14 Fabulous Lighter Desserts

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

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!”

Lime and Vanilla Vegan Cheesecake from Quite Good Food

Small-batch Angel Food Cupcakes
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Healthy Raspberry Chocolate Fudge Tart from A Virtual Vegan

Raspberry Souffle from Downshiftology

Whipped Yogurt from The View from Great Island

Skinny S’mores Parfaits from It’s Cheat Day Everyday

Chocolate Peanut Butter Yoghurt Popsicles from Marsha’s Baking Addiction

5-Minute Creamy Mango Ice Cream from Happy Healthy Mama

Healthier Carrot Cake (Naturally Sweetened + Whole Grain) from Celebrating Sweets

Peanut Butter Vanilla Protein Truffles with Chocolate Ganache from Raia’s Recipes

Honeydew Sorbet from I Heart Vegetables

Healthy No-Bake Millionaire’s Bars [vegan, paleo] from Fit Mitten Kitchen