No-Bake Pumpkin Cheesecake with Candied Pecans

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110 calories | The pumpkin craze has clearly kicked into high gear with pumpkin spiced lattes and pumpkin scones aplenty. I say embrace the trend!…in a Devinly manner 🙂 These adorable no-bake pumpkin cheesecakes have 110 calories and 4.5g of fat (while a popular pumpkin scone has a whopping 460 calories and 21g…

Arby’s Curly Fries

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235 calories | When I was a kid, I would have eaten any food that was curly—curly fries, chocolate curls, curled carrots, even green onion curls and fusilli (spiral pasta). Maybe the appeal had something to do with the fact that I would have done anything for naturally curly hair. Perhaps I had curl envy and acted it…

Dark Chocolate Layer Cake with Chocolate Buttercream Frosting

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294 calories | When my first cookbook, Fast Food Fix, came out, reporters were constantly trying to get me to admin that I still have a secret fast-food longing. They would say, “Come on, you must cheat from time to time with the real deal.” But the truth was that I just didn’t and I still don’t. Once I re-created…

Bearymelon “Cookies”

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22 calories | Let’s face it, kids (big and small) love cookies. By calling these adorable slices of watermelon “cookies” and decorating them a bit, your kids and their friends are a lot more likely to accept them as an after-school snack. Heck, it’s possible word will even get out that you’re the cool mom, dad, aunt…

Punched-Up Pina Colada

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219 calories | Most cocktails contain a lot of calories and empty carbohydrates. Here I’ve replaced calorie-dense coconut creme with light coconut milk, and used frozen pineapple chunks and dried egg whites to thicken the drink. The frozen pineapple retains more nutrients than the sugar-sweetened pineapple juice…