How Many Calories Top Your Ice Cream Sundae?

Do You Like Your Ice Cream Naked Or With Toppings?

Sometimes there’s nothing better than an ice cream sundae. Sundaes can be made with just about anything and I freely admit that my favorite part is the stuff you put on top of ice cream, not the ice cream itself.

So Many Choices

You can put just about anything on ice cream.  Perhaps broccoli or smoked salmon isn’t your choice, but somebody, somewhere in the world, has probably gotten very creative with ice cream toppings.

Toppings Can Add A Mountain Of Calories

The standard fare:  toppings like hot fudge, whipped cream, peanuts, walnuts in syrup, crushed heath bar, caramel sauce – can all add hundreds of calories to your sundae.  For instance:

• Smucker’s Spoonable Hot Fudge Topping:  2tbsp, 140 calories, 4g fat, 24g carbs, 2g protein

• Smucker’s Spoonable Ice Cream Topping Pecans in Syrup Topping:  1tbsp, 170 calories, 10g fat, 20g carbs, 1g protein

• Regular Redi Whip:  2tbsp, 20 calories, 2g fat, 1g carbs

• Cool Whip, extra creamy:  2tbsp, 32 calories

• Regular M&M’s:  10 pieces,103 calories, 5.2g fat, 12.1g carbs, 1.9g protein

• Peanut M&M’s:  about 16 pieces, 200 calories, 10.15g fat, 23.48g carbs, 3.72g protein

• Peanuts (1oz): 160 calories, 14g fat, 5g carbs, 7g protein

Some Stand-bys Are Lower In Calories

• Rainbow Sprinkles (Mr. Sprinkles):  1 tsp, 20 calories, 0.5g fat, 3g carbs, 0g protein

• Chocolate Sprinkles (jimmies):  1 tbsp, 35 calories, 0g fat, 6g carbs, 0g protein

• Smucker’s Spoonable Ice Cream Topping, Light Hot Fudge, Fat Free:  2 tbs, 90 calories, 23g carbs, 2g protein

• 10 mini marshmallows:  22 calories, 0 fat, 5.7g carbs, .1g protein

• 18 gummi bears: 140 calories, 0 fat, 43.5g carbs, 0 protein

Think Outside The Box For Lower Calorie Choices

The world is your oyster in terms of toppings.  Why not fruit, cereal, or a crushed up 100 calorie pack of anything? Here are some other suggestions:

• Smucker’s Spoonable Pineapple Topping:  2 tbsp, 100 calories, 0g fat

• Regular Redi Whip:  2 tbsp, 20 calories, 2g fat, 1g carbs

• Fat Free Redi Whip:  2 tbsp, 5 calories, 0g fat, 1g carbs

• Cool whip, light:  2 tbsp, 16 calories

• Cool Whip, fat-free:  2 tbsp, 15 calories, 43.5g carbs, 0 protein

• 1 mini box of raisins (.5 oz):  42 calories, 0.1g fat, 11.1g carbs, 0.4g protein

• One medium banana: 105 calories, 0 fat, 27g carbs, 1g protein

• One cup strawberry halves: 49 calories, 0.5g fat, 11.7g carbs, 1g protein

• Sugar-free Jello pudding:  60 calories

• One cup Froot Loops:  118 calories, 0.6g fat, 26.7g carbs, 1.4g protein

• One cup blueberries:  83 calories,  0.5g fat, 21g carbs, 1.1g protein

• Crushed pretzel sticks, 1 oz:  110 calories, 1g fat, 23g carbs, 3g protein