How to Pick Lactose Free Sweets and Desserts

Maintaining a lactose free diet is easy to do. All you have to learn is what ingredients to avoid and you're home free. Follow these steps to select lactose free sweets and desserts.

Instructions

Pick Tasty Lactose Free Sweets and Desserts

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  Pick a clear candy. Clear candies, like glass candy, are lactose free and come is a great selection of flavors. Glass candy also comes in sugar-free varieties and they are produced by top candy companies. Jolly Ranchers and Lifesavers, regular varieties, are lactose free and have only a few calories per piece of candy.

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  Know which sweets and desserts contain lactose. Toffees, caramels, desserts with whipped cream and cheese cakes all have lactose in them.

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  Bite into a cookie. Many cookies made with butter do not contain lactose. Peanut butter cookies, sugar cookies and oatmeal cookies all are lactose free. Chocolate chip cookies should be avoided because the chocolate chips have lactose in them. If you are making cookies from scratch and the recipe contains milk or margarine, then replace the milk with soy milk and replace the margarine with a lactose free margarine like Nucoa or use butter.

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  Try a lighter dessert made from fruit. Many fruit-based desserts are lactose free. A bowl of berries with non-dairy whipped topping is a great option, as is a simple piece of fruit.

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  Modify your dessert recipe to make it lactose free. Soy milk can be used to create dessert recipes that normally call for milk. For example, pudding can be made from soy milk. When substituting soy milk for regular milk use it part for part, i.e. substitute one cup of soy milk for one cup of cow's milk.