Heavenly Healthified Low Carb Strawberry Shortcake from Cut The Wheat Blog

Sometimes I just have to stand in awe of the talented cooks, chefs, recipe developers and writers in our low carb, keto, paleo/primal community.

Dayum, shahzayum! That's a mouthful! But not as big a mouthful as her heavenly stack of "Oh-Sweet-Baby-Jesus-Of-The-Golden-Fleece-Diapers-Hold-Me" deliciousness that is Leeann's Strawberry Shortcake recipe. Leeann is the creator and cook extraordinaire of Cut The Wheat Ditch The Sugar, a spectacular low carb blog that you simply must visit. And visit often!

Low Carb Sugar Free Chocolate Mousse

Creamy, Dreamy, Floaty Clouds of Chocolate Deliciousness



Low Carb Sugar Free Chocolate Mousse
with Sugar Free Macerated Strawberries

The other night Kevin (you remember Kevin, one of our sock monkey “boys”) was sequestered to the chain gang in the kitchen doing dishes and he said, “Mom, why don’t you ever make dessert for the inmates in this joint?”

To which I calmly answered, “Kevin are you forgetting the chocolate dipped strawberries I made you, Daddy, Buddy, Tony, Schylling, and your little dog Wee Wee, and Wee Wee’s baby, Skeeter for Valentine’s Day?”

Kevin replied, “That’s so “two weeks ago,” we’re “over here” now, Mom. And besides, strawberries are not dessert food.”

I snapped at him, “They are when you dip them in scumpt-dilly-ish-ess sugar free low carb chocolate ganache scented with orange and fresh thyme!”

He said nothing, stared at me intently, then turned his nose up and pronounced with derision, “Psssshaw! Fish food.”

Sugar Free Chocolate Dipped Strawberries

Devil or Angel, Will You Be My Valentine?



Sugar free chocolate dipped strawberries.



Sometimes a recipe looks good on paper and totally bombs during execution. This is the story of a sugar free chocolate dipped strawberry that almost “wasn’t.” There were a few tense moments and curses coming from the SusieT kitchen. And had I been anything other than a cheapskate, tightwad, a nearly failed sugar free chocolate ganache would have ended up in the trash bin. But Denny and a quick google and voila! What happened next was so great; I simply had to share – just in case this ever happens to you!

I don’t cook desserts very often. Not only do we count every carb, but I feel our carb budget