bubbled away as I thought it was going to be a runny mess but after about 20 minutes the sauce had really thickened and I ended up with a BBQ style sauce, my chicken was moist and tender and the resulting meal was absolutely delicious.

If you want to give it a try my recipe is here, there are lots versions of diet coke chicken out there, and this is the only one I’ve done, but I often read that diet coke chicken is runny and all I can say is doing it this way does not end up with a runny meal!

Enjoy!
Kathy xx

Syn Free Apple Donuts

Anyone that knows me knows I love my baked oats and have them pretty much every day plus I eat a LOT of fruit!  I decided to make fruit donuts as a trial and used my trusty favorite Granny Smiths to come up with these syn free apple donuts.

Syn free apple donuts

I have to say they’re great, really different tasting and I sprinkled them with syn free sweetener before serving to add that real, super sweet donut taste and yup, it hit the spot!  They're especially good still warm and the mix makes eight donuts and two muffins for later!!

If you want to give them a try the recipe is here

Enjoy!
Kathy xx

Chocolate Orange Cheesecakes

These cheesecakes are only ½ a syn each, now they are fiddly and time consuming but they look great and are an absolute show stopper for any slimming world friendly dinner party.

1/2 a syn chocolate orange cheesecake

I’m still not sure about the texture as the jelly makes them slightly ‘grainy’ but they look awesome and taste good…they’re worth a try and for ½ a syn why not…I made eight and we had two each for pudding so they couldn’t have been that bad!!

If you’d like to give them a try the recipe is here

Enjoy!
Kathy xx

Hot Cross Buns

These are my Slimmig World friendly version of a hot cross bun and come in at a syn each.  They're a version of my baked oat muffins and taste exactly like a real hot cross bun.

Instead of a Muller Light I use a fat free lemon Greek style Muller Light which makes the buns slightly denser and gives the citrus flavour you expect from a hot cross bun.

I used deluxe mixed dried fruit which came in at 1/2 a syn per hot cross bun and a drizzle of icing for the cross.

If you'd like to give them a try the recipe is here.

Enjoy!
Kathy xx

Cheese Muffins

These super cheesy muffins are a savoury take on the baked oats I have most days for breakfast.  I love cheese and every so often like to make something that seems indulgent without using all my syns.  These muffins are perfect, syn free if using as your HEA & HEB and if not they’re 2 syns each.  You can make a batch and split them over a couple of days, reheating in the microwave or enjoying them cold.  

Syn free cheese muffins

Next I’m going to try them with different flavors, bacon, roasted veg and caramelized onion being the ones I want to work on next but I think it would work just as well with broccoli or asparagus

If you want to try the cheese muffins for yourself the recipe is here

Enjoy!
Kathy xx