A chocolate indulgence for Valentine’s Day is a must, but that doesn’t have to mean excessive fat and calories.
These chocolate-walnut lace cookie ice cream sandwiches can be assembled as spectacular frozen towers, and the nutritional numbers are just as impressive.
The easy-to-prepare cookies are made rich with the healthy fats in chopped walnuts, plus a small amount of intensely flavored cocoa and a prudent amount of butter for that unmistakable taste. High-fiber oats add heft and texture to the batter, which is bound together with only a tablespoon of egg white.
As for the ice cream, you can go with chocolate if you want an intense cocoa experience or strawberry to add an appropriate touch of pink. A scoop of each wouldn’t be so bad, either.
If you want to be completely virtuous you can use nonfat frozen yogurt or ice cream, but varieties with even a small amount of fat tend to have a more luxurious mouth feel.
