Aunt Rocky’s Cranberry Cream Cheese Bites (Sugar Free, Low Carb)

Cover a small cookie sheet with waxed paper, set aside. (I used an ice cube tray to make the clouds I photographed, but I don’t recommend doing it that way. They turn into a frozen brick that must be defrosted before eating.)

Bring cream cheese, mascarpone and butter to room temperature (or soften in microwave in 20 second increments until everything is just starting to melt). Whisk them all together until creamy and smooth. (You’ll get a smoother result if you soften everything separately, but I don’t bother doing that, so I usually have some tiny beads of cream cheese. It doesn’t affect the taste at all.)

Add the powdered sweetener and whisk again. Stir in the cranberry sauce. Pour or spoon into 1 tablespoon candy molds of any shape. If you don’t have molds. Refrigerate the mixture until it is stiff enough to scoop onto waxed paper in 1 tablespoon mounds. Place in freezer for at least an hour, or until fully set and hardened.

Remove from freezer when fully set, and transfer to a freezer bag or covered freezer container. Can be eaten frozen, or bring to room temperature for about 10 minutes if you want them softer. Store in freezer or they will get too soft to pick up.

Yields 24 pieces.

Notes:
• This is a great way to use left over cranberry sauce from Thanksgiving. I do not recommend using granulated sweeteners in this recipe, or you may have a grainy result, rather than smooth and creamy.
• Aunt Rocky’s Sugar Free Cranberry-Orange Sauce is a separate recipe on Tasty Kitchen. You may use any sugar free cranberry sauce, or even a sugar free jam (melted) in this recipe.
• Nutrition estimates are based on My Fitness Pal’s online recipe analyzer. Brand names are included only to assure more accurate estimates. The recipe is stored on and available to MFP users for logging in their food diaries. Sugar alcohols, Allulose, and liquid Sucralose are not absorbed by the body and rate zero on the glycemic index, so are excluded from nutrition counts.
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Each piece: Calories 54, Total Fat 5 g, Saturated Fat 3 g, Sodium 33 mg, Potassium 1 mg, Total Carbohydrate 0 g 0, Dietary Fiber 0 g, Net Carbs 0 g*, Sugars 0 g, Protein 1 g. Macros: 96% fat, 4% protein, 0% carbs.

* Due to rounding, 1 piece is 0g carbs, but 2 of them is about 0.5 net carb.

© November 7, 2018 Roxana Lopez for Aunt Rocky’s.