Strawberry Muffins

Ingredients:

• 1 1/2 cups all purpose, unbleached flour
• 1/2 cup Ideal Sugar
• 1/2 cup chopped strawberries (for muffins, not jam)
• 1/4 cup egg whites
• 1/2 cup milk
• 1 tsp vanilla
• 1 tsp baking powder
• 1/2 tsp salt
• 1/2 cup- 1 cup chopped strawberries & 1/2 cup Ideal sugar for jam
• 1/4 cup applesauce

Directions:

1. Mix dry ingredients
2. Add in egg, vanilla, milk, applesauce, and mix well
3. Fold in strawberries.
4. Bake at 350 until golden (around 20-25 mins)
5. While baking cook jam
1. Mix strawberries and sugar
2. Cook over medium heat until thick and mash if needed
6. While muffins are hot core a center hole or simply mash in a tsp or 2 of the warm strawberry jam.

If ya want to...

**over low heat melt 1/4 cup cream cheese and add in 1/4 cup Ideal sugar, drizzle over muffins

Mix Dry Ingredients for muffins

**no picture but add wet in and mix well

**fold in strawberries

Chop up more strawberries for the jam filling

Cook strawberries with a bit of sugar to make the jam

Mash Up strawberries and cook until they are thick

Make holes in muffins and place a few teaspoons of the strawberry jam

Strawberry Cheesecake Pops

I set out to find what in my pantry would help me create the most 'cheesecake' like taste when making a strawberry cheesecake popsicle....below you can see some of the things I tried

Vanilla wafers, Cupcake Goldfish, Cinnamon Squares cereal, Graham Crackers

Add sugar to your berries, especially if your strawberries are tart 

You can use a blender, I just used a small screen in my food mill to process the sugared strawberries

It made this lovely little juicy substance (perfect for jam if you wanted!!)

I separated each thing I wanted to try and notice the cream cheese on the bottom right corner

I labeled my popsicle containers so I would know which was which

If you don't have clever little popsicle mold, reuse pudding cups with popsicle sticks

Some of the finished product

I must say, these were great on these hot days we have had

INGREDIENTS:

• Strawberries (I used one container which is about 16 oz)
• Ideal sugar (as needed with strawberries)

Cheesecake

• 4 oz Fat Free cream cheese
• 3 oz crumbled cookie (graham crackers or vanilla goldfish or cinnamon squared cereal or Vanilla wafers, etc...) **adjust amount as desired-I used only 3 oz to keep calories and processed food use to a minimum in this recipe**
• 1/4 cup greek yogurt
• 1/4 cup Ideal sugar

**We preferred the cinnamon squares popsicles but the grahams tasted most cheesecake like**

DIRECTIONS:

1. Mix strawberries and sugar then blend or process in a food mill until a thick but pourable mixture is achieved.
2. Mix cream cheese, yogurt, and sugar until well combined then fold in cookie crumbles.
3. Layer cheesecake followed by strawberry in whatever combination you want, for best layers freeze for 5 mins or so between layering (I did not do this and found they came out ok without but they would probably be cleaner)
4. Freeze and enjoy