Healthy Dessert Recipes

[wtaylo15]

Does anyone have any healthy dessert recipes? I'm a big chocolate person and looking for something to curb the sporadic cravings without putting on the pounds. 🙂 

Thanks and Happy Stepping!

[Jabrat]

http://www.eatingwell.com/recipes_menus/recipe_slideshows/low_calorie_chocolate_recipes?slide=1#lead...

[Jabrat]

And I eat the Chocolate Special K - just plain - satisfies my chocolate cravings 🙂

[JenniLacey]

Hundreds 🙂

but rather than listing them all, I get a lot of good ideas from this blog: http://chocolatecoveredkatie.com/recipes/

I just started making these and they are to die for fudgy:

1/4 cup Unsweetened Cocoa Powder
1/2 cup Whole Wheat Flour
1/4 cup Splenda, Brown Sugar Blend
1/4 tsp Baking Powder

1/2 cup Pumpkin Puree
3 tbsp. Olive Oil
2 tbsp. Unsweetened Vanilla Almond Milk
1 1/2 tsp. Vanilla Extract

1/3 cup Dark Chocolate Chips

Just mix the dry ingredients, then the wet ingredients. Mix both together and put in a 8x8 baking dish for 20 mins (or until set) at 325 F.

[Shelb]

Cookie balls

1 cuo raw cashews

1/2 cup oats

3 tablespoons honey

1/4 cup dark chocolate chips

Grind cashews and oats in a blender till fine powder. Add honey and maple syrup blend until it resembles dough. Roll dough into balls then sitck into chips or add them to dough before rolling.

3 bananas frozen

2 tablespoons peanut butter

2 tablespoons unsweetened cocoa powder

Put everything in blender and blend.

[scoobie57]

this isn't chocolate but a healthy alternative to apple cobbler.  Over low fat (or fat free frozen yogurt), spoon homemade apple butter.  Apple butter is made slow way in slow cooker by placing cored, sliced (skins left on) in slow cooker on high for 4 hours.  mix in 2 tbsp of cinnamon and sprinkle pumpkin pie spice when loading up the cooker.  You can speed up by doing apples in dutch oven on the stove and use liquid like water mixed with apple juice.  Cook apples down to soft consistency (about 40 minutes or so).  I like to make it even creamier by putting cooked apples in a blender but that's not really needed.  Soft apples are really sweet and are very healthy alternatives to a breading based cobber topping 

[carl669]

i love chocolate as well and these seem to do the trick for me:

• 1/2 cup coconut oil (solid at room temp)
• 1/4 cup Cocoa Powder
• 2 Tbsp any sweetener you desire.  (i used splenda. add more or less depending on your taste)
• 1 tsp vanilla extract(gives it a nice vanilla flavor)
• 1 tbsp heavy whipping cream

In a sauce pan, melt the coconut oil.  Then remove from heat.  Add all of your other ingredients and  whisk until mixed evenly.  It does not take very long.

Pour into silicone molds and put in the fridge (not freezer).  It should be hardened into candy within the hour.

[kdennis250]

if you look up recipes for Paleo desserts you'd be amazed what you can make thats both healthy for you (good fats) and none of the bad things (bad carbs).

we like to make baked bananas: 1 tbsp honey, 1 banana (sliced in half), a dash of cherry brandy if you are feeling sassy, cinnamon, nutmeg. bake 10-15 mins at 400. tastes like bananas foster but super low on the calorie scale in comparision, you can always use even less honey if you want less calories.

apples with "caramel" dip: dip is basically 3 parts cashew butter 1 part raw honey (or any other natural sweetener) i swear it tastes like eating a nut covered caramel apple, soooo good.

i've found recipes for sweet potato brownies, cupcakes with a nut based "buttercream" icing, yummy cookies with almond flour or coconut flour, anything i've made has ended up being wonderful, just do some searches!

[Cassandrao]

you could try baking a banana in its skin, split first to make a gash on top and stick a few choc chips in to melt. Bake banana till soft - yum. I ususally make a little foil boat shape to hold the banana in while its baking. You can BBQ these as well. The skin should be really black  when cooked and the inside soft with the chocolate melted. Its very filling and the chocolate hit is good as its gooey.

[scoobie57]

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[Naomi94]

• 3 bananas (sliced frozen)
• 3/4 cup Greek yogurt
• 2 tbsps cocoa powder (unsweetened)
• 1 tbsp honey
• 1/2 cup low-fat milk

Enjoy one cup of your smoothie, put the rest of it in the refrigerator or freezer for whenever you have a craving for something sweet, chocolaty...and low calorie. 

[Cassandrao]

Yum I'll try that one

[Cassandrao]

Not sure on time just till they get squishy around 180 Celsius

[lexisenese]

I don't know if you have heard of this or not, but this is absolutely amazing.  Banana Ice Cream...

This is absolutely delicious, and it is probably the easiest dessert in the whole world to make.  Just take one banana, preferably a large one, and cut it into slices.  Put the slices in a small bowl or plate and wrap it in plastic wrap to keep it from going bad.  Stick it in the freezer for at least four hours.  Take it out of the freezer and put the frozen banana slices in either a single-serve blender (like a bullet), a blender, or a food processor.  I've tried them all and they all work the same.  Blend on the lowest setting to get a fluffy, creamy ice cream.

I don't stop there.  I usually put a Tablespoon of Peanut Butter in and add dark chocolate chips or almonds to the bowl afterwards.  So absolutely easy and delicious.  It looks and tastes just like soft-serve ice cream! 

[roni3674]

I am going to have to try this one.  It sounds yummy.

[allana04]

I found best way to still enjoy all my favourite desserts is to search for healthy alternatives. I bloody love cake, but I know if I have a cake it guaranteed I that I will eat the whole thing, so unless I am attending a party or have company I used to just avoid making them.

So I had a search for yummy cake alternatives and found this chocolate quinoa cake recipe. My sweet tooth was finally satisfied when I made it and I didn't feel sick after I ate all of them 🙂 I started playing with the recipe and adding coconut and lime zest which makes the best on the go breakfast! So now I am eating healthy cake for breakfast!!

Let me know what you think!

[DanielleinDC]

I don't know how healthy it is, but I like to dip fruit (especially strawberries) into chocolate hazelnut dip. Larabar also makes these yummy fruit, nut, and chocolate bites. If you can control the portions, it won't be too caloric.

[SunsetRunner]

Love the suggestions so far, but if you want something quick and off the shelf, try Halo Top or Enlightened Ice Cream.  They saved me during my weight loss journey.  They're the only low calorie / added protein ice creams that taste like real ice cream to me. The Halo Top chocolate is good, and handles chocolate cravings for me when necessary.

Another thing I do is slice strawberries into a bowl, and top it with just a bit of whipped cream (fat free if you like), and then use a microplane to grate dark chocolate on the top.  I cover it with grated chocolate and get the chocolate flavor throughout,  but end up using literally less than a tenth of an ounce of chocolate. Not even enough calories to write down.

[DonnaR57]

I will second the nomination for the Enlightened ice creams. (I haven't tried the Halo Top yet.)  I have several favorite flavors. To me, though, they are a special treat, because they are definitely NOT cheap. They are twice the price of Haagen-Dazs and only come in pint-size.  They're also harder to find than the Halo Top. Enlightened is at Sprouts, whereas the Halo Top is at my local grocery store.  

That strawberries, fat-free whipped cream and shaved dark chocolate sounds YUMMY. Thanks for sharing.

Finally -- dark chocolate.  Fortunately for me, I like dark chocolate. Just three or four little squares in a Dove bar seems to satisfy my craving for chocolate without a lot of the added things in milk chocolate. 

Donna