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Recipe: Quick Cassata
Servings: 12
Preparation Time: 10 min.
Cooking Time: 0 min.
 
Ingredients:
  • 1 Lbs. lowfat ricotta cheese
  • 1/4 cup sugar
  • 2 oz. semisweet chocolate chips, chopped
  • 1 tsp. orange zest
  • 1/3 cup Grand Marnier or other orange liqueur
  • 2 Tbs. orange juice
  • 1 frozen pound cake, 16 oz each
  • plastic wrap
  • tsp. powdered sugar
This Recipe is considered:
Low Calorie
Low Cholesterol
Low Sodium
Cooking Directions:
Place ricotta and sugar in a food processor or blender and process until smooth. Transfer to a bowl and fold in chocolate and orange zest. Combine liqueur and orange juice in another bowl. Cut cake horizontally into 4 layers. Place bottom layer on a serving dish and brush with 1/4 liqueur mixture. Spread with 1/3 cheese mixture. Top with next cake layer and repeat with remaining cake slices, liqueur and cheese mixtures, reserving 1/4 of the liqueur to brush over top of cake. Wrap with plastic wrap and refrigerate until serving time. Cut into thin slices and serve dusted with powdered sugar.
 
Per Serving: calories 116, fat 4.6g, calories from fat 36%, protein 4.7g, cholesterol 16.9mg, dietary fiber 0.3g

Nutrients Exchanges
Calories 116 Milk Exchanges 0.0
Protein 4.7g Vegetable Exchanges 0.0
Carbohydrates 10.6g Fruit Exchanges 0.0
Dietary Fiber 0.3g Bread Exchanges 0.0
Sugar 9.6g Other Carbohydrates/Sugar Exchanges 0.5
Fat Total 4.6g Lean Meat Exchanges 0.6
Saturated Fat 3.0g Very Lean Meat/Protein Exchanges 0.0
Mono-unsaturated Fat 1.5g Fat Exchanges 0.9
Poly-unsaturated Fat 0.2g
% Calories from Fat 36%    
Cholesterol 16.9mg
Sodium 57.3mg
Vitamins Minerals
Vitamin A 47.1IU Calcium 105.7mg
Thiamin (B1) 0.2mg Copper 0.2mg
Riboflavin (B2) 0.2mg Iron 0.4mg
Niacin (B3) 0.4mg Magnesium 11.6mg
Vitamin B6 0.1mg Manganese 0.1mg
Vitamin B12 0.1mcg Phosphorus 79.5mg
Vitamin C 1.5mg Potassium 73.0mg
Vitamin E 0.2IU Selenium 1.2mcg
Folate 6.2mcg Sodium 57.3mg
Pantothenic Acid 0.1mg Zinc 0.6mg