Celebrate Valentine's Day with Dana's Bakery

Flowers and candy can be so cliche! Get your beau these adorable (and tasty) macaroons from Dana's Bakery for Valentine's Day.  

Dana's Bakery Sweetheart Box, $12 (Box of 12 Macaroons)

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Dana's Bakery Love Box, $36 (Box of 12 Macaroons)

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Recipe: Low Fat Tiramisu

I love sweets! It's true. And one thing I am learning to love as much as sweets is baking. I am so excited about this yummy (and low fat) recipe for Tiramisu Pastry Pups from Kim Lassiter, Founder of Symply Pure and Decadent Bakery.

You Need:

2 pkg.  (3 oz. each) ladyfingers, split, divided

2 Tbsp.  Coffee liqueur 

1 Tbsp.  organic sugar

1 cup  boiling water

2 pkg.  (8 oz. each) Neufchatel Cheese, softened

1/2 Organic cup  sugar

1/2 Tbsp.  coffee liqueur or fresh organic brewed coffee

2 cups  LITE Whipping cream

1 tsp.  unsweetened natural cocoa powder

1/2 cup of 10x sugar

1 package of powder gelatin or three sheets of gelatin soaked in cold water

Directions:

ARRANGE 1 pkg. of the ladyfingers on bottom of 13x9-inch dish. Dissolve instant coffee and 1 Tbsp. organic sugar.  Mix the sugar and 1/2 cup of fresh brewed coffee in a bowl. Brush 1/2 cup of the coffee mixture over ladyfingers in a dish.

BEAT Neufchatel Cheese with electric mixer on medium speed until smooth and add 1 package powder or three sheets of gelatin. Add 2 tsp of the coffee liqueur 1/2 cup organic sugar and liqueur, mixing until blended. Gently stir in whipped topping. 

Whipped Topping 2 cups of LITE whipping cream in a mixer whip on high speed until it has a medium peak add 1/2 cup 10x

SPREAD Neufchatel Cheese filling into a silicone mold. Refrigerate for two hrs. After two hrs pop out of mold and top with remaining ladyfin ladyfingers; brush with remaining coffee. Top with whipped cream. Dust with cocoa powder and serve.

Tips 
(optional) Drizzle chocolate sauce or chocolate syrup on plate with fresh berries for decor

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Sweet Tooth

I think that I may have to start going to the library again to bum the Internet, for I have been coming to Borders the past few days and I can't handle the delicious goodies they have at the coffee shop! This is a bookstore! I should be safe from sweets! I won't even tell you what I just inhaled over here. You would be disgusted and disappointed, especially since I am supposed to be off dairy. True, the people at the bookstore are considerable more normal than those at the library, but I can't sacrifice my already enormous waistline for this!