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30 Healthy Desserts You're Going to Love

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If you're looking for a healthy dessert recipe, you've come to the right place! We've got some awesome recipes for you! We've got some easy healthy desserts that will satisfy your sweet tooth while still being on the healthier side.

From chocolate treats to fruity desserts, we've got the best healthy desserts! These healthier sweet treats are a great snack or post-dinner dessert.

Which one of these delicious desserts will you try?


Banana Oat Muffins

You will love the delicious flavor of these blender banana oat muffins with chocolate chunks. They're a great healthy treat! They're made by combining rolled oats, bananas, milk, and an egg in a blender.

These muffins are one of our favorite healthy dessert ideas!

Banana oat muffins with chocolate chunks on a small green plate.

Strawberry Yogurt Popsicles

These strawberry yogurt popsicles are a healthy, naturally sweetened dessert recipe. If you like strawberries and cream, you'll love these flavors.

They're a great way to enjoy strawberries year-round since you can make them with fresh or frozen strawberries.


Dark Chocolate Figs

What could be better than ripe figs dipped in dark chocolate and topped with Himalayan salt? This easy recipe with dark chocolate figs is absolutely delicious.

A closeup shot of dark chocolate dipped figs.

Healthy Blueberry Crisp

This delicious blueberry crisp is refined sugar free, vegan, and gluten-free! It's a fantastic recipe full of healthy ingredients.

This crisp has very little added sugar, just a bit from the applesauce and maple syrup.

A ramekin with blueberry crisp and whipped cream.

Vegan Blueberry Ice Cream in Cantaloupe

This vegan blueberry ice cream, made with almond milk, and served in a cantaloupe bowl is a delicious and healthy snack or dessert.

The combination of fresh fruit is the best!

vegan blueberry ice cream in halved cantaloupes

Fruit and Nut Dark Chocolate Bites

These delicious fruit and nut dark chocolate bites are a healthier way to enjoy a chocolatey dessert! They're easy to make and require only a few simple ingredients.

chocolate with trail mix

Grilled Apricots

This delicious grilled apricots recipe with yogurt, hazelnuts, and honey is a fantastic dessert. The perfect treat for a summer BBQ.

Grilled apricots with yogurt, honey, and hazelnuts on a plate.

Baked Apples with Oatmeal

These baked apples with oatmeal are a dessert recipe everyone will love. The spices, oats, nuts, and sugar combine for a delicious filling, and the apples become even sweeter while they bake.


Healthy Rice Krispie Treats

Let's talk about how great these 3-ingredient healthy rice krispie treats are! (4 ingredients, if you want a chocolate drizzle) They're easy to make and so delicious!

You'll combine peanut butter (or almond butter), crisped rice cereal, and maple syrup for a delicious treat.


Vegan Chocolate Shake

This vegan chocolate shake is rich and creamy and refined sugar-free! You are really going to like this delicious dessert.

two glasses fo vegan chocolate shake topped with freeze dried raspberries

Healthy Edible Cookie Dough

This healthy edible cookie dough recipe is a delicious one-serving dessert!

If you love chocolate chip cookies, you'll love this combination of almond flour, peanut butter, maple syrup, and chocolate chips. It's a great no bake recipe.

Healthy edible cookie dough in a ramekin.

Rainbow Fruit Board

This gorgeous rainbow fruit board is easy to pull together and fun to serve at a birthday party or brunch!

A rainbow fruit snack board with marshmallows and whipped cream.

Almond Flour Peanut Butter Cookies

These vegan peanut butter cookies are so tasty! If you like peanut butter, you're going to love this recipe.

They're naturally vegan and great for anyone on a gluten-free diet.

Vegan peanut butter cookies stacked together on a cooling rack.

Healthy Blueberry Crisp

This easy healthy blueberry crisp is sweet and delicious while still being refined-sugar-free! You can make it with frozen or fresh blueberries.

It's a naturally gluten-free and vegan sweet treat as well. Serve it with a dollop of whipped cream or a scoop of vanilla ice cream.

A ramekin with blueberry crisp and whipped cream.

Healthier Peanut Butter Cups

You are going to love these rich peanut butter cups! They’re ready in less than 15 minutes and they taste great.

Chocolate Peanut Butter Cup

Healthy Raspberry Cake

This healthier raspberry cake recipe is absolutely bursting with fresh raspberries! It's a great dessert for a dinner party or birthday.

You'll use 2 pints of raspberries to top the cake - making for a beautiful and fruit-forward dessert.

A raspberry cake on a white plate with a piece cut out on a cake scooper.

Greek Yogurt Dessert Dip

This easy dessert dip is made with Greek yogurt, honey, almond butter (or peanut butter), and cocoa powder. It's a delicious, healthy dip for fresh fruit that's full of healthy fats.

The best part is it only takes 5 minutes to whip up!

A small bowl of Greek yogurt dessert dip next to apple slices on a black plate.

Pomegranate Dark Chocolate Bites

This pomegranate dark chocolate bites recipe is ridiculously simple and delicious.

We are talking about three very simple ingredients (chocolate, pomegranates, and sea salt), minimal prep time, and maximum flavor.

three pomegranate dark chocolate bites on a white background

Peanut Butter Cup Rice Cake

This delicious peanut butter cup rice cake recipe is the easiest healthy treat! It's a great afternoon snack or simple after-dinner dessert.

Peanut butter cup rice cakes on a plate.

Chocolate Chia Seed Pudding

This delicious chocolate chia seed pudding is an easy, healthy dessert recipe. It's made with chia seeds, oat milk, cocoa powder, and honey.

Chocolate lovers will enjoy this recipe! It's a creamy, healthy chocolate pudding with a fun texture.

Chocolate chia seed pudding topped with raspberries in a glass.

Caramelized Apple Crisp

This caramelized apple crisp recipe is truly special! Before baking the apples, they are caramelized in a saucepan which leads to a far richer, more complex flavor.


Sunbutter Cookies

These tasty sunbutter cookies are a delicious treat! If you love alternative nut butters and sweet treats, you've got to try this cookie recipe.

This delicious cookie recipe is perfect for kids who can't take peanut butter or nut butters to school and need to pack an allergy-friendly option.

Healthy sunbutter cookies on a white plate.

Peanut Butter Stuffed Chocolate Covered Dates

These peanut butter stuffed chocolate-covered dates are dipped in dark chocolate and finely chopped almonds and pistachios.


Healthier Pumpkin Spice Cookies

These healthy pumpkin spice cookies are full of pumpkin, oatmeal, and spice!

These cookies are fall in dessert form. They're lower in sugar than other pumpkin spice cookie recipes and made with healthier, whole ingredients.


Blueberry Basil Coconut Milk Popsicles

These blueberry basil coconut milk popsicles are an unlikely flavor pairing that I find delightful! They are creamy and so, so tasty. Perfect for a summer treat!

blueberry basil popsicles on a bed of crushed ice and blueberries

Dark Chocolate Watermelon

These dark chocolate watermelon slices are a ridiculously simple recipe. We've topped them with some crushed nuts, flaky sea salt, and coconut for even more flavor.

This is a great dessert to make with ripe summer watermelon!

Watermelon triangles on popsicle sticks dipped in dark chocolate and topped with sea salt, pistachios, and coconut flakes.

Grilled Pineapple with Lime Mint Sauce

This grilled pineapple recipe with minted lime sauce is a gorgeous, simple dessert that makes an already delicious fruit really shine.

The delicious flavor of the pineapple is heightened by the grilling for a superb fruit-forward dessert.

An overhead shot of grilled pineapple with lime mint sauce on a white serving dish.

Healthy Dark Chocolate Treats

These healthy dark chocolate treats are a ridiculously simple recipe!

They're topped with pistachios, pomegranate seeds, and orange zest. They take just a few minutes to assemble and 30 minutes to set in the refrigerator. I think you'll love these delicious, easy, and fun little treats!

dark chocolate treats on a parchment paper

Sour Cherry Crisp

This delicious tangy sour cherry crisp is a fantastic dessert recipe. It's not overly sweet but highlights the natural sweet and sour flavors of the sour cherries.

Sour cherry crisp being spooned out of a pie plate.

Healthy Pumpkin Pie

This healthier pumpkin pie is absolutely delicious and quite easy to make!

Like the traditional version, it's full of pumpkin flavor and lots of spices, but this recipe swaps in skim milk instead of heavy cream and coconut sugar instead of brown sugar for a lower-calorie option.

Healthy pumpkin pie in a pie plate.

Adorable Heart Fruit Skewers

These ridiculously cute and easy skewers are quick to make and fun to eat!

You can use strawberries, watermelons, cantaloupe, honeydew, and blueberries to make these.

Fruit skewers on a small plate.

Rose Apple Tart Recipe

This rose apple tart recipe is a delicious way to celebrate apple season!

This recipe is beautifully spiced with cinnamon, ginger, and cardamom. It can be made in a pie plate, cast iron skillet, or tart pan.

Which one of these healthy recipes will you try?

Yield: 12 muffins

Healthy Dessert Recipes - Banana Oat Muffins

Healthy Dessert Recipes - Banana Oat Muffins

These delicious and healthy dessert recipes are a real treat! Try our healthy banana oat muffins that are topped with chocolate chunks.

Prep Time 6 minutes
Cook Time 35 minutes
Total Time 41 minutes

Ingredients

  • 3 very ripe bananas
  • 2 cups old fashioned rolled oats
  • ¾ cup milk*
  • 1 egg
  • 1 tablespoon baking powder
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • ½ teaspoon ground cinnamon
  • ½ teaspoon kosher salt
  • ⅓ cup dark chocolate chunks or chips

Instructions

  1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Grease a 12 cup muffin tray.
  2. Combine the bananas, oats, milk, egg, baking powder, vanilla, cinnamon, and salt in a blender and blend for 30 seconds to 1 minute or until oats are fully broken down. The batter should be smooth.
  3. Spread the batter out evenly across the muffin cups (about ½ cup in each).
  4. Top with the chocolate chunks.
  5. Bake for 30 to 35 minutes or until the center of the muffins has set and the edges are a golden brown.
  6. Allow muffins to cool for 5 minutes before removing them from the tray.

Nutrition Information:

Yield:

12

Serving Size:

1

Amount Per Serving: Calories: 140Total Fat: 4gSaturated Fat: 2gTrans Fat: 0gUnsaturated Fat: 2gCholesterol: 17mgSodium: 202mgCarbohydrates: 22gFiber: 3gSugar: 8gProtein: 4g

Healthier Desserts Ideas

If you want to make swaps for refined sugar - try any of the following sweeteners:

  • agave
  • honey
  • coconut sugar
  • maple syrup
  • Medjool dates

If you want to try something besides all-purpose flour, then try any of the following - almond flour, coconut flour, oat flour, or whole wheat flour.

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