Cream

 Vanilla Cream 

Core recipe if using sweetener

Points per recipe: 2½ if made with sweetener.

                             3½ if made with sugar.

 

225 g quark
4 tablespoon skimmed milk
1 teaspoon vanilla essence
3 teaspoon caster sugar, vanilla sugar or sweetener, to taste  (use sweetener for no count)

Beat together the quark, milk, essence and sugar or sweetener until smooth. Chill until required.

 

Low-fat Sour Cream Substitute   

 

Core: Buttermilk is not a core food but 2 tbsp is 0 pts

Points per recipe:  ½

 

1 oz cottage cheese           

2 tbsp Buttermilk 
1 tsp Lemon juice

 

Dump the cottage cheese, buttermilk and lemon juice into a food processor with metal blade. Process until smooth (and I mean SMOOTH...can turn grainy unless you give it time...when you think it's done, process it some more.)

Another idea along a similar vein would be to try making this with extra light philadelphia, natural yogurt and lemon juice. Points would be 1 for the whole recipe and it would then be both no count and core.