16 Healthy (But Still Delicious) Desserts

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Pomegranate Sorbet Parfait
This sweet-tart pomegranate sorbet gets paired with labneh (a strained Lebanese yogurt) and pistachios for a luxurious, wholesome dessert.
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Nutty Grain and Oat Bars
This chewy and nutty oat bar is cooked in a loaf pan for easier slicing. Dates cooked in maple syrup make a healthier binding and sweetener for the bars.
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Flourless Cacao Fudge Cake
The ingredient that makes this dense flourless chocolate cake healthier? Raw cacao powder, which retains more nutrients than common cocoa powder.
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Frozen Yogurt Bark
This frozen treat is just the right mix of crisp, creamy, and slightly sweet.
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No-Bake Energy Bites with Ginger and Turmeric
These almond butter bites were developed for your mid-day workout, but they're creamy and sweet enough to be dessert, too.
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Pistachio and Dried-Cherry Biscotti
Each crunchy bite of these flavorful biscotti contains colorful pistachios and cranberries.
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Chocolate-Avocado Pudding
Avocado provides the creamy texture in this healthy (and vegan!) take on chocolate pudding.
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Buckwheat Banana Cake with Yogurt-Espresso Frosting
This healthful banana loaf gets finished with an espresso-spiked Greek yogurt frosting. Sounds like breakfast to us!
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Frozen Yogurt With Poached Peaches
Here, peaches get a royal treatment, poaching with sugar, pistachios, and Cocchi Americano, an Italian aperitif wine.
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Strawberry-Rhubarb Salad With Mint and Hazelnuts
Usually, strawberries and rhubarb melt together in the filling of a pie; here, they're left raw and topped with torn mint and hazelnuts.
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Sweet Granita With Blackberries, Toasted Almonds, and Mint
In this easy and refreshing dessert, a sweet and icy granita is topped with juicy blackberries, crisp almonds, and torn mint leaves.
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Ginger-Pumpkin Soufflé
This light and flavorful soufflé gives you everything you love about pumpkin pie—minus the caloric crust.
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Fruit and Seed Bars
This healthier take on boxed granola bars is bound together with sunflower seed butter.
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Gluten-Free Raspberry-Ginger Muffins
These gluten-free muffins pack all of the moist texture of a conventional muffin, with an added one-two punch of a raspberry-ginger filling.
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Mixed Berry Crumble With Oats and Almonds
A buttery topping of oats and almonds cover a melt-in-your-mouth filling of berries, dates, and cinnamon in this nutritious take on fruit crumbles.
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Dried Fruit Compote with Ginger Syrup
Dried fruit (we recommend figs and apricots) simmers in ginger beer to make this simple and sticky compote that's great served over yogurt.