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Mocha Parfaits
Yield: Makes 4 servings
Mocha, the flavor combination of coffee and chocolate, is quickly becoming a favorite flavor for coffees, icings, desserts and sauces. Here we have made a low fat mocha sauce and poured it over nonfat frozen yogurt.
Ingredients:
1-1/2
tablespoons margarine

1/3
cup unsweetened cocoa powder

1
cup boiling water

1/2
cup sugar

1
tablespoon instant coffee granules

1
teaspoon vanilla

1
pint coffee-flavored nonfat frozen yogurt

12
whole coffee beans (optional)



Preparation:
1.
Melt margarine in heavy saucepan over low heat. Add cocoa; cook and stir 3 minutes. Add boiling water, sugar and coffee; cook and stir until thickened. Remove from heat; stir in vanilla. Cool.

2.
Place 2 tablespoons frozen yogurt in bottom of each of 4 parfait glasses. Top each with 1 tablespoon sauce. Top sauce with another 2 tablespoons frozen yogurt; top frozen yogurt with 2 tablespoons sauce. Repeat layering twice more. Top each parfait with 3 coffee beans, if desired.



Nutritional Information:
Serving Size:
Carbohydrate 54 g
Saturated Fat 1 g
Total Fat 5 g
Calories from Fat 16 %
Calories 265
Protein 5 g
Sodium 109 mg
Dietary Exchange:
Fat 1
Starch 3


This recipe appears in: Trifles & Parfaits