Amaretto Pear Parfaits

Bosc pears work well in this dessert. I also love the flavor combination of amaretto and peaches, so peaches would probably also work well in this recipe. Based on a recipe i found in cooking light a couple years ago. The original used softened low-fat vanilla frozen yogurt, but i've only made it with the yogurt. The 1 hour cooking time is actually chilling time. With the low-fat frozen yogurt, cooking light showed the nutritional values per serving as: 238 calories, 5.6 grams fat, 39.9 g carbs, 137 mg sodium.

Steps

Combine pears through sugar and liqueur , cover and chill 1 hour.

Spoon layers into each of 4 8-oz glasses in this order: 1 tbs crumbs , 3 tbs pear mixture , 3 tbs yogurt or frozen yogurt.

Repeat layers.

Sprinkle 1 tbs almonds over top of each parfait.

Chill until serving time.

Ingredients

pears, amaretto liqueur, sugar, gingersnap crumbs, nonfat vanilla yogurt, sliced almonds