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Healthy Dessert Recipes

Easy desserts, healthy desserts, the best desserts and more!

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Looking for the best healthy dessert recipe to try? If you need a healthy dessert recipe that is quick and easy, here are a few of the best dessert recipes to try.

1. Healthy Cookie Recipes

If you're looking for an easy and healthy dessert, cookies are an obvious choice. Choose from these healthy sugar-free cookie recipes for an easy and healthy dessert that the whole family will love.

2. Tofu-based Puddings and Mousse

Use silken tofu instead of cream for a lower-calorie, low-fat and healthy dessert. Top with your favorite fruits for a bit of extra sweetness. A reader who reviewed one tofu chocolate mousse recipe gave it five stars and said it was so good, she was licking the serving cup! Here are a few healthy puddings and mousse recipes to try for a healthy dessert idea:

3. Dairy-Free Sorbet

Dairy-free fruit sorbets are an excellent choice for a healthy dessert. They are usually low in fat, or even fat-free, though they are not always sugar-free. Here are a few healthy sorbet recipes to try for a healthy dessert:

  • Fat-free Ginger Apple Sorbet Recipe
  • Simple Strawberry Sorbet
  • Low Calorie Chocolate Sorbet (pictured)
  • Sugar-free Fat-Free Healthy Banana Sorbet

    • 4. Fat-free and Low-Calorie Chocolate Brownies

    They do have a bit of sugar, but using non-fat milk powder and egg whites keeps these brownies in the healthy dessert category, as they are low in calories and fat-free.
  • More fat-free recipes
  • More low-calorie recipes

    • 5. No-bake Fruit Pie

    While a double-crust pie made with butter or even vegan margarine can really add on the fat and calories, this simple no-bake fruit pie (pictured) is low in fat (nearly fat-free, in fact), low in calories, and nearly sugar-free, particularly if you use a sugar-free pie crust. Here's some more healthy homemade fruit pie recipes to try:
  • No-bake summer fruit pie
  • Low-fat lemon blueberry pie
  • Reduced-fat vegan peach pie

    • 6. Sugar-free Fruit Popsices

    Homemade or store-bought, fruit popsicles are a healthy dessert idea, perfect for summer, and a healthy pick for kids. When made at home from fresh fruit, such as these strawberry pineapple popsicles there's no fat, and no added sugar. For another healthy popsicle idea, try these chocolate fudgesicles made from almond butter and cocoa, and sweetened with agave nectar instead of sugar. Delish!

  • Orange creamsicles
  • Easy watermelon popsicles
  • Pineapple passionfruit popsicles
  • Sugar-free chocolate fudgesicles

    • 7. Baked Fruit and Fruit Cobblers

    For a low-fat healthy dessert, try a baked fruit dish or a healthy fruit cobbler or crumble. Baked fruit is one of the best healthy desserts. Try some of these baked fruit recipes for a healthy dessert:
  • Baked Peaches with Honey and Ginger
  • Low-fat Baked Pears with Cranberries (pictured)
  • Apple Cinnamon Crisp
  • Fat-free Wine Simmered Peaches
  • Healthy Apricot Cobbler

    • 8. Raw Chocolate Desserts

    Most health food store stock quite a selection of raw food treats and desserts these days, so why not try a few out? If you prefer to make your own at home, starting with raw chocolate is one way to do it. Here's a few raw chocolate desserts to try. They're all sugar-free, and made from all-natural and unprocessed ingredients:

  • Sugar-free raw chocolate truffles (pictured)
  • Raw chocolate walnut roulade cake
  • Raw chocolate fudge
  • More raw chocolate recipes to try
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