Mocha Parfait Recipe: Creamy Coffee & Chocolate Dessert

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 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 to room temperature.
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.

Cook's Note Cocoa powder gives desserts rich chocolate flavor without adding fat since practically all of the cocoa butter has been removed. This recipe appears in: Trifles & Parfaits NUTRITIONAL INFORMATION: Sodium 109 mg Protein 5 g Carbohydrate 54 g Saturated Fat 1 g Total Fat 5 g Calories from Fat 16 % Calories 265 DIETARY EXCHANGE: Starch 3 Fat 1