dessert recipes

Orange Or Grape Blocks


candies, diabetic

2 cup orange juice
1 or
1 cup unsweetened grape juice
1 cup water
4 tablespoon unflavored gelatin (4 pkg)
2 teaspoon vanilla

Pour 1 cup of fruit juice into a bowl. Sprinkle gelatin over top to soften. Let stand 5 minutes. Boil remaining 1 cup orange juice (or water). Stir into gelatin mixture until it dissolves, about 3 minutes. Stir in vanilla. Pour into a rinsed 8 inch square cake pan. Chill about 4 hours until firm. Cut into 1 inch squares to serve. 2 squares = 12 calories, 2 grams carbohydrate, 1 gram protein, 1++ Extra Adapted from Choice Cooking, Canadian Diabetes Assoc. 1986 Shared and tested with white grape juice by Elizabeth Rodier, Feb 94.