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WW Recipe of the Day: Coffee Fluff Dessert
Here’s a fun vintage recipe for a low calorie dessert called “coffee fluff.”
I found it in the original Weight Watchers Cookbook (affiliate link) by Jean Nidetch from 1966. I found it in a secondhand bookshop last summer and just had to bring it home.
Reading the original Weight Watchers rules and meal plan and perusing the dated, mostly unappetizing recipes made me glad I had never been subjected to the original Weight Watchers Program. I would have lasted about 15 seconds!
But hidden within the book’s pages were a few recipes that didn’t seem too bad: the Weight Watchers Cottage Cheese Danish, which has become a breakfast staple, and this Coffee Fluff, essentially coffee and unflavored gelatin whipped to make it fluffy and then chilled until it becomes firm, for example.
Recipe Notes
The original recipe called for artificial sweetener, but I’m not a fan, so I used a tablespoon of sugar instead. Feel free to substitute your favorite zero calorie sweetener for the sugar.
I tend to like the bitter flavor of coffee and drink mine black without sugar, so thought this dessert was fine with just a spoonful of sugar.
If you like your coffee sweet you’ll probably want to increase the amount. I also added a little dollop of Reddi-wip to fancy it up a bit.
This Coffee Whip makes a fun light dessert that would be perfect after a heavy meal.
How Many Calories and WW Points in this Vintage Coffee Fluff Dessert?
According to my calculations, each serving has about 14 calories.
To see your WW Points for this recipe, track it in the WW App!
(You must be logged into WW on a smartphone or tablet.)
1 SmartPoints (Green plan)
1 SmartPoints (Blue plan)
1 SmartPoints (Purple plan)
0 PointsPlus (Old plan)
If you like this classic Weight Watchers Coffee Fluff, be sure to check out some of my other easy Weight Watchers friendly dessert recipes including 2-Ingredient WW Pineapple Angel Food Cake, Oh So Easy No-Bake Strawberry Cheesecake Parfaits, WW 3, 2, 1 Microwave Mug Cake, 1-Ingredient Banana “Ice Cream” and No-Bake Chocolate Peanut Butter Cookies with Oatmeal
Or my latest coffee-infused infatuation that comes together in 5 minutes with just 5 everyday ingredients… Tiramisu Rice Cakes!
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Vintage Weight Watchers Coffee Fluff Recipe
Ingredients
- 1 envelope unflavored gelatin
- 1/2 cup cold water
- 1-1/2 cups strong black coffee
- 1 tablespoon sugar, or to taste
- 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
- Dash of salt
- Whipped topping for serving, if desired
Instructions
- Sprinkle gelatin on cold water to soften it.
- Dissolve the gelatin mixture in the hot coffee.
- Add the sugar, vanilla and salt, stirring until sugar dissolves.
- Place mixture in the refrigerator until the mixture gets syrupy (1-2 hours).
- Beat the slightly thickened gelatin mixture with an electric mixer (affiliate link) until it doubles in volume.
- Spoon into 6 sherbet glasses. Chill until firm.
- Serve plain or with a dollop of whipped cream or whipped topping, if desired.
Notes
(Must be logged into WW on a smartphone or tablet.) 1 SmartPoints (Green plan) 1 SmartPoints (Blue plan) 1 SmartPoints (Purple plan) 0 PointsPlus (Old plan) The original recipe called for artificial sweetener, but I’m not a fan, so I used a tablespoon of sugar instead. You could always substitute your favorite zero calorie sweetener for the sugar. I tend to like the bitter flavor of coffee and drink mine black without sugar, so thought this dessert was fine with just a spoonful of sugar. If you like your coffee sweet you’ll probably want to increase the amount. I also added a little dollop of Reddi-wip to fancy it up a bit. This Coffee Whip makes a fun light dessert that would be perfect after a heavy meal.
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
Source: adapted from Weight Watchers Cookbook (affiliate link) by Jean Nidetch
Does anyone have a copy of the food dairy from back in the late 1980’s you have a color code for foods
Looking for a recipe in the 1980 cookbook called upside down pizza made with ground turkey. Lost my cookbook when moving but would love to have it again.
Now that I see you have the cookbook from the 60s, does it possibly have a recipe named Pumpkin Patties? I remember using pumpkin puree, dry skim milk, pumpkin pie spice, and artificial sweetener. Mix the ingredients together and dole out on to parchment paper (placed onto a cookie sheet/jelly roll pan) in 1/4-cup increments and baking in oven at 350 degrees for about 20 minutes. I think I got about eight patties which were about three points. This attempt to remembering isn’t really accurate. But if the cookbook has the recipe, I’d appreciate your providing it, please. These were very palatable for improvising for pumpkin pie. Possibly with the blue points now, it would need calculating the dry skim milk only since pumpkin is a free vegetable.
Hi Joyce, I just checked the original WW Cookbook from the 1960s and it has no such recipe. The only pumpkin recipe is for a simple pumpkin soup made with pumpkin, broth and a few seasonings. ~Martha
I was just thinking of those cottage cheese danishes the other day. I ate them as a kid because my mom was doing weight watchers. i didn’t think they were half bad. So funny to see the recipe here 🙂