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14 Fabulous Lighter Desserts

01/20/17 | Desserts, Miscellaneous

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14 fabulous lighter desserts for times when you want a little sweet, but healthier!

14 lighter desserts for when you're eating healthy!

If you subscribe to my weekly newsletter (if you don’t, do, so we can be friends!) you’ll know that in last week’s newsletter, I promised something fun with yogurt for today’s recipe. Well, there was an incident with a kitchen torch–butane canisters are confusing, guys–, and long story short, no fun shall be had with yogurt today (at least on Baking Mischief).

This sort of last-minute recipe failure has happened a couple times before. Like when I decided a recipe just wasn’t quite good enough and wrote instead about my favorite Podcasts To Cook To (all of those recommendations still stand) or when a delicious dessert experiment came out looking kind of like an undersea monster so I wrote about 8 Life-changing Kitchen Tools.

Today, since I’ve failed you on the healthy dessert front, I asked some food blogger friends for some of their favorite lighter desserts to share instead (and I have one in there too).

And oh man, they do look good. Whatever flavor and type of “lighter” (raw, lower calorie, no refined sugar, etc.) you are looking for, there’s definitely something here to make everyone say, “Yum!”

14 lighter desserts for when you're eating healthy!
Quick Chocolate Peanut Butter Brownies (vegan and raw) from Imagelicious

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14 lighter desserts for when you're eating healthy!
Lime and Vanilla Vegan Cheesecake from Quite Good Food
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14 lighter desserts for when you're eating healthy!
Small-batch Angel Food Cupcakes
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14 lighter desserts for when you're eating healthy!
Healthy Raspberry Chocolate Fudge Tart from A Virtual Vegan
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14 lighter desserts for when you're eating healthy!
Raspberry Souffle from Downshiftology
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14 lighter desserts for when you're eating healthy!
Strawberry Shortcake & Lemon Curd Parfait from The Rising Spoon
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14 lighter desserts for when you're eating healthy!
Whipped Yogurt from The View from Great Island
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14 lighter desserts for when you're eating healthy!
Skinny S’mores Parfaits from It’s Cheat Day Everyday
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14 lighter desserts for when you're eating healthy!
Chocolate Peanut Butter Yoghurt Popsicles from Marsha’s Baking Addiction
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14 lighter desserts for when you're eating healthy!
5-Minute Creamy Mango Ice Cream from Happy Healthy Mama
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14 lighter desserts for when you're eating healthy!
Healthier Carrot Cake (Naturally Sweetened + Whole Grain) from Celebrating Sweets
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14 lighter desserts for when you're eating healthy!
Peanut Butter Vanilla Protein Truffles with Chocolate Ganache from Raia’s Recipes
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14 lighter desserts for when you're eating healthy!
Honeydew Sorbet from I Heart Vegetables
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14 lighter desserts for when you're eating healthy!
Healthy No-Bake Millionaire’s Bars [vegan, paleo] from Fit Mitten Kitchen
14 lighter desserts for when you're eating healthy!

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  1. Vicci | It's Cheat Day Everyday says

    January 20, 2017 at 7:54 pm

    Wow, what an insanely delicious selection! Thanks for featuring my Skinny S’mores Parfaits 🙂

    Reply
    • Tracy says

      January 24, 2017 at 8:07 am

      Right? I want to eat them all! Especially your parfait. I got total heart eyes when I saw it. 🙂

      Reply
  2. Raia says

    January 20, 2017 at 12:34 pm

    Beautiful round-up! Thank you so much for including my peanut butter truffles. 🙂 Off to check out the rest of the recipes!

    Reply
    • Tracy says

      January 24, 2017 at 8:06 am

      Thanks, Raia. And thanks for letting me include your truffles. They look amazing!

      Reply
  3. Elaina says

    January 20, 2017 at 12:25 pm

    These all look ahhh-mazing! Now I really want dessert and I was already at the store today, hahaha. 😉

    Reply
    • Tracy says

      January 24, 2017 at 8:06 am

      Ha, now you just have an excuse to go back. 😉

      Reply

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