Nutrition Month 2009:
How To Make a Guilt-Free Chocolate Dessert

A dietitian endorsing chocolate? You bet! When you control portions and pair with healthy foods like fruit and low fat milk, you can have your dessert and eat it, too. Plus, you'll be trendy - 2009 is all about small plate servings. Enjoy this 1-2-3 Chocolate Sampler that's family friendly and portioned just right.

1. Choco Shooter - Pour low-fat chocolate milk into shot glasses. Top with a squirt of whipped cream.
2. Cocoa Custard - Homemade pudding takes just 10 more minutes than instant and it's divine! Check out speedy recipe below*.
3. Dark Dipped Fruit - Microwave chocolate chips on high for 1 minute. Stir until melted. Dip in strawberries, dried apricots, banana slices or pineapple chunks. Cool and serve a few pieces per sampler.

*Microwave Chocolate Pudding

Adapted from American Dietetic Association Cooking Healthy Across America by American Dietetic Association and Food and Culinary Professionals, a Dietetic Practice Group of ADA. © 2005, John Wiley & Sons.

• 3 tablespoons cornstarch
• 1/4 cup sugar
• 1/4 cup chocolate chips
• 2 cups fat-free milk
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract

Mix cornstarch, sugar and chocolate chips in glass bowl; stir in milk. Cook, uncovered, in microwave on high, around 6 -7 minutes, stirring every 2 minutes. Stir in vanilla. Pour into mini-ramekins to set.

Featured Dietitian: Deanna Segrave-Daly, RD, LDN Deanna is a "food loving" registered dietitian. Partner with Teaspoon Communications, she has over a decade of experience relaying nutrition messages to the public - while not forgetting about flavor. http://www.teaspooncomm.com